Mazer Rackham

You never know, but it seems unlikely. However, Tommy could go the rest of his career without getting a single possession and he will still be remembered fondly for being one of the mighty crew who delivered a flag for this great club.

Dante the Cop sat in his saloon car watching the football club guys wandering in and out of the hotel like ants fighting over a seed. Dante hated football, ever since he was forced to play it back in school and was sat on his rear end multiple times by guys who looked like refrigerators with eyes, and were about as smart. His mouth felt like an old towel left out in the sun and he cursed for the hundredth time the dame from the night before who had lifted his wallet while he was trying to find out where her stocking seams ended. Goddamn football, and goddamn the tall slender stranger who had offered fifty a day, two hundred of it up front, plus expenses, to play nursemaid guarding a goddamn giant shiny beer mug.

In '08, the Cats kicked themselves out of it. Hawks were a bit lucky. They seized the chance put in front of them, but by crikey the Cats kicked badly. In '21, the premiers were clearly the best team all year.

Just keeping my hand in watching the first quarter and the third quarter again. I always laugh out loud as Oliver puts that third goal through. GO DEMONS!!

Lesser clubs make strange decisions. North offload a premiership full forward for instance. Ours is not to wonder why.

Possible, but we want boys who are prepared to work hard for it and not coast. The slackers can go to "the big 4" and other contemptible clubs.

I know! They'd be looking at the boys picked up by the PREMIERS and thinking, I wish that was me. I wish I was going to the DEMONS, the top team and PREMIERS. Some guys have all the luck.

Oh well, 'nuff said. What do such fair weather and clearly insensible barrackers deserve but scorn and defiance, slight regard, and contempt.

"just" ?? "JUST" ??? Do they barrack for St Kilda or Freo or something? "JUST" watching the replay isn't something you do to kill time. It's a rite of passage and vital to the well being of our entire society. "more to life than football". Oh, so they do barrack for St Kilda.

Non-premiership-winning coaches to experiment with old fashioned wingers who run up and down the flanks all day. Same coaches to experiment with new fangled ruckmen who are skilled enough to double as athletic ballhandling midfielders in the same contests in which they are beanpoles winning tapouts. Same coaches to try out players on their lists who are too tall to be small forwards and too short and light to be KPF, to find one who is fast on the lead, with good hands overhead and quick reflexes. Lists will be exhaustively turned over trying to find this player.

At the time. we were so terrible on the field and so disrespected off the field, it felt like the last roll of the dice for club. We were going down the plughole. Who can forget our pathetic struggles for sponsors, for instance? Roos and Jackson pulled us out of the vortex. If not for their efforts, we would now be half heartedly cheering on the Gold Coast Demons ("MFC" proudly on the back of the jumper) or huddling in small groups at Casey v Sandringham games recalling the glory of 1964.

Yes, we were brutally efficient. Glorious, it was. GO DEMONS!

I thought Belgium exists but is made up of two factions, the Frisians and the Wallopers, or something. And they can't stand each other. Like north and south Tasmania. Or if Collingwood and Richmond had to merge to form a club eligible for a new superleague.

Maybe on my birthday? But no, the AFL didn't even consider that, did they! Bloody Demetriou.

Do we have to simulate being nervous when Bont kicks a "more [censored] than class" to put them 19 points up? I expect to see lots of people getting a pass out to have a gasper on the concourse outside. I'm looking forward to the bit where everyone shouts out "bang bang bang" in unison. BANG BANG BANG! (I'm just practising.) This is going to be good. What does that fool know? It's already in AFL folklore as "that 10 minutes". Spoke to a Hawks fan yesterday. He was saying that was the most amazing few minutes of football he can remember seeing. God it feels good, not just winning the flag, but doing it in a fashion that will never be forgotten. And respected.

Bloody Sunday time slot again!! The AFL hate us! etc.

You don't want to hear how any Dutch is correctly pronounced. You'll feel like someone is expectorating all over you.

This is what goes on in the off season when we win a flag. Thank god for that. What would it be like if we hadn't? GO DEMONS!

Culture. Hogan shipped out. Watts shipped out. Sent a strong message. Both moves in the fullness of time proven to be sound. Not many clubs would have done either. GO DEMONS!

Destination club.

In South Africa, the English-speaking white people call the Afrikaaners "Dutchmen". Probably the same in Zimbabwe.

♪ The Polish Cake Shop girls, they really keep you on your toes But I can't wait to get back to Deutschland, back to the cutest girls that I know I wish they all could be Coburg-Saxon girls ♫ I wish they all could be Coburg-Saxon girls

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No room in this team for Robert Flauer, Jakob Steins, or Ronald Deil?

So we destroyed the Dogs AND BT. A fair day's work. Who knows what we could have achieved if the AFL hadn't stopped the game after 2 1/2 hours.