DemonWA

E25 was my all time least favourite Demonland poster.

No thats, I'd prefer that we give Davey another year than recruit some other clubs retirees for a year or two. Besides, i'd prefer we keep the changes to the list limited to the top end draft picks we will have, and some high quality players via FA/Trade

perhaps he's the nominated a candidate, given the job of decapitating Balyentyne, Fyfe and Mundy in the 1st 5 mins and then sit out a 20 week suspension?

I seem to recall there was also a poster called Satrycon, then Satryconhome appreared. Not sure if they are the same guy? I never remember finding Satrycon annoying....Satryconhome on the other hand.....

Gysberts named for the roos! Watch Demonland go into meltdown if he does ok!

there are no words.....

RPFC in what universe is Tom McDonald more accomplished player than Jack Watts? He might be a better runner and he has a good attitude, but I've never seen a player with such poor skills and decision making get the wraps that Tom gets on here. Will be a good player in time, fine, but he's not there yet. Also naming Hogan as more accomplished before he plays a senior game for the club is a bit rich too!

Billy, my only comment to that is that IMO the lack of AFL game experience that Gillies has had is offset by his age and number of preseasons he has under his belt. Whilst i wouldnt expect him to be dominating games of footy, I had expected that he'd have the basic fundimentals of the game under control

total respect to Clarko for speaking his mind on that one!

Fat Matt Thompson has penned this epic piece http://www.melbournefc.com.au/news/2013-05-23/trio-required-players-neeld what a nothing article!

I remember when a 'friend of Tom Scully' said he would stay! Although Watts is a talented player, loosing a bloke who makes public comments like "we dont have a joel Selwood or a Luke Hodge to lift us when other teams get a run on" cant be seen as a huge loss. Loosing Sylvia for nothing would be worse

Red & Blue jumper, not the poxy white one! IMO our jumper does not clash with the dockers at all, yet we will see the alternate strip worn. Perhaps we have a contractual obligation with NB to wear the clash jumper a certain number of times each year to help with merchandise sales?

Chill out nut job! In Internet culture, a lurker is typically a member of an online community who observes, but does not actively participate

people werent talking about you mate, those commetns were about Satryconhome!

I'd expect that people employed by the club check this site every now and then, so perhaps the Board and the FD are already members?! I wouldnt expect that they post, but i'm sure they lurk around the place from time to time to guage the sentiment held from a very passionate group of supporters.

Watts will only leave if we are happy to see him go IMO. Which would mean a reasonable trade. I just cant see it myself. If he was playing champagne footy in a garbage side then yes, i could see him wanting out but in reality he is playing average footy in a garbage side. He'd also be confused as hell about what the media say about him. 9 days out of 10 he's a whipping boy - doesnt try hard enough and needs to get the best from himself, but then every blue moon some meathead will write an article about how he's a legend in the making that is being held back at the MFC. Hypocrisy at its finest. MFC will offer him some serious coin in his next contract because we have no other decent players to use the money on. I think he'll stay

Say what you like about Davey but when his playing days are over he'll be remembered as the pioneer of forward pressure and a great of the club

Was it taken out of context though? He never said the words "it will take 3-5 years for us to be any good" but the implication was the same IMO. Neeld was reiterating and agreeing with what Bomber Thompson and McCartney had said mid week - that players take 3-5 years or 60-100 games to be able to compete at a consitant AFL level. In the same breath Neeld also highlights how low our average games experience is (~50 vs Gold Coast), and notes how many players in our 22 have less than 50 games to their name. You have to consider all of these statements together. Whilst he never said it will take 3-5 years for us to be any good. The reality is it will take another ~3-5 years until the majority of the team have reached the number of games which he reckons they need to have played to play consistant footy. ie. it will take 3-5 years for us to be consistantly good.

oops, thought Syvlia was a restricted FA!

All of those scenarios are likley to be true IMO however Chippa wanting a trade, and actually being traded are two different things entirely Same goes for Watts too. If we can work out an amicable trade then it may well be worth considering especially seeing as Carlton have plenty of mids that would interest us. If we cant work out a trade and Watts wants to walk to the draft then we pick him... or he ends up at GWS! Sylvia is the only one of the 3 where we cant have much say in the outcome. But even in this case, if we want him enough we can keep him. We just might have to pay [censored] cash

Satyriconhome, can you take this type of chit-chat to personal messages please? No need to post it in the main topics. I'm growing tired of you trying to have D&M's with every second poster that replies to your posts. I'm assuming im not alone.

Sounds like Neeld is back tracking to me.

Good questions McQueen. I'm passing on the Western Demon's function preffering many pints at the Vic Hotel The Dinner with the Dees that they used to do were always good nights though

The game i am referring to was round 16, 2010 i think. Beamer got a corky early on. If only we could have a 3rd quarter like that these days! FREO DEES 6.3 Q1 1.2 9.8 Q2 3.5 10.10 Q3 9.8 11.16 Q4 10.11 (82) Total (71)

I rember a couple of years ago we put up a pretty god fight against the dockers. we were coming back strongly and in Watts had kicked straight people would have sung his praises as a AFL forward and we might have even pinched the game. Alas