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Tomorrows the headline will be Max Gawn Could Potentially Consider Answering Phone if Rival Was to Call Just Days After Inking New Contract

This is more accurate these days.

The 1924 season was rapidly drawing to a close when Melbourne took on its near neighbour Richmond at Punt Road Oval and, in doing so, it discovered a new full forward. Round 16 Richmond vs Melbourne Saturday 9 August 1924 Venue: Punt Road Attendance: 14,000 RICHMOND 4.4.28 10.6.66 12.8.80 17.19.121 MELBOURNE 2.9.21 3.12.30 6.20.56 9.21.75 Goals: Harry Davie 6 Jack Collins Richard Taylor Stan Wittman Harry Davie made his debut and kicked six out of the team’s nine goals in its loss against the Tigers. Ironically, the defeat was one of its biggest for the season in a game ruined by strong winds with both teams suffering from inaccuracy in front of the goals. The Redlegs had been fruitlessly searching for a star forward all season and finally found one in first gamer Davie from the Melbourne Juniors who was also his team’s best player followed by Thomas and Chadwick while his six goals remains the club record for a player on debut. In the following season in a game against Carlton at Princes Park, Davie kicked 13 goals and 5 behinds, the record at that ground and the equal most by a player against Carlton anywhere, a feat shared with both Tony Lockett and Tony Modra in the 1990s. This was also the Melbourne Football Club record until 1947 when Fred Fanning bagged 18. Davie twice kicked over 50 goals in a season and topped Melbourne's goalkicking in 1925 and 1927. He missed out on his club's 1926 premiership through injury before crossing to Carlton for one season in 1927. Harry Davies’ time in the limelight of football was all too brief. Seconds Richmond 12.10.82 d. Melbourne 5.8.38 The following round saw another huge loss as the Maroons kicking away to a 43-point win and George Simmonds and Percy Wilson bowed out in their final games. Round 17 Melbourne vs Fitzroy Saturday 30 August 1924 Venue: MCG Attendance: 12,487 MELBOURNE 2.1.13 2.4.16 4.8.32 9.14.68 FITZROY 4.2.26 8.10.58 12.10.82 16.14.110 Goals Harry Davie 4 Percy Tulloh 2 Bert Chadwick George Haines Percy Wilson Melbourne kicked the first two goals, but conceded the next four for the term with Fitzroy dominating the second quarter. The Redlegs more than doubled their score in the final term but it was nowhere near enough as Fitzroy’s Moriarty kicked eight goals to break the all-time VFL record for goals in a single season to that point. Davie followed up his fine debut form with four more goals and Corbett, Chadwick, Wilson and Haines were Melbourne's best. The final round of the season was a journey away to Windy Hill against Essendon which had already sewn up a double chance and had nothing to play for while Melbourne was desperate to avoid the wooden spoon. It did so by taking advantage of its host’s lacklustre performance to grab the win. Round 18 Essendon vs Melbourne Saturday 6 September 1924 Venue: Windy Hill Attendance: 10,000 ESSENDON 4.5.29 6.6.42 11.7.73 12.10.82 MELBOURNE 3.3.21 10.5.65 12.10.84 14.12.96 Goals Harry Davie 4 Hugh Dunbar Percy Tulloh 3 Jimmy Abernethy 2, Bert Chadwick George Haines Harry Davie booted four goals to take his tally to 14 goals in his first three games in what was only Melbourne's second win against Essendon since 1910. The first half saw Essendon playing casually against a side that had lost six in a row and only once in almost four months. The home side was lucky to be in front at quarter time after kicking the last goal, but on the back of a strong ruck performance Melbourne kicked seven goals to two with the wind in the second term to open up 23 point lead at the main break. Essendon reeled that lead down to 9 points at three quarter time and during the break Melbourne’s Hugh Dunbar collapsed and was carried from the field, Miraculously, he recovered to play a prominent part in the finish, kicking one of his team’s two goals with the wind to Essendon’s one in the final term. Chadwick, Thomas and Corbett were Melbourne’s best. Ironically, Essendon went on to win the premiership that season.. Seconds Essendon 10.13.73 d. Melbourne 7.5.47 To be continued …

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Do you have a link to it online?

I'll post it if it goes up on YouTube or Socials.

Speaking of Tracc, this was the King’s Birthday game when his second unravelled. The old adage about good kicking being good football was proved beyond a shadow of doubt as the Demons hit the post five times and lost a goal review while the Pies could not miss from any angle. MELBOURNE 0.4.4 2.6.18 4.11.35 6.15.51 COLLINGWOOD 3.1.19 7.3.45 11.3.69 14.5.89 THE TEAMS COLLINGWOOD B B. Maynard, D. Moore, C. Dean HB I. Quaynor, B. Frampton, J. Noble C S. Sidebottom, F. Macrae, J. Daicos HF B. Hill, L. Schultz, W. Hoskin-Elliott F B. McCreery, P. Lipinski, J. Howe FOLL D. Cameron, J. Crisp, N. Daicos I/C H. Harrison, N. Kreuger, O. Markov, L. Sullivan SUB J. Bytel EMG E. Allan, T. Jiath, A. Johnson IN W. Hoskin-Elliott, N. Kreuger OUT A. Johnson (omitted), W. Parker (omitted) MELBOURNE B J. Bowey, S. May, T. Rivers HB C. Salem, T. McDonald, J. McVee C E. Langdon, C. Oliver, C. Windsor HF K. Pickett, B. Fritsch, H. Petty FF K. Chandler, J. van Rooyen, A. Neal-Bullen FOLL M. Gawn, J. Viney, C. Petracca I/C B. Howes, B. Laurie, T. Sparrow, D. Turner SUB J. Billings EMG B. Brown, K. Brown, T. Woewodin IN J. Billings, B. Howes, B. Laurie, IN J. van Rooyen OUT L. Hunter (calf), S. McAdam (omitted), A. Tomlinson (omitted) T. Woewodin (omitted)

Lebanese cucumbers?

Don't be a Dill. He's Oregano. I'll see myself out.

Don't go shy on us now @WalkingCivilWar? Door stop him. 😜

Reports have him linked to a job at the AFL.

Cutting off the questions here. See you tonight at 7:30pm.

The wind and the hot unseasonable temperatures together with lights turned on mid game at People First Stadium conspired to leave many Suns players and supporters red faced and gasping for air as the Demons proved a number of points on their way to a nine goal triumph on Saturday afternoon in the Carrara sunshine. Melbourne is the only non-Queensland team to taste victory at this venue in 2024. This surely leaves a number of journalists and media mavens red faced after they rushed to pass judgement about a club in crisis when it dropped out of finals contention. The win doesn’t answer all the questions they raised but it does question their own knowledge and understanding of the club’s situation. The problem in the main being that while sporting clubs in the public eye always come under scrutiny when they perform below expectations (and deservedly so), the conflation of on and off field issues at the club to a level where it was allegedly suffering a seemingly self-administered and terminal curse was more than somewhat over the top. The fact of the matter is that the display put on by the Demons at People First Stadium on Saturday afternoon was not that of a team one would expect to be hemorrhaging from some alleged rotten culture as painted by the pundits. The Suns were touted as firm favourites to win, particularly after Clayton Oliver was ruled out after undergoing surgery on one of the multiple ailments that affected his performance this year. With superstar Christian Petracca already out half a season with a ruptured spleen, champion ruckman Max Gawn affected by a problem ankle, Jack Viney favouring his shoulder, running machine Alex Neal-Bullen leaving for family reasons and Tom Sparrow injured early in the match, the on-field issues highlighted in the media suggested the Sun’s favouritism was fully justified. Mind you, someone forgot that the team in question had just lost to second placed Port Adelaide by 2 points and by the same margin a fortnight before to third placed GWS to add to previous narrow defeats at the hands of Brisbane away and Carlton. As it turned out, Melbourne’s new midfield problem area being an inability to win at clearances, was illusory. The on ballers won the clearance battle 45 - 36 aided by another Gawn masterclass (how does he do it?) to rattle the home side from the outset and then finish all over them with a brilliant seven goal final-quarter surge in the sun that crushed them mercilessly. And the architect behind the success of a winning performance that the football world thought unlikely because it accepted the premise of the media lynch mob was Jack Viney who some had written off as North Melbourne bound. He shrugged off the early physical blows and beat a handy opponent in Matt Rowell, willed and heroically crashed his way through stoppage after stoppage to provide nine clearances, managing also to kick a couple of nice goals in the swirly conditions. Viney was the guardian angel. Alongside him, Ed Langdon floated tirelessly on a wing notching up 37 possessions to put his team in the van to set up the victory. Under Viney’s wings, Trent Rivers continued his role as an emerging presence in the middle of the ground left vacant by the team’s injured superstars while Judd McVee promisingly began his own apprenticeship in the midfield boiler room. The Demon defence was solid and held together by Tom McDonald, Adam Tomlinson, Marty Hore and Christian Salem but it was the forward line that finally gelled with Daniel Turner (four), Harrison Petty (three) and Jacob van Rooyen (three) all among the goals. Tucked away amid the excitement and interest of an intriguing end to the AFL home and away season, the win might not count as a famous victory in the scheme of things. It might not mean much at all but then again, it might be the portent to a revitalised Melbourne in 2025 and beyond. MELBOURNE 3.2.20 8.5.53 11.5.71 18.9.117 GOLD COAST SUNS 3.2.20 7.5.47 8.6.54 9.9.63 GOALS MELBOURNE Turner 4 Petty van Rooyen 3 Melksham Viney 2 Fritsch Langdon McPhee Tholstrup GOLD COAST SUNS Flanders King Witts 2 Davies Holman Weller BEST MELBOURNE Viney Langdon Rivers Turner Howes Salem GOLD COAST SUNS Anderson Flanders Uwland Weller Witts INJURIES MELBOURNE Tom Sparrow (ankle) GOLD COAST SUNS Nil REPORTS MELBOURNE Nil GOLD COAST SUNS Nil SUBSTITUTIONS MELBOURNE Jake Melksham (replaced Tom Sparrow in the second quarter) GOLD COAST SUNS David Swallow (replaced Ben Long at three-quarter time) UMPIRES Nicholas Brown Tom Bryce Harrison Birch Cameron Jones CROWD 13,026 at People First Stadium

I don't have a spotify account and the pods just appear on there. I haven't looked into it but will.

It's impossible to tell from the stats you get from Apple Podcasts which doesn't take into account other podcasting apps which don't provide stats at all. The hosting company's stats package used to provide some stats on the amount of times a file (the podcast audio file) had been accessed but that stats package has changed and doesn't provide that stat anymore. The stats also only say that the file has been downloaded or accesses and doesn't provide an accurate reflection on how long someone has listened. For example the podcast app might automatically download the episode because they have subscribed but then it is not listened to. Someone may listen for a minute or the entire episode. As for LIVE listeners it all depends on how we're traveling at the time. Can sometimes have 30 live listeners or over 100 at any one time. Those stats only tell me how many are listening at that particular time. 300 listeners may have come and gone listening to bits and pieces or 30 could have listened the whole time.

It's going to be a massive show tonight so get any last minute questions or comments in. I will be closing the thread at about midday.

Nothing to do with the pun. I'm just OCD with the thread titles for Re-Signings.

The Gold Coast is putting on a fabulous extravaganza this weekend in the form of the Pacific Airshow. Residents in this part of the world have been treated to a magnificent aerial pageant with a jet-powered spectacle of acrobatics and the excitement of sky diving in the skies over Surfers Paradise. Meanwhile, the AFL matches at nearby Carrara have been relegated to the status of a mere sideshow to the dare-devilry in the air although it should be said that the Casey Demons managed to get in on the act with their own crash dive when they were smashed by the Gold Coast Reserves by 88 points in a high-scoring shootout on Saturday. The opening of the match at Peoples First Stadium saw an even battle between two teams going on all out attacking mode as they traded blow for blow and several changes of the lead. From Casey’s point of view, the players who stood out in the opening quarter were their best for the day. This year’s improver Andy Moniz-Wakefield had ten disposals for the term while Ben Brown and Shane McAdam scored two goals each. The Suns led by a point at the first break and Ben Brown’s missed shot leveled proceedings in the first minute of the second quarter. The arm wrestling continued for another seven minutes by which time Ben added his third major and then slowly but surely the home team gained the ascendancy. They parlayed that into a 20 point half time advantage and then put on the afterburners with an 11 goal third term that literally blew the Demons out of the skies to that eventual 88-point final deficit. Gold Coast has great depth and is close to having a full list with some handy players possessing abundant AFL experience. The likes of Lukosius and Sexton (5 goals each) Atkins, Moyle and Fiorini had field days and particularly dictated the play in the second half mayhem. Casey, on the other hand, relied on far too few players to make an impact and the result was pretty inevitable. There’s always an exception to every rule and Andy Moniz-Wakefield marked his return to Casey after six games at AFL level and he was the side's leading disposal getter with 35 possessions to go with his nine marks and three tackles. He is one of the few in this team who could earn a promotion to take on the Magpies at the MCG on Friday night. For the rest of the AFL listed members of the team, it could be the end of some of their careers but most certainly, season’s end as the VFL enters its finals phase with Casey out of the picture having finished its 2024 season with only five wins and in 17th place (there are 21 teams). As mentioned earlier, Ben Brown and Shane McAdam maintained their goal kicking throughout the game. Brown finished with 6.1 (ten touches and five marks while McAdam (12 disposals, six marks) was also dangerous up forward with four goals. Of the rest, they were well beaten apart from skipper Mitch White who worked hard as usual to pick up his 25 touches. The team was beaten in the ruck and this impacted on midfielders Kynan Brown (21 disposals, five clearances), Bailey Laurie (20, five) and Taj Woewodin (13, one goal) having limited effect on the game. Youngsters in Jed Adams, Matthew Jefferson, Luker Kentfield and Will Verrall were all quiet as their seasons slowly came to an end. It was a sombre ending for the team which two years ago celebrated a premiership but on Saturday played out their season in front of empty stands with very few fans to watch their eventual crash landing. CASEY DEMONS 6.2.38 8.4.52 11.7.73 13.9.87 GOLD COAST SUNS 6.3.39 11.6.72 22.8.140 27.13.175 GOALS CASEY DEMONS B Brown 6 McAdam 4 Fullarton George T Woewodin GOLD COAST SUNS Lukosius Sexton Rowlands 5 N Moyle 3 Mahoney Oea 2 Coulson Johnston Macpherson B Moyle Reid BEST CASEY DEMONS Moniz-Wakefield B Brown McAdam Laurie White Fullarton GOLD COAST SUNS Atkins Lukosius Sexton N Moyle Fiorini Oea Statistics Jed Adams 8 kicks 1 handball 9 disposals 4 marks 2 tackles 40 dream team points Ben Brown 6 goals 1 behinds 8 kicks 2 handballs 10 disposals 5 marks 2 tackles 3 hitouts 92 dream team points Kynan Brown 10 kicks 11 handballs 21 disposals 2 marks 3 tackles 70 dream team points Tyler Edwards 3 kicks 6 handballs 9 disposals 2 marks 1 tackle 31 dream team points Tom Fullarton 1 goal 1 behinds 10 kicks 5 handballs 15 disposals 6 marks 1 tackle 8 hitouts78 dream team points Roy George 1 goal 5 kicks 2 handballs 7 disposals 1 mark 1 tackle 32 dream team points Max Gregory 9 kicks 1 handball 10 disposals 5 marks 2 tackles 49 dream team points Matt Jefferson 2 kicks 4 handballs 6 disposals 1 tackle 19 dream team points Luker Kentfield 1 kick 3 handballs 4 disposals 1 mark 1 tackle 16 hitouts dream team points Eddie King 3 behinds 5 kicks 4 handballs 9 disposals 1 mark 3 tackles 41 dream team points Bailey Laurie 13 kicks 7 handballs 20 disposals 7 marks 3 tackles 83 dream team points Shane McAdam 4 goals 7 kicks 5 handballs 12 disposals 6 marks 3 tackles 85 dream team points Andy Moniz-Wakefield 1 behind 23 kicks 12 handballs 25 disposals 9 marks 3 tackles 130 dream team points Harvey Neocleous 3 kicks 5 handballs 8 disposals 3 marks 38 dream team points Charlie Peters 7 kicks 11 handballs 18 disposals 5 tackles 61 dream team points Josh Schache 11 kicks 1 handballs 12 disposals 10 marks 1 tackle 69 dream team points Kobe Shipp 3 kicks 7 handballs 10 disposals 3 marks 32 dream team points Roan Steele 1 behind 10 kicks 4 handballs 14 disposals 1 mark 3 tackles 57 dream team points Ryan Valentine 3 kicks 3handballs 6 disposals 1 marks 18 dream team points Will Verrall 6 kicks 7 handballs 13 disposals 2 marks 14 hitouts 50 dream team points Mitch White 11 kicks 14 handballs 25 disposals 2 marks 4 tackles 83 dream team points Kai Windsor 7 kicks 6 handballs 13 disposals 3 marks 42 dream team points Taj Woewodin 1 goal 1 behind 6 kicks 7 handballs 13 disposals 1 mark 3 tackles 54 dream team points