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Melbourne player Troy Broadbridge passed away on this day in 2004 while on his honeymoon at the Phi Phi Islands in Thailand. He was one of an estimated 227,898 people in 14 countries who perished as a result of the Boxing Day Earthquake and subsequent tsunami in the Indian Ocean - one of the deadliest natural disasters in recorded history. Always remembered.

Thanks for acknowledging Troy. x

I always think of The Boxing Day Test and The Sydney To Hobart on boxing day. Troy probably played his best game in his last one. He almost won us the final against Essendon with the job he did on Hird RIP Troy and all others who lost their lives in this tragedy. I read that people were running towards the water when the sea went out before it came back 10 times worse.

Yes, Merry Christmas you lovely weirdos. Don’t know what I’d do without you. Also, don’t come up to me in public.

I admire Goody, because he is always so calm and measured. Hoping he has a great birthday and he's invited Kozzie to his party and gets him to sign an extension. That'd be the best present of all.

RIP Barry, a great player and a great bloke.

commiserations, wcw that's just awful and must be so upsetting. they were part of the family, rip

Hopefully a year older, wiser & gets hit with a creativity stick! I would love to see big Max rest at top of the goalsquare with Kossie at his feet , a dynamic duo to get opposing backs twitching! Note: Still appreciate our premiership coach, but just the odd change up in the forward line would be great!

DD I amazes me we have JVR ready to debut and MJ starting on his training wheels plus Tmac BBB, the resting rucks Petty and Adams who has played forward and the Schache about to erupt at his new Club. oh and Fritta best medium forward in the game. 50 goals plus every year. Why do we need another tall forward???

My Grandma told that. Then, all her wallpaper fell off.

looked like party of none

I did wonder... Maybe a new brood, in due course, will help the healing gently along? 'Landers all, I'm struck by the personal stories that surface here and, most particularly, by the preparedness of the storytellers to be vulnerable to strangers (though maybe we're not strangers here, so much?) Though one story might seem less, or more, momentous than another to we readers, we respect (I hope) that it is the teller's experience that sets the moment.

I received a new Bigger guernsey. Lol.!!!

From a kid in the crowd.

I've always said that JJ's best spot has always been as an inside mid. Some of his best games for the club were in the first half of 2021 where he was rotating as an inside mid. His hands, toughness and cleaness around the footy was what stood out the most at AFL. Ironically i thought when he's playing as an inside mid he reminded me a lot of James McDonald with that no fuss attitude. If I had to pick between Sparrow and Jordon as a first midfield options it's Jordon for me, by a fair bit.

Forever a MFC player.

So for tall fwds we have 2 kids that have never played, 2 injury prone old blokes and Schache who couldn’t secure a fwd spot in 8 years at the dogs. Oh and 2 rucks who arent fwds in 2022 lack of tall forwards was our biggest issue. im hopeful JVR will be a player but we can’t hang out hopes on a kid. And I’m hopeful T Mac can get his body right. But a quality fwd in his early 20’s wound be a good get

He is a talent at a level above most competitors - we do not want to overlook him (Fritta) at any stage of a game or season. Gutsy, highly competent, opportunistic and reliable. The only forward who bothers to find space, make space and get the job done - most times, effortlessly. With a strengthening forward line and hopefully, a better game plan through half-back to deep forward, Fritta will have even more freedom to cut loose. He is starting to look like - and be as effective as - Gerard Healy up forward when playing for the red'nblue.

So, did any of you score any decent presents today? All I got was two shrink-wrapped batteries with a sticker saying "Gift Not Included".

Merry Christmas all. Show us your Dee gifts.

You had me until the last line Jordon will be Mr. Fix it, Hunter a lock for the wing

What can I say - Demonland is prety predictable and easy to troll, but it's still good fun and I couldn't resist. Merry Christmas all 😊.

but with 2 calendar curses coming in (grundy, hunter) we reversed the curse and turned it into a positive 😆

The problem with the Petracca one was simply that he missed the shot himself. As we can see from the highlights reel, he made up for that with many many goals from difficult shots. The problem is, criticism like this meant that he then spent several games giving off to other players, when he should have taken the shot himself, only to watch them miss it, and, and some cases, lose us the game. He is paid to kick goals, not to assist.

That reel shows what a truly class player he is. I would rather have him kicking around the corner from the middle of a crowd than, eg, Tracc lining up for a set shot 20m out. As I have said in other threads: he is there to kick goals and the criticism of him being selfish was totally wrong. He is not like Spargo, there to assist; he is there to finish.

If you are going to dream then dream big is my policy.

i'm not too fussy, i'll settle for a mercedes eqs amg

So my Porsche is only 4 days away.

May you all get what you deserve!

Yes I know. We certainly have come a long way. Senior flag, Casey flag, AFLW flag and a strong list in each club going forward. More flags and a new club training/home and we are in a great position for continued success.

Your not!

Too true, stay safe Mr Leg!

Very snippy retort. You would think I was Uncle Bitters nephew.

The 3 of us say back atchya RL!

Things are looking good when you have a 6x AA ruckman on the bench

I suspect that you are right, but Hibberd without any doubt will be doing his darn deer, as he always does.

Just started watching the B&F livestream and they are on break. A woman is singing the old standard - Georgia, but instead of Georgia she's singing: Georgiades, Georgiades, you are on my mind

Dogga vs Zoot

Get Max over there to spew on a couple and that should sort it ... 😋

We know who the top guy is. But who would know that the bottom one is Vincent van Gogh

Once In A Lifetime player. Will be burning down the house next year.