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My final predictions: Eagles vs Bombers - red wine, pasta, watch cricket Cats vs Pies - out with fmaily then more cricket Giants vs Dogs - mow lawn, or if raining, tidy garage Lions vs Tigers - bbq at neighbours hopefully with TV off

No, because Mahoney is hopeless. So is Richardson. So are all the people we are chasing as coaches, and all the people we are chasing as players. Our current coaching panel is hopeless. So is our playing list. Our management is hopeless, as is the board, as are our sponsors. Anyone who buys anything from our sponsors are hopeless. Our members are all hopeless. All our supporters are hopeless. Anyone who's ever attended an MFC match is hopeless. Let's see now ... the media who report on us are hopeless, and their TV shows, radio shows, and publications are by extension all hopeless. The organisations that own them are hopeless. The corporate/financial structure that enables this ownership is hopeless, and anyone or anything that opposes that structure is also hopeless. Anyone who comes into contact with any of the above bodies or individuals becomes automatically hopeless. It's all hopeless. The future is hopeless. The trains stopping at Jolimont Station are hopeless. The trams on Wellington Parade and Swan St are hopeless. Sport in general is hopeless. Life in Victoria is hopeless. All because of the MFC! I hope you're happy, MFC. You've got a lot to answer for.

Yes! How about we don't just cash in (and spend the dough), but have ongoing revenue stream from this.

Banana liqueur was the official drink of our 2019 season. Makes you want to throw.

This is exactly why we were found "not guilty" of tanking and fined anyway. Because the AFL knew that to find us "guilty" of tanking was to bring in the gaming and licencing mob and that spelt DANGER. Big bikkies. That they went after us and not the architects of the blueprint of tanking (Carlton) was an outrage. The whole thing was a disgrace and the AFL are a complicit party. But fer chrissake ... the Hun going after us after all these years ... the same mob who wrote the defence brief for the Essendon drug thing?? Makes you want to give up on the AFL altogether.

Fanatique, what you're saying rings true. And only possible because of buy-in from all parties who then live out the agreed behaviours. Harvard Business Review contains many articles over the years about genuine positive cultural change because of buy-in from staff. But most "mission statements" are a hollow mockery of the behaviour you are describing. I have worked at places, and been to many more, where the "mission statement" is literally a buzzword bingo brass plaque on the wall that is a curio paid no attention to by anyone, including the "bosses", and not executed in mind or deed. Because the "bosses" thought a "mission statement" would be cool thing to do (more or less to keep up with the Joneses) and paid it little more thought than to engage consultants to dream up some fancy wording. For those businesses, a poster on the wall of dogs playing poker would be an equally meaningful statement of corporate values, and would cost less. I would suggest this -- hollow mission statements -- is a common experience in Oz, and hence the widespread scepticism of mission statements, which I share. (Good corporate values are lived and do not require a plaque on a wall or buzzword bingo.)

No gifted games! I thought we got over this once the Bailey/Neeld days were gone. If he gets his 300 he has to earn them on merit with solid performances and not because he's been around so long no one dares go against him. The inmates do not run the asylum.

Per stubby: glass: $0.28 beverage, 375ml; $0.12 packaging: $0.15 shipping: $0.20 licensing fee to AFL: $3.40 profit: $0.125

Gil sees your "far removed" and raises you RECORD ATTENDANCES

"420 words in the 'unbelievably unacceptably abhorrent' newspaper review! More than any other club! Priceless publicity. Let's double down for next year!"

Longer, less cynical answer: We have a natural desire for certainty And a belief that the machines cannot be wrong So we introduce technology to sport, to get more certainty than the human error that we understand, can grapple with, but do not accept If we are going to do it, we should get the most accurate machines possible and then pronounce that we will accept the machine prediction, no argument, for better or worse. (All the while understanding that the prediction is an estimation and not an established fact.) That's cricket DRS. That's tennis hawkeye. Or we get sh*tty technology and muddy the waters and get less certainty and more angst. That's the AFL review system

If you mean they've gone loony, your are probably spot on

Because computer says yes. We've outsourced our humanity to machines

The "hawkeye" thing that projects where the ball will go is WRONG It is a guess and is not accurate There was one dismissal some time ago where a bloke was bowled. Then they played the "hawkeye" thing and it showed the ball missing the stumps! Don't put too much faith in hawkeye. That's why the "half a ball thing" is there. In reality the margin of error is probably more than a whole ball.

I think Williams might be good but remember, a loose cannon has a way of going off in your face. Neeld was also the "hard man going to straighten out the softc**k MFC list. Turned out to be a caricature of a hard man. A gentle reminder that, while Sheedy might have been better than Bailey, at that time he was firmly in his Martian phase. He might have been better than Bailey and he might have been worse. This is 20/20 hindsight at its very finest. We are where we are, and there's no way now but forward. Rehashing what might have been is best done while crying over a half empty bottle of Scotch. GO DEMONS!!!!!

This is good news. All we have to do is show up each year, and eventually, by the law of averages, we're finalists!

They're our bunnies

Fine, but the referral system was invented to gives sides cover from bad umpiring decisions. We blew our last one on a highly dubious LB. Bad cricket. Don't be so sure, the AFL have already contacted him and asked if he wants to switch codes

What's the "opposite side"? Everyone wants the Demons to do well.

If ever there was a pic to sum up grand final day every year ...

THE QUESTION THE ANSWER Poor ANB. The only way the bloke can defend himself is to get in the right position sometimes, win at least some 50/50 contests, and kick straight when under no pressure. If only he could do those things.

DID YOU TELL THE MATCH COMMITTEE????

So you're the curse!

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The boys already get free coffees at his bar, what more should they expect?