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You are aware that Highbury and Emirates Stadium are completely different places? I've been watching football here and in England for 20 years - what works for them is artificial, forced and an embarassment for us. You'll notice that everyone STFU very quickly when there's a goalscoring opportunity - the fact that there's an opportunity every couple of minutes in our sports ruins any flow that you'd get. I've heard people try it and it's absolutely painful. Atmosphere is overrated anyway. You're there to watch your team try and win a game - anything else is a bonus.

Wow, he was involved in some school shenanigans. This is bigger news than that [censored] kid and his stupid balloon. Best lock him away for the next three years so he doesn't develop a drug habit - I've heard that egg throwing is a gateway to booze, pills and crack before you finally end up dead in a gutter with a needle hanging out of your eyeball.

I'm a 'soccer' fan (but not the rubbish A-League) and if people start chanting at AFL games I'll bring earplugs. AGREED. Also the original post is a farce. How can you claim any sort of infringement when you name yourself after a city? Maybe the New York Yankees should sue the New York Mets? I'd say the Lakers/Clippers but they're really Minneapolis/San Diego anyway so it doesn't quite work the same.

First game I'll have played in fifteen years. Good god.

Just because it looks like Peter Russell Clarke with two vibrators wedged into his skull.

1997 - Melbourne finish last St. Kilda lose a grand final Melbourne take an uncontracted player from the Saints 2009 - Melbourne finish last St. Kilda lose a grand final Melbourne (potentially) take an uncontracted player from the Saints 1998 - Both sides make finals Melbourne knocks St. Kilda out Stan Alves gets the sack and St. Kilda lose the plot for five years. 2010 - Yes please

"Once you go black you never go back"

Are you referring to the Batman/pirate logo as seen on the membership mailout? I'm not crazy about it, but it's better than nothing. How about a comeback for this guy?

What about the poor bastards who rushed out to get a Wonaeamirri 39 last year only to be stooged? SAVE THE 48. I'd rather see him posing with the North Balwyn tram than the South Melbourne.

Wait, is Trent Zomer still on our list?

I'm into adding my fat porky talents to the occasion.

The Partridge mash-up had me in tears of laughter. The World Cup '94 'roundup' that the audio comes from has long been one of my favourite videos, but the Jurrahcane highlights made it even more brilliant. STRIKER! [censored]!

1997 - Melbourne finish last, St. Kilda make a grand final. Jamie Shanahan comes to us in the PSD. 2009 - Melbourne finish last, St. Kilda make a grand final. Luke Ball comes to us in the PSD. 1998 - Melbourne make finals, St. Kilda coach is sacked 2010 - ?

I got given a jumper for my birthday the day after he kicked five. When asked what number I wanted on it there were no voices of reason to point out what a stupid idea it was. Next year he was out and Rod was in. Again, no voices of reason were present. As for Shanahan I stand by my decision. I've got a defender fetish - somebody has to.

All-time: Jakovich hands down. The 1991 season was where I was young and wavering on whether or not I was going to get into footy. He came to our school for a footy clinic and was an absolute bastard, but about three weeks later he burst back into the side and I was in love. There is a very good reason why I got bored of footy in 1995 after he'd been given the arse. Now: The Stefan Martin Experience. I liked him as a defender but ever since I got his number on my jumper he hasn't been near the backline once. The complete history of numbers I've had on my jumper #54 - Brent Heaver #31 - Rod Keogh #13 - Jakovich (poor Rod just had his numbers reversed) #1 - Shanahan #28 - Philthy Phil #34 - The SME Hey, I like novelty players. What can I do?

The MFC was a 'section' of the MCC until July 1980 when they separated from the them and became a public company. Until then the cricket club had taken any profits, and covered any shortfalls, of their football department. In 1985 when North Melbourne almost exclusively moved to the MCG, the MCC decided that too many matches were being played there and threw Melbourne off. Fitzroy had just moved out of the Junction Oval to Victoria Park so we went there - apparently with the MCC covering the rental costs but god knows how long that lasted. Happy to be corrected on any of the above, but I got it from old editions of the Age. Have the links somewhere but can't for the life of me find them now. Searching for MFC articles from 1980 or 1985 on Google News Archive should turn them up.

Abysmal! What was wrong with their old logo? The Baltimore Ravens legal team should be picking up the phone.

Nobody. I'd like to think its been retired as a retrospective tribute to the great man Philthy. I upgraded to a #34. Less mongrel and more of a hairdresser name but why not - I liked his snap against Hawthorn.

Seems he got delisted and rookie listed the next year for the same amount of success. I can't remember him existing.

'We' (and I don't include myself in that because I didn't give a rats about either) had the same sort of outbursts with Woewodin and to a much lesser extent Johnstone. I can understand people cracking the sads, even holding a grudge but unless you're a 13 year old kid (i.e me when Allen Jakovich stopped playing and I paid little more than casual interest for the next two years) surely you've seen worse things happen. Over 30 years hundreds of players would have come and gone - is it really worth losing sleep over? Maybe I should have rung up and threatened to tear up my membership when Phil Read got delisted and my #28 jumper made it look like I was an Isaac Weetra fan

I'd love to know how often it actually happens. Fair enough if you want to have a rant, but if anyone actually does jump ship to another side they should be shot. What kills me is when people ring up and they're all "I've been a member for 30 years but if they do XYZ then I'm done with them". As if there's any club in the country that hasn't had a worse era in the last thirty years than whatever they're going through now. Yesterday an Essendon fan rings up SEN and gives that exact line about the Lovett trade. So he didn't have any problems when they were finishing 15th and losing by 100 points every second week? Or when they gave Sheedy the boot, but pick 16 for a good ordinary player is a dealbreaker. Nutbag.

Hi everyone, Like a spaz I gave all my old Footy Records away in the late 90's (WHY GOD WHY!), so I was wondering if anybody had some handy to help out with the numbers of a few drafted players who didn't play seniors during that decade. Brackets are year they were drafted, so naturally any mention of them in the record would from the following years. National Draft players Micah Berry (1991), Matthew Blake (1997), Niall Buckley (1990), John Carroll (1994), Jamie Cann (1997), Paul Corrigan (1996), Mark Ducker (1987), Jason Dullard (1991), Brett Evans (1993 and 1994), Clayton Gardiner (1996), Ashley Gehling (1995), George Gorozidis (1991), Tom Grehan (1988), Michael Hobbes (1988), Paul Hogarth (1990), Brett Jeffrey (1992), Haydon Kilmartin (1991), Mathew McKay (1991), Tim McNeil (1987), Gary Merritt (1990), Tim Moreland (1989), David Morrison (1989 mid-season), Damon Munt (1994), Shannon O'Brien (1999), Duncan O'Toole (1996), Robert Panozza (1990), Cameron Ramsay (1998), Paul Ridley (1993 trade), Paul Rovray (1989), Nick Sebo (1991), Matthew Sexton (1990), Luke Speers (1998), Luke Taylor (1999 - and where was he from?), Anthony Tohill (1989), Paul Van Der Meer (1989 mid-season), Craig Walker (1986), Nick White (1991), Glenn Wilkins (1989), Scott Williamson (1990) Supplementary List draft (all 1994) Dean Brown, Andrew Eslick, Leigh Gray, Glen Hoffman, Adam Jones, Ben Judd, Travis Millar, Cristian O'Brien, Ashley Reade Also did Darren Jarman ever get assigned a number even though he refused to come over? Even the mysterious Ivan Bartul got to theoretically be #13... And of course any obscure information about any of the above would be appreciated given that they barely rate a mention anywhere except for having been drafted. P.S - Yes, I am ashamed to care about such trivia

So in the future St. Kilda players will crack the sads at having to go to Frankston and Richmond players about Craigieburn? Everyone will want to play for Carlton then.

Mine still looks newly applied. Top shelf. Whenever I see a car with a 2003/04/05 sticker on it I'm always tempted to roll down the window and ask if they're a current member. But that would probably end in being stabbed so bugger it.

Mike Sheahan played VFA for Werribee. (http://www.vflfooty.com/?q=node/2069). Have seen this reported from a couple of sources but you don't hear much about it. Tony Shaw wins hands down. Rubbish coach, rubbish commentator, rubbish writer.