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Between the Flags - a great new book on the MFC

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Between the flag years??

 

Wouldn't have thought there was that much to write about between the 2021 and 2022 flags....

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    16 hours ago, Freddy Fuschia said:

    Absolutely loved the book. So much to remember.

    Chapter 12 re The Demon Alternative resonated, particularly given the current initiative to change our Constitution, which has now been postponed until October 2022. 'The Melbourne Football Club has been handed a peace plan but is too pig-headed and proud to see it'. And in Chapter 13 'No one who understood footy would ever call for an extraordinary general meeting in the middle of the year'. Indeed.

     

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    Although a lot of the diehards on here will have already read it, I hope I am one of many who have got their hands on it this Christmas.

    Fantastic read so far. I am now counting myself lucky to have only witnessed the horror of 2000s and not been around before that. 

    Wishing everyone a very merry Christmas, the only mark on today will be the significant drop in premiership memorabillia to unwrap. 

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    I think a lot of demon fans can handle not winning flags, it's the melancholy and irrelevance our club was mired in for years and years that was the killer... hopefully we can profit well from our current form and follow the formula of other clubs that never bottom out... Go Dees in 2023!

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    On 12/25/2022 at 9:46 AM, bush demon said:

    I think a lot of demon fans can handle not winning flags

    Speak for yourself!!

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    On 12/25/2022 at 9:46 AM, bush demon said:

    I think a lot of demon fans can handle not winning flags,

    What are you talking about?? Stop Now…

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    Thanks for the reminder pitmaster just ordered it online.👍

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    21 minutes ago, DeeZone said:

    Thanks for the reminder pitmaster just ordered it online.👍

    A fantastic read! Particularly for Demonlanders who have followed most, or chunks of, those 57 years.

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    Thanks HtD long long time follower 25 year member looking forward to the read.!!

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    4 hours ago, Hawk the Demon said:

    A fantastic read! Particularly for Demonlanders who have followed most, or chunks of, those 57 years.

    👍Just finished it. I'm an all of the 57 years - and the several before them that the book covers for their effect on 'the 57'. So I'm not a 'particularly', I'm a 'definitely'.

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    10 hours ago, layzie said:

    Really need to get around to reading it. Still half way into The Red Fox.

    Way to go...one leads into the other.

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    Great interview. “ in 2023.. we had to rebuild the fwd line 3 times” Hadn't thought of it quite like that. 

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    Yes. Apart from being a great and revealing read on the 57 years, the running repairs to the forward line at the end of 2023 and the ultimate attrition of key forwards were highly significant. While the media (cue Damian Barrett) largely went for the 'straight sets' pile-on, I thought that our coaching and selection through that period, plus performances of some individuals, to not only win late season games, but ALMOST win two finals, was stellar. The Club and in particular Goody, received almost zero media credit for that. What might have been if Petts, Fritta and Melky have had stayed on the park....

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    Crickey, it makes such a difference when people who really care about the club get together to talk Demons.

    That interview covers so much territory and from two different generations of fans, yet they make so much sense.

    Should be more of it.

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    19 hours ago, Robbie87 said:

    Yes. Apart from being a great and revealing read on the 57 years, the running repairs to the forward line at the end of 2023 and the ultimate attrition of key forwards were highly significant. While the media (cue Damian Barrett) largely went for the 'straight sets' pile-on, I thought that our coaching and selection through that period, plus performances of some individuals, to not only win late season games, but ALMOST win two finals, was stellar. The Club and in particular Goody, received almost zero media credit for that. What might have been if Petts, Fritta and Melky have had stayed on the park....

    Or if Kozzie, Fritter, Langdon and Tmac had kicked the goals they would kick 95% of the time versus the pies in that final! Cue similar question v blues the next week. So close...but so far. 

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    3 hours ago, layzie said:

    Still haven't read my copy yet. Will start after I finish Fever Pitch, 80 pages to go.

    Interested to learn your feedback layzie. (Fever Pitch is a cracker, too.)

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