DemonWA

Perspective - the reactions on this forum today will be a shadow compared to what will be dished up if we loose to GWS in a few weeks

Any sign of old dee? Some one organise a suicide watch or stomach pump after he drowns in single malt?! I'm going to be at the G with approx 7 west coast supporters in a couple of weeks time. Good times

Neeld has brought a lot to the club, we now train and prepare like the top clubs but on game day nothing has changed which is worrying. baileys side would have beaten up on port at the g Worrying signs after round 1 Deja vu

I agree that Richmond's midfield looks great. Shane tuck has lifted, if Sylvia could do this for us it would help our cause. I can't see our players being at the same level for a few years though they all seem to hit the scorecard, Sylvia and jones are the only mids that I see being goal kickers for us at the moment Viney and Toumpas will lift our fortunes if they can show something this year

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Damien Barrett

When players do well at other clubs i'm not angey at them, im angey at our FD of the time who couldnt get them motivated to the same level. Its as much of a reflection on the club as it is the player

For someone with a Norwegian Black Metal band's name in your user name you sure are emotional. Do you honestly think that names listed above dont plan to take their game to another level this year? I'd be disapointed if they didnt! Thats all this thread is, its a list of our talented players who could massivley improve our win loss record if they all lift and become consistant performers.

Come on Stuie, the players listed are capable of improvement. Theres no law against 22 year olds being good AFL players. all the other clubs have young fellas stepping up.

Where the poll Rangey?!! but seriously, i think you've nailed the list of names we should be comfortable about demanding improvement from

We still have Davis, Fitzy & Gawn!

Totally agree, i wouldnt ever use the block function either you cant say reading topic after topic of people crying at each other doesnt get old though

I agree, they must have me on file as a pushover! i'd be better off buying $500 of merch from the demon shop

bought another 3 of those raffle ticket fundraiser things they ring around about, has anyone ever won anything from them?!

I'm not at all offended by Ben Hur's posts. But if you are the forum has a block function for a reason

http://www.afl.com.au/news/2013-03-14/waters-v-grimes Grimes gets a nice review in this article!

My non-melbourne supporting mates opinions of our players are a good unbiased opinion of which players are any good. They all rate grimes, perhaps a little more than they should becasue of his consistant dream team scores, but theres no doubting that he is a good player

More than happy to invest in and support the new breed, but they are still young. They will hopefully become better players than the 1st list over time, but im not sure they will be much more valuable to us on field in 2013 than the guys we let go. Moloney is a B&F winner who played some very good games in the jumper. Morton, Gysberts & Bate were selected with high picks and played some decent games at time - the new list of names dont sit any higher in my mind's pecking order until i see them prove themselves on the 'G.

Nice analysis mate. As usual its clear to see that our midfield needs a leg up with a star or two (trhoguh trade of FA)

I'm in, no doubt I’ll learn allot from going head to head with such an esteemed football mind

I see parallels between the Melbourne Football Club and the Australian Cricket team. Melbourne had a period of success during Danaher’s time (top 8 finishes, grand final appearance in 2000, prelim 2006). In 2006-2008 the core of that side retired or were traded – All Australian players like Neitz, Yze, White, Robertson, and B&F winners like Travis Johnston. The Dee’s weren’t world beaters and the players weren’t as good as the aussie cricket team, but I see this mass retirement of the core of the team to be similar to when Hayden, Langer, Warne, McGrath, Symonds, Martin, Gilchrist retired. Brad Green & Cam Bruce were like Ricky Ponting, Mike Hussey – a few surviving senior players in an otherwise very young side The MFC admin of the time were happy to gift games to talented youngsters based on talent alone, and I see that to be what Cricket Australia is doing by playing Hughes, Warner, Doherty, Maxwell etc. You end up with a situation where senior players get [censored] about the team selections not being based on current form alone & younger players in advertantly believing they dont need to prove anything to get a game The Melbourne situation spiralled out of control and culminated in a 186 point loss to Geelong at Kardinya Park. I’m tipping a 5-0 white wash for the aussies in the ashes.

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FMD Jack Viney was selected with a father son selection at 26. A thead about who would be a better player (wines or viney) or weather we should have picked Wines & Viney over Toumpas & Viney would still be a waste of cyber space, but Would we have been better off with Oli Wines or Jack Viney? there are no words!

I have no interest in crystal balling about whether our list can win a flag. I dont even know if we can beat sides like Port, North, Lions and Suns! Baby steps!

I'd like to see us play a good side and crush the suns by 8 goals or so. Need a good win to go into the season propper with a bit of confidence