Rab D Nesbitt

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

It wouldn't surprise to find that JJ ends up in the same position he was in at the Dees but paying 10-20% more per month on his digs for the privilege.

I think Gawny now has his main res in East Malvern.

I wouldn't doubt it, but it looks a bit odd having deck chairs in a football ground. That said there's a big pirate ship in the Tampa Bay Buccaneers stadium.

They could find 8k just by getting rid of the deck chair area behind one end of the ground and the big LED screen on the wing behind the benches that shows neds betting ads on repeat.

As I understand it Ben the Gabba is starting to show it's age and as the main showpiece stadium in the state requires a refurb at the very least. If, as some on here have said, that 80% of the infrastructure required to host the event already exists it makes me wonder where the money is going? They don't even have the cost of bribing IOC officials this time around as nobody else put their hand up to host in 2032.

I'm not bothered what anyone's political views are. Particularly on an online football forum. I only replied to your post because 1. It's nearly 2024 and you're still going with the DD thing and 2. It might be more constructive to think about why whoever you vote for are currently unelectable.

Of course they do ET. Sometimes governments even follow through on them. It's a misconception though to think that DA is / was toxic though and the only people surprised at his election victories were the ones getting their information from their "News" Corp echo chamber. The Dictator Dan quip was lazy then and boring now. And I didn't even vote for the guy. Your patter on here is usually pretty good Ethan and the off season is a good time to try out some new material.