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How the hell can this be regarded as anything but a brutal and callous assault? The fact that it's still countenanced means that the inherently brutal nature of Aussie Rules still lurks not far below the surface. Another aspect of this inherent brutality comes across when Mike Christian manages to explain and approve of all the thuggery and sniping in the Hawthorn Richmond encounter. It's like there's one rule for home and away games and finals are free for all gladiator contests.

I've heard he was in the team because a certain Geelong benefactor who passed away last year left him $1million if he returned to the cats.

6:Harmes 5: Salem 4: Lewis 3: Weideman 2: Brayshaw 1: Viney

?????I got banned for fluck! So what. Love it.

Hopefully a totally fractured fibula. I hate everything about this prancing fraud of a human being.

Reminds me of a refined Leigh Matthews...

I saw that: the commentators ignore it because, gee, he's such a great player...

Long way to drive for a night out...

I don't much like all this 'curse of Norm Smith' talk. It's all rubbish. Melbourne won the first seven games of 1965, most of them by small margins and then fell in a hole. Sure, they sacked Norm Smith but the writing was already on the wall. Barassi's departure had a lot to do with it and until Barassi came back in the early 80's Melbourne reverted to the level of mediocrity that all unsuccessful sides constantly practice. In a nutshell, it was death by a succession of committees who assumed the glory days were just around the corner simply because they were the MFC and were owed success. Northey came along - an inspired choice in retrospect - we recruited well - Spalding Dean, Viney Stretch, Johnson etc etc - Lyon came along and from 1997 to 1991, from the early Balme days and about every second year of Daniher's reign, the Demons were as good as most teams but not quite good enough. The post Daniher years were totally poisoned, I believe, not by the Norm Smith curse, but by the sheer folly of the management. How incompetents like Schwab and Co were allowed to fester is beyond the imagination. Mind you, the almost Hawthorn merger debacle and the rescue by an ill-fated millionaire with no football background signified there was something rotten in the state of Denmark. The nadir of Neeld were an inevitable result, sadly at the expense of an innocent and talented journeyman called Bailey who at least instilled some panache and fleeting joys to us long suffering supporters. Let's rejoice in what we have now. We have a team which has grown and prospered bit by bit, the way in the end good sides prosper. Where this journey takes us is unknown but it feels like it could be a good ride while it lasts.

It is taking so-called political correctness to an absurd level. Even my wife uses the term pussycats when she refers to our two cats and she is a fundamentalist feminist.

A thousand times no....

And we already have Mckenna.

He actually says he played for St Kilda first....

Just watched the biggest re-write of footy history: Luke Beveridge on that MLC Journey with the Game segment. He states he began his playing career at St KIlda. News to me, I could have sworn there was a player called Luke Beveridge who ran around in Demon colours in the Northey days. Can't say he ever impressed me all that much as a player...

I guess I'm just quoting from the fringes of those hard liners, people like Ahn and his final solution references. Katter and Co are not that far removed from the principles shared by Dutton, witness the racial hatred he spewed about Africans recently.

I wonder what he's like as a fireman? He certainly has no business being a football commentator.

I've never liked Turnbull. He always reminded me of a revolving door: in other words, very agile at slipping into the role he felt he needed to play. The fact that he allows the right wing of his party to mould any principles he had - Climate Change and Same Sex Marriage - speaks highly about what really motivated Malcolm. The worst thing he did - apart from allowing Peter Dutton to run riot as the Immigration and Home Affairs minister - was his absolute decimation of the NBN. In other words, he put in place a third world system because that was what Rupert would allow. I have no pity for him whatsoever. Though I am laughing till I cry at the antics of the Nazi elements of the hard core right wingers of the so-called - 'factionless', Malcolm called them once - Liberal Party.

He always reminded me of George Lakes. Another Greek lad who was going to save us in the late 60's, early 70's. He never got going because of injuries. Toumpas got off on the wrong foot, to coin a phrase. I wish him, all the best.

NO, it's how they say big in New Zealand...

I'd be interested in the Demon goalkicking table for 2018. Does anybody have the figures?

6: harmes 5: gawn 4: lewis 3: jones 2: frost 1: O.McDonald

I said when Vandenberg came back that he was an important addition: there were scoffers. I bet they scoff no more...

I got called for chucking in a sub district game at Geelong. Made the Geelong advertiser in January 1967. I didn't throw it. I threw the next one and ump let it go...

https://youtu.be/esOiB_fanzI I hope this works...

I'm not afraid of [censored] cats They just eat mice and rats But the hippopotamus He could eat the lot of us. --Spike Milligan