Fanatique Demon

Good work, Deespic. I particularly like this description of Petty: doesn’t have the quick-thinking peripheral vision assessment ability. (It would be great if Champion Data could rate all forwards on this new measure.) Charlie Spargo would rate very highly, I think.

I don’t understand the system that takes our votes and turns them into this. Virtually any system would put Clarry out in front, but to the extent that he has 50 times the votes of May?

Off topic, I know… For all the talk of how brutal players were back in the good old days, players who threw a punch were suspended for weeks. In Ron’s case (where there was no clear evidence of a punch on Roger Dean) he got 4 weeks. These days that might be two weeks, down to one with an early guilty plea.

Except that Geelong won it in 1963. I think Hawthorn’s first premiership was in 61. Yes, Barassi was suspended in 63.

The team announced has players in their normal positions!!! (Probably means Fritter will be at CHB.)

Please, no!

31 is the perfect number on a Melbourne jumper. One for the ages (and the aged).

Not sure who this is.

Love it!

I’ll be undercover, no matter the weather.

I’ve been invited by a friend who is a North insider. He has stressed no opposition colours as we’ll be going into the North rooms. 🤐

Send who?

I’m much happier now, except I’m not sure if we should reverse the rucks with the interchange? But thanks.

I’m not outraged. I just think it’s stupid.

That line up is a joke. Only a few named were in their real positions.

Nice!

I guess that just means you didn’t fully read or understand my post. No one is denying that.

Demonland gives us all much pleasure and information, I can’t see why everyone doesn’t take up Life Membership.

Big Samson Brown?

You can deliberately spoil the ball over the line in a marking contest. Once the ball bounces, it can no longer be a marking contest. That’s the rule.

Yes, but what a stupid rule.

I agree with Swooper. Much as I loved JVR’s final quarter and especially his goals, he was all at sea the other dozen times the ball came his way.

I really like the bounce handball. And Hunter is really good at it. When the opposition is closing down the ball carrier, he can’t handball through him. So it’s over, under or around. Over is very risky because in getting it high enough, it takes so long to come back down that the recipient will get crunched. We used to call them “hospital handballs”, remember? Going around the opponent is often hampered by the boundary line on one side and other closing opponents on the other. Vive le handball de rebond. (Hey, @Demonstone I found the new name.)

Right. Otherwise, the stat for gathering an “underground handball” would be an “underground ball get”.

Hate to say it, but Pickett isn’t playing for the team.