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Just got back home. Absolutely gutted and still in disbelief with the performance. You know it is bad when you have work associates who you don't know very well sending text messages to rub it in. Even Gold Coast, a first year club has not been flogged as bad as this yet. That speaks volumes of where we are at!

It is a great gesture. Was fortunate to attend the President's Lunch last week against Hawthorn and when Jim Stynes presented the jumper to the room it was a touching moment as was the video package paying tribute to Sean Wight. I know there was a lot of tears in the room especially when Jim was overcome with emotion during his speech. Even friends in my group who don't barrack for Melbourne had tears in their eyes.

I tend to agree. Had the opportunity to watch the boys preparing in the change rooms before the game and Colin was in a room having his lower back worked on for a good 20 minutes. He looked proppy going into the room and didn't appear to be 100% fit and look restricted in movement during the exercises in the rooms.

I think this was the position of our club as well when the draw was released. Tough financially at the start, but excellent draw for the footy department. The other thing that impacted crowds in our first 3 games was the opening game against Sydney was held on the same day as the Formula 1 Grand Prix, which would have also had an adverse impact on crowds. Next home game is against Carlton on Friday Night Football followed by Collingwood on Queen's Birthday. Two big games against Victorian clubs with potential big crowds. Was great to be there on Sunday, but come rain, hail or shine, will be there supporting the Dees.

Not sure how much the junior jumpers were selling for with the discount due to the problem. Having a look at the price reduction on the adult jumpers, imagine the club would probably be selling the junior jumpers for $50. It appears that you can only buy the problem jumpers at the Demon Shop. The online Demon Shop has changed the jumpers from the in-store to pre-order category. When you click on the jumper the website then directs you to say that the new jumpers will be available in March 2011. The club is now also reporting that the Media Polo Shirt, Training shorts and Singlet training top are now not currently available for purchase because of a technical problem with the emblem not adhering to the fabric. They are saying that new stock of the these 3 items only will be available by mid January. Not the greatest of starts with New Balance and also can imagine there will be a lot of disappointed people out there expecting the new home jumper to be delivered in time to give as a Christmas present. Also too as well with the promotion and re-branding of the Demon Shop today, wouldn't have been a great look. Hopefully the customer complaint to New Balance was received loud and clear the impact that this will have.

I totally agree 'TheOx05'. For $79 and with the thought of having to wait to April-11 to wear our new jumper, I decided to buy both jumpers. You would have to think Melbourne would be doing everything with the manufacturer to get the corrected jumper as soon as possible and earlier than April-11 that I was quoted. When I was in on Friday, they didn't have the alternate jumper on display yet and they were still in the plastic wrapping. As soon as I entered the store was impressed how the back wall was a homage to our home jumper. When you look at the jumper, you don't even notice the royal blue around the emblem. The orange premiership stars stand out a little, but looking at them more closely the middle of the stars has a spec of gold. It was only when I went up to the cash register to pay that the guy pointed the emblem imperfection out to me, told me the problem and mentioned the discount.

The guy serving me in the shop told me on Friday that for anyone that has pre-ordered their jumper, they will hold off on delivery and that you will receive the corrected jumper once it is made available.

Here are the pics of both jumpers with the areas in question. The wrong shade of blue on the border of the emblem came out clearly in the pictures, the premiership stars were a little difficult to capture the orange colour that is present in the stars.

G'day Demonlanders, Long time reader, previous poster circa 2002 and life long Melbourne member. I was in the Demon Shop this afternoon after work Christmas break-up. The place was busy as all hell. Preparation for Christmas orders to be sent, but also a dozen people in the store (everytime I have been in the past including leading up to Christmas it is always empty). Great for the club. So much so, the club appear to have currently sold out on most of the large and up sizes of polo shirts and the new media jacket. There is a problem unfortunately with both the home and alternate new jumper by the manufacturer. The problem lies in two areas: 1)The stars on the back instead of being gold are orange in colour. 2)On the front in our new emblem, the border should be a navy blue but it is royal blue. They are selling both the home and away jumpers for $79 in the Demon Shop. They have printed a flyer with Tom Scully explaining the problem for tomorrow's launch of the renamed Demon Shop. The bad news from what the guy was telling me is that they are not expecting the corrected jumpers to be available until April 2011 for sale.