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Living in the past

ArtificialWisdom
in Melbourne Demons

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This should be fun,

Obviously everything is going wrong right now so naturally people are trying to work out why. Recently the infamous camp was brought up again as a possible turning point. Now I thought that was as far back as anyone could go. But of course before that the was the trade for our 2nd best defender, Lever. Getting a young star and future leader into the club, surely that's where we stuffed up! But this morning I'm reading about Jones' "haunting past" with a link to an article that's now 5 years old! I think it's time to set the challenge to demonlanders:

What's the oldest and/or most irrelevant article you can find that explains our current situation. Get creative, I will accept anything from footy to climate change to astrology. All you need to do is explain why it [censored] us up so badly. If we're going to complain, might as well make a game of it.

 

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    For mine it was our home base training ground needing new drainage, oh, no wrong, i forgot,  we never had one, 

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    Norm Smith curse, Brent Croswell, the buckanara goal, is c k watts and omac. In that order.

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    4 minutes ago, Demonland said:

    Surely the Norm Smith Curse is still relevant?

    You're not even trying!

    I reckon there's something in the Magna Carta about it.

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    We need to find out why the Cleveland Browns in the NFL have the same luck as us and do the opposite.

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    Not a bad record by Jethro Tull, before Ian Anderson lost his voice and then Sacked guitar Maestro Martin Barre!

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    27 minutes ago, titan_uranus said:

    Can't believe there have been six posts in this thread and none of them have mentioned 186.

    @Sir Why You Little would be disappointed.

    Nah, have to be a comment re: Membership - so I guess we go also back to the 60's when the members transferred to Hawthorn...

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    I’d go as far back as building our home ground on an aboriginal corroboree site.

     

     

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    4 hours ago, picket fence said:

    Not a bad record by Jethro Tull, before Ian Anderson lost his voice and then Sacked guitar Maestro Martin Barre!

    Rebuilding since 1964?

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    Allowing co-tenants at the MCG has cost us home ground advantage.

    Let all the other victorian teams play at their suburban [censored] holes.

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    6 hours ago, ArtificialWisdom said:

    What's the oldest and/or most irrelevant article you can find that explains our current situation. Get creative, I will accept anything from footy to climate change to astrology. All you need to do is explain why it [censored] us up so badly. If we're going to complain, might as well make a game of it.

     

    https://www.couriermail.com.au/sport/afl/jack-pot-numbers/news-story/4438f83bfa5ba85fafa475b7210d1aee?sv=c6f899c993ced28eb488af168026af34

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    In 1884 the MCG grandstand that housed our goalposts burnt down. I believe the trauma is still being felt.

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    26 minutes ago, Moonshadow said:

    "Watts ticks so many boxes for the Demons. He also oozes leadership and maturity."

    ???

    Someone probably needed to heal that ooze. By not doing so, it all drained away.

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