Dee Dee

Marvellous banner, I bet the players’ll be lining up for copies!

I don’t disagree with you Colin- but... what I do like is the fact that (at the moment) we are the only team that can have one!?

That’s a good idea DV8. Just one of the many reasons for the re-development of the northern side of the ground (including the MCC area) was to allow easier access to disabled people. And on any match day one can see the great number of cars in the disabled parking zone close to the stadium. It would be foolish to disadvantage such customers as they were in the past.

Well to start with there is a huge 500 + car park plus various catering, workshops and storage facilities. That’s not to say more changerooms couldn’t be built but probably when the great southern stand is redeveloped. I must admit my knowledge of the bowels of the MCG is pretty well restricted to the northern side and its quite a mess. But I understand the southern side is similar.

I can see a problem! Namely the lack of changing facilities at some grounds. At the MCG for instance there are two player change rooms only, and teams are required to get to them well before the match starts presenting problems for curtain raiser teams. And yes we did have exhibition wimins games a couple of years ago but they were special and I understand arrangements were made for the girls to change elsewhere which would not always be the case. However with the mooted redevelopment of the GreatSouthern Stand maybe more facilities could be built.

This brings us back two or three decades when there was no pre game warmup. Was it Terry Wallace who first brought his team out for a pre game warm up? Then all teams followed!

Good article! Still would like to nab Josh Kelly while not breaking the bank: (is he a big fish)?

You can bet on one thing with the AFL and with the individual clubs namely, the threat of litigation will foster innovation. Somewhere a solution will be found if the publicity and legal costs are severe enough. And remember mums can be very angry when it comes to their sons safety.

It looks like the Demon Replay Archive on bigfooty is setting up to replay games again this year. I used it last year with great success and the archive goes back years and years. I use Apple TV to show games on my large TV.

I’m not sure how “marketable” some on these lists are. Dustin Martin for instance may appeal to a few but from a marketing point of view he represents too much of a risk (heavily tattooed and somewhat inarticulate) to be a family friendly face of product X. Dangerfield IMHO is very marketable as is Gawn: they both represent the acceptable family friendly face of the game. And family friendly generally means Mum. I could imagine Max being the face of (for instance) the XYZ coffee bean company, and Dangerfield doing farm machinery ads for all the western district farmers. Not too many football players are articulate and have good looks and have a profile that reaches beyond the footballl community.

A lost cause, do you think WJ? I like others liked what we saw of him in 2016, but time is slipping away!

And here was I hoping the trickle down effect would go from supporter to player and good opposition play would be acknowledged on field keeping with the theme of this thread.

When I was a lad at school we were told to applaud any good play by the opposition: a fine rule and one that should be followed in the AFL. Imagine when Jack Whatts kicks a goal for Port against the Dee’s we clap and say “well played that lad” thus showing a level of sportsmanship not previously seen in professional sport supporting. And like the trickle down effect in economics the idea will catch on and be adopted by the whole of the AFL. The thought of young Weiderman kicking the winning goal on Queens Birthday and then being applauded by the Collingthingy army gives me goosebumps!

Suede loafers! Ah sir the preferred footwear of cads and bounders. Do you perchence drive a Jag?

If economics is the dismal science then surely statistics is the doleful science. i do wonder what data Champion Data gathers and how they use/interpret it. Jayden Hunt considered elite while Michael Hibberd not mentioned, ridiculous in the extreme! Jayden Hunt has the talent to become elite but he has a fair way to go. Hibberd AA proves my point.

So, Jake has six toes on one foot and plays the banjo?

Unfortunately Sue, Collingwood or Carlton could go winless this year (what a delicious thought) and they’d get more Friday night games than us. And Romsey’s a nice town, not too far from where I live.

Quote from the Age article: “ One of the aspects of returning to Victoria that excites him most is the chance to watch Romsey play on Saturdays when the Demons play a Friday night game” Ho ho ho yuk yuk giggle. Somebody please tell the lad!

Or at least have the current store at the MCG located in an easily accessible location. If possible outside the Gallery of Sport/MCG tours entrance - lots and lots of tourists coming and going with lots and lots of money to spend!

If everything goes right on rehab front, we will probably not debut any new players round one! If that comes to pass, how many seasons since that has happened.

To all you track watchers out there: Any thoughts on Harrison Petty? Apparently well respected junior: how does he look? How’s he training?

Most if not all clubs have programs in place to encourage players to study in preparation for life after football. I know many Demon players are at university or studying part time at a tertiary institution so that the transition to civilian life will be made as seamlessly as possibly. However a few slip off and into trouble, but I think there are fewer and fewer of that ilk.(For instance, Big Max is already set on becoming the worlds best barista)! I feel sorry for Sylvia but cannot dismiss as trivial what he has done. Would a “Sylvia” be recruited by the MFC today? I doubt it!

And talking of Jordan Lewis:

Nor sure if it’s been mentioned but young Charlie’s great grandfather Bob senior played 2 games for Melbourne in the early ‘40’s. So there is a connection to the club! I’ve said before - as a 4th generation AFL/VFL player Charlie has football running through his blood like few others.

BOOOOMER HARVEY. What a tiny terror he was! Bastard ruined many a day at the footy for me?