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Have great memories of Ballyshannassy Park, playing Gridiron as an 18 y.o and nearly getting killed every week 😄

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    15 hours ago, DeelightfulPlay said:

    U don't want to know how they make the Uncle's Udon...!

    It doesn't bear thinking about.

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    • 2 weeks later...

    4 hours ago, Redleg said:

    Think DL could turn really feral if we lose to the Saints:

    My main concern for the game is how well Max recovers from watching the Giro D'Italia final competitive stage last night.

    Plus there's the let-down of commuting through the dreary 'sameness without theme' of an Australian city after watching the landscape of Northern Italy go past for five hours.

    Hopefully it manifests in anger. A real 'I will create something beautiful today and nothing will stop me' moment.

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    7 minutes ago, Little Goffy said:

    My main concern for the game is how well Max recovers from watching the Giro D'Italia final competitive stage last night.

    Plus there's the let-down of commuting through the dreary 'sameness without theme' of an Australian city after watching the landscape of Northern Italy go past for five hours.

    Hopefully it manifests in anger. A real 'I will create something beautiful today and nothing will stop me' moment.

    what have you been drinking, goffy.  i need some of that, in fact copious amounts

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    19 minutes ago, daisycutter said:

    what have you been drinking, goffy.  i need some of that, in fact copious amounts

    You beat me to it dc.

    Goffy is most definitely on something.

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    On 13/05/2024 at 15:35, Moonshadow said:

    "Essendon 3rd on the ladder is like seeing an elephant sitting in a tree. You don't know how they got there but they're gonna come crashing down"

    - SEN this morning

    Or, How an elephant got into my pajamas I'll never know. (Groucho Marx.)

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    1 hour ago, daisycutter said:

    what have you been drinking, goffy.  i need some of that, in fact copious amounts

    1 hour ago, Bitter but optimistic said:

    You beat me to it dc.

    Goffy is most definitely on something.

    Oh really? That was going to far?

    On this thread?

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    1 minute ago, Little Goffy said:

    Oh really? That was going to far?

    On this thread?

    I think it was spot on as a charicture of Max 😁  but I may be drinking the same thing...

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    8 hours ago, Little Goffy said:

    Oh really? That was going to far?

    On this thread?

    You are correct, there is nearly no too far on this thread.

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    16 hours ago, Redleg said:

    Think DL could turn really feral if we lose to the Saints:

    I see this post arrived below a '2 weeks later...' notice. I hope achievement of 30,000 posts hasn't been 2021-like in creating a no-more-mountains-to-climb attitude.

    Back on pace and on message, please, ladies and gents!

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    1 hour ago, Timothy Reddan-A'Blew said:

    I see this post arrived below a '2 weeks later...' notice. I hope achievement of 30,000 posts hasn't been 2021-like in creating a no-more-mountains-to-climb attitude.

    Back on pace and on message, please, ladies and gents!

    30000 posts is just a good start.

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    8 hours ago, Redleg said:

    30000 posts is just a good start.

    Some credit probably should go to our former list manager Barry Prendergast, quick shoutout. 

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    Great article by Langdon, who praises Goody and the Club Culture, for putting players’ welfare first, as evidenced by him being allowed to miss the Eagles game to attend his sister’s wedding in London.

    He said the club was a great place to be and play football with as they really cared about their players.

    That is a fantastic advertisement for any player thinking of moving clubs.

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    2 hours ago, Redleg said:

    Great article by Langdon, who praises Goody and the Club Culture, for putting players’ welfare first, as evidenced by him being allowed to miss the Eagles game to attend his sister’s wedding in London.

    He said the club was a great place to be and play football with as they really cared about their players.

    That is a fantastic advertisement for any player thinking of moving clubs.

    I read that same article and thought similar 

    a really great advert for the playing group and their “culture “

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    A win puts us 3rd and a loss, heaven forbid, puts us in the ruck,

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    8 hours ago, Redleg said:

    A win puts us 3rd and a loss, heaven forbid, puts us in the ruck,

    Like Maxy?

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    Pretty ordinary behaviour by Dogs fans booing Lobb.

    It could put off other players from going there and staying there.

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    On a different note, remember when decimate meant to destroy one tenth? I'm no good at calculating percentages but the evolution of decimate to mean largely destroy does my head in...

    Edited by DeelightfulPlay
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    1 hour ago, DeelightfulPlay said:

    On a different note, remember when decimate meant to destroy one tenth? I'm no good at calculating percentages but the evolution of decimate to mean largely destroy does my head in...

    "We absolutely hyperbolated them."

    Bookmark it now.

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    12 hours ago, DeelightfulPlay said:

    On a different note, remember when decimate meant to destroy one tenth? I'm no good at calculating percentages but the evolution of decimate to mean largely destroy does my head in...

    Thank you, DP. You are not alone.

    Though we may be...

    But not without a fight:

    https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/the-original-definition-of-decimate#:~:text=The issue that many people,mean “to destroy a large

    (...Though perhaps more informative than supportive!!)

    Edited by Timothy Reddan-A'Blew

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