Welcome to the NSW Demons in 2011
This year’s highlights include:
• Watching the game on the Big Screen with other MFC supporters each weekend at the Camelia Grove Hotel
• A weekly preview and review of the Dees match
• MFC coaches Mark Williams and Brian Royal talk to the NSW Demons in Sydney
• Sponsorship of Jamie Bennell and Jack Grimes
• Presidents Club special deal
Cheer and gloating in BrisVegas…
Reporter Darren Spence
Cheer and gloating in BrisVegas……Ahhh….. Brisbane the land of sun and theme parks. I must admit I was as nervous as a pubescent virgin teenager about to go past first base about this game. After all our interstate record has been as useful as financial advice from Bernard Madoff and supporting Melbourne after all these years and going into games with high expectations is ……well you know…….at times fraught with danger.
The Lions have some seriously good players and any team with Brown, Fevola, Black et al should be taken lightly at your peril. But once again we came out of the blocks like Usain Bolt and kicked away to an early lead. The only down side to the game was that we came down the home stretch like Mick Nolan! But we held the Lions at bay and came away with the valuable 4 points and kept our hopes alive that the Red and Blue may grace the field in September.
Let’s look at some highlights:
• Colin Sylvia is on fire!!……Is it just me or does he remind you of Dr. Bruce Banner now he is injury free? Yes he is the Incredible Hulk and a top shelf player to boot.
• Chip Frawley gets better and better each week…..Last week he chased down the pint sized Lewis Jetta and this week he minded Atlas!!…..Brown had as much chance of getting a kick on the big man as Paris Hilton has of being nominated for a Nobel Prize.
• What about Davey’s full on Superman imitation by flying through the square and denying the Lions’ a goal??……Is there anything this man cannot do?
• Cam Bruce took the dangerous Luke Power out of the game and picked up many possessions himself.
And there are quite a few players at the club who at the moment are without a doubt in the best form of their career.
• The Big Russian (now surely he is going to get an AA gig???…..If he doesn’t it might be me that gets an AA gig (and no my AA gig would be slightly different as my membership is not decided by the select few associated with the AFL)).
• Clint Bartram – once on the periphery of our best 22, has now made it almost impossible to be dropped.
• Brad Green – The manlove for this man grows every week.
• James Frawley and Colin Sylvia (I know I mentioned them earlier but I just wanted to write their names again).
• The young guys continue to blossom…….the two number 1 draft picks are showing why there were taken at Number 1 in the draft. Trying to choose the better player going forward seems much harder than picking who to drop this week……both enviable problems to have.
Chris Connolly in Sydney
Chris Connolly, General Manager MFC Football Operations – Sydney Event – Thursday 29 July 2010
The NSW Demons held a Player Sponsor event with Chris Connolly, General Manager Melbourne Football Club Football Operations and Guy Jalland, MFC Vice President in Sydney on Thursday 29 July.
Chris journeyed to Sydney to talk to the NSW Demons about all aspects of the Melbourne Football Club, both on and off the field. Chris spoke passionately of the work undertaken to build the club’s organization, playing list and community connections.
Guy Jalland, spoke eloquently about the club, the future and the fund raising commitment of the MFC Board including the Foundation Heroes.
It was a thoroughly informative and most enjoyable evening.
Round 18: Melbourne v Brisbane
The pivotal question is can our own Andrew Lloyd Webber in Dean Bailey produce another hit musical this week up north at the Gabba? History says no but form is definitely on our side. A loss this week will create our own version of ‘Les Mis’ but I am confident our boys will be switched on and create another Broadway hit musical for us long suffering Dees fanatics.
Only one change this week with the Captain returning after a number of weeks out with injury. The unfortunate player to miss out this week is Addam Maric who performed well last week on his return to the AFL after a long stint at Casey.
The team
Melbourne team
B: Colin Garland, Jared Rivers, Clint Bartram
HB: Cameron Bruce, James Frawley, Joel Macdonald
C: Rohan Bail, James McDonald, Brad Green
HF: Lynden Dunn, Jack Watts, Tom Scully
F: Jamie Bennell, Paul Johnson, Austin Wonaeamirri
FOLL: Mark Jamar, Colin Sylvia Aaron Davey
I/C: Jordie McKenzie, Cale Morton, Nathan Jones, Liam Jurrah
Emg: Jack Trengove, Addam Maric, Matthew Warnock
In: McDonald
Out: Maric
I dreamed a dream in time gone by……
From our guest reporter Darren Spence
“I dreamed a dream in time gone by……When hope was high”…..waking up on Monday morning to a vision of Susan Boyle belting out Les Miserables tunes is enough to cause worry to any person. However my worry was was it dream??? Could it have really happened??? So I jumped out of bed, wiped the sleep out of my eyes and went straight to the internet………and there it was……. It wasn’t a dream after all and my Susan Boyle image was not some sad irony heaped upon a long suffering Dees supporter but was reality! The Demons had inflicted the largest ever loss the Swans had endured under Paul Roos’ tutelage.
But I had to watch the game again. Luckily I had the foresight to tape the game and stuff being late for work for this was going to be better than any musical Andrew Lloyd Webber could ever produce.
- Seeing Colin Sylvia take over the role of hard man in the centre vacated by the injured Moloney. The way he was getting the hard ball, breaking through packs and sure ball handling I was half expecting to see Charlton Heston appear after half time such was his Ben Hur like performance.
- Aussie……..Aussie Aussie Aussie…..I must admit I had forgotten how good a footballer he really is. As long as he can last 5 minutes without doing his hammy again we are in for a treat. With him and LJ in the forward line they will both be vying for the lead role of the Wizard coming to the MCG amphitheatre in a new forward line show real soon.
- Chip Frawley in a scene out of Tom and Jerry with the big man chasing down Leroy Jetta on the outer wing perfectly illustrated the never give in desire that has encapsulated our team.
- Jamie Bennell again playing a blinder and his chase in the last minute of the game could see him a monty for the lead role in ‘catch me if you can’.
- “Mamma Mia’ how good is Brad Green going?…..3 goals in the first quarter (OK 2 goals and a poster but we’ll take the 3) has him in a rich vein of form and he has to be a monty now to win his first well deserved ‘Bluey’.
- Cameron Bruce had Ryan O’Keefe locked away like the Beast in ‘Beauty and the Beast’ and Cale Morton did an admirable job on the Swans’ ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’ in Adam Goodes.
- Clint Bartram was ‘Cat’ like in defense and probably played his best game for the club. He has made it very hard to drop him now from our best 22.
- Colin Garland, Joel MacDonald and Jared Rivers patrolled the backline like the ‘3 musketeers’ never letting their opponents get any opportunity to break away.
- The Big Russian again dominated turning the game for Mumford and Pike into their own ‘Rocky Horror Picture Show’.
- Like “the Scarlet Pimpernel’ our own Tom Scully and Aaron Davey were everywhere and anywhere and they both ran and ran all day.
I could go on and on but finally I would add that the passion shown by the players when the final curtain fell and the beautiful ‘sound of music’ coming from the rooms in the form of our fabulous club song made the hairs stand up on the back of my neck and had me screaming for an encore.
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