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If you are who you say you are, make it happen! 🙌

.....best served cold 👍

Maybe so, but It's how it was pronounced in the broadcast is my point. 🙂

Once again, thanks for the podcast fellas. But please, after 4 years, can you pronounce Jacob van Rooyen's name the way he (and not the footy broadcasters) pronounce it. It's pronounced van roy en. Also, Andy, it's Gerard Whateley, not Wheatly.

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This is my list of good umpires: Put yours here: (Only half joking)

Thanks GS. We may seem him on the board one day. That would be a good get.

Not been on Demonland much recently so not sure if this has been discussed anywhere. Where is Gus these days? I've always believed and hoped he'd continue to be involved with the MFC post his playing days. Although I fully understand if he needed a break from 'everything' after his magnificent playing career was cruelly cut short. Maybe footy is not part of short term thinking, but he is so loved and respected as well as intelligent and insightful, that he would be a huge acquisition to the club in any role he and the club deem suitable. Anyone have an insight to how he's travelling and what he's up to?

The past 2 weeks have given us some hope, when before there was little. Fast flowing, attractive football with a semblance of system, albeit in patches. At least one obvious concern remains, however. The question I raised here 2 weeks ago and by others this week, are our last quarters. After 7 games, our total kicked in last quartes is 7.20 62pts, to 33.14 212 pts. Our percentage for the year is 74.7%. Our percantage based on just the first 3 quarters of matches is 96%, whilst based on last quarters alone, it is 29.2%. Max hasn't gone off every last quarter this year so, to use a new 2025 catchphrase, it is not an event, but a pattern. In a racing parlance, we look like a middle distance racehorse running in a Melbourne Cup. We simply can't stay! The difference in last quarter accuracy emphasises a fitness issue. As we tire, we spray our shots and lack the capacity to prevent the opposition from getting opportunities from close range. We are letting our opponents off the hook psychologically as well. No team playing us will feel beaten at 3/4 time, no matter what the score. It must also play on the minds of our players and coaches as we will expect to run out of steam. It is no use planning to peak in September if we can't qualify to be there. Hopefully this is being teated as seriously as ball movement and all the other components that make up a winning team. More of a statement than a question I suppose, but do you forsee a change in time for us to be considered a contender this year?

Casey simply playing the 'Melbourne way'

For someone with a reputation as a good ball user, Sestan turns it over a lot.

I hope we have another crack at Derksen off season. I wish Roo would present to the ball carrier more. He needs a more arrogant on-field presence,

For my own mental health, I haven't read one Demonland post since pre game. So please forgive me if this has been raised elsewhere. Total 2025 last quarter scores are; For: 5.11. 41 Against 26.10. 166 The last quarter pressure rating against Geelong was a disgusting 139. I'll be interested in knowing our ratings for Saturdays match. The reverence I felt for the 2021 Premiership team is being diluted as I see so many of them running around, a shadow of their former selves. Andy, George, Blinman. please explain.Ease my pain. Love your work fellas. I don't know how you can keep doing ar this time of deep despair.

Me - still suffering MAD (Melbourne Anxiety Disorder)

DO NOT let her see any football shows on 7 or 9 😖

Ryley Bonner the only one you would consider for a promotion next week. Just one problem.......

You're just jealous DD, because his girlfriend is from Foster and not Fish Creek. (Just a little South Gippsland byplay folks)

Peter 'Crackers' Keenan

I think I prefer this. No matter who we play. 👹

Showing the M as flames was as brilliant as it was logical.

Is this what we are talking about?

We haven't forgotten, Maynard!