Timothy Reddan-A'Blew

Uh-oh! Here we go! (Nobody expects the Monty Python quoting. Amongst our quotes are...)

Posted this over on the "Farewell Demonland..." thread but it should've been here: ...It's human nature to constantly be having, or wanting, to think "if this happens, and that happens, and the other happens, then we can be/get/reach such-and-such". Isn't it great that - seemingly all of a sudden - we've moved from having to cling to the least worst 'such-and-such' (we won't get the spoon), the slightly happier schadenfreude such-and-such (team x will be below us and imploding) and even the "we'll win more games than last year" such-and-such, to now be contemplating the this's, that's and the other's that will get us into the 8 (it's only percentage) and maybe even entrench us there? Happier days...!

[Just read LME's story about JR. It's a story that should get a wider audience somehow. Our JR's should be publicly celebrated somehow by the club.] Along a general theme of this thread, it's human nature to constantly be having, or wanting, to think "if this happens, and that happens, and the other happens, then we can be/get/reach such-and-such". Isn't it great that - seemingly all of a sudden - we've moved from having to cling to the least worst 'such-and-such' (we won't get the spoon), the slightly happier schadenfreude such-and-such (team x will be below us and imploding) and even the "we'll win more games than last year" such-and-such, to now be contemplating the this's, that's and the other's that will get us into the 8 (it's only percentage) and maybe even entrench us there? Happier days Ascobar?

No, Saty I think. Scooter folded up in scabbard.

I've been waiting for this thread! 1. In the still on the club's website for last night's team song: Our number 14 and that guy who did a successful revolution over in the Carribean all those years ago! Both are definitely 'old school' (the latter really old) 2. Our number 17 and the former serial killer and now vicar of Grantchester (do any of you out there watch Aunty?). Both generally quiet and unassuming but fond of the occasional emotional outburst and both definitely very quick to get to the man with the ball/knife/gun/poison.

Dear Boss and All, I don't think this is hijacking your thread, Boss; I hope not, anyway. I have just written to the club as follows. If any of you think the same, please write, too. Yesterday evening's proceedings were again an appropriate and successful honouring of the now (sadly) broadening sweep of "the ultimate sacrifice". I am proud that my club is part of the initiative and I feel blessed to be made to experience the emotions it has wrought. I do strongly feel, however, that the continued scrolling of commercial logos on the big screens during the video presentations of the subjects of the Ode, of Andrew's parents and of the procession and application of the eternal flame to the cauldron was NOT appropriate, and surely, for those brief periods, not necessary for the AFL or the corporates concerned. If there is an objective that Anzac commemorations not be commercialised, these displays do not encourage belief in the integrity of that objective. I would appreciate it if this concern could be advanced to those who can decide to make this worthwhile change. Yours sincerely and in hope,

Yep, correct, DeeS: Jack said pretty precisely that in Burgo's interview. It's hard to get the discussion and cheering in balance after a game/night like this, though!

Can we buy it just tomorrow, though, for the write-ups about tonight? Pretty please?

Dear WaynCar, Um, who were the other one or two Melbourne players in that contest?

All the conditions are there for Rance to make the decision he didn't quite make last year: Two or three weeks I'd say (intentional: he looked down at JW's head before he hit it) and he might just not come back. What's to come back to? Bye.

My straw poll was just about 'Landers, Robert (Are you RDMcK I, II, III or IV (or V?) btw?) not, for example, the subject of your OP or the mysterious '287' (unless they turn out to be part of the brethren - 'fess up guys/girls if you are!)

ABC news confirming it's the Suns. Hmmm, red and yellow. Well der! Not as clear how the white (death), black and 'gr/ue' of PA will be received (see WikiP)

Has a familiar ring to it.

Current count: 3 Come on guys and girls (well done SD'64!), 'fess up!

p.s. Loved Pendlebury's claim that his team should treat the game like a final. Something about "treat" and "like" and "THEIR" and "(grand) final", and "shoe" and "other foot"....

Cool, "MFC-11"! Your anonimity is clearly assured!

Our game was 58,175 (I seem to recall 50,000 was going to be the 'pass mark'?), 14th biggest H/A crowd. Ess v Coll was 88,395, biggest. (QB was 66,120, 8th) I hope the gap is less, but that will have to be by us drawing more, I suspect (a lot on the line on Monday, and I reckon the Ess hoards will be smelling the sash-coloured substance!) So get along everyone; it really is something to be part of. The backdrop of nighttime and chill, enhanced by the lights being turned off (hope they can get more of the lighting in behind the stands off this year!) provides more than the day game can, for the solemnity of the cauldron and the reflections that the proceedings draw. Less of the marketing and more of the honour, I felt.

Garlett HBF. LOL. Why do they bother?

...especially in the round in which we are playing Tigger's team, Tigger being (thanks to Wikipedia) the animal/toy whom "...other animals think of...as being larger than he truly is..., (an) assessment (that) fits very well with Tigger's personality and his assessment of his own abilities, which he always overestimates...".

So, should I waste data on "9Now" tomorrow??

M. Jones: "Injured" in the OP, "Soreness" in the email from the club. Difference?

By my count that will be 19 on the ground and 3 on the bench. We'll certainly get the jump on them!

Even better when he flies over the radar He's taken some good grabs.

Presumably Max, not Mitch? (though was this before Mitch went down?) Max possibly needs to instal a 'tank', too? Also some venom. Per discussion/posts elsewhere his seems to be more a Daniher role than a Maxy G backup?

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