DemonDave

This was the team from Friday morning: SANDRINGHAM Backs Monaghan Biddlecombe Frawley Half backs C Liddell Warnock Paterakis Centreline Hughes Summers Martyn Half forwards Valenti Crowe T Johnston Forwards Gilchrist Sautner S Martin Followers Neaves M Johnston Poyas Interchange (from) Buckley Dean Garland Gribbin Neville McGettigan Wheatley Zarra

I think that is the single highlight of the year (along with Juice's towering mark) for me. He dashed forward earlier in the first quarter, frantically waving for the footy to be kicked to him, but I think it was Robbo didnt see him. As soon as he swooped on that half forward line, you knew it was his destiny to kick that goal. His celebrations showed what playing the game and representing the Dees meant to him, a true inspiration. Thanks for the memories, Brown Dog!

'Fonzie' Demetriou, never one to admit he's wrong. Good on Terry Walllace for his comments, which were of course typically turned around and made into criticism of Richmond by the Fonz.

And I'm assuming that Paul Wheatley was the stand-by emergency for Melbourne and thats the reason he didnt play on Saturday too?

Why oh why are Spurs continually shooting themselves in the foot when in likely match-winning situations? That 3-3 result was a disaster, you could've heard a pin drop amongst all the supporters in the pub when the equaliser went in. The big plus though is Gareth Bale, this kid can seriously play! Oh, and Chelsea conceding two against of all teams Villa has to be the season highlight so far!

Like 95% of left-footers, he's very 'one-sided'. This will be a problem, but most other left-footers tend to find ways around this shortcoming (have you ever seen Greg Tivendale kick right-footed? he runs angles that means he never has to even attempt his right foot). To Bode's credit, he did get one kick away on his non-preferred foot, however it did go straight to the Carlton backmen inside our attacking 50... I think he will be a good depth player next year, certainly nowhere near out best 22 but someone that we know can comfortably play at this level if need be....

I can't believe this is deemed worse than Schneider/Buchanan whichever one it was's bump from last week!

Zebras went down gallantly today by 2 points, just got back from a sun-drenched TBO. We were up at half time by 2 or 3 goals, but conceeded 10 to 3 in a disastrous 3rd quarter to be trailing by 30odd points at the last break . After a stirring speech by Mark Williams at the huddle, and inspired by a spectacular one-man show by Nick Sauntner the Zebs came back to hit the front, but were unable to hold on for the win. Which means we now play North Ballarat next week, who came from a mile down to beat the Bendigo Bummers. There werent too many shining lights for the Demons listed players, Garland was barely sighted, Neville would've had 2-3 touches, Warnock was just OK, Neaves had a heap of the footy but was wasteful at times, Hughes was lively and provided a good target all day across half forward and thats probably it.

Agreed he'll never be a first choice ruckman, the Swans learned the hard way when they realised after last year that he wasnt.Once Ball retired all his shortcomings were re-exposed. And we laugh all the way to the bank as we get to look forward to Lynden Dunne carve out a career for the next ten years, while Jolly will languish at Punt Road or Princess Park. We defintely did the right thing by trading him away for a first round pick. Who cares if someone is a Premiership player? Byron Pickett was a Premiership and Norm Smith medallist, Peter Vardy a premiership player, none of those players brought us success just because they were on our list.

But what about a bit of respect for his loyal deputy and Melbourne in holding back the secret until Monday? What difference will it make if he was in the coaches box this weekend for their game against a decimated Shockers side?....

To put it into persepective for the young 'uns, its like Simon Godfrey or Ryan Ferguson getting a senior coaching gig 15 years down the track, no offence to those two guys but thats about where Bailey was in Essendons pecking order back then in terms of skill and leadership...

Happy Birthday Jaded! Well lets hope now that Port get knocked out of the Finals early, so he can get into the club and begin to make his mark. Welcome to the club Dean. What now will the future hold for assistants Mark Riley, Peter Curran and Paul Williams?

Then what is he still playing for? He should've been booked into season-ending surgery at the time Yze, Whelan and co were. Carrying an injury is no excuse, we know Robbo and Neita are nowehere near fit but they are at least competing to a somewhat acceptable level.

The hitout count for the game was a whopping 53 to 15 in our favour. and yet once again we got smashed in the clearances, says it all really doesnt it. Oh, and Mark Jamar had a whopping 1 posessions for the game. Yes 1, and that was in the fourth quarter. Enjoy the finals series for Sandringham, Mark...

It was in the VFL record on the weekend and has been mentioned several times already here on demonland, check the other Sandringham related threads. Off the top of my head: Bizzell, Bode, Buckley, Dunne, Ferguson, Garland, Jamar, Newton, Pickett, And probably a few others as well…

Take another look at the Bulldogs game again from late in the year, and count the number of goals he had kicked on him. He had a Barry Crocker that night, and I seem to remember one or two other games at the 'G where it always seemed to be his opponent kicking the goals. Dont get me wrong however, I think he will be a good player in time. Our situation this year has forced us to throw him to the wolves a bit earlier than planned, methinks...

I cannot see that they will delist Brown, not after his form in the last 6 weeks. Yes, he can't kick and all that, but if they were to give a B&F for performance and consistency over just the last 6 weeks he would probably win it. I think its some of the younger, more highly rated players that need to take a good hard look at themselves before they can be assured of playing in the red and blue next year, something it seems some of them take for granted.

Pretty sure its 2:10 local which would make it 4:10 AEST. We're waaay too top heavy with ruckmen for the fast-track Subiaco ground. Still, the last time we played Freo there Nick Smith was our #2 ruckman.....

Has a team ever had not a single player play every game in the season? This has to be a new record low you'd think...

Well some of the blame for that has to be put on our much vaunted young gun midfield. We lag behind in clearances. There's simply not enough guyss that are smart enough to get first hands on the football.

Correction, he's 2 behind in 2nd: Rank Player Team Games Stat 1 Brendon Lade Port Adelaide 20 404 2 Jeff White Melbourne 20 402 3 Aaron SandilandsFremantle 15 399 4 Darren Jolly Sydney 20 395 5 Dean Cox West Coast 17 366 6 Hamish McIntosh Kangaroos 20 362 6 Peter Everitt Sydney 20 362 8 Benjamin Hudson Adelaide 19 341 9 Mark Blake Geelong 18 327 10 Jamie Charman Brisbane 17 314

I think people are forgetting that Jeff White leads all ruckmen for posessions around the ground this year, and unless I'm mistaken leade the league in hitouts? He's having a pretty decent year all things considered...

Come on you Spurs! A great win the other night to calm our anxietys about the poor start to the year. We still have so so many injuries, but hopefully can steady from here. Are all you Spurs fans on here members of Ozspurs, the Australian Spurs Supporters group? www.ozspurs.com I think Man Utd have a better team than Chelsea, emphasis on the word team, as Chelsea may have better players they're all just money-chasing individuals happy to take the dodgy oil-barons money till it runs out..then they'll all jump ship (Arjen Robben this morning looks like he's on his way to Real Madrid).. Having said that United have made it hard for themselves if they wanna win this years title.

Hmm, would our captain not count as a champion player?

Juice Newton, or should I say the original Juice Newton, Leigh is doubling up roles with his main gig as media manager to help out with the ruck coaching this year I believe, a 'cost saving excercise'....