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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)

Yeah what are the chances. The resport i stayed at had a new years function (set menu dinner & terrible entertainment) that was covered in your accomodation price. Being new years there would have been almost 1000 people there. It was alocated seating. Just happened to be sat next to a couple from Allice Springs - a cop and a nurse, they met in the emegancy at the hospital....did they have some stories to tell. We talked footy, amongst other things and he told me about the night Jurrah was arrested. Eye opening stuff. It would have been harder to accept if Jurrah was still on the MFC list - i wouldnt have wanted to hear what he had to say

Over new years in Bali i happened to have dinner with the police officer who was called to the scene when he was arrested (toatally random). He reckons Jurrah was pretty much caught red handed, no doubt in his mind that he assulted basil. He did agree that the witness statements would be torn apart by any decent legal team because everyone there was beyond drunk. He was disapointed about the amount of media coverage the case was getting purley because Jurrah was involved. Thistype of stuff happens on a weekly basis up there but no one wants to know about it

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

Tappy has the tools to be a good player. Injury, confidence, confusion over role might all be contributing to his medicore form. Having said that he's still young! Nathan Jones showed a bit early on but only really came good last year. Give the kid some time FFS

Would love to have been a fly on the wall hearing burton's comments about Martin and Moloney?!

Kent looks to have something about him - think he'll be a player and will get a gurnsey early on playing off the bench or as a HFF Jetta gets the nod from me too, although probably on the interchange rotating through the backline and short stints in the midfield - he's probably got better skills than Nicho and seems to be more desperate than Strauss. Terlich - from what ive read and seen (not a great deal), he's an upgrade on Nicho as a rebounding defender. Maybe not as quick and fit, but more reliable with ball in hand? Tapscott - offers something valuable with his long kick, will get games, although might have to start the season in the VFL or as a sub Magner - will be the upgraded rookie and offers reliable depth when other inside mids are injured Matt Jones - Possibly gets a start early in the season due to his height and kicking skills being a point of difference between him and the others looking for a midfield spot

The club is damned if they do and damned if they dont! If we get to round 1 and dont have a full sponsor list the masses will cry 'we should have done more to find sponsors'. What we see here is the club get on the front foot and advertise in a popular news paper and the hordes cry 'Schwab is a joke, cant he find sponsors without needing to advertise'

back on topic I'd pick one of the following; The Wiz - Elite small forward Cam Bruce in '06 form prior to leg injury (goal kicking mid / HFF) Yze in his prime (Elite foot skills through the midfield)

I hear you. Magner has generally done good things when he is played as an inside mid. when he was moved to a defensive forward last year his output declined and i think his confidence probably did too.

Would like to see the FD pick something close to a full strength side. Lets be honest both teams played a 2nd string side last weekend, and whilst a win is a win, it didnt teach me anything about the season ahead. A good showing against the Saints would do alot for my confidence in the team and season ahead, and i'd suspect plenty for the playing group too.

lets not kid ourselves. To the masses we were always going to be called tankers, ever since we got picks 1 & 2. No matter what the investigation concluded we are going to get the tanekrs sledge from other fans. Neelds new look FD has not been punished. We move on

Seriosly you and your toxic mates can [censored]. It's over. Either support the club and everyone involved or go and support someother club. We dont need or want your types who are still interested in seeing certain people pay for what happened years and years ago.

on the AFL's website it says 'Melbourne fined $500K, Dean Bailey and Chris Connolly banned over tanking" as the subheading to the link to the article?! FFS