Forum Footy

[DeeM 42]

Hi Guys

isn't it that time of the year for our forum footy games?

i missed out of the end of last years, so I'm pretty keen for a run round before the local leagues start

[Spaghetti 264]

Unless rollo organises, the other forums tend to exclude us because we never lose. Perhaps we should tank a few games? Nicks Collingwood is playing Bomberblitz in the next few weeks I think.

[rollinson 65 181]

hey, guys, we always wait to be challenged, and no challenges have been issued...

so, unless you want to try the demonland v demonology experiment again, february may pass without a forum game...

I remember becoming exhausted just watching that demonland v demonology game...

and demonland had to loan demonology so many players, it was like an intra-club practice match...

I am not the suspicious type, but maybe if we don't crush the other forums in february this year, the firsts (because we are the seconds) may do well for a change...

regards to all,

rollo

[rollinson 65 181]

just checked the sites...

it looks like the game was played today...

pies came home with a wet sail in the last, but dons held on to win...

talk on the sites about finally knocking off the dees in october, so I don't think there will be any forum footy for us before then...

[pringle 42]

Has anyone got our win-loss record? From memory we may have lost one game, but I don't recall playing that day, so can't confirm that. Rollo? Any official stats?

[Whispering_Jack 30,641]

Has anyone got our win-loss record? From memory we may have lost one game, but I don't recall playing that day, so can't confirm that. Rollo? Any official stats?

Pringle, we've lost just one game and that was against St. Kilda at the Glenferrie Oval on a hot afternoon in October 2008. I remember it well because I was coaching that day.

I'm not making any excuses but we were in front at the 20 minute mark when the siren should have sounded. I stopped rotating the players in the heat expecting the match to be called to a halt but for some unknown reason the game continued for another 4½ minutes before the siren was finally sounded by a rather sheepish looking St. Kilda timekeeper immediately after they kicked a goal to hit the front.

We all took it sportingly and the opposition won fair and square. Although I would never complain or accuse the opposition of cheating fudging the result (heaven forbid!) or about the disgraceful performance of the maggots in white (not a peep out of me about them), I always try to ensure there are two timekeepers every time we play these games.

[rollinson 65 181]

hate to disagree with an old mate, jack...

but we turned up with 13 players in 2008, and the saints had to loan us players to make up our numbers...

they loaned us 5 excellent players, one of whom scored the goal that put us in front...

the sainters also still occasionally complain about our goal umpy from the very first game, who was getting away with calling a goal to give us a win by a couple of points, until freak published on this site some days later that his shot on goal definitely went wide...

never got to catch up with freak to thank him for that post... B)

and then there was the first game against talkingcarlton, when we had the only goal umpy/scorer, won by a few points, and apparently scored 13 behinds in the second quarter, but nobody ever owned up to scoring 4 of those behinds...

anyway, pringle, the official record is something like 11 out of 12, and we have never lost since we resolved to get organised (after that game in 2008)...

we owe a vote of thanks to our organisers, who have included over the years tassie dee, pringle, redleg, melbournefc, do-it-for-robbie, whispering jack, demonland, demon revival, hards, supermercado, funky41, wolfmother and dee knees. Apologies to anyone I have failed to remember.

[Swooper 266]

Got a new baby due in Feb, so might be battling for a pre-season hit out, but I've taken Misso's conditioning regime on board and have been getting miles in my legs mon-wed-fri so I'm hoping for a mid-field role on debut come October.

[rollinson 65 181]

hey, swooper...

are you the "swooper" who has played for us in the past, or are you new to forum footy ??