Fanatique Demon

11 hours ago, Grr-owl said:

I'll message you if we find a good deal on movers.....

Likewise.  That’d be great. Where are you moving from?

Amazing effort, Werridee. Thanks. 

On 12/23/2021 at 2:36 PM, Grr-owl said:

am returning to Aus in August 2022

Hey, Grr-owl…. That’s when we’re expecting to return. We might have to navigate a lot of stuff around that time. Phone plans, electricity suppliers, furnishings, etc. But the daunting thing is the move and the crazy costs associated with it. Bonne chance, ami. 

Received my voucher for 2022. I can confirm that the subscription covers past seasons’ games from 2017.

On 12/21/2021 at 3:45 PM, Jjrogan said:

over because you cant watch games from previous years.

Not so for my membership. I have been able to watch the previous two or three seasons. I haven’t updated the login for 2022 yet, but I expect the same to apply.

22 minutes ago, WalkingCivilWar said:

But Cassie, remember that if not for cricket footy wouldn’t be a thing. 

And it’s definitely a thing.

That’s how I watch all the games. It’s brilliant (unless you download and watch off-line, when the resolution is poor). You’ll get access to all of the games from recent seasons. And all the Fox Footy shows like On The Couch and AFL 360.

8 hours ago, Timothy Reddan-A'Blew said:

...which, in things MFC, would involve total recall of 'Diamond' Jim Tilbrook's debut, at (as a commentator noted) "$5 a kick"?

Like it was yesterday. 

Ten only.  But then I can’t remember much of anything these days. Unless it was 50 years ago.  

Anyone trying to watch the live stream? Just music now. 

Thank you. Great to see some of my boyhood heroes. 

I admire the idea and your effort, but I think you spent too much time chatting about irrelevant things. I gave up after 20 minutes when you hadn’t even started talking about the game.

Just wondering if this event is going to be recorded for us poor fans who live overseas? Anyone know?

1 hour ago, Mazer Rackham said:

I know! They'd be looking at the boys picked up by the PREMIERS and thinking, I wish that was me. I wish I was going to the DEMONS, the top team and PREMIERS. Some guys have all the luck.

Or might they be thinking that if drafted to Melbourne they would struggle to get a game? Whereas at GC or other cellar-dweller they could be a star next year.

What strikes me with these is how every player contributed to our great win. Not just the stars, but those with fewer possessions kept at it with a shepherd, a knock-on, a tackle, a block. Like TMac on the goal line, Kozzy’s protection of Trac. I can’t tell you how wonderful it feels to watch these highlights. I’ll be back tomorrow. 

Thank you. So much effort and so appreciated by us all. 

4 hours ago, Skuit said:

Vote and you can make it end FD  (also, vote me,  or I will send Dusty, Greene and de Goey 'round your house . . . and how embarrassing would that be, having three Aussie bogans in your small village chalet in the delicate French provinces elocuting like a murder of crows: faaark, faaark mate, yeah-nah but faaark hey)? 

Ok, I did. Now keep those bogans well away from my town in France.

(Actually I’m in Spain now, enjoying the sunshine. Went to Texas Hollywood - Fort Bravo today, where they shot many of the spaghetti westerns. Plenty of gumtrees here too.)
 

Yawn

My favourite 9 was Brian ‘Sticky Fingers’ Dixon. 

7 hours ago, leave it to deever said:

You look different to how I pictured you.

Yes, it’s been photoshopped so I Iook younger and much more handsome. 

I could strap it to my bike.

It needs to do a Tour of France. 

1 hour ago, Supreme_Demon said:

In 15 years time if we can have bragging rights over the vile scum at Essendon and Carlton with their 16 Premierships then I will certainly be very happy!

I might not be around then. Let’s make it 10.

42 minutes ago, deelusions from afar said:

I think you're getting a bit carried away. 

Not at all carried away. Great team, great players. The topic is about the one thing to improve. I’ve merely pointed out another. Yes, players make mistakes. I accept that. But we’d improve if they made fewer, don’t you think?

I don’t think that goal kicking accuracy is “the one thing remaining to improve”.

I've watched all the finals matches multiple times and I have started watching the season’s games from the beginning. I’m up to the Richmond game.

To me, it’s clear… We gave up too many goals to crumbing forwards when we dropped marks or spoiled in defence.  Despite Lever, May and Max marking well during the year, all three dropped too many marks (sometimes uncontested) and gave away goals. Additionally, when they spoiled in marking competitions, opposition small forwards pounced. I think the term is “ground ball gets”.

First, we need to hold those defensive marks. Second, we need better defending small backs for when the ball spills to ground within 20 metres of our opponents’ goal.

So yes, fix the goal kicking accuracy. But it’s not the ONE thing remaining to improve.