Bigred

If you love footy, you love Robbie Flower..... and you sort of have to love Rod Grinter. It’s a rough game, too rough for me to play. But Grinter is as much a part of what makes the game special as is Jezza or Osborne or Stretch or any of the many other ‘artists’ who have the guts to play.

I loved Grinter when he played. Or rather, I was glad he played for us not against us. But  his type of game, is one of the reasons, I never had the guts to play!   

Great to hear from him. Good interview 

I remember when I was given a pair of plastic black Ron Barassi boots 

I remember where I was when I heard he left for Carlton

Time to forgive the great man for both those travesties I think 

This is the sort of story that the club and players has to turn into a positive 

The club has to respond by being the toughest, hardest, meanest, nastiest team of ex-con tough nuts the league has ever seen. 

That is the only way forward. And when we are that team, this little nonsense will be put in perspective. The only way out of this is to now train longer harder and smarter than they ever have. 

Im not too fussed. It’s what we do now that matters 

Lucky be damned

As no better coach then the great man  Napoleon Bonaparte himself said

'I would rather have a general who is lucky than one who is good' 

The 'post football' career of footballers is worthy of study.... the 'tradesman' footballers often seem to benefit more than the gifted, with exceptions of course.

Joel MacDonald is listed on the stock exchange. James Hird I saw the other day promoting chocolate in a super market..... go figure. 

Re the podcast 

Fantastic Job

It felt like I'd met him in the pub and he sat down and chatted with me for 2 hrs 

Outstanding. Sincere thanks 

Well

I'm not coping

Sunday I couldn't listen to the last quarter. I went for a walk .... (seriously) ..... came back, ..and we'd won!!!

And now, the threat of finals 

...... For years I haven't had to worry about this.... Im outside my demon comfort zone 

And  I'm,... loving it!

I have to say thanks so much for going to the effort of putting that together

Just brilliant 

Do it again please .....

its been said already, and not all agree and thats fine 

But Bugg was retaliating, and way way too crudely and carelessly, and he should not have done that, and he was stupid. He will take his 5 weeks (because we are Melbourne it will be 6) and come back next year.

He is NO Barry Hall,  He is NO Carl Deitrich, He is NO Leigh Mathews. He is NOT a thug 

But he is a little bit aggro.  And he will receive a premiership medallion with us 

And I love it 

I could get used to this Friday game malarcky.

Sure beats hanging around till Sunday afternoon.

And we have all weekend to gloat

AND 10 days to recover!

More Friday nights coming our way next year I would reckon

Dees by 26  

We won

A team does not grow from 10 years of losing to assuming it will win overnight

We are 5/5 We are getting there 

We need to get to the mind set of presuming we will win

A la Roughead last night 

We will get there 

32 minutes ago, Bombay Airconditioning said:

Premium member?

I'm a premium Member. Its absolutely great. Ive had 25 years of a grand final ticket should Melbourne compete! You just cant buy that!

AND

Premium Members are not only sent the team list 1 hour earlier, we are sent the final score on a Friday AND the final ladder position in early August.

You should all join. Its well worth it 

PS We win by 35 points, Oliver BOG, Viney reported for grimacing, medium impact. 

Got to feel for his Mum

Fortunately the prognosis sounds as good as it could be. Thank heavens he had a medical team that he trusted and who he spoke to earlyon . We can sit on these things for way too long out of shyness/ denial. Well done Jesse and the club and good luck 

See you next year for the Coleman and a Premiership 

43 minutes ago, beelzebub said:

A bit of an aside, skirting around the edges as it were, literally, anyone else notice how many players lost their feet near the boundary line ?

The 'carpet' between boundary and fence,  and the closeness of the fence is unsafe. There needs to be some way of softening the fence yet tolerating advertising. Every week someone crashes into the fence. Someone will have a major injury.... in a ground that will be owned by the AFL. 

Good teams win ugly games

We win

We are learning how to win

Ill take that

Jetta is very underated

Watts the same 

Did some one say 'Goody Footy'..... Hmmmmmmm  

This is a different team to what we are used to

They have a confidence

Hope Smith is ok

Sorry to see Rwxxxldt leave as he did 

Any one else amazed by Martins game on thursday??? Outrageous

Get him!

My post was cruel

I have deleted it

You will never know 

But gee .... I mean ...... wow 

Yes

Please change the title 

Great Pics

Ben Ken runs a serious risk of biting his tongue in half if he's not careful!

Many thanks 

Great Lens!

Is there a harder working MFC staffer than Crossy?  That pick up keeps giving in spades.

Now THAT is a good signing

Well done. Fantastic 

He has 'nailed his reputation to our mast'

He would not stick around if he didn't think we were going to get there 

Well done everyone at the Club.

Decisions dont need to be perfect. They just need to be the best decision you can make at the time. Hindsight is a privilege of those not there at the time the decision was required.

Dawes, and Lamumba; were the best decisions we could have made at the time. We were coming from a long way back, I absolutely agree with those who are suggesting while he didn't quite win the Brownlow, we are much  better club for Dawes having been with us.

He is a fine fellow, tried his hardest, and is welcome back anytime 

Sorrento is lucky to have him

An amazing Richmond era. And vale Bily. 

How the hell do you drop kick on the run.? Surely it goes 'anywhere' half the time 

An amazing skill clearly.... A lost skill 

As a kid, in my black plastic Barassi boots, I do remember the power and distance  you could get out of a well timed drop kick .... but mostly they went all over the place and made you look like a goose

But on the run.... respect!

Guys...settle

There was Jimmy Hannan (Channel 9).... and there was Happy Hammond (Channel 7)

Different chaps, different TV stations

Any way have we picked up a player, or a variety performer

Welcome to the club Mitch

I ran a race once

Every Christmas day, after lunch, around 6 pm....  I challenge my son to a race around the block

Ive never been beaten. More correctly, he has never taken me on. Points the same.

Respect to these guys, Jones especially.

They are fit. I doubt fitness will be a problem for us next year