Wodjathefirst

My approach is:- When we are doing well- ‘it’s more than a game’ When we are not doing well - ‘it’s just a game’ Go Dees!

Geez, the actual playing season was a tough gig at times, the ‘off season’ seems even tougher. Not much fun and joy logging into Demonland of late. I’m going to make a big effort to not having a look again at what’s happening till say February next year. At the moment it almost seems like shades of what happened when we won our last flag in 1964. I hope history doesn’t repeat. If it does, I’ll be dead before our next one. Membership is on auto review. I’ll remain a demon supporter until the day I die. I just want to enjoy summer. Merry Xmas everyone! Over and out. Go Dee’s

Likewise and no

I most definitely agree with your last sentence. Also the fact that we had the vast majority of WA football fans that hopped on the Demon bus. Trust me, they were loud, very loud. I was lucky enough to make it over there. I reckon at the GF it was around a 65/35 split, maybe even a 70/30 split and the noise was unbelievable. Think West Coast and Freo supporters combined, charged up, enjoying the show, particularly when we got going in the third quarter (yes, including the booing). Our players must have relished all that. It was pure magic. Last but not least, let’s not forget the fortnight earlier when we busted Geelong out of the park. I reckon it might have even been more noisy then. My theory being that they must really hate Geelong. Crowd would have been say a 75/25 split. Most memorable moment? When the whole crowd started chanting ‘Gawny, Gawny….’ You just had to be there.

On reflection…….it has all been strange and weird.

Hopefully a few more of us supporters rock up to our games next year….wait for it…..for big Max’s sake. We owe him.

Supports the theory (perhaps fact) that eight out of ten people are stupid.

Sadly, not much. For that reason nowadays I rarely read the papers and watch any ‘football programs’. (As an aside I totally ignore the commercial tv stations for any news whatsoever, what they churn out and how they churn it out is beyond belief at times) Back to the footy……don’t get me started on some of our commentators that call the footy games. Wow wee! (and there are some that irk me more than him!) Perhaps even more sad, this forum is my go to for info on the MFC!! (there is some very informative information to be gleaned , I learn a lot!). Thank goodness despite all the rule changes, interpretations of rules, quality of umpiring etc, etc in my opinion it is still the best game in the world to watch. That is why I go to the footy and watch the games ….and GO DEES!

Is it just me but I haven’t picked up on the media being overly critical about how the ‘umpire assisted premiers of 2023’ couldn’t even make the finals the year after they ‘won’ the premiership…surprise, surprise. Don’t want to upset a huge segment of their market audience do we.

I’m glad you didn’t refer to the Feral Hun as a ‘newspaper’ which it most certainly isn’t. A purveyor of propaganda, conspiracy theories, misinformation at best, and I’m being kind.

If this Petracca debacle isn’t enough to handle and now hearing about Kozzie being homesick (presume mainstream media has already picked up on this) doesn’t kill us, surely or perhaps desperately hoping this will make us stronger going forward.

If anyone is going (Football feast o. Sunday), it is incumbent of them to start a new thread and report back to us want went down. Don’t want to? Look at the fine print of the terms and conditions that you agreed to when you ‘signed up’ to Demonland.

Learnings from this debacle thus far. Never trust anyone that barracked for the Filth. (Joke) The reality is this. If he ends up going to another club, come game day I would love to hate him. If it’s either the Filth or the Scum I would despise him. Somewhat sadly, if he ends up staying, it just won’t feel the same. Bit like taking back a partner that tried to cheat on you and then trying to pretend nothing wrong happened.

I have somewhat nervously respected our clubs supportive culture of our playing groups needs and wants. But there are risks. Jackson wanted to go home, we did it very respectfully. We let him go. Similarly ANB needed to go home and we supported him. I would like to think that our cultural values may encourage others to consider playing for us. I get it that some on this platform are saying that we should cut our loses, let Petracca go and see what we can get in return. My concern going forward is this. What sort of dangerous precedent may we be setting if we let him get his wishes and go to another club? We are a mid sized club. Think of how the big Victorian clubs and other power clubs from interstate may exploit us in coming years. These power clubs would know that if they try hard enough they could exploit our cultural values and pick off any disgruntled star in coming years. How nervous would you be going forward if say hypothetically Clayton had bit of a setback and faced a new set of challenges in coming years? Goody at his last press conference said Petracca has a contract and he won’t be moving anywhere. I’m with Goody on this one. The team is bigger than any individual. If he doesn’t want to come back on board, then he can sit on the bench in the VFL for all I care. Having said that, I hope he stays, everyone makes amends and moves on. Sounds this may not be likely but I can only hope.🤞

GWS. They were robbed by the umpires against the Ferals for their chance to play in a GF last year - which more likely than not would have won. Good luck to them for this year (Hawks playing the most crowd pleasing footy at the moment)