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Top 5 - Bulldogs were in 5th pos.

what did they say dees189227? That was a real dog act.

I probably should have made it clearer that I was responding to the issue of whether the ground and conditions they played under where necessarily an impediment to them winning premierships. The list can change, but the ground and conditions, not much.

You are probably right Binman, but they had the same ground and conditions in 2001, 2, 3 when they won premierships and last year when they beat us on our home ground in the finals.

Bit weird referring to a young first year kid as "poor old"

Nearly 50 years after Australia went metric, I would be most surprised if umpires in their 20's and 30's were still operating in Imperial measurements. 😕

Sounds like you'll be milking it for all its worth 😄

Not sure at this time what the attendance at the Bombers v Hawks game is tonight, but seems a bit sparse considering the membership bases of these clubs.

What do you mean by this Super?

May is nearly 30, he has played for many years and these were his first finals. He deserved to be on the ground at the end.

Whispering, I believe there was another very important factor which may have been the most significant in our decline and malaise after the 64 flag. The VFL brought in country zones. These were supposed to rotate between clubs. In fact that never happened and my understanding is that Melbourne's zone was relatively unproductive. This was an incredibly unfair for the Dee's and caused the heartbreak for supporters until the late 90's. I have understood this for a long time and in writing this post I looked up on google and Wikipedia seems to confirm it. "The VFL’s response was to zone rural Victoria and the Riverina of New South Wales in a similar manner to metropolitan Melbourne. Because of the sparseness of Australia’s rural population, the country zones related not to the player’s address, but rather to the league in which he played. This difference made zone boundaries effectively impossible to adjust, and was a critical component of the failure of country zoning. The VFL was aware that discrepancies existed in the strength of each zone, and it was originally planned that the zones would be rotated every year so that each club would obtain a chance of receiving the best young country players. However, Carlton and Hawthorn lodged complaints with the VFL, as they had productive zones and were naturally unwilling to give them up for less productive ones,[1] so the zones remained the same from the inception of country zoning until it was abolished in 1986. There was also no provision for demographic changes which occurred in the various country zones, which exacerbated the problems mentioned above". Unsurprisingly, Hawthorn and Carlton were the two most successful clubs from the late 60's until the early 90's. Eight flags to Hawks and 7 to the Blues.

In fact that was the year that West Coast drew with Collingwood which gave us a bye in the week after our semi final against Hawthorn. In addition Essendon rested players for the last round, then had a week off as the top team in the five had, and then had an additional week off because of the draw. It really was a great opportunity for us and the game against West Coast was a gigantic disappointment.

Not sure if this has appeared on Demonland, but this is a very interesting survey regarding AFL club support and memberships. https://www.roymorgan.com/findings/8799-afl-supporter-ladder-june-2021-202109210357 We all would be hoping for increased memberships as a result of success and hopefully future achievements. However based on our supporter base and current membership conversion which is already at a very high level, getting over 65,000 members might be difficult.

But except for the Roos, (with which they are level on points), all the other teams are above them on the ladder, not 15 to 17 positions below!

Channel 7 news had a report that Tom went in for scans with video of him. Previewed the story before the Sports segment. Then repeated exactly the same thing in the segment, but that was it, no further information, no hospital name. Really crappy 4 second piece, which now seems like just clickbait.

Season extended to 20 rounds in 68 and 69 and then to 22 rounds from 1970. Best year for the Dees was 1956 - 16 H + A wins and two finals = 18 1955 we won 15 H + A and 2 finals =17 1990 we won 16 H + A and 1 final = 17 So we have never won more than 16 games in the regular season, - this is surely a record we need / must break this year to give us a real chance for premiership.

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Yesterdays win makes this a very unlikely scenario. We are two wins ahead, with 10% lead. Ten percent is difficult to make up late in the season as the denominator gets larger and larger. Port probably would have to win three more games than us to displace us in the top 4. That would mean they win all of their remaining games and we lose three of ours. We have 3 teams in the 8 to play. 2nd - Dogs, 3rd - Cats and 7th - Eagles - 1 home game and 2 away Port have two teams in the 8 to play. 2nd - Dogs, 8th - Giants. - both away games We have shown that we can beat top 8 teams. Port have shown that they can't. All the teams in the top 4 are most likely set.

Whispering, that opinion piece has the whiff of tabloid outrage designed to stir controversy. I'm sure you would be as well informed as I am that: 1. The public holiday is being retained this year as Thank You day for the restrictions Victorians and particularly Melbournians have stoically, (on the whole), endured. As others have already stated you may as well rail against nearly all the other public holidays. 2. By October the 23rd, (5 weeks away), there will certainly be far fewer restrictions, and that will include the 5km limit.

One correction, Conor McKenna was one of the positives.

We play the interstate teams there because they're the teams we would get the lowest attendances to for home games in Melbourne. You wouldn't play a Melbourne team there, when we would normally get at least 35,000 to that home game.

You're absolutely right T_U, but you can add this beauty: "Clearly the ump forgot who Gil wanted to win for a split second and actually was umpiring that contest on its merit". I wonder how many posters on here are: - Flat Earther's? - Don't believe that NASA landed on the moon? - Wear tinfoil under their caps or hats so that the Government can't control their minds with microwave signals? There is an adage that if there is a choice between conspiracy and c0ck up you should go for the c0ck up every time.

Finey and Peake sure did babble, but Peakey in particular also dribbled and gibbered and it was all about St. Kilda!! Still it could be amusing.

Spot on! I reckon many on DLand would be aware of those facts. It's akin to trolling to put that clip up and perpetuate the misrepresentation of Cale and the reality of that incident.

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