Deemort

Goal Jurrah, they sure do love him over there!

Thanks DeezMan, I was just reading your posts on the bond you share with your dad going to the footy with your dad and are soooo jealous.. My dad used to go to the footy with my Grand dad who was good mates with norm smith and gets a mention in his biography The Red Fox. So they went every week and enjoyed the late 50's and early 60's together often mingly with some big names. But since my grand dad passed my dad just wont go to the footy with me, not sure what it is and I don't hold it against him but definitely envy you and your dad... Good on ya's!! P.S hopefully this is the end of our travelling woes, and next year we can notch up a few interstate wins!

Thanks for all your help and info Timmy, I looked all over the ICS network but found nothing. Really do need a demon fix already so hopefully we can get footage of it. Also I'm only new to this forum but have followed Melbourne for 31 years, member for 11 and have no idea why I didn't find this site earlier. Awesome job with the site in general and awesome effort by all the members to gather and share info or rumors related to the MFC as soon as humanly possible. Thanks.

I was just saying your points about China being basically offended by our game due to its brutality don't cut it with me. I'm not disagreeing with you when you say it would be hard to promote as a major sport over there but, having said that they already have leagues over there so this is just about further development over there. The 300 million members or viewers are merely jokes. You see kids play cricket in India in whatever little piece of overpopulated space they can find and same with soccer, so if AFL appealed to the kids of China I'm sure there'd be room for a little kick to kick, or a game with backpacks used as goalposts in a park. Why spend multi millions in new stadiums for a game nobody knows about??? Exhibition matches are the right first step, not AFL stadiums. In decades to come if enough people were drawn to it, fields would be built. After all any sport takes time to promote and develop to a new country. This is just a small step and glad its the MFC that is a part of it. As for everyone pushing with grace??? Im not talking about over crowded public transport, i'm talking about tour buses were all are guarented a seat. Through my experiences, they wore outright RUDE! With no manners what so ever. One trip we were told when we got off the bus there would be a table with souvenir plates with our own photos printed on them. I was at the front of the bus with my wife and sister in-law so went to the table first, only to experience pushing to get to the front almost like when they give out food packs after a disaster. I mean come on like someone else was going to purchase the plate with their family photo on it. Also just getting on to tourist buses where everyone has a seat, the majority of these Chinese tourists push to get best seats with little or no manners.

Good call, I agree, NBA is huge in China and they are the gurus of push/shove/trash talkin'... Not to mention the Chinese themselves.. Have you ever tried to board a bus with a bus full of Chinese tourists?? Now thats some pushin and shovin. I think they'll love AFL if they take this chance to see our Mighty Dee Boys lightning transitions tear the lions a new one... Man can just see all of China raising as ONE as Jurrah climbs on Brisbane heads in our goal square... That'll sell our game to anyone!! 300 million new members by Monday morning

If we pick up Jack Dowling and young Jack Viney that'll also be 17 players on our list whos first or second name starts with J... Should've chased Jesse White!

I haven't seen much of him either, but I read he has a great pair of hands more than capable of the big pack marks. Geelong advertiser says he is much a future forward as a future ruckman. Size wise and age he fits what we need, but as I said haven't seen much of him, but worth a look.

Can't really remember this guy but noticed the 2 games he did play in we lost by 95 and 104 points, I'm guessin' nobody played well on those days, so probably hard done by to be judged on those two games alone. Then again as I said don't remember him playing..