Prodigal Son

What about Albi Morkel and Jarrod Rivers-seperated at birth! Aussie is better looking but I think Serena would still get a game

On field there is only two choices. Brock and Brad. They are both very good players and they both do the stuff that leaders need to do on field. Brad (I think) would improve with the added pressure of being Captain. Brock still needs to consistently get on the park and I don't think he needs the added pressure.

I wrote to the club about this back 2003, didn't get a reply. but if we have to sell anywhere Hobart makes more sense than most places suggested. Tasy is very North /South devided - there would be plenty of room for two part time teams. Hobart is only slightly smaller than Geelong in population. I imagine a Hawthorn Melbourne game would become a real blockbuster. In a couple of years their will be 9 teams(including Geelong) playing outside melbourne and we will be one of the teams doing most of the travelling-We should work into the deal that we play at least half of those sides in Hobart. Historicaly Melbourne was settled from Tasy. We have quite a lot of Tasy players and ex players who could promote the club.

I don't know if this is the real deal someone on the board may have been their to verify but it still made me laugh My fellow Australians, I've been invited here to talk to Centre Square, in these big marquees on Punt Road Oval. And speaking of Punt Road Oval, let me tell you something for nothing - Jack Dyer would be spinning in his grave if he could see the place right now. Full of a bunch of Collins Street corporate criminals, Chapel Street designer cats and Toorak poodle r**ters who have about as much interest in football as Paris Hilton has an interest in astrophysics. Captain Blood didn't break every bone in his body and commit multiple acts of on-field heroism and homicide so he could see his beloved home ground turned into an over-priced pre-match party for chardonnay-swilling spivs and their assorted hangers-on attending their one footy match of the year, whilst tens of thousands of hard-working honest battlers who love the game and love their team are denied the chance to attend the greatest game in the world. I've had a gutful. Whilst this bunch of Armani-wearing, Audi-driving, Prada-carrying try-hards monopolise priceless vantage points in the MCG, millions of genuine footy fans who have followed their team through thick and thin have to make do by watching the game at home or down at the local pub, whilst the Melbourne spivocracy get to sit on their fat posteriors in a marquee and wouldn't even know the way to the MCG without a tour guide. Since most of you haven't attended a single match this year and know nothing about football, let me give you a few tips - Geelong wears blue, Hawthorn wears brown, and in case you were wondering, there'll be no fashions on the field at half-time, and no, the Lexus Centre across the road is not a prestige car dealership. Centre Square is not only unfair. Centre Square is not only inequitable. Centre Square is downright un-Australian! And so are all of you! In fact, I bet you're all so un-Australian that you all hate the Anzacs, you booed Cathy Freeman, and you want to cull cute cuddly koalas because one of them once jumped out in front of your Range Rover on the way to Mount Hotham. But it's not just you who are at fault. I also blame the AFL - those out-of-touch, opera-loving elitists at AFL headquarters who are responsible for this unconscionable abomination need to take a good hard look in the mirror. That is if they can handle the sight of moral and spiritual bankruptcy staring back at them. I also blame the government. Our new Prime Minister has clearly failed his first test of leadership if he thinks it's acceptable to allow an event like this to go ahead without a pre-emptive strike by the SAS. The PM is doing nothing to ease the squeeze on working families on the bottom rung of the ladder of opportunity who just want to see their team in the Granny. But he'd better get his act together and do something about it, or millions of angry footy fans will do it for him. Revolutions have been started and governments have been overthrown for lesser outrages than this. And people ask why we need capital punishment. So cut off your silver tails, tear up your fur coats and get fair dinkum. Our great Australian game is the greatest game in the world - the game of the people. Not some once-a-year marquee p*ss-up for an overpaid, over-dressed pack of passionless corporate cretins who only turn up for the free chardonnay and then spend the actual game looking about as interested and excited as a line of Easter Island statues. So don't bother coming across to the MCG this afternoon, because you're not welcome. The next train out of Melbourne leaves Richmond station in 10 minutes - so make sure you're on it. Or, better still, under it. So don't be un-Australian - everyone here in Centre Square can get stuffed! You know it makes sense. I'm Sam Kekovich

All just seems like normal buisness discussion that's been blown up a bit.

You have committed the gravest sin on demonland. Apparently Godders &"better kick" is an oxymoron. Godders should always begin with "the much maligned". and don't tell anyone but his kicking efficiency would be better than 75% of the demons this year.

Thanks for the laugh

I saw it in the paer too (just a throw away line) couldn't find it on net I thought there were worse players than Jeff White on Friday but I have been pleasantly surprised wth Jamar and Jonstone this year. Jeff has three weeks to get a gig next year probably elsewhere.

I'd even go further than three umpire adjudicating differenetly I beleive they treat backs forwards and Mids differently, so you could have upto 9 interpretations of the same rule. The rules committee probably didn't consider the effect of all the rule changes (to speed up the game) on the umpires and I shudder everytime I hear someone suggest we need another Umpire.

I noticed people in the crowd blaming Mclaren for decisions that were made by Umpire No 24 even though he had some hair! Saying that I groan when I see Mclaren is umpiring a Melb game. Whenever there is more than one person officiating on a game you get inconsistency. I watched a game of school boy rugby on saturday and the ref made a number of ordinary decisions but they were consistent .

First draft pick? I was a bit concerned when we were playing well in the first quarter they were going stuff up!

Strange He said on the radio today "That it was the greatest football night he has ever been involved in."

I went to college with a BASSINGTHWAIGHTE- his Knick name was B16.

I don't know which was which but at one stage the bigger one was doing a handball drill with Juice and his skills were ok but compared to newton he looked rushed then I started looking down the row when you compared most to a newton or a davey those guys have all the time as they can handball without skipping to get balanced- hard to explain. One minor point moloney was training without those heavy "bike" shorts he had on last year and seemed to moving very freely hopefully he is past his OP.