Call Me What You Will

It really will be an interesting watch tomorrow - how the next gen stack up. Hopefully not a Watts on Queens B’day scenario - but there is some talent on display. Suspect we will still get smashed, but just maybe this will be a day we look back on and say this is when it all began. A bit like that Hawthorn game in the rain 8 or 9 years ago. Go Dees.

Now that Adam’s has been added to the emergency list, could we now make a ‘late change’ and bring Adams in for Howes? Sort of thing Chris Scott would do.

Of course, had it been Kozzie, Nibbla, Chin or any host Melbourne players, 3 weeks as a minimum….

Kudos Fox Footy with the measured commentary and insightful special comments. Telling it as it is. No matey self indulgence here. Early days, but promising signs!

I have it on good authority that Greg Baum was referring to his Magpies, not as I, and many other Demon fans felt was a veiled whack at the Dees!

And an incredibly smug Scott on 7 News tonight. “Go ask they AFL” - it’s been ticked off.

Amazingly, approaching 50 year MCC membership, so cannot wait for access to slightly lower subscription (and the comfy seats!). However, I have never taken out the combined MCC/MFC package, because I always wanted to fully support the club (not the MCC) and to always sit with Melbourne people. Have been an MFC member since 1988, sitting in the defacto ‘reserved’ red seat area back in the day and in our real reserved seats in M51 ever since. Same faces, some new ones, watching mine (and other’s) children grow and mature, united in our love for our demon boys. Success comes and goes, players come and go, politics comes and goes, but the journey never ends! I see no reason to stop. Go Dees in ‘25.

I just wish the AFL (and Channel 7) would just stop the shameless lying and pretending that the votes are somehow secret. Corrupt. Dillon’s wife, the AFL website and hostess Madden clearly know. Like the MRO, just so corrupt.

As a true 57er, will never ever underrate one of the greatest days of my life. The greatest 40 minutes of football - ever!

Vale Ken. He was my Politics/Social Studies teacher in Year 11 (1974), when he was Chairman of Selectors. Quite a few of us were Demon supporters and Ken would get us into the rooms after a number of games. We actually spent far more time discussing team selection during the week, than the impending constitutional crisis of 74/75. Interesting times and seems just like yesterday. Ken was a true gentleman.

One of the best……

My god - if anyone saw the Channel 7 coverage tonight - Tracc looked so unwell. No wonder he will not face the media. Just leave the guy alone!

Clearly Butters has already won the Brownlow - he simply cannot buy a suspension. Corrupt AFL.

Probably will given a week - club and media firestorm to follow - then appeal - downgraded to fine. The AFL integrity machine will be working overtime. Nibbler, Jack Trengove and all the other “middle tier” victims from all clubs to this corrupt regime say hi. Like many, if it wasn’t for the Dees, it’d be local suburban footy for me.

I think all of us who experienced the feral violence on that night last September have been forever scarred. Simple loathing and hatred for the filth. Always part of the cultural narrative, but now based on reality.