Fanatique Demon

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.

Heart

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.

Brown before Weid, please. And I can't understand the knock on Oscar or the praise for Hore.

Ah, thank you!

Thanks, but I'm none the wiser. I'm French and living in France so it might be something I missed somewhere.

I don't understand the Kent Kingsley reference. Anyone?

The only certainty I know is that it's "shoo-in" not shoe in.

Gawn

Yes, watching them was a form of torture. I did it for a couple of reasons. First, I was ill and stuck in bed for a few days so I had the time. Second, I wanted to see the games without the emotion that comes when watching them live. I found that we were a long way off it. Yes, injuries to key players and the interrupted pre-season were key factors in our failure. But be Yong that... we were beaten over the back too often, just like we were in the early games of 2018. (How they hadn't fixed that over the last pre-season is a mystery to me.) Frost was not the great backman many consider. That Hore is miles away from being an AFL player. That Oliver was great at getting the ball but terrible disposing of it with short handballs to teammates who were under pressure. That Brayshaw seemed disinterested. That Jones often looked past it. That we quickly ran out of steam. That the midfield didn't run. That most of our new boys, Sparrow, Lockhart, Dunkley need to improve enormously to have an impact. That Weideman (when he played) just doesn't get the ball enough. That Gawn and Petracca were great after a slow start to the season. I could go on, but you might have stopped reading by now. If we were, say, 20% off the pace last year, and other teams improve 5% on 2019, we'll need to improve by at least 25% to succeed in 2020. Here's hoping.