Rab D Nesbitt

4 hours ago, whatwhat say what said:

when the pear offer him $m for 7 years let's see what happens

You could imagine the Crows trying to poach him as a [censored] for tat for Shane McAdam. 

Kade Chandler is from a town 300km further away than Harry Petty, seems equally close to his family yet isn't hankering to get back to his home state. 

I guess this started as an issue about body shaming in the AFLW but has ended up as a blanket policy covering the men's game too. As it's generally seen as impolite to ask a woman her age I wonder if that might be next on the agenda. 

2 minutes ago, leave it to deever said:

Madness were something different in their day. A quirky band with a fresh sound and fun lyrics.

Still going strong too deevs. Madstock in Finsbury Park was probably their high point. When the 100,000 crowd started jumping up and down it caused a 4.1 earthquake that set off seismic monitoring equipment at the Greenwich Observatory on the other side of the Thames. 

On 15/11/2023 at 20:00, leave it to deever said:

 

What are the best rock songs with some Saxophone in them?

I've got dibs on Baker Street.

Probably the kids don't even know this beautiful classic.

Not rock but ska deever. How about Night Boat To Cairo from the first Madness album One Step Beyond, released in 1979? Lee Thompson is their irrepressible saxophonist. 

4 hours ago, leave it to deever said:

Brian Wilson was one of my favorite players. Those other names were more than handy too.

Yup, he was a beauty. I think the only ex Roo we didn't get much value out of was Xavier Tanner. 

6 hours ago, leave it to deever said:

Yes. Quite Ironic.

Many believed that the return  of Barassi would herald a new dawn.

 

We actually weren't a bad side to watch in 82, 83 & 84. Steven Icke, Alan Jarrott and Brian Wilson were all good pick ups from North Melbourne and there was the million dollar deal to bring in Peter Moore and Kelvin Templeton, both who had grown up as Melbourne supporters, although the latter got injured pretty early on and never showed the form he had at Footscray. If not for the injury to KT and Gerard Healy following the big $$$ to Sydney we could have played finals in any of those years. 

28 minutes ago, picket fence said:

And is MAGNIFICENT! Robs English butchery in Dandenong I can mightily recommend for this and all meats English, Scottish, and Eire🤪

I don't eat much meat it has to be said PF but a slice or two of square sausage occasionally with a bit of HP sauce is lovely. There's also a wee butcher in Sunbury that does shell pies and haggis as does David Jones in the city. Go easy though if you're planning on being around for our next flag as you can feel your arteries furring up as you eat the stuff. 

On 14/12/2023 at 14:08, Pennant St Dee said:

Hellfire Dub ?

With a username like that where are you from 

Have you ever done the walk up to the Hellfire Club, PSD? I loved all of the stories about the place. I went up there once on a walk to Massy's Woods. 

On 13/12/2023 at 20:24, Redleg said:

Which part are you querying, where I live, that so many Caulfield homes sported our colours for the 21 GF, or that you are in the minority on your view on the Caulfield Racecourse, as our future training base.

If it’s the last point, simply go back and count up the fors and againsts in this thread and it is clear.

 

Since moving back here I've always worked in the Armadale / Malvern area and there are heaps of parked cars with Dees bumper stickers on them and still a few painted fences. There's even a white station wagon always parked near the intersection of Taronga & Wattletree Rd's that has MFC decals all over it. I think the council put up a big digital screen on High Street Armadale that flashed Go Dees on it during our '21 finals campaign too. 

2 hours ago, Fork 'em said:

Vaguely remember the head gear.
But I do remember booming torp goals while he was CHF which originally caught my attention as a kid.
I also remember back in the day when the players would run onto the field they'd boot half a dozen footys into the crowd at different points of the ground.
The cheer squad was always on the 2nd tear on the outer wing and of course at least one footy was sent up to us.
This day Smith come wandering toward us with his footy.
I turned around to enable him to see the #35 on my back.
He sent it on it's way and I was gearing up for a chest mark when a big kid in front of me took an overhead.
I was spewin'.

I remember saving up my pennies to get

Steven
  35
Smith

on my duffle coat which I had ironed on at the sport shop over the off season.
Round 1 he trots out in jumper#1.
Spewin' again .... I coulda saved about $6 as it was one less number and #1s we're cheaper than 3s & 5s.
Think it was about $15 all up.
A fortune.
Same price as KISS Alive II 😎

I also remember Leigh Matthews knocking him out with a round house king hit at Princess Park.
Smith was giving him a bath but we still had a monumental victory that day.
One of many false dawns I witnessed.
And I saw it Sandy and Bobby.
Right in front of me.
Should've got about 6weeks but didn't get reported. 
And didn't we give the blind goal umpire hell about it.
 

 

Those red & blue footballs had Exacto printed on them. I know because I snaffled one from where I used to sit right behind the goals at the city end where there were only two rows of seats and a lot of bare concrete behind it. I got the whole side to sign the footy in the rooms after training, back when that was at the G. 

I was so excited to get my first duffel coat. It was navy blue and my mum sewed red & blue 'piping' around all of the edges and I had it plastered with name tabs, badges and sew on patches from the little demon shop next to the old time clock at the Punt Road end of the ground. I had Mark 25 Jackson printed as the main number and Crackers 10 Keenan directly under that. This was right at the end of the 1982 season but before '83 came around Jacko had left for St Kilda and Crackers had retired. With a stanley knife blade I managed carve enough of Jacko's name & number off to get Dale 29 Dickson printed over it. 

As I remember it the cheer squad at the time had already moved to the members side of the ground next to the race and only used those seats on the Southern Stand flank when it rained heavily as they still had crepe paper floggers in those days. The family house was in Noble Park and I'd often see a couple of their members get on the train at Malvern (I think) with floggers to bring them to the ground. 

1 hour ago, Fork 'em said:

I once had an autograph from my then favourite player of the time that read ....

To Fork 'em.
Keep barracking hard.
Demons in '81.

Steven Smith.

Smudge! Do you remember when he had an illness a few years later and wore an old style bicycle helmet over what I guess was a toupe? One of a number of quality players at the dees that never got to grace the G in September. 

I seem to remember a game against Collingwood at Waverley where Ted, running back onto the ground from the bench totally cleaned up one of the opposition running past. I'm thinking it was the late 80's. 

All I remember about the game is that we got wind that their cheer squad were going to make two run throughs for the game (two big player milestones maybe?) so we made one enormous one that was way bigger than regulation size. Showing just the regulation size of it to the crowd before unrolling another 3-4 metres either side just as the boys ran down the race and before any jobsworth ground stewards could stop us raising it. Those were the days. 

1 hour ago, daisycutter said:

better than a chip butty, rab?

Absolutely daisy 👌

Like much of the bay Port Melbourne will be underwater in 20 years. The whole area will be re-marketed as the Atlantis Precinct and any new training facility would need to be build on floating pontoons. 

LOL. At least it wasn’t an announcement on the feasibility of opening a feasibility study. 
 

It could just as easily have been an announcement that the feasibility study into the MCG precinct has now ended with the outcome being that it’s unfeasible. 

Round 1 of 1981. Barassi’s first game as coach. Went to every game except the one in Sydney against Geelong. 

We won a single game that year. By 1 point when Robert Flower marked in the goal square deep into time on at the railway end of the Western Oval in round 3.
 

11 minutes ago, monoccular said:

RDN - that sounds rather like a haggis 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Nah. Both are as greasy AF but square sausage tastes much better. You can actually sense your arteries furring up as you eat it. 

A lot is said about the fact that we weren't a club born out of a suburb and have suffered membership wise as a result of this but reading this thread has me thinking that we may also have picked up a good chunk of our overseas arrivals simply due to being named after this great city of ours. Swings and roundabouts as they say. 

To think none of us would even have heard of the game before we got here. I certainly hadn't. My first experience being on a borrowed portable black & white tv watching highlights of North v Collingwood in the preliminary final of 1979 from our little unit at the Springvale Migrant Hostel. 

For the most part shows like A Current Affair and their ilk are a bunch of muck rakers but this is a terrible story. Poor Ted. I'm sure I read a little while ago that his brother John wasn't having a great life either. Virtually penniless and living in Adelaide. 

53 minutes ago, george_on_the_outer said:

Just spoke with one of the trading staff….Lorne

Mmmmm…lorne 😋

The Lorne sausage, also known as square sausageor slice, is a traditional Scottish food item made from minced meat, rusk and spices.^[1] Although termed a sausage, no casing is used to hold the meat in shape, hence it is usually served as square slices from a formed block. It is a common component of the traditional Scottish breakfast.

26 minutes ago, Timothy Reddan-A'Blew said:

Yep.

In which case, possibly as much about the longer contracts offered by others? Particularly Hawks and possibly Bombers? North is the curious one...

North is the curious one...

Free car? Someone a few doors down from mine has one. It has a big Kangaroos logo on the front door on both sides. 

Is this the first year that AFLW players can sign long term contracts? If so I wonder if there was a reluctance to offer them to any of the recent departures and whether that resulted in them moving on? 

As an immigrant it was the nickname / logo and club colours that drew me as well as the name of the city I'd moved to. Although we were in our royal blue period at the time and sucked big time as a team. 

23 minutes ago, Grr-owl said:

Even Gawn can't afford Malvern.... had to settle for Malvern the Lesser.

Had to settle for the 3145 postcode after taking unders on his last contract to help keep the band together.