Fanatique Demon

19. CLAYTON OLIVER This natural ball-hunter is going to be well inside the top-10 by career’s end. Oliver’s hands and vision in traffic are superb, even if he is still learning to balance his game. Was All-Australian in his third year and has two club champion trophies already. Averaged 28 disposals across his first 83 games and led the league in contested possessions last year. Huh? If this about about players from 1987 to 2020, how is Oliver going to be "well inside the top-10 by career's end"? He has only the remaining games this year to climb 9 places? Unless we're talking about players who played in this era, but taking into account their output over their entire careers. In which case, Flower would be number 1 because he played in 1987, although his best years were prior to that.

The great Sean Wight was Scottish, not Irish.

Would be better for spectators. I think a new AFL would have fewer teams in Melbourne. Maybe just 6. The strong clubs like Collingwood, Richmond, Hawthorn and Essendon might be the first four, then the other clubs would have to merge or start from scratch to form the last two. Much and all as I love the history of the Melbourne Football Club, in a clean sheet future, all it has going for it is its name.

In the workshops I run for businesses, I sometimes pose this question: "If you had to close your business today and create a new one tomorrow, what would you do differently?" The idea is to get management to realise that just because something is "there", doesn't mean it should be and that there will always be new and (often) better ways if we just relax the status quo and start with a clean sheet. Such an approach may have been the thinking behind the differences that World Series Cricket brought to that game. So, if we had to close the AFL and create a whole new competition, what would be different? What could we do better? I am interested to hear what members think what "World Series Football" would be like. Consider rules, number of clubs, finals, grounds, administration... everything is up for grabs.

Rance is included?!

Tony Anderson? Not obscure at all. When I was a kid, #11 was one of my favourites. A premiership player in '64. If that's really you, Tony, cheers from an old fan.

Thanks for that effort, demonstone.

Remember Sid Catlin? This is from Demonwiki... Catlin started 1966 in the Fourths but by Round 14 he was coming off the bench in the last quarter at the MCG as the second youngest known MFC Player at 16 years, 218 days old on debut After winning five kicks in the last five minutes of his debut Catlin was promoted to first rover for his second and kicked 1.8. He played just one more game for the year and missed all of 1967 after suffering a knee injury in an early season reserves match before returning for a solitary game in 1968. He was again troubled by injury that year. In 1969 Catlin followed Norm Smith to South Melbourne and played fifteen games over two seasons. In 1970 he finished third in the Gardiner Medal for best player in the Reserves competition but left the Swans at the end of the year. Year Games Goals Brownlow 1966 3 1 2 1968 1 0

Does anyone have knowledge of our current list's nicknames?

Thanks for posting the '87 game, Macca. What an effort by the Demons over North. Their pressure, pace, skills were all fantastic. The 2020 team should be made to watch that game. Hard to see any of our current line-up fitting into the '87 team that played that day. Sad but true.

Sad that it's difficult to find many in the last 20 years that would slot straight in. Maybe Nietz, but I think Max still needs a few more good seasons to qualify.

Thanks for posting this.

Hore? Miles off being an AFL player and is unlikely to improve much more. Better to blood Rivers and invest for 2021 and 22.

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Can't understand whil Gil/AFL made the season suspension statement before this game was played. It probably wouldn't have changed the result, but it seems weird to me.

Not going to list the many ways this virus is affecting me and my family, nor going to make any political comments. However, I am grateful to have a comfortable home, enough to eat and some footy to watch. Most generations have suffered far more than mine. Time to act as a real community, starting right here.

Can't access this HS article.

Could be, DC. To distinguish between school clubs, then the word would be independent, not professional

Surely the word "professional" isn't part of our claim to fame. No way it was a professional club from its beginnings.

And who says winning with an asterisk in 2020 means we couldn't win again in 2021, 2022, etc? GO FOR IT!

Hore... and then he gives away a free kick. I am not surprised by club's lack of support for Hore. He isn't up to it. If in doubt, watch his games from last year again and see how many mistakes he made.

If Salem really has glandular fever, he won't play.

I agree Mickey. (But I think the saying goes, "the proof of the pudding is in the eating".)

So we'd make the 8 if the game was 5 per side?

It was actually 30 seconds. It just felt like 3 minutes.