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You seriously think we are a chance to miss finals? I have already declared MFCSS dead; this is some other disease or ailment. I take no ownership. May god have mercy on your soul.

Anyone can learn a role of you have the talent to execute. Might come down to form at the time. This is how we get back into a prelim ready to defend our flag.

Dunstan will have to be able to play a HFF role to be able to get games in the midfield rotation. He would back himself to be better than all mids we have outside of the holy trinity. The desire to ‘play Sparrow over him’ holds no water with me. Why? You want to win? Or are we still gifting games?? Why can’t Tom win his spot against Luke.

They’ll hate us soon and we will be ‘arrogant’ by default of reality. Act how you want to act. Judging Dees fans for ‘overstepping’ is such a waste of energy. We were a laughing stock, and now when we laugh, it is with the carcass of a foe splayed out in the rear view. You be you, Dees fans.

Yeah, our split is footy performance vs operations NM's seem to be Footy performance (and ops according to Dan Mac) vs talent ID and acquisition. Weird split but whatever. Maybe cheaper to split it that way.

He said he gets to do his current Ops role and what Richo was doing on the performance side which is the better part. I think he was being pretty honest. NM haven’t split up the role like we did from what he said.

https://www.theaflstore.com.au/collections/premiership-2021-team-a The AFL store has more gear than the Demon Shop. Some older Nuffie on here wanted a simple polo; https://www.theaflstore.com.au/products/21-prem-mens-p2-polo-1 Just buy at the Demon Shop what you can before going elsewhere.

I’m sorry what? Is that because we are rebuilding and we have to get games into the kids?? FCS - the window is open and if Sparrow and Jordon get a game it will be because THEY deserve it. I am greedy - I want to win more.

Up in Canberra it’s the name of the sport. I feel like an [censored] when I tell people I play AFL - but that’s what we say up here at least. I think your definition of moronic is a bit tough, ‘ the AFL’ is a recent construct and we may need to change our lexicon - don’t see the big deal.

True, but if I had a penny for every time ANB or Spargo were described as not amounting to premiership level players I would have hundreds of coins of an unusable currency. Dunstan is good enough to play a role.

We are so young, I can understand this. It means we might be able to squeak by in big games if one of the Holy Trinity in the middle goes down. Luke needs to understand that he is fighting for a spot tho. And Tom and James are only going to be better next year.

English is the type of player that we would have back in the bad old days - big, strapping forward/ruck that is as effective in a pack mark as Caleb Daniel. That Petracca goal should not exist - English didn't do his job and it started the 'bang bang bang'...

Auld

God I hate Ernie.

Is it the fanfare you miss or the game? The game is on AFL.com.au or on YouTube

Because our success was so concentrated - 10 flags in 24 years - he is already top 3... Tough to get into the top 2 though; one drove in 4 flags and literally renamed the club, and the other won 6 and has a medal for performance in GFs named after him! As for the turnaround - you never know entirely what goes on inside football clubs and what the players need or will inspire them - but the board stuck fat with him when I am sure they could have mounted pressure or done you-know-what... But Roffey and co. were as quietly confident as Goodwin was when he spoke to Mike Sheahan down in Sorrento...

Good story, love the way he looks to inspire and define where the team should focus. Didn't shy away from the pressure - didn't protect them from it - counter intuitive to a the dinosaurs that won't to 'keep the players focussed and not distracted.' Wonder what it will be next year. Rd 1 at the G with the unveiling will be huge.

That may be. But if you want to engage in strange speculation about partners you better allude to the struggles that they went through. Or just avoid the topic altogether because it is so fraught?? Even if you do know a vested interest with an agenda…

Pre-season surgeries for our main stars will determine whether we can defend the title. Injuries next year play a part but our squad will be pretty hungry still I reckon.

Source or it didn’t happen

"We respectfully tried to boot Tmac and Nibbler out" And Tmac in particular said that no other club offered a realistic contract and that is why is he still here - we were going to pay a large proportion of his wage so we were giving him away. No-one was serious in their interest and the rest is history.

Wasn’t incorrect though. Brown is on far less than that deal he turned down. He is probably happier than he would be if he sign that deal with NM but still a lot less cash. Great for us tho. $1.8m over 4 years I think it is. Bargain.

I am going to enjoy the ride. After pining for the Dees to be premiership contenders it all crystallised and came to fruition in the space of three months. This is going to be fun. Nervous, unbearable fun.