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I suspect EO was using a bit of 'dry' humour.

gets lots of the pill though...

Thanks for that, but is there a given reason why they are adverse?

Why are they particularly adverse? Personally I am in two minds about it.

Did I see on this thread (which I now cannot find) some uber cool shoes for sale - were they new balance? or adidas? the gif rotated through the varying colours , and I was rather hammered at the time I looked at it. 🍺

Nah, just trying to find 'somewhere' to wedge in a $hite reference to his name from the run sheet.

Hall of Famer?

Does anyone who follow other sports and leagues around the world have another team where there is a similar scenario going on? Or are we here in the AFL (and I suspect we are) the only league whereby not all teams play each other twice, and/or multiple teams share one home ground as well as other ground inequities?

I thought the same with that statement!

Where the Dees Can Get Even Better. For those that are considering the ebook - but unsure of the writing style...

I just worked out it downloaded to the book thingy on my mac... you can control the font size so its down to 210 pages...anyway what I am enjoying about it is the conjecture early on about our structures and how they were to go for the rest of the season and the praise given to Goodwin for his tactical acumen. eg: Referencing the first match against The Dogs. “THE TACTIC NO ONE WILL TALK ABOUT This was a really sneaky little move by Simon Goodwin and his coaching crew, and I hope that someone highlights it as part of their TV reviews. If you’ve got the game recorded, you can do it, yourself. When the Dogs had the footy in their back half and were looking to switch it, I want you to concentrate on the Melbourne player given the responsibility to leave just enough space between him and the next defender in the line to tempt the switch. That player was Kysaiah Pickett, and with his closing speed, all it took was one slightly wayward kick to create a pressure situation out of what would normally be a standard two kicks across the defensive fifty to open up the game. Pickett managed to create a bit of havoc, forcing the next defender in the chain to kick hurriedly out of defence, often to a contest and rarely displaying any composure. The rest of the Demon forwards would press up to create congestion across half forward and the middle, leaving Pickett to work back and man the switch. Poor Taylor Duryea found himself up a particular creek[…]” “Teams will work out how to successfully bypass the Pickett pressure at half back, but it was something that troubled the Dogs greatly, and with Pickett causing mayhem the Demons down the line knew to play in front to mark the dump kick from the panicked defenders. A great move by Goodwin - bloody intelligent.” Excerpt From: Brett Meyers. “The Mongrel Punt: Melbourne Demons, Year in Review - 2021.” Apple Books.

The best $6 you'll spend on 410 pages of pretty darn good content. * I have no affiliation - HB Meyers and his crew are just fine writers and far more forensic than other more digestible content.

Very evocative and errrrm a bit of weird editing re: order of the final 3 goals of the 3rd.

Posting to username quite high on this thread.

Just to light a fire... what about James Sicily to our backline to free up Mr H Petty to roam forward in the TMAC role. A big clunker of marks. A reverse Frawley if you will....

It's probably Demonland Royalty... the question is... which poster?

I agree about Harmes and the gap between when he is being really effective vs ineffective on the field as quite large. The ruthless part of me is I would be satisfied if he was moved on, the sentimental part of me is very satisfied that a boyhood Melbourne supporter has won a premiership with the team he loved growing up and was able to extract enough from himself to be picked in the side for that premiership.

I would think he understands that everyone he is trying to replace is a premiership player and he isn't.

Imports... no themes were discerned. Happy to be corrected on this... 2011 - Geelong - 1 (Brad Ottens) 2012 - Sydney - 4 (M.Morton, S Mumford, M Mattner, R Shaw) 2013 - Hawthorn 5 (Lake, Gibson, Gunston, Guerra, Burgoyne) 2014 - Hawthorn 7 ((Lake, Gibson, Gunston, Hale, Burgoyne, Spangher, Mc Evoy) 2015 - Hawthorn 7 ((Frawley, Lake Gibson, Gunston, Hale, Burgoyne , Mc Evoy) 2016 - Bulldogs 3( Biggs, Boyd, Hamling) 2017 - Richmond 5 (Prestia, Houli, Nankervis, Grigg, Caddy) 2018- WCE - 5 (Redden, Yeo, Kennedy, Vardy, Jetta) 2019- Richmond 5 (Prestia, Houli, Nankervis, Lynch, Caddy) 2020 - Richmond 4 (Prestia, Houli, Nankervis, Lynch) 2021 - Demons 5 (May, Lever, Brown, Langdon, Hibberd)

Quick, forward that on to Goodwin, for the theme for the year 2022. I think that is brilliant Fork Em.

ok here's another one. Can anyone be bothered digging up stats on say over the last decade - what % of premiership winning teams each year are made up of (sorry for international jargon) - home grown talent vs imports?

I really appreciate the time and effort there. Thank you. That is actually quite astounding 14 out of the 18 are premiership players.

Yeah... but I don;'t really want to make it about that.

Has anyone got any data (or the time to create a list) on whom we drafted in the first two rounds from 2010-2015 and then 2016-2020? I just wanted to look at the ol nature vs nuture (drafting vs development) debate.

A fantastic piece of writing on the system that has now allowed all teams since 1995 (26 years) aside from the Gold Coast to fight it out at least once in a Grand Final. May A Thousand Blossoms Bloom