Toast Menzel - The Return

[Smashwood]

He gives the entire club a huge lift after a lean year for our standards

 

[Geelong_Sicko]

(Daniel Menzel and Nathan Vardy in the first week of rehab 2012.)

Doc: Daniel, you gotta come back with me!

Daniel: Where?

Doc: Back to the future.

Daniel: No, no, no, Doc, I just got here, OK, Vardy's here, we're gonna do rehab and get fit.

Doc: Well, bring him along. This concerns Nathan too.

Daniel: Wait a minute, Doc. What are you talking about? What happens to us in the future? What do we become shit players or something?

Doc: No, no, no, no, no, Daniel, both you and Nathan turn out fine. It's your team, Daniel,
something has got to be done about your team!

GREAT SCOTT!!

 

[MarkCatsFan]

Did the Documentary on Dan air yet?

If so does anybody have any tips on where to track it down online? Have only found one dead link so far on one of the MSN sites.

Would desperately like to see it.

 

[GFrost]

Did the Documentary on Dan air yet?

If so does anybody have any tips on where to track it down online? Have only found one dead link so far on one of the MSN sites.

Would desperately like to see it.

It will screen on Fox Footy Channel Tuesday and Wednesday 8:30pm.
I've got little doubt it will turn up online not long after that.

 

[allrighty]

Menzel in the AFL team of the week

Wonderful for him but what an indictment on others.

 

[Teriyakicat]

You can vote for Menzel's mark in the AFL Mark of the Year here:
https://markoftheyear.afl.com.au/vote/round/22?nominee=2
and cheeky Mots' goal was one of three nominees this week for Goal of the Year here:
https://goaloftheyear.afl.com.au/vote/round/22?nominee=2

 

[Geelong_Sicko]

Geeze, was Mots over the line just a tad? Of COURSE not

 

[Teriyakicat]

Geeze, was Mots over the line just a tad? Of COURSE not

Depends on which camera angle you look at. The ump was standing right there and had a bird's eye view.
The ball also has to be 100% over the line- guess it was a bit line ball, eh?

-groan....

 

[JimmyBeerCans]

Just noticed this article this morning, hope you don't mind me posting... glad he's back super talent

http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/sport...b83b2aa70864b12be0fb8d87b#load-story-comments

 

[MarkCatsFan]

It will screen on Fox Footy Channel Tuesday and Wednesday 8:30pm.
I've got little doubt it will turn up online not long after that.

Awesome, thanks.

 

[Teriyakicat]

From an article in the Geelong Addy this morning:

DANIEL Menzel has spoken of “the worst phone call I’ve received in my life” after a training mishap in late 2012 resulted in his third knee reconstruction.

Menzel and the Cats had been confident he had escaped major damage after his left knee was twisted in a tackling drill. But a surgical opinion confirmed he needed another round of reconstructive surgery, leaving Dr Chris Bradshaw the task of delivering the crushing news.

“I’ll never forget it, it’s the worst phone call I’ve ever received in my life,” Menzel says in his two-part documentary Dan Menzel: A Long Way Home, which airs on Fox Footy on Tuesday night.

“I couldn’t stop thinking about it the whole way home, I bawled my eyes out the whole way home. “I thought, ‘how is this happening again?’, we thought we were in the clear a little bit but as it turned out we weren’t.

“I didn’t want to call Mum, I didn’t want to tell anyone, it’s just one of those ones where you don’t want to tell anyone. It’s not a good phone call to make.”

....

Menzel recalls his teammates’ faces when they arrived at the club from an interstate trip to learn he had suffered another setback, this time potentially career-threatening.

“They all walk in and you look at their faces straight away and it looks like someone has died, the expression on their faces,” he said. “Straight away I feel like, ‘what have I done again?’.

“You actually feel like you’ve let people down, in a way, the amount of people who have supported you and the amount of people who have done so much for you, it’s happened again and you go through so many emotions.”

http://www.geelongadvertiser.com.au...story-of-despair/story-fnjuhrxq-1227506583696

 

[GFrost]

Awesome, thanks.

No problem. He will also be on AFL 360 tonight apparently, before his documentary screens after that.
That is usually uploaded to YouTube also.

 

[candiehappy]

Geeze, was Mots over the line just a tad? Of COURSE not

his balls were in

 

[Teriyakicat]

his balls were in

lol

Must keep 'em in a strange place!

 

[candiehappy]

lol

Must keep 'em in a strange place!

wearing Eddie Betts shorts ...

 

[rocker_oz33]

Those with fox.........>
Fox Footy ‏@FOXFOOTY

Don't miss PART 1 of @DanielMenzel10 - A Long Way Home on @FoxFooty at 8:30PM #Menzel10



Those without fox someone smart will tube it.

 

[BotsMaster]

Those with fox.........>
Fox Footy ‏@FOXFOOTY

Don't miss PART 1 of @DanielMenzel10 - A Long Way Home on @FoxFooty at 8:30PM #Menzel10



Those without fox someone smart will tube it.

Don't have Fox Footy

 

[rocker_oz33]

Don't have Fox Footy

I'm not smart enough to tube it.

 

[hamG]

He spoke amazingly well on 360 tonight.

 

[Willo_]

He spoke amazingly well on 360 tonight.

I was just posting the exact same thing, he is such an impressive young man.

 

[Boxhead_31]

Dear god, this is heart wrenching stuff to see what the lad went through
Please Huey never let anything bad happen to him ever again he has suffered enough

 

[xtatik222k]

Please somebody upload this.

 

[Willo_]

I hope all of his teammates are watching this... they could learn a bit after their last few weeks

MTMF

 

[NoName]

I can not imagine what Menzel went through undergoing 4 knee reconstructions. Good on him in not giving up on playing AFL again, the mental challenge would have been a lot harder then the physical.

Maybe he can have a chat to Clay Smith from the Bulldogs who underwent his 2nd knee reconstruction earlier in the year.

 

[Munich]

What an inspiring young man.