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Thanks for that, I will do some more digging.

Another for the 'exclusive club' avalanche, Danny Hughes, R1 1984. Seems likely from this clip that he didn't have another kick in the first 40 seconds.

I might have missed it on here somewhere, but Robert McKenzie of Melbourne died in late 2022. I don't have an exact date, but it's reported in the December 2022 edition of the MFC Past Players Newsletter so it happened around then. Possibly related to this.

The evidence on this is a bit flimsy, but according to the MFC Past Players newsletter November 2022, Arthur Pound was going to be added to the AFL's official list of first kick/first goalscorers. I'm not taking this one as gospel without further evidence. A later edition also claims Jeremy...

If I recall correctly he was a Brisbane fan who got involved with us because he loved the siege mentality of our rock bottom, five minutes from being shut down years. What about DemonRevival, famously pictured waving the bag of money at $cully and last seen running a sports bar/place to meet...

Another likely goal with first kick - Melbourne's Kelvin Clarke in Round 1, 1968. Who knows how rigorous their disposal stats were, but I'll take this on face value. Article is from the Herald but I don't have the exact date.

Apart from all the obvious shenanigans, I remember the rousing applause when James McDonald got his first touch. Proved we weren't a bunch of savages. Say what you want about feuding with players on big money who don't even know/care who you are (see Port Adelaide fans vs the rest of the...

Good suggestion! Led me to find out that in 1937 Fitzroy seconds signed a player from a radio station.

Respect for this after I spent years trying to get the spirit of '98 by hearing Nothing Beats The Footy at the MCG by Voice of the G and the "When your whole car's singing it's Ultratuned" jingle.

Melbournes ladder position end of H&A: 5th If playing finals, how far do we go: Semi B&F: Oliver in miracle comeback AAs: Gawn, Oliver Most improved: Salem Gone backwards: Chandler

I'm not making a judgement on which source is right, but the Sunday Observer 08/04/1979 stats for Round 1, 1979 have some differences to those shown on AFL Tables. Just for the Melbourne players... AFL Tables Sunday Observer Steven Smith - 5 kicks, 3 handballs 4 kicks, 4 handballs Graham...

Always feel slighted when my favourite goal isn't deemed good enough for the highlights.

He had the physique of a folded-up cardboard box.

I remember that for West Coast debutante Tony Notte, one of the thinnest players I've ever seen. If there was strong wind he'd have floated out of the MCG.

There hasn't been a topic this far up my alley for years. This is what I was coming in for. Far enough removed from the rock bottom era that it wasn't good enough just to win, we could afford to sook up about that rotten second half. The only game that can beat it in the last 15 years was the...

I'm really relying on them to do it and give everyone else useful moral highground until the end of time.

Thanks for looking this up - it certainly rules out the 26th but now there's questions of whether it should be the 23rd! I'll go with the original for now with a footnote.

Most records for Charlie Taylor (ex-Melbourne, Carlton, St Kilda) show his date of death as 25/08/1960 This says 'circa 26 August' and I can't see an exact date on BDM (full name Charles Joseph Amphlett Taylor) so just wondering if anyone can confirm the official date of record is 25/08?

Is there a regularly updated site that lists round-by-round tribunal/match review panel results? I've got the historical ones but it's slow work making sure the modern lists are up to date when MRP decisions are spread out across multiple posts on the AFL website. I've also asked the AFL...

Campbell didn't get much of it and dropped a couple of marks but was worth it just for letting Harris run around creating carnage rather than having to second ruck. Good signs against a mid-table side, keen to see us play contenders again.

Until half time this was regrettably looking like a good prediction. Then whack x8 and it looks like we're an attacking juggernaut.

M, F, or Other, the biggest vulnerability we have is not getting a big enough score to cover the good work of the defenders. Here's to Campbell as second ruck freeing up Harris to kick goals. Also enjoying Paxman's rebrand. Why come up with an entirely new first name when you can just sub in...

1890 - player outraged by betting allegations will retire as soon as his other bet is decided.

Club media peaked when they tweeted a link to an Ikea TV stand instead of the team selections.

Agree that pre-1897 VFA games/goals should be noted on player records (albeit separately), but the problem is getting confirmed lineups and totals. Even for all the good work done by Mark Pennings in his books, I still don't have the confirmed name of every 1896 MFC player let alone the years...

Agree with this, it might not be what they were aiming for but if it inadvertently keeps Gawn fresh until the end of the season then it's been worth every cent. It's like a higher stakes/shorter-term version of when they recruited Melksham as a defender, realised it wasn't working three weeks...

Behold, Phil Carman's lacklustre defence team.

The handbrake went on with force after we beat Port. Given how easily we beat Freo for win #4, imagine how much we'd have needed to cheat to lose in that game if McMahon hadn't kicked his goal after the siren.

Anyone else go to the Freo game at the MCG later that year when we briefly stopped tanking and won them by 10 goals? 13,000 is the lowest MCG crowd I've ever been in, and it felt it. I stood in the same line to get a hot dog as Jordie McKenzie.

McKenzie was the only player who came out of 186 with any credit, then they declined to award B&F votes for that game so he came out empty-handed. Also tagged Brendan Goddard into the ground when we were complete pox in early 2012, then just as you thought we might win a game... scoreless last...