The Chazz

The only reason why Demonland hasn't gone in to meltdown about making a serious play for Ricky Petterd is the fact that we are the ones that are delisting him! If we weren't, people on here would be giving up pick 3 for him!!!!

What are you talking about? The double standards thing is you criticising a poster for spelling mistakes, when your post had spelling mistakes in it too, then you followed it up with another post with mistakes in it. Just trying to help you Oli. However, I agree that having a shot at someone for getting our surnames incorrect is absolutely warranted. I'm on the fence with the opinion of Neeld. I do agree with the delisting of Petterd.

Depends on the player you are targeting. If they are fringe players that just can't get regular/consistent opportunities at the top clubs, it'd be about getting more senior games. If you are an A-grader, it would be more about the person you are. If you want to come for big $$$'s and are happy to play the remainder of your career not worrying about team glory, then you would look at us. I don't think they are the ones that we want. If you are an A-grader that is all about leaving a Club as they feel that they don't have much more to achieve at your current club (ie have won premiership/s, Brownlow/s, etc), and have at least 3+ years of good service/great play to offer, but most importantly, want to be part of a group of players that want to try and turn the impossible in to reality, then we're the place for you! But again, they will be financially rewarded. I think, not that it's likely, but a player like Bartel would be that type. I reckon we had a chance 2-3 years ago to make a massive play for him when he seemed out of favour (as much as someone like Bartel can be) when Ablett, Selwood, Kelly, etc were the favoured midfielders, and Jimmy was playing more of a spare parts role (a bloody good one at that!). If we are to make a significant investment in getting a top-liner, we need to have someone who will be around a minimum of 3 years at their best footy, and at least 5 years on our list.

I thought $cully was staying, Bailey would be coaching us in the finals this year, and that Jack Watts would be tearing it up at CHF. How the fcuk do I know if Davis should be re-signed or booted?

No worries Oli, cheers for cleaning up the double standards that I didn't know about. Nb. It's not to say I agree with what was written. Back on topic, I still think a trade of Petterd + our mid Round 1 compo pick for Caddy would be appealing to the GC. The biggest challenge would be to convince him to come to Melbourne. Petterd would look good at GC.

In my opinion we retired him at the right time. This article is 2 years past its due date, and as we saw in his last game (sniping young kids), he was well past it. If we want him as a midfield coach or something, I'd prefer Ling or Kirk (although Kirk has gone to Freo? I'm sure we gave him a call before them?). These blokes have tasted success and ensured a culture remained strong at their clubs. While Junior was a good leader, I'm not sure if he had that ability. I now prepare for the public flogging that will follow...

Sorry Oli, you're posting is trash at the moment.

For some sick reason, I was so hoping this would be another poll from Range Rover...

The issue for me, and possibly a number of other supporters, is the fact that it took the Melbourne Football Club many hours to release a statement, of which it mentioned that Liam informed them that he wouldn't be fit for AFL duties until after his hearing (ie March), yet in media outlets, on the Port Adelaide website, and even in his/your own comments, it appeared that Liam was leaving to go to another club. We all understand there must be issues with family that we will never understand (not sure if that sentence makes sense!), and accept Liam's decision to leave the MFC based on that. But when it is being reported about him looking to continue his AFL career with a different club, it is any wonder there have been some diappointed postings going on. I don't think you, Liam or the Port Adelaide Football Club did yourselves any favours during the chain of events yesterday. Thank you for coming on and postion what you did. I'm sure most MFC supporters have appreciated your updates over the years, but it won't help the disappointment I will feel should Liam be wearing a Port jumper next year and playing senior footy early in the season. It may not happen, the selfish side of me hopes it doesn't.

Can we please remove Jack, Jack, James, Nathan, Mark and Jack from the Demonland banner, and replace them with Aaron, Jamie, Matthew, Ricky, Lynden and Rohan? Thanks.

Does Neeld think he's the next Kerry Packer? Deciding to bring in a whole new team, still call them the "Melbourne Demons", but will pick the bones out of every team until he finds the "best" list, then launch an all out assault on becomming the best in the world. I wonder how many players out there "have a little bit of [censored]" in them? It's normally the other way around for me... B)

Unfortunately we only have 2, and not only do we need another 22 of them to fill a side on a weekend, we need to have another 20-odd on top of that to allow for our injuries! Buggered if I know where we are going to get all these players from, but I think after this clean out, we will be a long way further back than GC/GWS. How can we not be?

I don't know if this part is 100% accurate, not in the initial stages anyway. From memory, might have been one of The Coach's Office segements earlier, Neeld was very excited at the prospect that Moloney would be returning "soon" and how much better/stronger our midfield would be with him in it. Perhaps the blind faith Neeld put in some players was led by last year's Bluey winner?

It's simple, if he doesn't want to be a part of the future at the MFC, he can [censored] off to Carlton or somewhere else...

Wow, an amazing "stat" - we finish season 2012 without our Captain, B&F and leading goal kicker from 12 months ago. Did Dean Bailey get caught shagging Neeld's missus?

Gone (from our shopping list) ... Mackay resists lure home

Evil man RP!

What are you talking about? The only negative I brought up from the article was against the players, in terms of not getting ahead of themseleves if they start winning a couple of games (as has been done by a number of Melbourne players/teams over the past 2 decades). Neeld has stripped back this team, and will continue to do so until he gets 48 blokes (or however many are on a list) that will agree to his ways. It's going to take a lot of work getting some of those players back on side, and I wish him all the best. I'm far from calling for his head. And yes, the article was full of positives. But to bring this article out 2 days after our season ended with just 1 recognised win on the board, I'm sorry if I wasn't as aroused as you obviously were. If they can produce another article at the end of this preseason/start of season 2013 that shows just how much work Jones put in to Blease, and how Sammy's 3km time trial result was a PB and saw him record a time in the low 9 minutes, then I will very optimistic for what is ahead.

I retract my comment. [censored]. (No, I'm not going to apologise for that.)

Especially if it meant Port "looked after us" in a Boak/Jurrah trade. Jurrah and 2nd round pick for Boak. Pretty bloody good deal for them, especially if we help with the court costs.

Do a trade with Boak, just do it. Don't fcuk around, get it done ASAP.

I was going to right "disrespectful", but I will wait a short while to have a think about the events.

C'mon now DC, I know and you know that you would absolutely say that...and I like that about you!

He's not fussed, as long as it's a Victorian based team. The important question is about who will give Port what they feel they deserve. It really is a case of the highest bidder as opposed to a simple Port v Geelong.

Far, far from a done deal either way.