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Some on here might not be too thrilled with this decision, but i for one am very happy we have decided to stick with Casey.

Good news for mine especially when 2 of the "big Vic" clubs drop their alignments.

Melbourne will retain its affiliation with VFL club Casey as AFL braces for talent overhaul Following decisions from Carlton and Hawthorn on their VFL alignments, Melbourne has also made a call on its future with Casey. The decision comes as big changes are on the horizon for the second tier competition.

That's the cookies from your porn site visits doing their thing.

Another year without curling will just about be the death of me.

Les Bamblett

Yay.... i missed seeing all those young, attractive Asian ladies when i subscribed.

Yeah I loved Ingo as well!!

Made peoples eyes water!

Basil Onyons is the correct spelling. 1905-1908. He also played first class cricket for Victoria after WW1. Met him once in the mid 60s when he was quite old.

Suspect that when (if) things return to normal, people will flock to the football in record numbers.

Yep, John Fidge played for us. We had very high hopes for him, but alas ... This from Demonwiki: The 1982 Victorian Teal Cup player and younger brother of Ted Fidge debuted two years later as a 17-year-old, and was a reliable forward in his first two seasons until right foot stress fractures kept him to just six games in 1986. He had been rumoured to be pursued by another league club earlier that season, but for 1987 was cleared to the newly formed Brisbane Bears at the end of that season for $125,000 - their fifth highest transfer fee for a recruit. Fidge played in the Bears winning first match, and appeared 16 times for them in 1987. After eight matches the next year he was sacked by the Bears three weeks into the 1989 season, apparently after punching Warwick Capper in an intra-club game and abusing coach Peter Knights. He then threatened to take the Bears to court for full payment of his contract. At the end of the year he was drafted by the Sydney Swans but instead chose to join SANFL side Glenelg where he became their full-forward. In 1990 he booted 124 goals. At the end of that year Essendon picked him with selection 24 in the National Draft, but he did not play a game for them. Returning to Glenelg in 1992 he kicked 92 goals out of a total of 316 in 69 games for the Bays, then joined Frankston in 1994. During his playing career Fidge had 20 operations, and later revealed that he played with spondiolythesis (back injury) throughout his time in the game.

Ted Fidge was pretty tough and played some decent footy if I recall correctly. He came from Bentleigh. Did he have a brother that played ? Fidge never took a backward step.

Don’t tell me they’re postponing the Winter Olympics as well!! ?

What rubbish. Round 23 2017 was nothing like last weekend. Round 23 2017 was indeed "everything to play for". Round 1 2020 was a maelstrom of stress with potentially nothing to play for, if the season can't get re-started. They ran out there last week with significant job and financial uncertainty. A game that could have had plenty of importance turned into an odd shell of a game that could literally mean nothing when the ink dries on 2020. And I don't buy the "West Coast were switched on" argument as if to say they were on some other level to us. They weren't exactly dominating. The game turned on a 5-minute patch at the end of the first quarter where they kicked 4 quick goals. For the rest of the game it was quite even. Incredibly different to Round 23 2017.

I liked Nathan Carroll. He was undersized and fought like hell against the big forwards. HE was also a legitimate Dumbass off the field. What's not to love?

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i can't be bothered going through all the legitimate reasons they might not have been switched on. in the circumstances i can find it quite reasonable, despite the fact that many posters think they are robots. these were extra-ordinary conditions and the game probably should have been abandoned after the announcements only hours before ball-up. i don't expect many to agree

whilst i was initially bitterly disappointed with the team's performance i have rethought the whole situation and come to the conclusion that (without going through all the obvious reasons) the player's minds were simply not focussed on football that day. the game was rendered effectively meaningless (just before play) and the players just reflected that, consequently i take no realistic meaning from the resultant display. deconstructing anything is therefore also meaningless. of course those most afflicted with mfcss will continue to analyse and criticise every minute detail to add to their masochism pDc

At that game and visibly recall the Fidge- Millane 'incident' to this day. Ted rather publicly and mistakenly retaliated to sly whack from Millane, during the play, with a powerful right cross to the head. Millane was dazed, confused and on very rubbery legs. So much for the faux tough image, Millane attempted to project on the footy field. Unfortunately for Ted, Swooper massively disapproved, it was Ted's last senior appearance and he was delisted at seasons end. The match itself? After an three goal opening burst by the Magpies, a fabulous Brian Wilson lead recovery by the Demons, who stormed back to secure a memorable victory.

Ingo was not obscure. Dead set gun! As a replacement, I nominate Paul Payne.

The Eagles were playing at home...a quick drive from the ground and they're back safe with family. Everything was falling apart around the country, state borders were being closed off and our playing group were stuck in Perth playing a meaningless game. They're not robots...I was upset with the performance on game day but after settling down and having a bit of empathy for the group I realised we could not judge much if anything from that game...

"Healy off, Ellingworth on."

He had an ugly kicking action, but the ball generally went where it was intended.

Craig Nettlebeck One of my favourites but I’m biased as I used to work for his old man. Craig was a great bloke.

Me! http://demonwiki.org/Tony+Anderson

Tige’s son no less

Dead set one of my all time favorite Dees. Gave us fantastic value at C.H.B after crossing from Adelaide. Great judgement of the ball in the air, gutsy as hell, good 1 on 1 but had the prerequisite ordinary kicking foot on him.

The only reason the 2012 brownlow was tainted was the disgraceful conduct of Lloyd's club.

god the velvet sledgehammer is an utter moron

The other Mann - Len. A ruckman and cousin (?) of the first Mann Bob Miller - first permanent back pocket ruckman in the days when there were four followers (ruckman) who used to rest in a forward or back pocket (where else did Gary Dempsey take so many marks in the last quarter?). Bob was not really a ruckman but a dashing defender. Peter Smith - Norm's son

All time great name - Harry Crapper For good reasons - Brent Heaver and Chris Lamb For novelty value - Cameron Hunter For being crap - Tom Gillies and Isaac Weetra

Very interesting perspective: https://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2020-03-31/coronavirus-scott-morrison-consensus-jobkeeper/12106334 Shows how petty and self serving politics has been on all sides for such a long time I did have a laugh at this description of Alan Jones: "...he gasped, like a dowager clutching a scented hanky while tottering through plague-ridden streets."

Speculating a Norf move to Tassie or other similarly fanciful ideas is just Caro and other journos illustrating how bored the media are ATM and how desperate they are for attention and relevance. Look at me! Look at me! Waaaaay too early for this sort of talk, in reality.

A classic, un-passable CHB - great games, penetrating footballer.

Rod Owen played some great footy for Melbourne as well, albeit before injury, 19 goals from 9 games in 1991. Steven Clark, ex Essendon, played some bloody good footy in his 21 games, 18 of them in 1991.

Tom Flower, should have played a lot more games than he did ! Silky smooth left footer, evasive skills, Quick and could kick a goal. Kicked 5 Against the Filth which says a lot. His Demon Wiki stats are very impressive. But Carl Ditterich didn't like him so that was the end at MFC. Best First year player 1977 Top bloke as well!! Tom Flower Born:3-Dec-1957 (Debut:19y 155d Last:21y 209d) Height:184 cm Weight:72 kg VFL/AFL: 8897th player to appear, 5649th most games played, 2938th most goals kicked Melbourne: 968th player to appear, 498th most games played, 236th most goals kicked Year Team # GM W-D-L KI MK HB DI GL BH HO TK RB IF CL CG FF FA BR CP UP CM MI 1% BO GA Totals 26 6-0-20 289 64 96 385 28 22 39 41 Averages 8.67 23.08% 11.12 2.46 3.69 14.81 1.08 0.88 1.56 1.64 1977 Melbourne 34 11 3-0-8 127 32 34 161 8 8 11 10 1978 Melbourne 34 9 2-0-7 112 19 37 149 9 4 17 20 1979 Melbourne 34 6 1-0-5 50 13 25 75 11 10 11 11 [Top] Top 10 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Disposals 24 23 22 22 22 18 18 17 16 16 Kicks 19 19 18 16 15 14 14 13 13 13 Marks 7 5 4 4 4 3 3 3 3 3 Handballs 8 7 6 6 5 5 5 4 4 4 Goals 5 3 3 2 2 2 2 2 2 1 Behinds 3 3 2 2 2 2 2 1 1 1 Frees 4 3 3 3 3 2 2 2 2 2 Frees Against 4 4 3 3 3 3 2 2 2 2

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He was untackleable as he could hear the opposition coming from a mile away

You are a good man Andy ...... but no footy, living interstate, and self isolating (on 70+ age grounds), I need the Demonland banter! Keep up the great work!

Robert Walters. Played about 25 games for the Dees in the late 70s and early 80s. We had been belted by 190 points to the Lions in late season 1979 at VFL Park. It was as dark a day as I can remember. I sat through it and was gutted after the game for hours if not days. Then in round 2, we played the Lions again at VFL park. Walters has shown ability as a 6ft tall opportunist full forward. Walters kicked 7 goals as we upset the Lions by a few goals. I think they almost were going to carry him off the ground. I think he was injured shortly thereafter in the season and then always was injured again with a variety of problems.

The real John Howat.

I'm with you. If the players weren't switched on that is an indictment. A bit like rd 23 2017 when we had to beat a lowly Collingwood to make finals for the first time in a decade. Everything to play for but the players weren't 'switched on'. In fact they didnt lay a tackle inside the first 15mins. I am so sick of Melbourne not turning up to play. The coaching staff is on notice this season and they have fallen at the first hurdle. Yes there was an unusual circumstance but it didn't bother the Eagles. It would seem in fact (and has been pointed out elsewhere) it wasn't in this case their lack of endeavour. It was the complete failure of their game plan and ability to have any system bringing the ball into the forward line. Same old crap we have been dealing with for a decade. What doesn't help is people making lame excuses for them.

A complex character. On one hand he took his life from the penthouse to the ****ehouse . Yet while he was at at Richmond he was a terrific support to a young man of my acquaintance who was suffering from severe mental problems

Could have looked quite different, at least in terms of I50 counts, if Jones and Salem had been out there.

I thought his nickname was 'Dirty'.