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Please does anyone seriously believe his mate was dropping him home after staying the night. What 26 year old male stays at a mates place then lets him drive his car and gets dropped home so early on a sunday morning. If Colin stayed the night then why didnt he drive his own car home. My guess is because he knew he couldnt. He and his mate obviously panicked when they hit the pole. Mind you Ive never known someone just to hit a pole when they are driving sensibily. But what Colin didnt realise was there were CCTV cameras around which got him straight away and easy for the cops to identify. If this was a carlton or a collingwood player we would be on here saying what an idiot he is. Anyway im sure Mark will be having to chat to him if he already hasnt. 5 weeks in as coach and his first player issue. At least it wasnt next weekend and he did this the day before pre season training.

If he had to many to drink then fine he did the sensible thing and got who ever he was with to drive his car. But the fact the car hit a pole and they just drove off is stupid and idiotic. I wonder if it was another MFC player or another player driving. Its lucky they hit a pole and nothing else. The fact is though he had training today for the international rules. I know some people hog wash it but the fact is Rodney Eade was expecting him at training today. Its still a team and he should respect that. Its stupid to get home at 6:45 in the morning on the day of a training session. Its fair to say his lack of brains let him down sometimes. Ih he didnt have training today then it wouldnt bother me as much but he has a committment and should honour it,. Show some respect to Eade and Co.

Well im renewing mine this week. I reckon we will beat the record again. The new changes should build up membership. We will get a brand new member next year because I will have have my first neice or nephew next year. Actually its due date is round 1 melbourne v brisbane. Ive already told my brother and Sister in Law when its born im signing it up.

Thinking about what Mark Neeld said on SEN this morning when he said he put our foward line up on the magnet board he said it looks pretty good but he needs to make it work on match days. Id say and this isnt in any order of set up but Id have Watts, Jurrah, Clark, Howe Pettard and Green with hopefully a fit Aussie down there and Jamar rotating through. Also have DAvey floating thorugh as well. Ive probably left out someone but that would be a handy foward line.

There was also another story in inside footy a while back when he said to the players before our Best and Fairest night that if they see some attrictive young girls in the room ask them there surname because if its Neeld and you go near them our career will be very short here at melbourne. I also like his tweeting back to the players when they have tweeted about what they have eaten overseas in particular Chip, Mark just send a subtle tweet back saying remember pre season training is starting. I just hope Aussie is paying attention.

Mark Neeld was on SEN this morning telling the story how they got Clarke. Said 3 of them, im assuming him Schwab and RAwlings went to brisbane airport with no other clothes and the 3 of them stayed in a dingy hotel at $90 a night and mark wouldnt sleep under the doona fearing he would catch something and the air conditioner was hanging out on the wall. Jade had been at the races so he wasnt in great nick, then the next day they went to the marriot I htink and met Clarke and pretended they had stayed there. made a pitch to Clarke and spent about 12 hours there then realised they smelt a bit so they went to David Jones to buy some new clothes then met up with Calrke again then Clarke rang up later that night and said all the hassling paid off I will come. Funny story. ANyway when asked that it was a bit harsh that he made the players go back next monday during melbourne cup week Mark replied well if our premiership cabinet was full of trophies then I may not have done that but seeing as its been awhile we nedd to get back into it. He is just so professional and has a sense of humour as well. Im looking foward to see what he does with the team.

Why didnt Greg name the other club as well in his article? Have the guts Greg instead of just picking on us.

Will KB call Greg Denham out on this next week. He will say we approached Jeff and whe won't back down. The thing is someone must have asked him because Jeff just wouldn't sit there and think I might make up a story about melbourne approaching me. Maybe someone did and doesnt have the guts to own up.

Im glad we are playing them in round 1 when we will get a good crowd because its the first game and everyone will want to see our new game style and new players. Its better to play them at the G in round 1 then round 18 in case we arent going so well. I wonder when we will play GWS? It better be at the G.

Well I hope for Aussies sake he turns up in good condition. It may be a shock to the players because this is a guy that has worked with a team that made 3 grand finals and has been involved in the finals campaign for number of years. Just get them working hard.

My question is why and whose bright idea was it to approach Jeff. Of course Jeff wouldnt do it. He isnt a melbourne person. Its like Frank Costa being president of another club or Eddie. Jeff was on SEN this morning talking about it. But if I was Jeff Id reject it to. At the time of Baileys sacking it was well reported in the news that Cameron was going to get the sack, instead he got another year and Dean got sacked. KB told Greg to get off melbourne supporters backs and leave the club alone. All we can do is next year is to get into the finals and shut people up.

Let me ask you this. Does a player who over 7 years has only played 28 games deserve to still be at this club. Id say no

Im glad there are others out there that feel the same way about Newton. If he survives I want answers. Yes I know he is a rookie but he is still clogging that spot for someone who in the future we could use. We have enough backup ruckman now and we dont need another foward. Seriously who can believe he is still with us after 7 years. As I said last year. I never thought Id see the day that James McDonald would get shafted from the club before Juice. If Newton survives yet again then I reckon he has other issues that the club are helping him through. If he was around long enough to be a 10 year life member then that would be the biggest joke. Mark wake up he wont help us. Get a young kid in on the rookie list.

We arent in a rabble I think Port are a team that are in a rabble. But some of the things Greg said are right. At the moment we dont stand for much. We arent a big melbourne club, no one fears playing us, we dont have the big crowds , our supporters dont turn up if we are losing and at the moment we dont have any superstar players that people rate. I think we have some great players but no on else looks at our list and says there is superstar. Clark well I think it was a great move and the jury will be out on the decision and what we are paying him but I reckon he will deliver for us. As someone said on SEN we needed a tall foward not a mid fielder. Greg has to realise that we are over Scully going and some of us know that Jack Viney will slot in and do the job the year after. The only way to shut people up is to actually win and get into the finals on a consistent basis. Not come out and win by 10 goals then the next week lose by 80 points. We need consistent wins. Im confident 2012 will deliver that.

It's nice to see an 18 page thread that is positive unlike the last one. Just a question and forgive me if it's on one of these pages. I'm not reading all of them. Did I hear right that Schwab, Neeld and Beamer went to Clark and spoke to him on why he should come to Melbourne. I just thought it was interesting that Beamer went and not our captain. I know Beamer barracked for the club as a kid and loves it and gives the new ones a book on the history of the club but I just thought it was interesting our captain didn't go.

Tim Harrington just said on SEN that when he spoke to Matty he told him if he couldnt do a trade for him then he will be back at the club for pre season training. Tim said Mark had plans for him. I hope he does because Bate is to good a player to be in Casey. Im sorry I think he is a good player and with his booming left kicks we need him. Maybe a new coach will help him. Lets remember no one really had a good season htis year.

Doesnt bother me one bit. Who cares. Its Grand Final day , he wasnt going to be at melbourne working. He wasnt going to talk to anyone about melbourne in the rooms. It was about him signing off to the club he worked with for years. he was farwelling Mick. Also Brenton Sanderson was in the geelong rooms to. Anyone have an issue with that and he hugged the players on the boundary line fence. Mark Neeld will be back at that club tomorrow as a demon.

Actually I thought ours wasnt ot bad. Jack started well and big Maxy had a grin on his face and I think he enjoyed it. Im just glad he didnt trip over. David Rodan is just awesome. For a guy who has had knee re constructions and lars his knees must still be pretty good. I agree with the stkilda one. They didnt do anything except Sam Fisher watching a girl pole dance. Is that why they did the skit just so they can get a girl pole dancing.

Jack Trengove is in the players review too and I also think that big maxy or tappy are involved too. I think its one of them. Anyway will be a laugh.

My heart skipped a beat when Bill Brownless started off by saying sad news from the melbourne footy club with the passing of then he said Stuart Spencer. I thought oh no not Jim. What a legend he was for our footy club and condolences to his friends and family.

Cameron Schwab put on twitter that now our coach is on it. Its been awhile since Cameron tweeted. Anyway interesting because twitter can be brutal somethimes and I think he & Mick are the only coaches on twitter. ANyway I just hope next year if we lose he doesnt cop personal abuse on it. Imagine if Dean Bailey had been on twitter. But I guess its a good way to communicate with the coach.

Was wondering the same thing. If Juice gets another crack on the rookie list I want a royal commission enquiry.

It just goes to show that if we actually have a decent year then Moloney could actually win one. I agree about Demitriou I cant understand how he got Issac Smith name wrong and still have no idea what he called him.

I agree about the umpring, however Hodge should have got a free in the last quarter but the most obvious one missed was how come Tarrant didnt get penalised for deliberate out of bounds when he has kicked it towards the boundary. He wasnt trying to so anything else.

Ok so im guessing beamer wins. I just need to know if he pulls out his brock speech from a few years ago and tells a certain GWS player where to go.