Everything posted by Fanatique Demon
- Watch AFL overseas
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Regular Training reports to resume in the new year.
And it’s definitely a thing.
- Watch AFL overseas
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QUIZ - Round 23 Last Two Minutes. Test your memory!
Like it was yesterday.
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QUIZ - Round 23 Last Two Minutes. Test your memory!
Ten only. But then I can’t remember much of anything these days. Unless it was 50 years ago.
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Tips for the 2021 MFC Best & Fairest tonight?
Anyone trying to watch the live stream? Just music now.
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"7000 Mile Kick" MFC's 1963 end of season trip
Thank you. Great to see some of my boyhood heroes.
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DeeWatch Podcast (The Melbourne Demons rewatch)
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.
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Gary Pert on Sportsday (2/12/21)
Just wondering if this event is going to be recorded for us poor fans who live overseas? Anyone know?
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Mac Andrew
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.
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Link Round Up: 2021 Premiership - Videos, Articles etc.
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.
- Link Round Up: 2021 Premiership - Videos, Articles etc.
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2021 random drafting thread on Demonland
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.)
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2021 random drafting thread on Demonland
Yawn
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We nailed the 1986 Draft...or did we?
My favourite 9 was Brian ‘Sticky Fingers’ Dixon.
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Here it is….
Yes, it’s been photoshopped so I Iook younger and much more handsome.
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Here it is….
I could strap it to my bike.
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Here it is….
It needs to do a Tour of France.
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The one thing remaining to improve
I might not be around then. Let’s make it 10.
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The one thing remaining to improve
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?
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The one thing remaining to improve
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.
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The Melbourne Cup
Doubt the owner is a Demons supporter, because name is spelled as though a Collingwood supporter was in charge of the crayon...
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Best Player to wear #31 since Ron Barassi.
Yes, in the 1964 GF, had he played, he’d have been wearing 15. He won the B&F wearing 31 in 1968, having switched from 15 in 1965.
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Best Player to wear #31 since Ron Barassi.
Recency bias? The GF is fresh in our memories and yes, Fritter had a great year. But are we forgetting that Ray Groom won the 1968 B&F? No mean feat. He’s the only 31 to do that since Barassi. Had he not been injured in 1964, he’d also be a Premiership player. I am old enough to remember him playing and he was a serious talent.
- It is time BT is pensioned off