FIND out what’s being said about the club in the major daily newspapers on Monday, December 19, 2011
Herald Sun
Inside the red and blue camp
By Sam Edmund
THE clock is yet to tick past 7.30am as the Melbourne players start trudging in. It's going to be another long, exhausting day at AAMI Park. Colin Sylvia is texting, Jared Rivers shuffles in yawning. Nearly every player is sips water. The Demons are about to be subjected to more pre-season torture by new coach Mark Neeld and his beefed-up coaching crew and the Herald Sun has been granted unfettered access to witness it. It is a captivating insight to how the AFL's oldest club is trying to fight its way out of the darkness. Inside Melbourne's state-of-the-art headquarters the physio room is a blur of movement as players prepare to hit Gosch's Paddock in about an hour. Head trainer John Stanaway and his team are in the middle of a busy morning taping, strapping and massaging. The smell of liniment is almost overpowering. "Some of them are high maintenance," Stanaway laughs. "But no, they're a very good bunch." Around the corner Matthew Bate and Jordan Gysberts change in the locker room. Los Angeles street signs adorn the walls. "Rodeo Drive" hangs above Brent Moloney's locker. But there's little joking around. The players know what awaits them.
Double blow as Melbourne bites dust
By Sam Edmund
MELBOURNE has copped a double blow with Liam Jurrah undergoing wrist surgery and Max Gawn ruled out for the entire 2012 season with a knee injury. Jurrah had surgery on his wrist last week, but the Demons are confident the operation and rehabilitation will not cause major interruption to his pre-season. Demons football manager Josh Mahoney said the club had decided to send the 23-year-old to surgery after a more passive approach had failed to fix the problem. "He finished last season with a little fracture in his wrist. We took the natural approach to it so he had a cast on it and unfortunately when he came back to training the fracture was still there," Mahoney said. "So the club decided to take the definitive course of action and insert a screw and he had the operation on Monday." Jurrah is expected to resume full training with teammates by the middle of January.
Herald Sun
Inside the red and blue camp
By Sam Edmund
THE clock is yet to tick past 7.30am as the Melbourne players start trudging in. It's going to be another long, exhausting day at AAMI Park. Colin Sylvia is texting, Jared Rivers shuffles in yawning. Nearly every player is sips water. The Demons are about to be subjected to more pre-season torture by new coach Mark Neeld and his beefed-up coaching crew and the Herald Sun has been granted unfettered access to witness it. It is a captivating insight to how the AFL's oldest club is trying to fight its way out of the darkness. Inside Melbourne's state-of-the-art headquarters the physio room is a blur of movement as players prepare to hit Gosch's Paddock in about an hour. Head trainer John Stanaway and his team are in the middle of a busy morning taping, strapping and massaging. The smell of liniment is almost overpowering. "Some of them are high maintenance," Stanaway laughs. "But no, they're a very good bunch." Around the corner Matthew Bate and Jordan Gysberts change in the locker room. Los Angeles street signs adorn the walls. "Rodeo Drive" hangs above Brent Moloney's locker. But there's little joking around. The players know what awaits them.
Double blow as Melbourne bites dust
By Sam Edmund
MELBOURNE has copped a double blow with Liam Jurrah undergoing wrist surgery and Max Gawn ruled out for the entire 2012 season with a knee injury. Jurrah had surgery on his wrist last week, but the Demons are confident the operation and rehabilitation will not cause major interruption to his pre-season. Demons football manager Josh Mahoney said the club had decided to send the 23-year-old to surgery after a more passive approach had failed to fix the problem. "He finished last season with a little fracture in his wrist. We took the natural approach to it so he had a cast on it and unfortunately when he came back to training the fracture was still there," Mahoney said. "So the club decided to take the definitive course of action and insert a screw and he had the operation on Monday." Jurrah is expected to resume full training with teammates by the middle of January.
