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After reading the above I understand I was wrong to equate May with the Mumford. It is though quite amazing that 10 years ago, or so, these assaults were a common part of Aussie Rules. Players like Brereton, Matthews, Dipper, Hall, Ditterich, Scott and all the multitude of nasty snipers would have been rubbed out for most of their playing careers. And it would have been a better sport for it. Maybe the answer is that it isn't a sport any more, it's a business and because it's a business with all the Insurance liabilities attached....????

Fair enough, as they say.

Just watched the AFL wrap with Lloyd and Barratt. Lloyd is barely literate and, guess what, mention of Melbourne's win against the E Coli Wobblers was NIL

As much as I shudder at the impact of May's hit on once our own Stefan Martin, I ask a simple question: how does May's hit differ from Mumford's hit on the Geelong player? We won't mention Merrett's scott free slug on Pedersen.

Yes, but he could still be getting a kick with us. Not that he was getting that many in 2004.

And Jarrad Rivers. We haven't done too badly, otherwise, in getting rid of spuds and dross: Sylvia, Clark, Toumpas, Maloney, Howe, Gysbert, Maric, Pettard - I'll never forgive his dropped mark in the goal square in 2010 against the E Coli Wobblers - Blease..,.

It's certainly something that needs to dragged from the court of arbitrariness. Today it cost the Saints a game: though, they brought it on themselves with their shocking turnovers. It reminded me of the way my beloved demons play.

I've just watched most of the game. Comments: Forget about the Weed for quite a while. Admitted, delivery was scheisenhaus. Ditto Hulett Hunt: worth a punt. Terlich: Typical. Number 20: sign him. ABN: good. Petracca: Essential. Brayshaw: Essential Garland: an essential element in a warped back line. White:I like Petersen: Frosted out. WHY? Mitchie; Every thing he does is nice. Does he do enough?

Max killed Goldstein on Sunday. All of his KPI apart from Goldstein's goals - some of them from very dodgy umpiring - left the lanky Roo for dead. This man is a solid rock, Tu Est Petrus, from which to build a Demon dynasty. He'll no doubt get mortally wounded next week...

That's fine, but all we're doing is simply bombing it in his direction and he always has 3 players minding him. I'd be pzzed off if I was J. Hogan. We won't talk about the umpires. Let's just say that if J.Hogan was called J. Hird he would have kicked 20 goals this season.

Sacre Bleu. All of us need the psychologists, not the players, not the coaches. What the fluck do we know about the ins and outs. For example, apparently Dunn - and I DO want him in the side - came off in the practice game against Box Hill exclaiming he was phucked. That's most probably the real reason he hasn't scored a game. And I know it's a cheap shot, but exactly how many games of football has Deecisive played? Seriously, there are times when I wonder just why I spend so much time reading the musings of besotted amateurs who have some idealized version of where we should be. We are here now, as Iggy Popp says, deal with the real, we are simply a second to third rate side. We don't link up, we expect the world from Hogan and I'm here to tell you, Jesse Hogan is not Jesus Christ.

Thanks for reminding me!

Disposal, as I see it, is one of our biggest issues. Watch the Bulldog St Kilda game: both sides were cleaner and much more precise that our boys. The obvious offenders are T.Mac and Tyson, but in the end, none of them have elite disposal skills, apart from Salem and he doesn't get the pill often enough.

I couldn't believe how good the Dogs were last night. They are SO FAR ahead of MFC in the skills department.I grew up in Dog land, I'm wondering if I can change the leopard spots I acquired while watching the Demons play like tossers during the 1958 grand final.

Why this sudden unlove for Dunn? What's he dunn wrong?

Also, and this came to me as I listened to the broadcast, wasn't there a hoo hah when Neeld took over about the way handled our indigenous players?

I agree completely. In fact I was going to mention him but in the fog of my memory glands I'd wondered if the Benell I heard called on Sunday night's broadcast was 'our own' Jamie or a new branch of the Bennell clan. All power to him.

I think Frost will become an asset for us. I agree that perhaps he's being used as a 'coaching concept' player at the moment but when that's done and dusted I suspect he'll be found in his rightful niche, as a tall defender, the spot he filled at GWS when he was detected by the Demon radar brains thrust, a brains thrust now worth trusting.

Couldn't agree more. It was one of the reasons I left early. Then, a miracle happened, they found 2 free kicks for Hogan, both of which were probably less deserved than some of the manhandling of Watts and Hogan in particular for most of the first three quarters.

It occurred to me today that all in all we've done pretty well from our player trades. Vince, Garlett, Tyson have been major successes, as will probably be the case with Kennedy, Bugg and Frost. Then there's Pedersen who has been a very serviceable recruit. We've lost Sylvia, Blease, Gysberts, Martin, Maric, Pettard, Scully, albeit most of them via the delist route, but apart from Martin and perhaps Pettard, none of them have set the park on fire or have delivered their dollar value as in Skinny Scully. Then there's Frawley who scored brownies in a lopsided grand final but was seriously ordinary for much of last year and has yet to stamp himself as an asset for Hawthorn, there's Howe who is making Bucks cry, and Clark. The Clark case is interesting because none of the Demon Hierarchy, especially Roos, were sad about losing him. It appears they knew they were washing their hands of the trouble that would have ensued by keeping him.

So Garlett gets fined $1000 for a late brush on Davis. Suckling gets off scott free for clocking a Geelong player in circumstances very similar. We won't mention Merrett breaking Pederson's face and it's play on.

His dad is a Sunshine boy: my dad worked with him at British Tube Mills. I used to face him in the nets when he played for Sunshine Cricket Club. Her was a very good batsman who bowled mean leggies. His son may have been born in Adelaide when Darcy was transferred in his job bit Luke is a Western Suburbs boy. ( That might explain why he's not the brightest spanner in the tool box.)

I was on the opposite side of the ground but it looked like a very, very weird decision. I admit I got squeamish and left before three quarter time. Today was my first game since the final against the Swans in 1987. I liked the first quarter,but got very sick and tired of watching turnover after turnover, the main culprit Tyson. And I love the way Oliver gets the ball but his kicking needs to be sorted out: his disposal reminds me of Maloney. if I was Hogan I'd be cursing. It's bad enough having two opponents for most of the day but waiting under those long, high bombs while his opponents have a cup of tea and a bickie before gang belting the ball out of his hands....

I know there are Dawes knockers ( Ha, I like that one!) on this site: I'm not one of them. He plays his guts out when he's on the field and I,for one, am anxious to see him fit and well. What concerns me is that on the latest Injury List, he's listed as '4 weeks'. By crikey I hope it ain't the 4 weeks Frost was always going to be out for last year.

Nebbishers, the lot of them...