Living in the past

[ArtificialWisdom 4,045]

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.

 

[Sorry kids 635]

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

[Demonland 71,812]

Surely the Norm Smith Curse is still relevant?

[binman 42,772]

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

[Mazer Rackham 14,971]

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.

[Dee Zephyr 19,267]

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

[picket fence 17,103]

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

[titan_uranus 24,984]

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.

[deebug 1,754]

All of the above.

The one for me was slobo bring the tanking c$*( up this year.

[Engorged Onion 10,215]

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...

[TeamPlayedFine39 8,495]

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

 

 

[La Dee-vina Comedia 16,710]

I think the mistake was allowing Geelong to be formed as the second Australian football club in 1859. Started the rot. 

[binman 42,772]

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?

[pewpewpew 738]

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

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

[chook fowler 19,447]

A lot to be said for living in the past as a MFC supporter. I highly recommend it.

[JTR 2,846]

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

[Supermercado 2,797]

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

[Moonshadow 17,675]

8 minutes ago, JTR said:

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

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

???

[La Dee-vina Comedia 16,710]

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.