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Curious timing! Anyone in mind?

I see we're absent in the killers and high in the killed. Mock?

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    Sorry, 'land; missed the "We are not..."

    Anyway, fun(?) coach killer fact(?), Wikipedia's table of Round 8 2010 (when the Bulldogs became the first(?) club to complete the States and Territories win set - ref that topic here) has the footnote "Hawthorn's win over Richmond was a significant one. It later emerged that Hawthorn coach Alastair Clarkson would have been sacked had they lost." They won, 13.11 to 13.8...

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    I think in the Danners case the actual killer was Richmond, as we were flogged by them after they had been winless the first 11 games of the year (1 draw). Iirc, it was agreed after the loss that Daniher would step down, but in a highly unusual development was allowed to have a final outing as coach against Essendon at Docklands, where we had an agonisingly close loss. 

    And btw, being at the top of that ladder is going to be a difficult  “embarrassing record” to erase, or have erased for us. 

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    We finished off both Stan Alves and Grant Thomas by beating St Kilda in finals. Bit hasty on Alves given he had them in a Grand Final the year before.

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    27 minutes ago, Demonland said:

    Wouldn't mind sending Buckley on his way on Queens Birthday.

    Actually strike that ... Give the guy a contract extension. Happy to see the Pies languishing for the next decade or three.

    Collingwood are bubbling along nicely. Let's not change the current formula. 

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    1 hour ago, Demonland said:

    We are not …

    Since the formation of the AFL competition 31 coaches have been given their marching orders during the season.

    From Useless AFL Stats
     

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    Only 31?! Thought it would’ve been more than that. 

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    1 hour ago, Demonland said:

    We are not …

    Since the formation of the AFL competition 31 coaches have been given their marching orders during the season.

    From Useless AFL Stats
     

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    I thought Daniher decided to step down instead of being sacked? It was more a Tribute game that Neitz got up for?

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    Dean Bailey was such a scapegoat for our disastrous board at the time. RIP. 
     

    On the flip side, Mark Neeld ?

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    31 minutes ago, WalkingCivilWar said:

    Only 31?! Thought it would’ve been more than that. 

    Only the AFL period, WCW, post 1990, and the first was Wheeler in 1994, so that's more than one a year!

     

    (p.s. Intrigued by Cryptic crosswords at #1 in your interests. I'm a doer (DA tragic!) and constructor (my alter ego johnno2 in the South Gippsland Sentinel Times). I wonder if there are any other 'landers bearing the cryptic cruciverbalist / Dees supporter cross?)

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    1 hour ago, Jaded said:

    Dean Bailey was such a scapegoat for our disastrous board at the time. RIP. 
     

    On the flip side, Mark Neeld ?

    Agree - Bailey was the victim of our hot mess of a board.  He was treated badly. 

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

    I wonder if there are any other 'landers bearing the cryptic cruciverbalist / Dees supporter cross?)

    I'm one of those afflicted by the cryptic curse, Timothy.  They are great for exercising the old grey matter and my favourite compiler is David Astle, whose devilish condundrums I manage to solve more often than not.

    There have been a few Demon-related cryptic quizzes posted on here over the past few years if you have the time and energy to do a search.  I posted one myself called 'Demonstone's Dirty Dozen' three or four years back.

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

    Only the AFL period, WCW, post 1990, and the first was Wheeler in 1994, so that's more than one a year!

     

    (p.s. Intrigued by Cryptic crosswords at #1 in your interests. I'm a doer (DA tragic!) and constructor (my alter ego johnno2 in the South Gippsland Sentinel Times). I wonder if there are any other 'landers bearing the cryptic cruciverbalist / Dees supporter cross?)

    Well, you’ve struck a nerve now! DA is the bane of my life! He and I email each other on a regular basis. Apparently, DAytrippers, online fan(?)club, insist that DA stands for Don’t Attempt. And justifiably so. 

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    11 minutes ago, demonstone said:

    I'm one of those afflicted by the cryptic curse, Timothy.  They are great for exercising the old grey matter and my favourite compiler is David Astle, whose devilish condundrums I manage to solve more often than not.

    There have been a few Demon-related cryptic quizzes posted on here over the past few years if you have the time and energy to do a search.  I posted one myself called 'Demonstone's Dirty Dozen' three or four years back.

    I bow before you! If I get maybe three or four of his clues I call that a good day. 
    This is from today’s cryptic set by NS. ?

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    2 hours ago, Jaded said:

    Dean Bailey was such a scapegoat for our disastrous board at the time. RIP. 
     

    On the flip side, Mark Neeld ?

    I was listening to ABC radio on the 186 game day in the car.

    Pre-game all the talk was how we were starting to track ok and looked like we were finally improving.

    I ran out of reception for the nearly entire game. When i tuned back in, Gerald Whately said

    "The Demons have lost by 186 points, and the only question is ; do they sack the coach now or later in the week?"

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    1 minute ago, demonstone said:

    Incubi.

    Nice. 

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    2 hours ago, Jaded said:

    Dean Bailey was such a scapegoat for our disastrous board at the time. RIP. 
     

    On the flip side, Mark Neeld ?

    Yep, the Bailey rebuild was progressing. Who’s to say how it would have finished up, but the board stuck their neck in, dragged the playing group in and the rest is history.

    A shameful period in our history.

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    34 minutes ago, Nasher said:

    Yep, the Bailey rebuild was progressing. Who’s to say how it would have finished up, but the board stuck their neck in, dragged the playing group in and the rest is history.

    A shameful period in our history.

    Our development was terrible during that time and our drafting was just as bad. Schwab was the one that should have gone, but not sure Bailey was the right guy anyway. Our board and wider football club was a shambles though and it took outsiders in PJ, Bartlett and Roos, and now Goodwin to fix it. 

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    2 hours ago, demonstone said:

    I'm one of those afflicted by the cryptic curse, Timothy.  They are great for exercising the old grey matter and my favourite compiler is David Astle, whose devilish condundrums I manage to solve more often than not.

    There have been a few Demon-related cryptic quizzes posted on here over the past few years if you have the time and energy to do a search.  I posted one myself called 'Demonstone's Dirty Dozen' three or four years back.

    So I see, Stone, and, with 7 pages of activity over several days, quite some interest created and quite a few familiar names! I think I remember it but it was before I'd built up courage to be a poster! I see you left it hanging with Engorged Onion's request for full 'parsing' - I hope he's 'let it go'...

    Time to stop appropriating this thread, so maybe a 'bump' some time, with new material from we closet (no more) cruciverbalising Dees?

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    2 hours ago, WalkingCivilWar said:

    Well, you’ve struck a nerve now! DA is the bane of my life! He and I email each other on a regular basis. Apparently, DAytrippers, online fan(?)club, insist that DA stands for Don’t Attempt. And justifiably so. 

    OK, one more appropriation? 

    DATrippers is my weekly lifeline, WCW. I usually finish, often over several days and usually with several trips to Crosswordsolver, Thesaurus, Mr Google and occasionally Danword. Rarely do I not need explanations from the DATrippers of answers I've got!

    David is a fascinating bloke, isn't he!

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    5 hours ago, Supermercado said:

    We finished off both Stan Alves and Grant Thomas by beating St Kilda in finals. Bit hasty on Alves given he had them in a Grand Final the year before.

    Don’t forget Malcolm Blight

    we have killed 3 St.Kilda Coaches!

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    11 minutes ago, Timothy Reddan-A'Blew said:

    OK, one more appropriation? 

    DATrippers is my weekly lifeline, WCW. I usually finish, often over several days and usually with several trips to Crosswordsolver, Thesaurus, Mr Google and occasionally Danword. Rarely do I not need explanations from the DATrippers of answers I've got!

    David is a fascinating bloke, isn't he!

    Oh, he’s the best. Sharp as a tack, and funny, too. Earlier this year I picked up a mistake he’d made in a Wordwit. Not a typo, which wouldn’t be a mistake on his part, anyways. This was a proper error he had made. I emailed him, (of course not before using every available resource to ensure I was right). I told him I was happy to find out that he’s in fact human. He appreciated my finding the mistake and I think I actually gained his respect. And you mentioned Danword, that’s what I call my last resort since it’s literally just being told the answers. I regularly use Andy’s Anagram Solver/Word Finder, where you enter the letters you know and are given a list of words fitting that pattern. 
     

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    5 hours ago, Jaded said:

    Dean Bailey was such a scapegoat for our disastrous board at the time. RIP. 
     

    On the flip side, Mark Neeld ?

    I hate Mark Neeld, but he did two good things. He brought in Jason Taylor and made some moves to get Jesse Hogan

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