Deemented Are Go!

I hope they have the chicken mesh across the stage a la Blues Brothers!

Promise to buy my daughters inaugural memberships for 2019.

Thanks Chook, but erm, VFL?

Sorry if previously mentioned: So we’re in the Prelim against against the winner of who v who?

Welcome to the Multiple Parents club Daisy!

RedLegs.... On behalf of everyone here on Demonland - pleeeaaaasssseeee change your profile pic? Thanks in advance

Hey Drunkn, you got a score - I'm stranded at work!

I’m staggered this thread is up to 7 pages

Let me tell you a story. Last week, when I got home from the Sydney game, I had a most bittersweet moment. I’ve been teaching my 3.5 yo twin girls about footy and the Dees. They haven’t been to a match yet (wouldn’t last a quarter!), but I take them to watch the local Girls’ team and the Thirds play at our local EFL ground. They call out and point to anyone playing footy ‘look daddy there’s a demon!’. They know we like red and blue. They can pick out the Dees mascot in their toddler AFL book. The brainwashing is working. And they know about 75% of ‘grand old flag’. Anyway, when I was leaving the G last week in a [censored] rage, I made the obligatory text to my non-football-loving lady that I was on my way home. Without caring to check if we had won or not, she had a ‘grand old flag’ singalong with the girls queued up for when I walked through the door, complete with flags and scarves. I smiled , shook my head and said maybe we should save it for the next win. I’d gotten 2 new flags for the girls but left them bitterly in the boot of the car. Their smiling faces beneath their Dees beanies just ripped my bloody heart out; as much as the club had an hour earlier. It took every ounce of mindfulness to enjoy the moment for what it was, albeit gut wrenching. Today, the girls were obliviously playing elsewhere as I watched us forge a win to get us into finals for the first time in 12 years. A third of my lifetime. Once Kent kicked that goal, I got the flags from the boot of the car, put the girls beanies on and made them watch the dying minutes. We danced around the coffee table, waving flags, me choking back tears and the girls loudly singing ‘grand old flag’ on its 14th repeat. And they knew all the words. The future is bright, people. ❤️?

Chunky

Umps are lifting

GUS WTF??!!

Or maybe GG Allin?

Such a good pre-game song - nice one SWYL ??

Awesome. Nicholls umpiring. He can [censored] us up the ass by proxy ?

Go Woods. ugh, that hurt

Living vicariously through one’s offspring is a parent’s prerogative. Especially when it comes to Lego and brainwashing (I mean influencing) in regards to football. My girls favourite songs right now are ‘Happy Dog’ by Justine Clarke and ‘Grand Old Flag’.

No. This is completely normal. My kids are still on Duplo - can’t wait till they’re big and dexterous enough for real lego!

‘Things are never as good as you hoped, nor as bad as you feared’

Yuck

Yesssss! Go Casey!!!

I think I got in my jimmy jams and went nigh-nighs, dreaming of Jacko’s heroics!

Yep. Dad tried to make me do up my duffle coat over my Melbourne jumper. Probably more out of embarrassment or shame than anything!

Ha. Same here as a 10yo with my Filth supporting dad. He’d take me to Vic Park a lot, but to be fair he took me to Melbourne games too. I’d collect ‘cash-a-cans’ with random other kids whilst dodging the flying ciggie butts and bodily fluids. Climb the back of the scoreboard at half time while dad was at the bar. The others kids that day were all Pies and were giving me heAps early in the game. Then Jacko came back on, went berserk and made for a great day! I wasn’t very tough as a kid, but Jacko made me feel invincible as I gave it back to those kids. Unforgettable!

James says hi