Mazer Rackham

Important win. Firing on one cylinder in the first half. Got into third gear in the second and that was enough. Six big ones in a row took the wind out of their sails. Their only chance was to drag us down to their level. Double teaming, scragging, holding off the ball, etc. Although when they had the ball, their level didn't look too bad. Playing in front. Quick ball movement. We didn't help by playing lazy football. But it was one of those days where every odd bounce fell into their laps, odd umpiring decisions went their way, etc. Every dog has his day and North nearly had theirs. But the dam had to burst and it did. Very important win for self belief. The hurdles keep coming and we keep clearing them. GO DEMONS!!!

You look after the knighthoods and I'll look after the maths

Yes No Our percentage going into this game was 150.7. If our percentage for this one game is higher than that, our overall percentage goes up. Otherwise it goes down. Our one-game percentage today is 141. So our overall percentage goes down.

Well, we were looking for a percentage boosting win, and we go it. North went from 45.9 to 49.2

No, that was the MCG yesterday

I thought as much. The monks back in those days swore a lot more than that.

This would be a hell of an upset and the only game I can think of as a comparison is us vs EFC in 2012 .... the drug year. They were on top, we'd lost 9 in a row, and we knocked them over 8.10 to 6.16. Shocking conditions and we dragged them down to our level, and forced them to play as horribly as us. Our experience at awful football gave us the edge! That's what North will try to do to us today. But it won't work. In the EFC game, that was the start of their run of losses and soft tissue injuries as their bodies couldn't keep up with the effect of the drugs. And ... 6.16. They should have knocked us off handily. GO DEMONS!!!

Is the the lead up to the joke that ends with "it's your turn in the barrel" ?

Jeff wanted to be a one club player and a MFC life member. Then he got a new manager, and within two weeks, he harboured a life long dream to play back in WA.

Keeper!

"The only thing worse than being talked about, is not being talked about" - Oscar Wilde: wit, poet, author, and probable Demons supporter It looked like MFC vs Freo in the Neeld years. Except the margin wasn't 60 points.

It's important that Collingwood win some games, and soon. So they give Buckley a contract extension, and to keep the attendance up at the QB game. After that they can lose as badly as they like.

Devastating message. Imagine being a Sun players and running out, all pumped up, and then they see that. The cheer quad meetings where they decide the message must be a hoot. "Let's put the wind up 'em. Give our boys a big avvantage. Put on it: last time we went alright against youse. Scare the [censored] outta 'em." "Yeah ... an' kin we put on sumthin' like ... we're gunna beat ya! But rhyming an' that. So the boys don't forget or nuthin'."

A Melbourne player is being compared favourably with a star of the modern game. This is good news in anyone's language and is a sign of our increasing relevancy. Who "wins" is secondary. Compare away, media!

Loud rock music is playing. An announcer can just be heard over it, saying: Welcome, ladies, gentlemen, and of course, not forgetting the kids, to Hamer Hall at the Arts Centre. We're going into half time and the black swan has totally ripped things up. The score at half time is black swan 1, white swan 0. Let's see if the white swan can fight back in the second half. Let's cross to Robbo now and see if any of our audience members can jeté over the giant Haymes Paint tin for a fabulous prize.

The expectant hush as the players take their positions. The growing roar of the crowd as the umpire moves in for the opening bounce. The explosion of barracking as the siren announces the start of play. All part of the game, and taken away from us by some [censored]ing idiots who don't love or understand any of this, and imagine we're all cretins who need constant stimulation. We can listen to ear splitting rock music any time. We can listen to second rate radio announcers any time. We don't come to the football for that.

I'm going to devil's advocate your devil's advocacy. It makes sense in the same way a circus has a bearded lady, clowns, and men putting their heads in a lion's mouth. That's the TV station's prerogative and if they want to do it, I'm not going to stop them. But nor am I going to watch the show. Robbo has some good points to counterpoint his obvious bad ones. But how many workplaces will tolerate someone so unprofessional as to repeatedly show up to work drunk?

And for a contrast, read our very own game day thread. The striking thing was the lack of doom gloom and wrist slashing that occurs if we're anything less than 8 goals to nothing at quarter time. This time there was a quiet confidence amongst our supporters that we were up against it, but by no means out of it. Someone clearly failed to make the usual sacrifice to the gods of MFCSS.

Dunno. No Pagans have won it. Plenty of heathens have. This could be the year for the Christians to set a new personal best.

Mean 0.2222, standard deviation 19.27. So values "should be" within 39 for and 38 against. Chances of 43 against, or worse, is a touch over 1%. So, suffer in your jocks, Tiges!

What would the Port supporters of the 70s and 80s have said if they could have looked into the future and seen a future join-up with the Melbourne Football Club? Talk about the odd couple. Before it was worked over and gentrified, there were pubs in Port where you didn't go in if you were wearing a suit.

The only hope the Roos have is to throw the kitchen sink at us and hope we do a Melbourne and seize up mentally. We will see out their initial onslaught, then put on the afterburners and that'll be it by 3/4 time. The only question is whether this game will be a percentage booster or not.

Just watched the Kossie vs Mansell thing again. I reckon it's great that Kossie has the mongrel to take it the Richmond guys. Also in that melee, Jackson at 19 years old wasn't scared to throw his weight around, and Rivers was in there too letting the Tiges players know what was what. The whole incident amounted to a statement by our club: just try to push us around. Find out how that goes. It won't be too long before oppo players think twice about getting in Kossie's face. He's not as big as uncle Byron but he's inherited some **** from him.

Round 12. The Lions are getting thrown to the Christians.

I accept this deal.