On 17/10/2022 at 01:45, Nasher said:

Personally I’m glad both are still around, even if they have their reasons for not posting. I butted heads with @beelzebuba bit back in the day, but I have no hard feelings at all. We’re all Demons and my opinion, all fundamentally on the same side at heart.

Moderating the forum was a hard and busy job in the early days, @Rhino Richards was one of the few that had the stomach for it. I am personally thankful he was around and I wish he’d pop his head in from time to time.

I hope both those guys enjoyed the flag.

 

I can vouch that @Rhino Richards did.

  On 17/10/2022 at 01:51, Demonland said:

PM me if you would like to change your username. I will make an exception this one time.

Just change the ? To a !

  On 17/10/2022 at 02:34, Gorgoroth said:

Yeah Nov 27, 2005, but was on the old site too. 
Man that’s a long time 🤣

I'm also one of those who migrated over but it had been so long I was starting to wonder if I'd made up the migrating thing in my head or if I'd actually just made a new account at the time. Glad to have it confirmed that I'm not losing my mind. 

  On 16/10/2022 at 23:45, Lord Travis said:

I apparently signed up early 2006. My god that’s a long time ago. My username was referring to the great Travis Johnstone. At the time Travis was my favorite player and was the most exciting demon going round. He had just had a few great years where he lead the league for inside 50s and score assists. His kicking was sublime and he was impacting games in a way I hadn’t seen before. I loved watching him stream down the wing of the G and blast laser passes through Neitz’s chest. He also stood up in big games, and was always amongst our best in finals matches. After decades of failure and no superstars, it felt like we finally had a superstar midfielder on our hands. 

History shows he didn’t reach those superstar heights we’d dreamed of, and it would take another 15 years until we had our superstar midfielders in Oliver and Petracca. I still love Travis though and feel he’s underrated by demon fans and football public in general. 

As for me, much like Travis’ form, my mood and posting is very up and down!

I still haven't seen anyone else kick a footy like Trapper did since, there have been some excellent field kicks like Davey and Green but there was something about Trav's ability to really spear it low and hard and it was impossible to defend. I didn't see the best of Robbie Flower but I remember being at the G for a Queen's birthday game around 2006 and guy next to me was telling us all about how watching Robbie on his day was like seeing someone floating on air. I never forgot it because TJ went out that day and had a sublime performance, I wondered at the time if that was the closest comparison to the great tulip I was going to see live. 

Travis had as much talent as anyone who has ever played for this football club, make no mistake about it. 

Edited October 17, 20222 yr by layzie

Great thread

  On 17/10/2022 at 01:10, WalkingCivilWar said:

Nothing stupid about 🎶 dubs 🎶 Layz. Is dub, is good! Dubs make the world go around. Never met a dub I didn’t like.  🎶 Dub be good to me  🎶 😁

Unrelated: I’ve never asked you about your username. Did you choose it because you’re lazy? Is it that simple? And why the spelling?

When I first started on all these boards I was a very young teen who was very into the Hip-hop group Bone Tungs N Harmony and my name is in reference to Layzie Bone one of the members of the group! I thought about changing it many times over the years but never bothered and now it's at the point where I can't change it, despite the fact that I very rarely listen to Bone Thugs these days it would feel like changing my real name! I don't even particularly like it at times and even think it's silly but it's been so long it feels like being born with it and you just have to embrace it!

Edited October 17, 20222 yr by layzie

  On 17/10/2022 at 03:16, layzie said:

I still haven't seen anyone else kick a footy like Trapper did.

Travis had as much talent as anyone who has ever played for this football club, make no mistake about it. 

Trapper's sublime skill (never seen in another player) was to be able to kick to a position on the field that would drag the player to the ball. That he did not fulfill his promise was due more to the inability of the coaches and his team mates to recognise and play to his strengths.

As for talent - no one comes close to Robbie. But Trapper is in the next group.

  On 16/10/2022 at 03:56, Sir Why You Little said:

@Sir Why You Littleis paying homage to the Warner Brothers Cartoons i grew up watching (and still watch today!) I decided to Knight myself a few years ago, when Tony Abbott was throwing them around Willy Nilly 

Still cannot believe that Abbott was Actually The Australian Prime Minister for a period of time. Sends shivers down my spine!!

Yes that’s the same time and reason I promoted myself to Earl! 

  On 17/10/2022 at 05:16, Earl Hood said:

Yes that’s the same time and reason I promoted myself to Earl! 

Great Minds Mr Hood :)

  On 17/10/2022 at 04:37, tiers said:

Trapper's sublime skill (never seen in another player) was to be able to kick to a position on the field that would drag the player to the ball. That he did not fulfill his promise was due more to the inability of the coaches and his team mates to recognise and play to his strengths.

As for talent - no one comes close to Robbie. But Trapper is in the next group.

Agree with all of the above, expect for one thing - i reckon not fulfilling his promise was on Trapper.  Always struck me as a stoner in an elite AFL player's body 

  On 16/10/2022 at 22:01, layzie said:

I remember Lukey26 from Demonology. Wasn't afraid to speak her mind! 

By memory what she was studying was only offered in Tasmania and led her into a specialised industry.

Big brain.

  On 16/10/2022 at 02:43, Nasher said:

Best subtle name change was Big_red_fire_engine (Broady) to @Lil_red_fire_engine(Bowser) late last year in the run towards the flag. The symbolism of letting go of the sad past and embracing the exciting new future couldn’t have hit the mark better for me. I believe he’d been BRFE since the Aimoo days too, so pre-2005.

This is correct @Nasher

Bombay air conditioning- ? Dodgy and doesn’t work.

  On 16/10/2022 at 20:24, WalkingCivilWar said:

You’ve only got six posts to go. Carn fellah, let’s have a back n forth to get you there! Okay, I’ll start it: so, what’s it like to NOT feel you have to post every single thought you have or have ever had? Asking for a friend who likely clocked up 100 posts in the first 10 minutes of joining DL. 😁

I figure there's enough stream of consciousness already on DL, I don't think my own would be particularly useful. I originally joined just to post my Mitch Hannan titanic remix video. I didn't realise that my dees supporting mate in Amsterdam already had a very similar username (HELLO @AmDamDemon). So now I've just got a few posts to go before I can change it to something less similar to his.

  On 17/10/2022 at 10:25, AmsterdamDeesFan said:

I figure there's enough stream of consciousness already on DL, I don't think my own would be particularly useful. I originally joined just to post my Mitch Hannan titanic remix video. I didn't realise that my dees supporting mate in Amsterdam already had a very similar username (HELLO @AmDamDemon). So now I've just got a few posts to go before I can change it to something less similar to his.

Five posts left! Cake. Have you already decided on a new name? How about an avatar this time? Answer these questions in separate posts and you’re down to three! 😁

 

  On 17/10/2022 at 11:27, WalkingCivilWar said:

Five posts left! Cake. Have you already decided on a new name? How about an avatar this time? Answer these questions in separate posts and you’re down to three! 😁

 

Haha. Somebody having to coax words out of @AmsterdamDeesFan is a first 🤣

  On 17/10/2022 at 11:27, WalkingCivilWar said:

Have you already decided on a new name?

A poster from Amsterdam might consider adopting the username "Far Canal".

It is with a mixture of despondency and embarrasment that I have to confess that my username is my first name and the initial of my second.

I was going to use Nowcmonthemightydemons but at my age it is best to use something I can effn remember.  And luckily I still remember my name.

(Pres. Reagan visiting a nursing home goes up to one of the residents and says 'Do you know who I am?'.  The resident replies 'No, but if you go to reception they will be able to tell you'.)

  On 16/10/2022 at 23:10, Sydee said:

Correct - @DeelightfulPlay supporter of many long years - still have my footy records from the 70s 😀

One of my greatest regrets. I started going every week in Robbie's first year but didn't keep the footy records. Would have loved to have kept the record of the games I had gone to. Also my members card back then which got you into every home and away game. They used to click off the ones you'd been to on your card. Oh well. Unfortunately I remember a lot of them. We lost 22 in a row in my first two years. We had one win to break that run and went back to losing. 

  On 17/10/2022 at 21:22, Demonstone said:

A poster from Amsterdam might consider adopting the username "Far Canal".

You're going to need to redeem yourself with the brainteaser, Keefy...

  On 17/10/2022 at 21:22, Demonstone said:

A poster from Amsterdam might consider adopting the username "Far Canal".

Can you get your mind out of the um canal?  😛

If I was in AmDam I would have chosen NightWatch but perhaps clog would be closer to the mark.

Mine is too easy. Just my initials and the last time we beat "the filth" in a grand final. Still etched in my mind.

  On 17/10/2022 at 22:22, MT64 said:

Mine is too easy. Just my initials and the last time we beat "the filth" in a grand final. Still etched in my mind.

I reckon you could change it MT22.

As is in you feel empty after the 2022 season.

  On 17/10/2022 at 22:12, Timothy Reddan-A'Blew said:

You're going to need to redeem yourself with the brainteaser, Keefy...

I meant to put a brotherhoody winky face with that post, @Demonstone. I'm glad you didn't need it.

(I also thought about saying, 'Yesh, yesh, yesh, that's a keeper!' (look it up?) but I wasn't so sure...

 

😉 )

  On 17/10/2022 at 22:05, Its Time for Another said:

One of my greatest regrets. I started going every week in Robbie's first year but didn't keep the footy records. Would have loved to have kept the record of the games I had gone to. Also my members card back then which got you into every home and away game. They used to click off the ones you'd been to on your card. Oh well. Unfortunately I remember a lot of them. We lost 22 in a row in my first two years. We had one win to break that run and went back to losing. 

Continuing somewhat off topic (and answers will no doubt be dotted elsewhere around 'Land): As a 50s child, blessed with a 50-year-MCC-member grandfather, I am in awe of those who managed to choose, and rust themselves onto, the Dees of that sorry score of (scoreless?) years from the mid 60s to the mid 80s. And I'm curious as to why they did! Got a story, TFA? Anyone else?

(p.s. I presume yours is a confident post-25/9/21 username, not a wistful pre-? 🙂)