Grapeviney

Got a tough six-game streak between rounds 5-11 - not unlike what we faced this year - witrh games against the Saints, the Cats, Hawks, Swans, Blues, Dons and Pies... Other than that I reckon we're OK Looking forward to the years ahead when we can snare a few more Friday night games

hehe there's some great material on that white maggott website, i like this one too "In a public relations coup for the largely irrelevant organisation, the North Melbourne Football Club was named Australia’s leading not-for-profit organisation at the annual SHUNPROFIT awards overnight. The Kangaroos beat home The Smith Family, MS Australia, World Vision and a raft of community-based West African NGO’s to take out the coveted prize. Club president James Brayshaw said the award recognised North Melbourne’s steadfast commitment to maintaining a steadily increasing and unsustainable defecit for the past thirty years. “No other club could’ve operated under these conditions” Brayshaw said as stared at the black hole which doubles as the club’s balance sheet. “And I’m not speaking out of pride… we haven’t been a going concern since 1997… legally, no other club could’ve operated under these conditions… we’ve just somehow slipped through the cracks.” Brayshaw, who earlier this year was investigated by ASIC after he attempted to treat the “shinboner spirit” as an intangible asset for the purposes of the club’s financial reports, then took the opporunity to launch the Kangaroos’ innovative 2012 funding campaign. “I’m proud to announce that from 2012 the North Melbourne Football Club will be treated as a charity for the purposes of the Income Tax Assessment Act” Brayshaw said. “It’s only fair given we’ve fed, clothed and sheltered Nathan Grima and Scott Thompson all these years.”

schoenmakers' dropped mark cost them the game ultimately, b/c from that stoppage ball goaled he's had a shocker of a finals series i reckon, a weak link awesome, intense game MFC has a long way to go

i reckon you're right old dee - i've got my fingers crossed

certainly not working on their foot skills, that's for sure..

Why wait till after the game? Crackers Keenan used to smoke at 3/4 time by all accounts

Was Robbie Flower's game-winning goal against Footscray in 1981 after the siren? Or just late in the game?

Long before Todd briefly left the MFC to coach the 'poo, he was providing tennis tuition to young Demons supporters with stars in their eyes. I know this because I was one of them (along with Demonland's Andy) Todd advertised his services in what was then the club newspaper, and for a cool $80 an hour IIRC, you could have teenis lessons with the gun Melbourne midfielder. It was a small if extravagant price to pay to hang out with Todd.. I certainly don't remember any of the tennis tips he might have passed on, but I do remember him lecturing us about the dangers of drinking and driving, as it was not long after the death of Darren Millane. / end glory story about how I was one of the first people to be coached by Todd Viney / B)

jamar has been a great asset to this club... shouldnt be too hard to bash out a few hundred words

they said concussion but ok on ch.10

As a fellow Demonlander said to me, he's a class above his team-mates

pretty much sums it up for me redleg, especially the bit about jurrah i was so excited pre-season in anticipation of the dazzling feats he was going to perform but the x-factor has been missing from his game this year and while he might be grabbing a couple of goals a match, he's really failed to impose himself on games - 2nd quarter effort against Port notwithstanding

Just ordered my copy through the club, looking forward to this

great read from flanagan that quote about david kantilla - that his genius was that he could cope - is telling i think

Fearless player with unquestionable courage, was a highly-rated defender during an era that boasted three of the game's greatest all-time forwards in Lockett, Dunstall and Ablett. Condolences to Sean's family and the entire MFC community.

could never work it out why they didn't just go in order a vs. b, c vs. d.... it was always k vs. n , r vs. s etc !!

very impressive game today, easily his best, good hands, runs hard..

6.watts 5.scully 4.mckenzie 3.green 2.howe 1.martin

taken them on a few times now, i like how he's prepared to back himself when he's got the footy

As many on this board would know, the Melbourne-Collingwood Queens Birthday match in 1958 drew a record home-and-away crowd of 99,346 to the MCG. In more recent times, the largest crowd for this fixture was 78,773, in 2006, while two years earlier there were just under 57,000. So how many do you think will turn up on Monday? Given our win last week, and that the current forecast for Monday is partly cloudy and an expected top of 15, I reckon we can expect 75,000 +

agreed

Can be frustrating at times but yep, I'm definitely enjoying watching the new kids on the block start to gel together, including Air Jurrah And like Jaded said, thanks for the insight and perspective from LJ's family in remote Australia!

Still looked a bit out of sorts at times last night but I reckon his workrate - for the most part - improved considerably on the past month. Was still a spectator on a few occasion but I reckon he tackled, chased and presented pretty well last night. The fact that he's kicking 2-3 goals a game without really hitting his strides is good enough for me

Which bit? and no, I'm not!

Had bad flashbacks to that final-quarter comeback when we were 41 points up at the last change and still lost the game.. ominously, that match was the subject of the half-time trivia question on the scoreboard tonight