Good on you, Alex. It was very depressing to read the "Crystal Ball" stuff in The Age and see how many had selected Melbourne for their wooden spoon. Nice to read something a bit more positive.
Got to say, though, I reckon your read on Davey isn't quite right. I think he became ineffective last year because opposition teams worked out that the way he gets himself into a game is to lay superb defensive tackles early in the quarter. The number of times I watched him being shepherded off the ball as he was trying to chase down the opposition defender carrying the ball out of defense exhausted me.
I remember Robert Walls wrote a column before last season saying the Demons were going to do very badly despite their list - and that was before any injuries. I kept wanting to ring in to Gerard Whateley's The Final Word to ask how Walls knew that and what it was about the Demons infrastructure that was so fundamentally wrong.
Maybe if the front office stopped spending so much time worrying about running a pokies venue and spent more time getting the capital investment aimed at positive footballing outcomes.
Angus (Demons MEMBER)
