1 red eye 1 blue eye

Yes elite performance with integrity forces the above.

I agree with you Clint. He is naturally skinny so should be able to drop some bulk.

Agree. Greeny's set shot accuracy or lack of didn't help last year but I expect him to feel a lot less pressure with the addition of Mitch and with no guarantees of the Captaincy he has the best possible opportunity to get himself set.

Good work Trident pretty conclusive really, he's dipped his pinky and if he likes what he's feeling............. bommmeee!

As an old dee I'll go with affirmative. Anyone able to photoshop his pic with something more Nathan Carroll ish

Nothing per se, just doesn't suit him as is. Are you wearing one?

Tash and goatie ok, tash only, no way!

Around this time last year a few MFC friends were feeling excited about 2011 and talking the 8, I wasn't expecting that and right now I'm feeling about exactly the same as I was last year.

Don't care if they over train this year.

Have to agree with this line of thinking also

Doesn't he look a beauty and couldn't have timed his arrival any better imo.

I haven't ever known anything about Norm Smith other than the Norm Smith name and some references mostly on this site to the Norm Smith curse. I arrived as a pommy kid in 1974 and was taken to the footy by the MFC loving Harris family of Vermont, I've loved the club ever since and after watching that interview I can't help but feel that much of what I've been through over these years can be attributed to this "the sacking". In that interview Norm Smith was beyond blindsided or gutted, he was someone who had given every atom of himself and was now completely lost. Haunting footage, thanks for posting it.

I think we've said our goodbyes to Austin and moved on.

A position in the team for the 1st game of the 2012 season has become available...... who wants it?

The new coach'll know what's best.

I agree with Greeny for next year, has to be given the opportunity to improve and I think he will.

Might be the glass of wine I've had but I'm feeling a little excited by this line up?

Re read it mate, first quarter.

I was there tonight, my god I've been disappointed many times before, every Melbourne supporter knows what I mean, but tonight, I have never been so dejected, dumbfounded, horrified, that first quarter was the worst played by a Melbourne team I've seen since I started barracking for them in 1974. You had to be in the stand to see it, absolutely zero intent, no pressure no run no effort, it was gobsmacking to watch, I've never seen anything like it. Jack Watts looked good, everyone else just didn't seem to give a sh!t. There was more effort after quarter time but unfortunately everyone, they were just sh!t.

Have to berate you for forgetting the 1988 Grand Final

Thoroughly enjoyed that