Mazer Rackham

Fair suck of the sav. Tex made Robbo's top 50 list, so it's all square heading into 2022.

Hawks football dept: Are you, um ... sure this is going to work? Mitchell: Oh you blouses. I'm gunna be like that famous Melbourne coach ... real hardarse he was ... straightened out the joint like you've never seen. HFD: Who ... ? You don't mean Norm Smith? Mitchell: Nah, not him. It was ... now what's his name again? HFD: Barassi? But he-- Mitchell: Nah, it was something else ... like "crouched" or "kneeled" or something like that. HFD: OH [censored] WHAT HAVE WE DONE

That would be Willium from the one where they were ancient Britons invaded by Rome and ended up at the Colosseum. from "The Silent Bugler": Seagoon: Wait a minute. How do I know you're not enemy agents. I want proof of your identities. Bloodnok: Very well, my card, sir, Major D. Bloodnok. Seagoon: My card. Captain Harry Seagoon. Eccles: Here's my card. Bloodnok: The two of clubs!

Is that the artwork or the certificate of authenticity?

A classic!

Yeah, no pulling strings. Let them [censored] it up all by themselves.

Put it straight back into the rotation. The longer it's semi-retired, the more pressure it puts on the next holder to "live up to the number 2". No-one who saw Robbie or Nathan will forget its significance, no matter who ends up with it.

You're making this seem like a bad thing.

You can see the advertising hording spell out the following: "Turns out I accidentally put a curse on you guys. Sorry! Hang on, BRB"

Oh, hell. What a blow. Such a nice club too. The family club! I was wondering how this post season could get any better. Thank you! But you won't be upset if the rest of us do? Like, don't spoil the fun.

I thought Collingwood have the record? Dazza Bashem-Uppe Gazza Schopp-Lyftre Wozza Missen-Link Dazza Thugge-Thugge And are about to break their own record with the drafting of a junior they've identified in their academy: Eeza Liddle-Schitt

He went off to Suffragette City with Major Tom and the Thin White Duke, where they were heroes, just for one day.

Trying hard ........... nope. Not feeling it. In our drought, I never got an ounce of anything from other supporters but contempt, or pity bordering on contempt. Saints & all others can go jump. This is why there is no such thing as a "premiership window" or a "premiership clock". You're either good enough to win it in any given year, or you're not. Last year's performance means diddly this year. And this year's means diddly for next year's.

Just watched the extended highlights of the second half to the Cometti/MMM commentary. Damn, it was good watching our boys in red and blue running around IN A GRAND FINAL, and crushing the life out of the opposition IN A GRAND FINAL and WINNING A PREMIERSHIP. They really did it. Can recommend following the mighty DEMONS. GO DEMONS!!

A certain celebrated TV host, radio announcer, foot-in-mouth hall of fame candidate, and headkicker, who was frequently on the warpath to AFL house and had the head honchos trembling every time. He is no longer in a position of influence, so it will be very interesting to see how many times the mitey Pies have to go to Perth, Tassie, Geelong, or the G in the Sunday graveyard shift.

"Luke, could you spare the old man another million? I wanna buy another couple of Lamborghinis. Good lad." My actual daughter is vaguely aware of a sport known as football and has been informed by her mother that Dad is quite pleased about it, because his team the ... the whatever they are ... won something recently.

If you had to sum up his almighty football brain in one incident, that would do it nicely. We're blessed to have both him and May in the team. Take one out and we probably wouldn't have made it. Take both out and we definitely wouldn't.

The dilemma for the Cats is whether to keep their chip-and-possession game, rack up the wins at Kardinia, and get walloped in finals again. Or change to a more bruising finals-ready style and have their senior citizens beaten up every week, then get walloped in the finals.

Very apt. The Cat's season was like a souffle gone wrong.

"Luke, let me introduce you to this nice girl who's a stunner, who lives in South Yarra, right near Gosch's, and whose family all live near Casey fields, and who has no intention of moving anywhere else in Australia, ever."

First a confession. I enjoy watching "those 3 goals" over and over. For a treat I will watch "that 10 minutes" and sometimes the whole 3rd quarter, with the 4th for dessert. I haven't watched the entire match yet, I gather from other comments that the Dogs had a purple patch somewhere along the line and I'm not interested in that. And although my habit is never to watch with the sound on, I have enjoyed watching along with different commentaries, such as Cometti's. And for an extra touch of small-mindedness, I read "match day threads" of other clubs' supporters, and enjoy it all over again as the shock and awe of it unfolds. The Cats fans are left thinking they're a lot further off it that they suspected. Port fans extremely [censored] off that the team that thrashed them, got thrashed. (Sack Hinkley!!) The Dogs fans are so traumatised they're resurrected their equivalent thread to this very one from 2016! The other clubs are thinking that was great to watch, but how the hell are we going to counter that!? God, it's good to be premiers! Now on to this accusation of "most hard core celebrant". Well, someone has to be. Surely Civil is a worthy title holder? Although I suspect there must be a few around who are still drinking and haven't even got to the hungover stage yet.

One thing I've noticed about Brayshaw's calling is that he has, over time, made an obvious effort to call the game more like a soccer commentator. Not radio-style or horse-racing style where every act, every possession is described even though we can see it ourselves. Just calling players' names and keeping a flow going in accord with the state of the game. And he summed it up right there. Bang bang bang is what happened, and that quickly. (TKO to the Demons!) I've been listening to the various radio calls and they were all wowed by what they saw, but Brayshaw really got the essence of the moment.

Yes, it's a strange phenomenon, that supporters of "top" teams are expert football analysts and tipsters, and those of "bottom" teams know next to nothing. Massive brain drain from Richmond & WCE during the 2021 season!

We really did it. We actually did it.

Doesn't that look good!! Lucky 13.