7 minutes ago, hardtack said:

Decades ago I had a book titled ‘The Mind of a Mnemonist’; a true story and a fantastic read.

The subject of the book in one of his methods, would place objects on an imaginary street, and when asked to repeat the objects in their correct order (could be 5 minutes after being read the list, or could be 5 days; it didn’t matter), h ine would bring up the imaginary street in his mind’s eye and proceed to walk down the footpath (in his mind), calling out each object as he passed it. Fascinating stuff!

So…that’s what Demonlanders could do…have an imaginary street with each player standing next to the letterbox with their number on it. Should work like a charm!!

Thank you!!!! I spent maybe 15 minutes trying to get across techniques more advanced than just chanting a fact and felt like I got turned into a punchline. (I even mentioned, same as you, how you can memorise facts/items along points on a journey or a location you know like the back of your hand.) It's not quite perfect - you need to refresh your memory occasionally - and memorising useless stuff like a hundred digits of pi is silly. But certainly I learned the numbers for the season just past in minutes this way maybe last January. Then when Ghostwriter (?) relayed a friend's training report referring to all players only by numbers it was a cinch to 'translate' it for everyone here.

EDIT: Ah yes, bingo! My comment:

"On 08/03/2025 at 16:23, hardtack said:

Call me dumb, but I really did not understand any of that. I’m guessing it’s player numbers, in which case, not really being across most of our team’s numbers, I’m completely lost. I’ve got some serious studying to do in the next seven days!! I hope that one day the AFL might see the benefit of putting the player's name on the back of the jersey.😵‍💫

Red 11 35 1 17 5 3 6 20 19 15 8 13 2( Rooey absolutely killing it) 31 37 26 21 disco( no number) 7 32

Gawn petty may bowey Tracc Salem Windsor Lindsay Langford Langdon Lever clarrie Jvr Fritsch Chandler Adams Jefferson Disco Viney Sparrow

VS

Mentha Petty (again?) Johnson Fullarton Verrall Sharp(too good) Spargo Johnson Campbell woewodin TMac Sestan howes Roy George Adams....

Grey 39 (forward) 35 42 33 28 30 (too good!!!) 9 42 29 40 25 38 22 Roy George 26 and someone I didn’t recognise probs Casey

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On 03/12/2025 at 12:46, waynewussell said:

Is Viney injured?

17 hours ago, FireInTheBennelly said:

I call him 'Zat'

what about sh it

11 hours ago, Ghostwriter said:

I was thinking about food/coffee places that are walking distance from Gosch’s.

I didn’t know until today that if you leave Richmond station from the opposite side (as if you’re walking to the ‘G) there’s a cafe and apparently they make really good coffee.

Curse the owners of Pink Lemonade for permanently closing the coffee Kiosk that was right outside Richmond station (Swan Street side). The coffee was superb and it was served by Alejandro, the lovely Colombian barista.

steady girl

48 minutes ago, Demons11 said:

Is Viney injured?

He had just had an injection in his foot so he was limping because it was sore. It’s nothing serious

20 hours ago, jnrmac said:

Really??

Do you want to know how many sugars Richo has in his coffee?

No need to be a smart-arze. Dingo’s question is valid. The club has been relatively transparent of late so one can wonder why there’s been no mention of this.

PS: Richo doesn’t have sugar in his coffee 😉

19 hours ago, binman said:

I like it.

If Buckley was coach he would have had much more power to demand his own people than King.

And King doesn't have the same resources at his disposal as Buckley would have.

So instead he is his building a champagne team on a beer budget.

Keeping a core of existing staff that have a positive connection with players, and presumably people he gets along with amd rates. Chaplin is the key such assistant.

And adding some quality part timers he trusts and has history with.

Quality over quantity.

Buckley was never the right choice. IMO he had“come save us Nathan” vibes all over him, which is the last thing this club needed. My remaining concerns lie around Guerra. Is he going to be the strong guiding hand we desperately need in that position? King certainly appears to have attracted some great coaching talent to the club and as you say he’s done it in a way to allow us to do it on a beer budget. Along with the addition of guys like Mihochek and Steele we’ve got great on field leaders to support a pretty talented group of youngsters. On top of that although Goodwin wasn’t perfect he didn’t insist on trading out our picks over the last few years and you have to respect him for that.

Edited December 4, 2025Dec 4 by Roost it far

8 hours ago, hardtack said:

Decades ago I had a book titled ‘The Mind of a Mnemonist’; a true story and a fantastic read.

The subject of the book in one of his methods, would place objects on an imaginary street, and when asked to repeat the objects in their correct order (could be 5 minutes after being read the list, or could be 5 days; it didn’t matter), he would bring up the imaginary street in his mind’s eye and proceed to walk down the footpath (in his mind), calling out each object as he passed it. Fascinating stuff!

So…that’s what Demonlanders could do…have an imaginary street with each player standing next to the letterbox with their number on it. Should work like a charm!!

That’s a good but very basic mnemonic.

If you wanna really get acquainted with amazing mnemonics Kurt Vonnegut wrote a story about them in a short story compilation called Bagombo Snuff Box and titled Mnemonics.

21 minutes ago, Ghostwriter said:

That’s a good but very basic mnemonic.

If you wanna really get acquainted with amazing mnemonics Kurt Vonnegut wrote a story about them in a short story compilation called Bagombo Snuff Box and titled Mnemonics.

Oh, wow! I’m a big Vonnegut fan, but I’m not familiar with those short stories (off to Gleebooks I go). There’s a super special collection of most of his novels in, from memory, one large volume, but it’s priced way beyond anything I can justify spending, unfortunately.

3 minutes ago, hardtack said:

Oh, wow! I’m a big Vonnegut fan, but I’m not familiar with those short stories (off to Gleebooks I go). There’s a super special collection of most of his novels in, from memory, one large volume, but it’s priced way beyond anything I can justify spending, unfortunately.

This particular compilation was written early in his career. It’s quite different from peak Vonnegut. It’s just as good though

1 hour ago, Ghostwriter said:

This particular compilation was written early in his career. It’s quite different from peak Vonnegut. It’s just as good though

I used to have a copy of the movie of Breakfast of Champions starring Bruce Willis, but it went missing. It’s pretty awful…Happy Birthday Wanda June and Slaughterhouse Five translated much better to film.