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By sheer coincidence you have just articulated the exact words of Gil McLachlan when appointing the match review officer to his job.

At Liverpool FC right now: "Lads, I've 'eard there's this Ozzy football cloob that's tekken our song. The Booldogs. Can you believe that, eh? Booldogs, an' they're not even British." "But cap. It's not our song. Every fooken sports cloob in the fooken wairld sings that song." "Well, yass, that's true. Ah suppose so. But let's --- oh, what the hell. They can fooken 'ave it. It's a daft song anyway. Now 'oos coomin' down the poob?" Aye." Aye." Aye." Aye." Aye." Aye." Aye." "Aye."

Liverpool better hope the Dogs don't get promoted to the premier league. It'll be on.

Great god. That flipping song still? Smash these fluckers, Demons.

They're a good side and may win. I think it's a blessing we didn't walk all over Carlton. This is an opportunity to really put the cat amongst the pigeons at Barkly St and potentially finish their season. GO DEMONS!!!

Enjoyed that. Credit to the presenter who was able to draw long considered answers out of the boys rather than yeah, nah, it was good, we're training hard, looking forward to the season, etc etc.

Going to be hard to get past Adelaide. Their defence is so much better than any other team's."

Thriller. Crikey. GO DEMONS!

Does anyone else think it's strange, that to get to the sheilas football on the AFL web site, you have to go over to their "everything else" menu on the far right, and then go down down down, past "Toyota AFL club help", "Licensing queries", "Contact us", and only right at the very bottom is "AFL Womens" ??

As long as you're not making the Dog watch it. That would be animal cruelty.

The definition of a slow news day. 4 Lions and 2 Dogs in the team. King must think the Lions are going to try to challenge us for the flag.

Bell is probably saying the exact same thing!

Well. That was enjoyable. Felt like running through a brick wall. GO DEMONS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It's a joke quote. Lincoln didn't invent the interweb for another 10 years..

Let them murmur it! Out loud even. Shout it to the heavens. Let it burn. While they're doing that, they can multitask and go [word that D'land censor won't allow] themselves. GO DEMONS!!!

That must just add to their hurt and distress! Football is hell! GO DEMONS!!!

No. Didn't feel it at the time either. Was frustrated but confident we'd wrest it back, like we did in r23. We'd been doing plenty of scoring, just between the wrong sticks. They'd thrown everything they had at us and had nothing left. Probably knew we had more in the tank and they had to be leading (and not by just a point or two) at 3/4 time. And by George, they nearly did. They only overlooked one thing: bang bang bang!

Ha ha! Collingwood have been planning their future forward line around King!

Congrats Nev. If there was anyone other than Nathan who I would wish to be in the 21 flag team, it's you.

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The aim of the "umpire abuse" thing is to stop the steady trickle (or torrent if you like) of disrespect to umpires lower down the food chain. The kids are going to copy what they see on TV. If a player is waving his arms and openly questioning the ump (think Selwood), that sets a bad example. If a player is clearly mouthing off at the ump (think Riewoldt), same. If a players if thumping an umpire (Greene), obviously that must be discouraged. But a player saying "have a look at the replay" ??? He's getting his message across without the optics. The spectators and home viewers don't know what the verbal exchange is, or even if there was one. I get that for this to work, the initial crackdown has to be hard. But not to the point of preciousness.

But .... but ... we CAN'T have professional umps because there are 2 or 3 who do it a a side gig from their main job of being high powered lawyers. If umps were full time, those 2 or 3 guys would be LOST TO THE GAME and so the game can't progress beyond amateurism. Somehow the amazing umpiring skills of those guys -- I mean, we can easily identify who they are, they're that outstanding --would be impossible to replace, even by full time professional umps. An AFL CEO could, potentially, see the bigger picture and not permit the game to be held to ransom by 2 or 3 guys who want to umpire part-time, or, he/she/it could do what they've done for years and wring their hands at the impossibility of it all.

"It's a fair cop" "You're right, it was too high" "Well, you're in the best position to see" "Good decision. I was thinking I'd run too far" That's like a foreign language to the players!

Alright, Collingwood have served a useful purpose. A weekend of firsts!

First to crack ton, highest ever score, highest ever winning margin, biggest quarter, Daisy most goals by a demon. GO DEMONS!!!!