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It's been fairly well documented that Mitch 'sings from a different hymn book' than your average AFL player. What I'm on about is the fact that Mitch's passion for photography has overtaken his enthusiasm for footy. It's got nothing to do with how much money he can make from one profession or the other. He'll be on good money for the next 3 years whether or not he even steps on the ground. If you follow https://twitter.com/MitchClark11 there's sweet FA about the football side of his life in comparison with his photography.

Some measure of Mitch's commitment to his footy, and more generally the Club, will be whether or not he shows up tonight. My money says he won't bother, preferring to post photos taken around his house (his latest subject) on Twitter. Six weeks to recover from a 'hammy twinge' - you're kidding aren't ya?

My mail (from a good source) is that we shouldn't be worried about his hammy. It's his passionate love of photography that has curbed his enthusiasm for the game, and could well see him exit footy at contract's end.

Word around here (close to Monday night's action) is that an OMCG may have had money 'invested' with Vhalos. A report in today's Age says that as much as $500 mil could have been invested - and none of it punted.

Trivia fact: Jayden is the nephew of former Dee Andy Moir (#29 remembered mainly for his speccie on the goal line)

In relation to there supposedly there being no record of who took what, there'd be little doubt that Dank kept records and any techo worth his salt could retrieve these from his computer if the authorities chose to have him hand it over.

No, this article appeared, only on-line, not in print, some weeks after Demetriou had been reprimanded by Fahey. I reckon it was only up for a few hours - maybe midnight until 5am Australian time. It was very specific. I can't recall who the author was, but I don't think it was one of the usual HUN journos.

On Wed Sept 25th I was in Spain reading the HUN on-line. It was about 4pm local time - midnight in Oz. There was a front-page article saying that four Essendon 'officials' (Hird, Corcoran, Dank, Robinson) would get a life ban from all sports for trafficking, and 12 players would be served infraction notices. Some hours later all record of the article had been removed. Similarly, on the 3AW website there was the text of Caroline Wilson's comments on the same topic, basically saying the same thing. She may well have been parroting the HUN article. That item was similarly removed a few days later. Both items may have been removed following a statement by WADA head John Fahey, along the lines, I think, that it was a case of journos speculating.

Interesting article in today's Age: Danihers critical of Hird's role I suspect the club would be fuming. I can just picture Tim Watson taking Anthony aside and saying 'WTF did you have to say that, and contradict my statement that all parents of the players were fine with what happened.'

Frustration prompts Demon pair to organise altitude trip

Whilst a rotating banner would be possible - done with Flash, javascipt or as an animated gif - it would not appear on most mobile devices.

Spat over tanking bedevils Dees

I thought I heard Sandy Roberts say (on a news promo on SEN) about 4pm that there was 'a twist' in the Liam Jurrah case.

Great - this is all we need. HUN article which I guess only subscribers get to view. 'THE racism crisis engulfing the Melbourne Football Club deepened after its major sponsor (Ben Polis - Energywatch CEO) admitted to making a series of slurs against Aborigines, Asians, women and Prime Minister Julia Gillard. ' You'd think that we may have to cut loose one of our few major sponsors.

R.I.P Jim. You've left a great legacy. Condolences to Sam and all Jim's family.

I was speaking with Nev Jetta's dad at Etihad. He said Nev had done ankle ligaments and would miss up to 10 weeks. He reckons he'd need an op. Long time for ligament damage, and I haven't heard of an op being necessary,

Mark Neeld game plan returns Melbourne to the 1980's

Good exposure: http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/more-news/big-men-little-footy-fans/story-fn7x8me2-1226288904842 I assume it's in the hardy copy.

'Whilst they give their all I dont rate either of Rivers or Bartram.' +1

What about if Andy designs a banner for the new iMac 27" screen (2560 pixels wide)? That way we could accommodate all 39 players!

'I would hope that Demonland is not going to be designed based on the size limitations of a hand held device By all means make some small allowances or provide alternate mappings for such devices but lets not make such devices a limiting design consideration' daisycutter, I design websites. You have to cater for the 'lowest common denominator' when it comes to screen sizes, which is 1024 pixels 9wide). The Demonland site uses a variable width template (unlike most websites), so that the banner adjusts to the resolution of the device, but if the player images extended beyond 1024 pixels then they would not all be in view on ipads, iphones and older computers. More and more people are veiwing sites on portable devices (iphones and ipads) and it's best if a website cater for this. Prior to Andy doing a massive amount of work in upgrading the template last October, the DL site looked ordinary on portable devices. You could not see the 'sign in' box for example. That's my opinion.

Andy What about this (below)? I'm sure Jimmy would understand.

One small issue is that the template used for Demonland is a variable width template which means it adjusts to the screen width of the device being used. The player image part of the banner is approx. 900 pixels wide, and if you veiw DL on an iphone or ipad which has a screen width of 1024 pixels, Beamer only just appears. Unless Grimes replaces an existing player eg Beamer or JW and instead is simply added at the end (as DD has done), he will not appear on the aforementioned devices. My suggestion would be to replace JW with JG. DD may also notice that players on the RHS of the banner face left, so I'd think there would be a better image of Jack available.

Just the man we need to tackle (pardon the pun) the likes of Swan and Judd.

Article in The Age along the same lines. Methinks the lines of Davey and Bennell won't step up. Sylvia will, Watts might.