Rodney (Balls) Grinter

I think Jones is in a situation more similar to Shane Crawford than the other ex Hawks players you mentioned. I don't think anyone would be complaining if Nathan Jones career ends in a similar fashion to Crawford's.

Hate the suspension. Love the reaction from May to the press after the tribunal hearing. Total proffesional and great leader.

Absolutely, it's not like May actually lined him up or deviated to hit him. Bloody Lions player has a duty of care to him self to watch the F where he is running.

"In your first year playing at AFL, you will introduce your first born prematurely. Driving to and from hospitals and training for over a month, until you can take her home to the ‘granny flat’ of your in-laws house, will be exhausting." Not the cushy ride that some over privileged playboy type draftees get. Respect.

Seems like the media are already linking Andrew's performances to the red and blue. https://www.foxsports.com.au/afl/its-only-preseason-but-what-we-learned-from-week-2-of-the-2019-jlt-community-series/news-story/b7df1570aa7410db51786f71be2f9b9c The Demons on the other hand lost a number of players to injury in the clash, including versatile James Harmes who was sent to hospital with a finger injury. Clayton Oliver was again dominant, suggesting he is in prime condition ahead of Melbourne’s first match. Andrew Brayshaw (26 disposals and 11 tackles) and Aaron vandenBerg (18 disposals and 16 tackles) also impressed around the contest.

Lucky it isn't such a binary propersition. 22 players in the match day team and they all can play a role of some kind. For so long we were crying out for good ball users and Salem has that attribute in spades - so does Clarry, but as much of a freak that he is, Oliver can't actually be in all positions on the feild at once.

The Bulldogs comparison is pretty tenuous. If you look back to the 90s and early 2000s era, we always had heaps more supporters than them, so should have a much bigger base from which to build.

Not completely dismissing the one fairly good year that he had in his Brownlow yeah, comparing to Woewodin is a pretty low bar. Todd Viney was an absolute bull of a midfeilder over his career and there are plenty of others during that era that make a better benchmark than Woewodin.

Exactly. Whilst it could be argued that it is in the players best interests due to higher risk factors (lots of spare cash, high pressures of high performace sport, constantly being in the public eye etc), I pepetually get sick of the double standards and higher burdens of being model citizens put on AFL players. Please tell me what other industry has a policy of mandatory testing and in particular 'naming and shaming' of it's employees for elicit drugs? If the AFL and those in the media keep pushing for the removal of the two stikes policy I think it could have two likely consequences: 1. The AFLPA tell them to stick the elicit drugs testing policy up their date all together; 2. Players whom are so inclined will stick to elicit drugs which become undetectable in the shorter time frames, which could be some of the more dangerous drugs; I actually like where Dane Sawn is going with his veiws on this: https://www.foxsports.com.au/afl/everyone-in-the-afl-should-be-tested-dane-swans-radical-plan-to-expand-footys-drugs-policy/news-story/236650c1fffdf96f77acc27aa4f01cfd

I recon it also had a fair bit to do with this crap game style that so many teams have adopted of putting every player into the 50m arc, choking up the ground to the max and double/tripple teaming key forwards. Not enough clean one on one footy these days to allow many contested marks. Hopefully 6-6-6 (the Demonic rule) provides a bit more space and opportunity for Tommy, Joel Smith, Weid, Trac, Hannan and Max/Preuss (the Greuss) to dominate our forward 50 this year, whilst Maysy, Frosty, Hibbo, Jetta, Freitch and Oscar can limit our oppositions opertunities and totally control our back 50 this year.

I think the Weid is a much more conventional and well rounded footballer than Cox. Whilst I must admit, I haven't see that much of Cox, he seems a bit one dimensional to me - a big tall guy who take marks and can play in the ruck, though if he can do those things well enough, he has few rivals that can match his physical advantages. His goal kicking is pretty reliable and I'm pretty impressed with how the guy has been able to make it at the top level of a sport so completely foreign to him. Like you say, it will be interesting to see if he can maintain his form moving forward and how the opposition might combat that. In this respect, whilst I know we recruited Pruess with the intention of playing him as a ruck/forward, I wounder if playing him back on Cox would be the way to go as from all reports Pruess has incredible strength and when combined with his height, he might be a good option to nullify Cox if he posed a threat to us we needed to contain.

BTW I do like the look of what the Weid is becomes, just don't want to count any chickens. The thought of Tommy, Sammy and big Pruess imposing themselves in our forward line is very mouth watering though.

Hogan is/was a sensational ball handler off the deck

Sorry, but I'm joining @wrecka45 on crashing the Weid love-in. Weid has presented a credible target and for 4 or 5 games in a good side playing great footy at the perfect time in big games. Jesse provided a good target and proven goal kicker over 4 seasons in a team which was absolute poo in his first season. Not comparing apples with apples. Jessy is a positive outlier in terms of his early development, Weid has followed the more typical path of a key forward. I'm not anwhere near as interested in their performance for the MFC to date as what I am in their performance going forward. Go Demons and go the Weid, bring us a flag, that's all I really care about in this debate.

I do like what we have so far in the 2021 and beyond columns.

Chaos for oppo backs, predictable laces out delivery to advantage for our forwards. Awesome to have Jake commit long term to our Demons. Should see him into father son territory for his new arrival to qualify down the track as well.

In the classic words of Jerry McGuire: "SHOW ME THE MONEY"

That's ok, let him fly under the radar a bit so we don't need to pay overs with draft pick points etc when we bit for him. Maybe he could play for that mob at Tambellup for a bit - I heard there was a pretty good player from there once!

As I've stated before, getting this done before Rd 1 will help provide stability to our season. I guess once all the actual substance is sorted out and Goody has effectively signed on the bottom line, then the next consideration might be when to announce it to generate maximum publicity for our membership/sponsorship drives etc. We seem to be somewhat media darlings at present and need to milk that for all that it's worth whilst it lasts.

Need to get brother Andrew into a Demons kit sooner rather than later, their poor mum looks confused with all those scarfs on and none of them a MFC one ? All is forgiven: ‘Very fit’ Brayshaw pumped for 2019 https://www.foxsports.com.au/afl/afl-2019-preseason-no-animosity-towards-andrew-gaff-says-mark-brayshaw/news-story/29f8904833d17e9ca00dc78aa1005ca5

I know of the daily plannet, but not as far as knowing what street it is on! A mate of mine did use to live in a street in the Croydon area which is "The Nook" - there is a brothel on that street too.

It would be a bit of a marketing fail to open a brothel in the area wouldn't it. ...or conversely is that how the area got it's name originally. Along similar lines, there is the locally based business 'Cockburn Cement' - an early version of viagra for when you've had a big night on the nest, but just need to keep powering on! ...perhaps?

As much as I don't hold anything like the same sort of grudge agains Hoges as I do against that little [censored] $cully, I really do hope we smash Freo this game and send a strong message to Hoges for the sake of any others that might want to jump ship. I'd prefer no uncalled for boooing (though I'm sure there will be some), but just for the MFC to turn up and put on a display of force that Jesse will remember and make him think about what he has walked away from over on the East Coast. ...and at the end of the game when Steve May shakes Jesse's hand, he won't just be saying thanks for the game, he will be saying thanks for this opportunity.

Still on ADSL. For the most part it serves our needs ...on a $40 per month plan if I recall correctly. I'm not really that keen on paying any more for Internet if we don't really need the extra bandwidth/speed.

I honestly can't understand why with all the competition from Internet TV streaming services Foxtel prices haven't come down to better compete with them. I hate the infated Foxtel prices, but our internet service isn't that great, thus I like my footy viewing to be independent of something which sometimes either gets choked up with bandwidth or goes on the blink randomly or when it rains or something. We are only on a pretty cheap internet service and could probably get better by paying a few more bucks, but that becomes a bit self defeating. How/why haven't Foxtel dropped their prices a bit more? Is it the price of satellite access or something? Just curious.