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Yep., good to recover as we did but for all the Dees' spectators around me in the Northern Stand - balanced, reserved, experienced and mature people - the first Qtr umpiring was atrocious as North were "given" three highly questionable frees in front of goal, keeping them in the game at that early point. Brown is a stager of great skill and in the first order. He plays for frees all game. He gets frees, all game. This 'advantage' for North was a considerable low-light of the game and a very noticeable hurdle affecting the expected justice administration by umpires of the rules of the game. It persisted into the 2nd Qtr until there was limited credibility in any umpiring decisions left and at that point, the excesses of the umpires ceased, and the Dees came from well behind to stake their interest in proceedings. It reminds us all that at times, umpires regard themselves as pre-race weight handicappers to enhance the excitement of the moment and to even-up their perceived differentials between the combatants. Too often, the public perception is that umpires settle into '... Making correct calls... ' as payback for early indiscretions, costly exaggerations and blind-eyed favouritism.

Kent was just magic, aggressive for the ball, brave at the ball, penetrating and fast. Ripper game from him and surely an object of team play. I sat there watching him carve up the Kangas with team intent. It was worth the drive from Adelaide. Still stunned by the team efforts and the receivers of deserved plaudits. Liked Frosty's game as well.

Something good thinking about this...two bigger bodies. Pedo and Frost. Crunch. Time for some oldtime footy.

How do we stop Brown? If the above is not working by the start of the second quarter, hit him/her hard with the full body mass of Pedo or Frost, lower down at the legs. Accidentally, of course. Shame..

Absolutely, designed for a run-up like Hogan's ... and look what the rugby boys, with training, can do - sometimes phenomenal! I can just remember a few place kicks in the game and I cannot recall one of these being ineffective.

You ask the question and here's the answer: Jacobs runs into Tracca and gets hurt.

I'd reckon that after 2 matches of real practice and whole team training matched against an array of opponents, Melksham may well be one of several players who absolutely 'fire' this week against North. There will be blood on the table and broken Kanga hearts. It is time we turned the nasty corner, given that the umpires will also be against us. Let's stuff 'em up for 2018. Seeya at the game, folks.

Wonder if anyone can access film of Taylor's 40 metre sprint at the 'G behind the back of Rodney Grinter, hitting him unseen at full pace whilst grabbing Grinter around the throat with both arms to drop him rotten? Grinter merely absorbed Taylor's considerable mass and motion, bent forward whilst holding Taylor's 'locked in' arm around his throat, sending Taylor on a perfect parabola skywards, across the top of Grinter's head and down on his bum at Rodney's feet, with Rodney wagging his index finger in a 'no - no ' fashion advising Taylor not to do that again. I think that was the most embarrassing moment of all, of any footballer's career. Rodney was not a man to be fiddled with.

Great memories. I can remember watching Tilbrook with the Demons that day at VFL Park, Waverly. A short scrimmage at full back for the Dees on the Northern end of the ground, then another just feet away in the LHS Back Pocket, finding a running Tilbrook quite cleanly. He took a step more and launched that one from well short of the HB Flank, travelling diagonally across the centre of the ground and landing, not bouncing/rolling, in the Fwd Pocket just a metre or two in front of the point post. The ball travelling for at least five seconds, and the further it travelled, the more players on both sides just stopped moving to stare at this kick in silent awe. That was the greatest singular distance I have ever seen a football propelled - even including memorable TV Replays since then over the last 50 years. Breathing in the crowd resumed about a minute later... some commentators argued that it covered 99 metres, others just 92 metres. From where the kick was launched, not where Tilbrook ran to after and during the flight of that launch, I would think was more near the former distance, if not a metre or two further. Unfar king believeable! Only a Demon could do that!

Yep, thanks for the memories DC - Spencer was another great at the skill.He was a player that I did not see much of over the years, and I do not recall why. But I remember his kicking. Funny about you mentioning vfl rovers. Guess what 'position' I played? The stab pass was a mandatory skill for rovers, off both feet - but the lefties were preferred. Geez, footy was grand once, absolutely spiritual.

Strong wind and considerable umpire assistance, once again.

At this point of readiness, I tentatively agree. Hunt is struggling at present but this is short-term. Wagner is making real progress with the team, is agile and 'at the ball' with a physical presence, and kicks forward quite well to a man.

It did amaze those who had not used/seen/imagined the stab pass. Most people that I sent one to who had not received one before - fell over or were badly winded. Haha. Fed the full forwards, though. Sometimes at the very half-second of dispatch of a stab, you just knew it was another goal. Fastest conversion ever. I practised the stab for three years as a junior, and loved it. So did the coach. 30 metres dead straight, lighting fast, never reaching more than 6 feet off the ground up to 30-45 metres ... bring the bullet (7.92 mm) back! Imagine Petracca sending one in!!!

You poet laureate, you. Now all that's left is that kick against Collingwood, the Members' Terrace in the shade was falling down, With all the cheers from the snobs on the balcony - just two up, siren blown.....

Vagg, Jack Schuback from Sale FC taught me everything about footy...he was my uncle.

Don was another ripper and for stab passes, Hassa was sublime. Kent in every regard of onfield play reminds me of Hassa but does not drop kick - the modern game doesn't demand such skills excellence.

No milk today, my love has gone away, the bottle stands forlorn, a symbol of the dawn.

Anything for a Seaspray boy. Down the hill into Sale past Longford and into the Thompson River area before the swing bridge, turning off the engine, gearbox moved to neutral, saving fuel as we rolled down in the EK Holden. Practising drop kicks on the Oval at the MacArthur Street end through the goals from the 60 feet marker. Kinda made Tues and Thurs nights special....and a few at the Criterion not long after.

Tend to agree with this, even though it was posted years ago, Vagg. Danny was a great drop kicker, too right, and effective, as well. For those of us in earlier days who could left foot drop kick without error - and usually on the run as a 30-45 m stab pass - it was a telling kick that was very easy for a teammate to mark and utilise. Something about its spin and straight line flight; seldom was it intercepted, once delivered. I can remember Tassy Johnson kicking out from a point score to well past the centre of the ground into the fwd line, with a beautifully executed drop kick - time after time after time. He never fluffed it. But there is one thing I cannot judge: correct me if I am wrong but didn't the drop kick usually travel further than the torp with the drop punt coming in third for distance - even in the hands of a genuinely great kick (Tilbrook, Quinlan and McKenna excluded)?

Another AFL exposure against the morally astute?

Possibly the best strategy mentioned so far, combined with our mids cutting off the Norf Melbum feeders upon whom Brown and Co tend to depend. The talls will be the battlements; the mids will be the archers. The backline will be the cavalry sweeping up and clearing.

Common request but we shall donate patience, once again.

Hope he is on the mend for good. Seems (as previously thought) to be a gun clearance operator with good vision ahead and accurate kick to a teammate. That footpassing in just great.

That's productive thought and somewhat of a gross assumption. Inaccurate, too. Brainless post, once again. Congratulations....

Oliver is playing so well against state-of-the-art opponents that he is in league with Robbie, with Schwarter, with Brian Wilson. There is no end, it seems, to this growth - he already takes two opponents himself from the opposition.