Good Times Grimes

I feel bad for him. He deserves to be in a better team than that.

Where were our leaders today? People always used to bad Moloney, Green & Davey, but how about Grimes, McKenzie, Frawley, Watts, Rodan? Absolute garbage.

Week after week, year after year we put up with this garbage. We make a massive amount of changes every offseason, we've sacked coaches, we've drafted "the best in the country", will things ever turn around? I'm beginning to think we'll always be crap, and there's nothing that can be done about it.

That effort by Pedersen in the middle of the ground was one of the weakest I've ever seen. He deserves all the @*#( that the PA players give him.

Grimes is playing a shocker.

Blease is our sub, Mitchell is Port's.

One hour to go!

Gotta love Grimesy. He really deserves some success.

Everybody except Melbourne.

I'd argue that Kent has made a pretty solid case for Round 1 selection, much like Tynan did last year, and he should at least be in the group that is "in the mix". I would not be at all surprised if he's donning the MFC jumper in Round 1.

Great to see Sam Blease listed ... a 4-6 week injury that might actually have been just 4-6 weeks, for once.

Great game last night between the Ducks and Blackhawks (who previously had a combined total of 5 regulation losses, while 21 other teams had more than 10 each). The Ducks came from behind to win it 4-2 and are now only 3pts back of Chicago with a game in hand. The Leafs look to be up to their usual tricks, having lost 5 of their last 6. I can't say it was unexpected though. They're still 6th in the East, but I'd be surprised to see them qualify for the playoffs.

Apparently Tom McDonald is in doubt for round 1 (from the commencement dinner thread), so I'd replace him with Sellar. FB:Garland-Frawley-Nicholson HB:Watts-Sellar-Dunn C:Toumpas-Grimes-Kent HF:Howe-Clark-Blease FF:Byrnes-Dawes-Sylvia Followers: Jamar-Jones-Viney Interchange:Gillies-Terlich-Rodan-Trengove (sub) Emergencies: Pedersen, Tapscott, M. Jones

Moccasins can look great if you pair them with a nice pair of overalls.

It would be nice to see Essendon get demolished to start the season. I'm more interested in watching individual players this weekend, though. LeCras, Fyfe, Goddard, Walker (without Tippett)...

Carlton won the NAB Cup and the wooden spoon in the same year. I think that's a pretty solid indication of how serious the NAB Cup is.

FB:Garland-Frawley-Nicholson HB:Watts-McDonald-Dunn C:Toumpas-Grimes-Kent HF:Howe-Clark-Blease FF:Byrnes-Dawes-Sylvia Followers: Jamar-Jones-Viney Interchange:Sellar-Terlich-Rodan-Trengove (sub) Emergencies: Pedersen, Tapscott, M. Jones

This should do it.

There is no way that the Hawks will let Cyril go. They'll lock him up for the long term before the 2014 season begins.

It's a way for the Herald Sun to sell more papers.

Funnily enough, our membership base has increased by about 50% since we last made the finals (2006).

Yes, but his 2000 was spectacular, especially the first half (he had 15 Brownlow votes by Round 8). If I'm picking one player from my time supporting the Dees (1997-present), it would be Shane Woewodin circa May 2000.

the link worked for me...

I was convinced Bruce was going to win a Brownlow...it's too bad that he left the Dees to prolong his career by 10 or so games. I'd go with Woewodin. His 2000 season was the best season I have seen by a Demon in my lifetime. Also his name is fun to say.

"The Melbourne Football Club delivered over $8 million in media exposure for our partners in 2012" Any idea how this measurement is made? I wonder how much of that exposure was through the various negative stories that surrounded us last year (tanking, Jurrah, racism, etc)