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Forum Footy Round Robin

rollinson 65
in Melbourne Demons

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Great day, thanks to all, especially Wise for his never-say-die leadership and Rollo 1 for organising. Apologies for giving away that goal for swearing at the umpire. He was a bit f**ked though. :)

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    cheers to everyone involved and thanks rollo for organising a day of the filth getting their ass handed to them.

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    cheers to rollo, whateverittakes and jack and all the other helpers couldnt have done it without you.

    well done to all the boys 3 solid wins had a few scares but got their in the end! can't wait till next time.

    cheers,

    TSF

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    highlight of the day has to have been super's goal...

    Find a video of Nathan Carroll's one career goal and it was exactly the same. A horrific helicopter which had no right to go through.

    Will take it. Will not follow on imitating Chopper by punching Ben Holland on the gob.

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    Good to see the boys get another win,i would of played but i had my awards night last night and was rather hung over so i would of been pretty useless lol...

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    Thanks to Rollo for organising today.

    Really puts into perspective why I retired from footy 2 years ago! Tried to stay away from getting hurt, but the shoulder is pretty stiff and sore after the second game!

    Also, nothing better than beating the dons and the pies in any form of football!

    Looking forward to next time.

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    Thanks to Rollo for organising today.

    Really puts into perspective why I retired from footy 2 years ago! Tried to stay away from getting hurt, but the shoulder is pretty stiff and sore after the second game!

    Also, nothing better than beating the dons and the pies in any form of football!

    Looking forward to next time.

    Glad to hear.

    Any word on the bloke who did his knee?

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    Glad to hear.

    Any word on the bloke who did his knee?

    was too far away from the action...

    who was it that did his knee ??

    any word on the knee ??

    p.s. thanks for the thanks, but whispering jack and whateverittakes had harder jobs than me...

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    Very sore today, had a great time though, thanks to all the organisers from here and the other club forums, everyone did well to get almost full teams on the park. Thanks to the water girl too, did a great job getting around to everyone.

    Supers goal was the highlight (and the goal that secured the flag), reminded me of every kick Cam Bruce had the way it floated in the air

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    Like everyone involved, I too have yet to recover but I'd like to thank the players, Sam our drinks person and the indefatigable Rollo for fulfilling the main aim as stated in what passed for my pre match address and that was to honour our trainer Jo who passed away tragically from cancer at a very young age a few months ago. As a result, this was a very important day for all of us given that that our club chairman Jim Stynes is fighting a magnificent battle against the disease and that we lost a director in Peter Szental last year and a former champion in Sean Wight this year. On top of that, today is Pink Ribbon Day so even though we feel the pain of the bumps, bruises and the heat these are put in perspective against what those who suffer from cancer feel.

    Anyhow, the team overcame slow starts to every game to take home the trophy again. When I think of some of the very good players from the past who couldn't make it yesterday, I'm even more impressed with their efforts and it was even better knowing that my input as coach was minimal. As I said to the players I snuck into Dean Bailey's office on the day of his farewell press conference in the hope of finding his game plan book but all I got was an exercise book full of blank pages. 

    In the end, we settled for the Neale Daniher "run and carry" tactics which was enough to get us over Bomber Blitz (using the Matthew Knights playbook), Saintsational (Grant Thomas) and Nick's Collingwood Bulletin Board (Phonse Kyne). 

    The games were played in great spirit and the umpires were phenomenal working their butts of for the best part of five hours and making less bloopers than their AFL counterparts. The teams were generally good in co-operating on players and other measures to allow us to cope with the heat.

    One umpiring decision I'll never quite be able to work out is the championship defining decision to award a free to Supermercado in front of the big sticks. Up to that point I think Super was going to emulate his hero Emo Maric and seek a clearance elsewhere but he somehow managed to sink the kick and win the day for the Dees.

    Thanks to all players - it was a great even team performance and a pleasure to coach. Thanks to Wise for his great captaincy.

    No thanks to my assistant coaches who went AWOL but fortunately, my 6 year old grandson Maor was on hand to competently fill the void. 

    To the injured players, I wish you a speedy recovery. One of our lads Jack (who I suspect might be Colin Sylvia's chauffeur) turned up hung over, spilled his guts out in the first game, recovered to kick a goal in the second and did his knee late in the third. Hope you and the rest of the boys are OK today.

    Thanks to all - you've done Jo proud!

    Tomorrow, I'll try to have my iPhone video of the Grand Old Flag sung with gusto at the end of proceedings loaded onto the site.

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    many thanks for the report, jack...

    a good read...

    the main point, I think, is that we were without so many, many of our players, but the guys (and girl) who did make it did us proud...

    special thanks to our girl (whateverittakes) for doing so much on the day...

    (and we do expect you to fly back from darwin for our next forum footy game)... :lol:

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    many thanks for the report, jack...

    a good read...

    the main point, I think, is that we were without so many, many of our players, but the guys (and girl) who did make it did us proud...

    special thanks to our girl (whateverittakes) for doing so much on the day...

    (and we do expect you to fly back from darwin for our next forum footy game)... :lol:

    Shucks Rollo! It was an easy job compared to everyone else. Lots of fun too!

    Thanks for the opportunity, and I'll do my best to get back from Darwin for the next one.

    GO DEES :)

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    Thanks for the reports fellas but I need to know in full detail about Supermercado's goal. Is there a video? Will Allen welcome him into the full forwards inner circle?

    Can I get a detailed quote from the man of the moment.

    Adam well done. Let me know all about it and you can brag.

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    I'm bringing some slabs next year all i had were two very very warm beers in my footy bag at the end of game. I thought I pulled up ok until i couldn't lift my leg yesterday to put my foot on the clutch in my truck. That was an interesting drive. Forgot to thank whateverItTakes who saved my life a couple of times with the water she was B.O.G for sure.

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    Look at this from Nick's collingwood page:

    '1 guy looked like. viney/schwartz/jamaer/gutnick. another 1 looked like matthew bate, another 1 looked like james mcdonald, and then there was afroman/lyon'

    I think that's you the_russian!!! Good description.

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    Thanks for the reports fellas but I need to know in full detail about Supermercado's goal. Is there a video? Will Allen welcome him into the full forwards inner circle?

    Can I get a detailed quote from the man of the moment.

    Adam well done. Let me know all about it and you can brag.

    You'll have to wait until my autobiography comes out.

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    other sites happy that dees won but did not dominate yet again...

    all around good result for forum footy, I reckon...

    but congratulations to you guys for winning without tassie dee, grimes4, funky41, deemich and their mates...

    looking forward to the next forum contest (probably february)...

    dons organiser (at least) is matching our efforts, so I predict the matches against the dons will be the most competitive over the next period...

    pity that talkingcarlton appear to have lost interest...

    regards and thanks to all involved...

    rollo

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