angrydee

Tom Scully great return from injury, don't think i've ever seen a better player in the Red & Blue...

Every game is a make or break game in one way or another. We've been broken so many times this season, it's just amazing how we could now be 'made'. But we can. We can also be 'broken' again. And then 'made'. That's the beauty of footy. As an old faht, I've attended 7 grand finals involving this club and seen 4 premierships. Since then I've seen more so called make or break games than most people have had hot dinners. And none except for finals have made or broken anything. Tonight's just another game - and another step for the kids who might be part of a great future for the MFC -or not.

PLEASE!

6 Rivers 5 Macdonald 4 Sylvia 3 Frawley 2 Martin 1 Watts

. 6 Watts 5 Martin 4 Gysberts 3 Jones 2 Sylvia 1 Evans

He is just trade bait now

Green likes to preen Aaron is barren but Brent is heaven sent and Chipper should be skipper

Both Garland and Bail were having really good seasons. Bail is a huge loss given his pace and courage-in only his 17th game.

6 Martin 5 Frawley 4 Newton 3 Watts 2 Tapscott 1 Jetta - for effort rather than result

... and dusted

I would not be at all surprised if the AFL threatened the club with a withdrawal of any extra funding in the future if they took it any further. According to an official from another club, this has been done before. Of course denials all around.

He is often the one being tackled because he went and got the ball.

6 Moloney 5 Jamar 4 Trengove 3 Tapscott 2 Frawley 1 Jones

I was going to spend the day banging my head against a brick wall, but I've decided to really hurt myself - I'll be there.

I was lucky enough to actually be there and watch this club win 4 flags. Those were the days of a basically amateur competition where the privileges offered by the club attracted many a good footballer to it. Norm Smith's hardness and uncompromising attitude made them into a great TEAM. His uncompromising attitude and honesty did not please the milksops that then ran the club. Professionalism came along and we refused to embrace it. Ineptitude has basically reigned since. I was delighted when John Northey took the team by the scruff of its neck, building on a foundation of tough good kids(many from the under 19's and coached as kids by Slug Jordan)and desperate hacks, and teaching them what he learned at tigerland. That was the last time we saw a genuinely TOUGH, UNCOMPROMISING and RELENTLESS team play in red and blue-most of the time ('88 GF notwithstanding). In all the 55 years I have watched this club play, week in and week out, I have rarely seen such an insipid, lazy and (yes) almost cowardly effort by a Melbournefc team. The performance against the WCE was soulless and soul destroying. For this I blame the coaches whose job it is to make these kids at least play with SOME passion and PRIDE. They -the players and the coach- produced a performace that totally lacked any pride-in themselves as professional athletes, or in the club they profess to play FOR. I was there all through the 60's,70's and 80's - watched ineptitude, skilless players, poor game plans etc, but I always saw some heart. Last night I saw none.

6 Trengove 5 Jones 4 Bail 3 Watts 2 Garland 1 Jamar

I feel like the lot should be sacked, but that would be silly. Suffice that Bailey goes, and Todd takes over for the rest of the year. Plan is obviously a dirty four letter word to Bailey.