FIND out what’s being said about the club in the major daily newspapers on Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Herald Sun

Melbourne Demons too tough on Brent Moloney
By Mark Stevens

BRENT Moloney didn't urinate at the bar, as reported. All he did was go out and have a few too many drinks on a Sunday night after Melbourne’s first win of the season.Yet that was enough to cost him the vice-captaincy of a club he grew up passionately following. The penalty, surely, is too tough. As far as we know, there was there was no fracas with Joe Public, there was no argument with bouncers. All he did was leave politely at 2.30am when asked to depart. Binge drinking is no good for recovery. In fact, it’s dumb when you’ve got training the next day. But is it a hanging offence worthy of losing a leadership role? The gut feel is no. 

Moloney to seek alcohol counselling
By Mark Robinson

MELBOURNE footballer Brent Moloney has admitted a problem with binge drinking. Moloney was stripped of the vice-captaincy and will seek alcohol counselling in the fall-out from a drunken late night on Sunday when he was booted out of a St Kilda bar. The Demons yesterday denied Moloney had urinated at the bar between 2.30am and 3am. Melbourne officials watched the bar's security footage to clear Moloney of the allegation. Sources told the Herald Sun Gold Coast captain Gary Ablett was also at the bar until 3am but was not drinking and was not with Moloney's group.
 
Gary Ablett says Gold Coast can beat Melbourne next weekend
By Nick Smart

PUTTING together four good quarters of football is all that stands between the Gold Coast Suns and its first win in the AFL this Sunday. That is the mindset of Gold Coast Suns skipper Gary Ablett heading into this weekend's fixture against the Melbourne at the Gabba. After playing two good sides in Carlton and the Western Bulldogs, this week's match looms as the club's best chance to date of breaking through for its first win.

The Age

Demotion for drunk Demon
By Michael Gleeson
If he had no hangover from the drinking he was soon to be sick to the stomach by the realisation of what his boozy night had done. A caller to a radio station accused him of urinating in the bar, an accusation which drew the club's attention to his night out. The club called Moloney in and the player admitted he had been very drunk but denied the accusation of urinating in the bar. The bar manager's review of tapes and interviews with staff confirmed the accusation was wrong. But the club was appalled that its vice-captain, an elite athlete, had been out and hopelessly drunk after a game and before he was due to train.
Moloney fronted the club's management and coaches before meeting his fellow leaders. They agreed it was not appropriate that he remain as vice-captain nor among the official leaders of the team.

The Australian

Melbourne star Brent Moloney succumbs to Demon drink
By Courtney Walsh

BRENT Moloney has been stripped of Melbourne's vice-captaincy following a boozy night out in St Kilda, but denies allegations he urinated on a bar or himself. The Demon also stepped down from the leadership group after revelations he was booted out of Fitzroy St nightspot Pretty Please early yesterday. The sanctions did not extend to a club-based ban from matches, with Moloney eligible for selection against the Gold Coast.

McKenna considers Hunt for Jurrah job
By Greg Denham

GOLD Coast coach Guy McKenna said yesterday developing defender Karmichael Hunt was an option to oppose Melbourne match-winner Liam Jurrah when the two clubs meet for the first time, at the Gabba on Sunday.
McKenna said the improving Hunt was one of five players in line to play on Jurrah after the AFL's match review panel yesterday suspended defender Campbell Brown for four matches. The undisciplined Suns vice-captain, who McKenna said would have started on Jurrah, was offered two separate two-game sanctions.