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2 hours ago, Grr-owl said:

It's kinda like a really good bed: sure, you can't stay comfy in one position the whole night, and you still have to get up to pee, but on the whole its a great place to spend a third of your life.  

Love this analogy!

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7 hours ago, Colin B. Flaubert said:

I think the stuff about ‘bogan Collingwood supporters’ and jokes about Liam Jurrah were also feeding into the worst stereotypes as well. Elitist, unsympathetic, dispassionate and fickle.

That’s not who we are.

Totally agree, just let them argue with Port supporters about whose right it is to wear the prison bar jumpers, so they can feel at home. No need to call them Bogans or criminals!

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2 minutes ago, D4Life said:

Totally agree, just let them argue with Port supporters about whose right it is to wear the prison bar jumpers, so they can feel at home. No need to call them Bogans or criminals!

You clearly don’t live in/near Collingwood/Abbotsford ?

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I for one am loving the new Demonland. No more sackings everything is peachy. I can't believe we want to go back to the dark days. This is the greatest year of my life I never want our run to end.

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19 minutes ago, WalkingCivilWar said:

You clearly don’t live in/near Collingwood/Abbotsford ?

I went to VicPark once, behind a happy family, little nugget running down to the fence, Dad telling wife to shut up or he’d smash her, in between trying  to pee into his empty cans, lovely atmosphere!

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5 hours ago, Satyriconhome said:

I got bored with the  experts who wouldn't  know footy if it came up and bit them on the [censored]

The negativity was and still is tiresome, especially the game day thread

I read the forum now and again when I want a laugh, especially @joeboy 3 word

I miss your posts.

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On 6/6/2021 at 1:36 PM, Satyriconhome said:

I got bored with the  experts who wouldn't  know footy if it came up and bit them on the [censored]

The negativity was and still is tiresome, especially the game day thread

I read the forum now and again when I want a laugh, especially @joeboy 3 word

Glad to see that my post finally lured you out! ? You should drop in to say hello more often. ?

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On 6/6/2021 at 6:23 PM, WalkingCivilWar said:

You clearly don’t live in/near Collingwood/Abbotsford ?

I live in the heart of Collingwood, and there’s a LOT of old-school, cheap-as ‘DEMONS’ beanies being worn on bearded noggins around here right now (maybe they’re escapees from west of Smith St). Otherwise, as it culturally now stands, Collingwood is one big fabulous melting pot…..can even have a kick down at Victoria park without needing a police escort.

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Loving Demonland right now, particularly the considered analysis that isn’t so tainted by negativity. Game day thread is a shocker when things aren’t going well, but it’s so predictable as to be almost cute, like an irrational anger-frustration release valve. What gets me most, and I’ll never understand it, is the attacks on individual players, particularly when they’re personal, as if a skewed kick, an errant handball or a missed tackle reflects a personality or integrity defect in that player. It always makes me wonder if posters ever imagine how they’d react to reading or hearing such insults about themselves. And as we’ve now learnt, it can and does have an effect on players mental health. I remember a few years ago learning that Tom McDonald avoids ALL non-internal assessments or commentary on his football, thinking how smart that was, and then imagining how his haters (and he had lots of them as we all know) would use even that to criticise him. The dedication and work someone has to put in to play AFL football, regardless of their innate talent, is something I suspect none (or few) on here would understand. Gripe over…..GO DEMONLAND, and GO YOU MIGHTY REDLEGS!!!!

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22 minutes ago, Webber said:

What gets me most, and I’ll never understand it, is the attacks on individual players, particularly when they’re personal.

Agree 100%

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47 minutes ago, WalkingCivilWar said:

Agree 100%

That is so true. Some posters get a ""whipping boy"so that no matter what the player does for a team they get criticised. Some posters, I feel ,look at the stats first and the team efforts second. If anything this year has shown a lot of players doing their team role.

The great chinese philosopher Hu Flung Dung once stated :

" To be successful ,the sum of the whole has to be greater than the sum of the individual parts"

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On 6/6/2021 at 9:21 AM, binman said:

The 'we need to fix our clearnces' posts are pretty depressing.

Remind me if going to tbe footy in tbe 90s and fans yelling 'just kick it!!!!!'

What do you mean the 90's. I've had a go at a few supporters in more recent times. Same people yell "same old Melbourne, just kick it without looking". I did upset a group of them when I turned around and yelled "make up your mind".

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On 6/6/2021 at 2:26 PM, binman said:

Oh now I get it. We were behind because we were losing clearances. I get it now.

Here I was, thinking we were losing because we were not applying anywhere near enough pressure or doing nearly enough defensive running and spread. Sully me to think the clearnce numbers was a symptom not a cause

I wonder if we should ask the AFL to restropectively give us the four points in games in 2020 where we smashed teams in clearances. And lost. Coz, it's such an important stat. 

Better not actually. They might take 4 points away from us in all the games we have lost the clearance differential this year. And won.

Just win a clearance!!!@@@@@

Take a chill pill Binman your starting to sound like me.

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40 minutes ago, dimmy said:

That is so true. Some posters get a ""whipping boy"so that no matter what the player does for a team they get criticised. Some posters, I feel ,look at the stats first and the team efforts second. If anything this year has shown a lot of players doing their team role.

The great chinese philosopher Hu Flung Dung once stated :

" To be successful ,the sum of the whole has to be greater than the sum of the individual parts"

It’s “The whole is greater than the sum of the parts” and it was Aristotle that said it not the Chinese philosopher whose childish name you quoted. Lao Tzu is my favourite. Never heard of yours.

 

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On 6/6/2021 at 10:28 AM, Colin B. Flaubert said:

I think the stuff about ‘bogan Collingwood supporters’ and jokes about Liam Jurrah were also feeding into the worst stereotypes as well. Elitist, unsympathetic, dispassionate and fickle.

That’s not who we are.

Oh I'm definitely these 2. I've even started taking the cheese and crackers to the game. I embrace my character flaws.

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11 minutes ago, ProperDee said:

It’s “The whole is greater than the sum of the parts” and it was Aristotle that said it not the Chinese philosopher whose childish name you quoted. Lao Tzu is my favourite. Never heard of yours.

 

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2 hours ago, loges said:

About Demonland, where are Ethan and SWYL, hope they are OK.

I'm sure Ethan is lurking somewhere but SWYL is on permanent holiday. I will miss him a little and he was the inspiration for my avatar after not having one for many years. Although I did realize he was a narcissist after a few exchanges and put him on ignore.  He also got me to behave better as I was prone to a bit of baiting on here. I still have some character traits that can annoy people but what can I say; that's a matter for them.

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20 minutes ago, dworship said:

I'm sure Ethan is lurking somewhere but SWYL is on permanent holiday. I will miss him a little and he was the inspiration for my avatar after not having one for many years. Although I did realize he was a narcissist after a few exchanges and put him on ignore.  He also got me to behave better as I was prone to a bit of baiting on here. I still have some character traits that can annoy people but what can I say; that's a matter for them.

Permanent, thats too bad didn't always agree but enjoyed his posts.

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On 6/6/2021 at 1:36 PM, Satyriconhome said:

I got bored with the  experts who wouldn't  know footy if it came up and bit them on the [censored]

The negativity was and still is tiresome, especially the game day thread

I read the forum now and again when I want a laugh, especially @joeboy 3 word

Gooday Saty, it was good to have a chat with you before the Carlton game.

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I was thinking about @DemonOX wondering how he’s going since his mum passed away last Friday. Haven’t seen any posts from him this week. 

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2 minutes ago, daisycutter said:

and where is moonie?

Hiding behind a cloudie? Waiting for the sunnie to go down?

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