Deemania since 56

Thanks, daisy, you've saved me a small fortune with such advice. A pie with sauce is expensive enough! Paid $10.80 for a single can at Adelaide Oval for the Crows game - craft beer? Absolute rubbish! Didn't even serve it in the can - gave me a plastic cup and it went flat in 30 seconds.

Fair go, Mazer - je ne parlez vous pas la Francais, tres bien.

Common thoughts, well expressed.

That's a shame, I was going to buy one - thought that it would be a great perspective from which to see the game.

It's enought to make you max out!

Any player is a realistic acquisition given the correct incentives, that need not be purely financial.

You betcha, correct, correct, correct. Aggression is the key up to a point, toughness is even more. My little post before this one was more of a joke or jest at creating friends with umpires who can/do interfere with our games to our detriment in the recent past. That is why I'd like to see our team full of bulls, hitt'em hard-types, no mercies or apologies, see ball-get ball and use it, knock the sheet outta 'em. Do it, move ahead, as you say.

Might be worthwhile - we need an extra real defender and he could be blooded to our game and intent.

Reality bites!

He's going to feel phatastique! AVB is going to hit hard with confidence.

Yes, last week Jeffy was very good with the taps and assists as well as scoring himself. With less familiar opposing backs around him, he will possibly lead them on a merry dance so our other fwds need to be attentive, ready and contributing either for his tap-on magic or his pressure moves, or his short passing, or when lining up a 6-pointer, clearing an avenue for that magic foot.

It is likely to rain a little - perhaps quite a good deal if Adelaide weather forecasts for today and Saturday are any guide - and for Sunday, too - so a shorter running team may have been a good selection,

Very probably correct - and win the favour of umpires. At the coin toss before the match starts, our Captain should hand out doughnuts and coffee to the umpires? Sweets? Tell them a stunning joke? Just be super polite?

I'd add Kent to that wildcard(s) list; and Pedo, of course (it's just me) in either the backline for strengthening or as a loose cannon in the fwd line played off the bench regularly in each game.

Crossy really has helped the MFC over the years ... I have dreams of Lewis and Crossy coaching after the current contract expires.

The fury of the ginger is now magnified by 200 per cent for 2019 season with Ginger Baker learning everything he can off Clarrie!

We can probabliy pick the Brownlow winner by the number of frees given across the year to a specific player from Collingwood, Geelong, Essendon, Hawthorn, Carlton and Adelaide. We, at DL, know it should go to either Gawn or Clarrie.....

Long overdue - it is and should be our fortress. It once was...

There is a reasonable comparison, there. Jones would make a great hbflanker - as mentioned, going in to get his own ball, spoiling, linking with run and handball, and passing when he plays with eyes up and is prepared not to bomb the football for distance. Run and carry, possession and retention gain more distance.

Team selection, strategic use of the bench, finding space well away from the communicable (convincible) umpires. That is the strength.

Exactly! From the darkness comes enlightenment - but it does take time. Lewis might seem to be the fire from which the candle flickers.

Well, Diamond, it is not easy to put a finger on it, precisely; there have been so many formative and progressive ideas and tenets across recorded thinking processes, and explanations, in the search for colour, light and movement. Some is progressive, some is regressive, some is mere cant, some is purely beaconesque. The young Florentine diplomat, Niccolo Machiavelli, appeals; I feel that he may have been greatly misjudged and he earned an inappropriate slathering of the darkest type due to his prolific efforts to penetrate the defensive field, albeit that he did achieve the tenets imposed by his father in his education and that of the class from which he inherited opportunity, and emerged, in the finest traditions of Renaissance humanism - albeit early in such chronicles. The period abounded with political measurement criteria, city-state identity and worth, and that of more traditional religious ideologies and intents. These 'dark' forces led our friend to consider the inate suitability for the emergence of social manipulation and cunning via the political leadership of those so aspiring - notably the Borgias (akin to the AFL leadership group) - in an attempt to secure and widen the latter's powers. It led, in general, to some very well-fortified examples of selective outcomes. All of this is a little dark, contaminated by an undercurrent of the great traditions of 'nobles oblige' as the French so often posited it, followed in turn by the English aristocracy. (ie: power classes have a responsibility towards the welfare and betterment of their alleged underlings). The parallels between these ideas and the selection of the MFC team lists this year can be extruded; it has been a battlefield of strong and weak forces acting in wilful, disarming ways (AFL and umpiring) against a torrent of favoured positional assumptions (eg: The Filth, Geelong, Essendrug) for the maintenance of distinct advantage across the environmental operations ($$$$$$..), whilst not actually creating a worthwhile and improving arena (the competition itself) for the betterment of us (alleged underlings) in the overall pursuit of the welfare of the masses (the conceptualisation of the game, itself).

No, but it is a handy utility when writing papers. My preferred reading is in particular scientific texts and reports, and the works of bespoke philosophers and historians on paths to rhyme, recant and reason. Illicit Fourteenth Century Italian commentaries are also worthy of some sustained perusal. And you?

At least Lever made the game as a spectator and has been welcomed by the Club to an annointed seat in the coaching box. Sadly for Tex, he cannot get into the Crows coaches' box because he doesn't understand the rapidity of the converseations so encountered and the Crows' Coach for all his shortcomings, cannot bear to see his Captain reading Donald Duck comics by the bagful when he should be watching the game! Saw something of such a description, yes, but it was quick and actually from a distance, it looked rather benign.

No, I do not; one seems to be reliant of verbal conversations with footballing interests from all walks of life and from these interactions, one is left to one's own devices for the agglutination of general, decently balanced perspectives and commentries given riddance of errant mindlessness. However, on DL, one does see an array of things from posters to which one is not particularly aligned yet on the other hand, one finds interesting and thoughtful missives of greater insight, depth and positing. Most of your earlier postings, for example, were of a better standard than your immediate attempt at drawing a rash conclusion from an unrelated discussion with another but never mind, you were not to know, this time.