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Yeah. I sort of think of "training the house down" as meaning "training his body into the ground." People who do this usually spend the rest of the year trying to recover from niggling injuries they created for themselves.

Yeah. That's my major complaint with the overhaul. I love the emblem and the Demonland font, with the ribbon wrapped around the "V," but the pictures don't mesh that well with each other. Grimesy's looking at Brad Green like he's not too impressed, Jurrah looks like he's just seen a ghost, and Tom Scully looks like a five-year old about to take a dump. But other than that, the pictures are great.

One goal for each kilo, eh?

Not a fan of the new one. Much prefer the one made by DeezMan.

You might want to change your user-name. What's the world coming to when True Believer is a cynic, but Realist won't face the truth?

Nathan Jones is still there, as is Cale Morton, Jamie Bennell and Liam Jurrah. But for the last one, we're just divided as to whether he'll be a star, or a God.

Thanks for listening to my suggestion re the fading to blue around Frawley. Makes it look even better, in my opinion.

The phrase "accepting mediocrity" is thrown around here a little too often, but I think here it might be apt. We've all gotten happiness from our past good performances, but for me, that happiness turned a little sour once I realized what we'd have to do to make up for the little bits of pleasure my team gave me as it rode the wave to the top of the ladder after round 18 of 2004, before being dumped onto the sandy shores of Elimination Final failure. We need to win a Premiership now, and anything less is failure. And I take no joy from failure.

Yeah. Lets change it to "Fleece the Members Day." Why don't we give it a rest for a while. It'll make it more effective next time around.

God-damn Newton. I want him to succeed so much, just to shut you flogs up, but how can I defend a guy who looks like that? Nice computer, though.

It's up there on my computer.

The Barassi quote, if true, actually makes mathematical sense. 9/10f = 1/2m+x 1/10f = y where f = football, m = mental, x = other stuff, y = other, other stuff.

No problems. It just seems like the change to blue is very abrupt, but whatever you want to do is fine.

Could we have the right corner near Frawley fading to the dark blue present on the site's background. That way it sort of blends in better.

Troll troll is troll. A newbie named Timmy? Come on. As for Travis, I don't think so, although I'm pretty sure we could put him straight on the Veterans List.

What a cromulent word.

Too right.

I've got a six-year old cousin. If he joined the Dees, then we'd be winning. What's the prize anyway?

That looks brilliant. I love the emblem behind the writing.

The guy was a fool, flipping from Naitanui to Watts like twelve year-old watching Sunday afternoon TV. Got a few things right but had probably the lowest strike rate of anyone on Demonland, simply because he had about a million opinions on everything. The fact that this thread is almost three pages long is a fitting tribute to the idiocy he inspired.

Zing.

I look at football a lot like religion. Would you change your religion based upon who was paying you the most? I wouldn't. There would need to be something fundamental, something other than money, to cause me to change. You being in the no category of the poll has no bearing on what the "correct" answer to my question is, although it would seem that most AFL footballers do share your "make hay while the body holds up" view. Not that I blame them. But that doesn't change the nature of my question: "would a member of Demonland change Clubs just for the love of the team? And if so, would they take a pay-cut, just to get it done?" It appears the answer for most is a yes. Also, you spoke of "maximising your returns." I agree that maximising returns is what everyone tries to do. But sometimes we might sacrifice monetary returns in the name of something else. We've all sacrificed time working (and thus earning money) for free time, holidays, time with family, or whatever; which is when the black-and-white "how do I make the most money" ceases to be the be-all and end-all of "return maximisation." Giving up money at Carlton, for example, might be a good idea if you want to win a Premiership in your lifetime, or if you simply would prefer not to feel dirty even after having a shower.

That's all well and good, but it's got nothing to do with this thread, unless it's what you'd do. We're talking in hypotheticals here, Rhino, something I know you dislike; as it requires less than a full understanding of the situation in question.

I think they have a cream now for that skin problem you have, although I'm not so sure we can fix that steam coming out of your ears. But you've pretty much nailed it with your comments on Yze_Magic. As much as I liked his humour (and I did stick up for him at times), he was a dill. A poor man's E25, if only a little funnier.

Do any posts exist from that time, or are they all gone?