demon_king

Whelan looks like he's ready to play for Melbourne again, been very impressed with his game.

Just the 2 changes In - Robertson and Maric Out - Newton and Jetta

I agree regarding Bennell, I think he is doing well and deserves to keep getting games. Looks like he has a lot of class I think we might have a good player on our hands with him.

Any final reports? Looking like plenty of spots up for grabs in the seniors at the moment.

If Adelaide or Port are in with a sniff of the major prize when he falls out of contract he could well be on his way out. I think the way he commented about his situation would be a concern for Freo fans.

I couldn't beleive he only had the 16 touches. They were raving about him, specifically his third quarter, on the radio. When I got home and watched the replay I could see why. I think so far he has bounced back well from a bit of an off year last year.

Yeah, he played for Casey last weekend despite not getting a mention in Peter German's report.

A bit of a different diagnosis from the afl site...... MELBOURNE Simon Buckley (groin) - 1 week Jack Grimes (back) - 1-2 weeks Daniel Bell (thumb) - 2 weeks Austin Wonaeamirri (hamstring) - 2 weeks Mark Jamar (foot) - 5 weeks Paul Wheatley (quad) - 6 weeks Colin Garland (foot) - indefinite Wheatley seems to be in a bit of trouble and no mention of Whelan.

Terrible news, after seeing him play for the aboriginal all-stars team I couldn't wait to see him on the park for us. There is an upside to that article though that Wheatley and Robertson are playing for Casey on the weekend.

Well it is something after burying ourselves on the bottom of the ladder at the end of round 1 with a 104 point belting and staying there for the season. 22 rounds on the bottom of the ladder was painful.

I think they will be a little while. According to the megastore media polos will be about june.

Yeah everywhere else I have read it has been Jetta, Spencer and Bail. Think Sportal have thir J's mixed up.

Excellent, hope they second half goes well and he comes through unscathed and gives himself a chance to line up for the dees sooner rather than later.

Seen that too. Interesting, explains the defensive line-up being there. If it is them, welcome aboard.

Well i'll take an educated guess that McNamara's groin injury has been upgraded.

So then it's out of Watts, Maric, Robertson, McNamara, Wheatley, Blease and Jurrah? Of those Jurrah and Maric have permission to play this weekend for Casey so perhaps not either of them.

For the $4.5 million don't Mission also get naming rights to the new development the Dogs are building? If so it makes it pretty hard for us to compete with that deal.

We did play in pretty heavy conditions last week too, won't be too surprising if we don't finish the game well.

over at 'ology they have.... half time dogs 40 dees 45

I have never seen that promotion before. Good to see one of our other corporate partners doing deals for the members. I best give them a call to see what it'll take to switch from my Primus phone and internet connection. Fantastic to see Hankook come on board too, i'll endeavour to support them like I have supported our other major sponsor's over the years.

I was pretty worried this would get ugly for us with the inexperienced team we sent to Cairns so this is a pleasant surprise. Fairly happy with how this pre-season is turning out especially in comparison to last years. Thanks for your efforts faulty, much appreciated. Not surprised to hear TJ play well, he seems to step it up in the wet conditions.

FIRST SQUADS CONFIRMED FOR WEEK THREE Friday March 6 Brisbane Lions v Melbourne at Cazaly Stadium, Cairns, 7.30pm AEST Melbourne (from) 1 Simon Buckley 2 Nathan Jones 3 Clint Bartram 5 Brock McLean 6 Matthew Bate 8 James Frawley 10 Cale Morton 11 Paul Johnson 12 Colin Sylvia 14 Lynden Dunn 15 Ricky Petterd 20 Colin Garland (emg) 21 Daniel Bell 22 Brent Moloney 25 Kyle Cheney 26 John Meesen 27 Jared Rivers 29 Michael Newton 32 Cameron Bruce 34 Stafen Martin 35 Trent Zomer 36 Aaron Davey (emg) 37 Matthew Warnock 39 Neville Jetta 41 Rohan Bail 42 Jake Spencer 43 Jamie Bennell 44 Shane Valenti 47 James Strauss (emg)

It would be nice if one of the companies that come on board are directed at the younger generation. It could help to promote us to the kids which is something we desperately need. Someone like a Nintendo etc At the end of the day though i'll happily take anyone who plans to invest in the future of the club.

Gold!!

I have just noticed that the mfc megastore now has for sale some of the 2009 Reebok range without sponsor logos. The training tops have been on there for a while but now media polo's and a few others are on there. I would have thought if we were close to landing a sponsor we would have held this back so we could sell these with sponsor logos.