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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.

Ok, appropriately enough for a Sunday its risen from the dead. May ye go forth and edit.

Anything said on BF Bay 13 should be completely ignored. Some of the most ordinary attempts at hillarity ever attempted.

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Last year there were similar posts going around saying how it was confirmed that we're agreed a deal for the big Setant, and yet there he was in the pre-season kicking his Carlton teammate in the plums. Seeing the McLean rumour a day early and it turning out to be true was the first time ever I've seen something so wild speculated about on the internet before coming true.

Every year this list comes out and everyone has a coronary over it. Who cares? It's some guy's opinion. Write your own Top 50 if you're that offended. Surely everyone's used to us getting ignored by now.

Neither. The ABC are too cheap to show it nationally like they did with the VFL.

There's one on all the merger talks from the 80's onwards including the 1996 fiasco http://wiki.fcmelbourne.com.au/tiki-index.php?page=Mergers Of course now just as I've posted this the whole database has gone t!ts up. Hoorah for technology.

Hey punters, I've been spending so much time reading articles from the past that I've had barely any time to write about recent players. If anyone has the time to take one or two players and do a respectable run down of their career that would be much appreciated. http://wiki.fcmelbourne.com.au/tiki-index....09+Playing+List

Chase them with baseball bats.

And they'll just buy it hook, line and sinker. Especially given that this week is the SEN B-Team. They'll be so desperate for good radio you could tell them anything. It's ironic that a station who have been playing an ad that says "don't waste time with bogans" for years, allows so many of them on to air their nutbag views.

I swear people queue up to ring SEN with b/s rumors at this time of the year. I know a guy who used to do it every year.

Only if we're trying to break the record for the most unrelated Lovetts in any given place.

Mine just got automatically renewed. Saves me from considering doing anything stupid like changing to an AFL membership.

I'm sick of having to suck up to everyone who wants to leave. I've gone cold on my 2010 membership slogan of ONCE YOU GO BLACK YOU NEVER GO BACK and am now promoting - 2010: FIT IN OR F**K OFF.