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Will be a great backman for us for many years to come.
Most improved '08.
Broady would be proud.
Good player, may need to crack the whip with him because i'm pretty sure he's baked in this photo!!
To be fair, he went from Weetra-like dud to "superstar in the making" in the space of a couple of weekends.Who else thought he was one to delist after '07?
Epic lulz at me. I failed.
If it was publically stated then I missed it but a poster on Demonland stated that he was, make of that what you will...Was Col placed on the LTI?
THE first thing Colin Garland sees when he gets to work each morning are 12 premiership cups, lined up on the left as you step inside Melbourne's new training centre. Next to catch his eye is the collage of photographs along the right-hand wall, capturing some of his club's greatest players and moments. His club — those are the key words here. Garland grew up loving every little thing about football, and being very good at it, without ever finding one club or team that he felt truly enveloped in. Since Melbourne chose him four years ago, though, that has changed.
Garland is only 22, and is very much caught up in what the Demons are doing right now. Still, he feels as if he has become a part of things that have already happened. “I love the club, just the history of it, and everything that has happened here. I hear the old players tell their stories and think, I can't believe I'm a part of this now,” he said. “I sort of feel sorry for the players going to the new clubs, because to play for the oldest team in the world is something you can hold on to forever. It's one of the first places I've felt like I really belong.”
Garland didn't just love playing football, growing up in Tasmania's north-west. He loved watching games, watching more games, reading about players, filling up his sticker albums and memorising statistics. He stores away heights, weights and other information even now, keeping his teammates amused. Garland moved home often as a kid, but while he never had the chance to grow up with one team, he didn't really want to, either. He was reluctant to commit to too many teams, because his mother Shirley was working three jobs and he didn't want her driving around after him and his younger brothers.
It wasn't until his final year of junior football that the under-18 Tasmanian team finally talked him into going on a weekend trip to Melbourne — on the premise of seeing how the team did things, while always planning to throw him in at the last minute. A few months later, he got drafted, and a few days after that, he lived in a new state.
http://www.melbournefc.com.au/tabid/7415/default.aspx?newsid=124873Darth Vader said:Colin had a really good year. He stepped up as a leader in the backline and in the team. He became a powerful player and I think he’s only starting to learn how much power he has got. If he embraces that power, he will become a Dark Lord of the... errr... dynamo down back.