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Humph. I was hoping to see a replay of the game. Hop over to the AFL site, eventually find the VFL and...it's highlights only. Even better the highlights show nothing of Casey until the third quarter. You'd think Casey didn't kick a goal in the first half. Even after that, they show Willie's goals in preference to ours.

Dislocated shoulders HURT, as I discovered when a friend fell on me at the end of the Time Warp. Even breathing hurt because it moved my shoulder. Poor Spargod. He won't be able to lift that arm up/outwards for a few days.

Excited! Okay they are "old" (hahahaha, wait til they are pushing 60) for footballers but I thought they might go round again because there was no immediate retirement notice. Tmac is playing better than he has in years. I guess that lisfranc injury takes a solid year or more to get over. (Which might be the case with Fritta too - he had the same didn't he?)

Uh, more a mission from hell, given we are Demons and all....

Not only did we have to deal with the devastation of that loss, it then took us over an hour to get out of the car park.... If we'd been two rows over, we would've gotten straight out but we were directed halfway around VFL Park.

After reading through most of this thread, every time I read "Bucks", I wonder what Gary Buckenara has to do with things.... then I remember that we are talking about someone a bit more recent. 🙄

Well I've read through all 20 pages of this discussion and I'm still mildly shocked that it happened. Not completely surprised but I thought it would be at the end of the season. Thanks, Goody, for the Premiership and the year or two of believing that my club isn't actually rubbish. I never thought I'd see us win a Grand Final. When I need a pep up, I still go back and watch that last ten minutes of the third quarter. Go Dees.

Umpires could probably have a longer career than players - they need mental sharps and physical fitness and these can be maintained much longer since they don't take the battering that players do. At a much lower level - local leagues - my brother in law was umpiring into his 70s until a heart incident brought that to a stop. (He was fine after a stent.)

So excited! All the players I read about, well a bunch of the players I've read about, actually running around and playing footy in the 64 GF! I had Mum's scrapbooks (which I gave to the club, they better still have them!) and pored through them, reliving past glories that I'd never seen since I was born after the 12th flag.

Actually, while I think of it, it's interesting to see the moves that they were doing at training in January and (early) Feb are starting to pull together. Really interesting. And Narrm is winning games! GO NARRM!

This is a very good way to start my Sunday in Seattle. I can watch the game in full some time later. So good to see the lads happy - Clarry was going off and Trac is so focused these days. GO DEES!

I am loving a pic I saw on a Fox footy post on the Borg. Alas I can't share the pic because I cannot make it smaller than a megabyte without losing a lot of detail. They are clearly happy, a few are enjoying a frothie (as I hear they are called these days, not a coldie) and some either about to shower or just out of the shower. They look like a close bunch.

I thought I was seeing things when ?Chin? kicked a goal and Kolt runs up to him and puckers up. And then late in the game, another pucker up after a goal. (I now finally have access to Watch AFL after the club and Watch AFL handpassed my lack of access between each other like a hot potato, so I can go watch the rest of the Richmond game at my leisure. And watch for those kisses.)

GUILTY as charged, yer 'onour. Not that I've actually managed to see much play this year as Watch AFL and I are having Words - my voucher number doesn't work and I can only watch because some kind Demonlander has loaned me their credentials, but I don't want to rely on that because yannow I paid for a digital membership for myself.... Anyway, GO DEES! I'm off to bed. It's after midnight here and I just can't stay up until 3 or 4am any more. Wrecks me the next day.

I was thinking your Demon Army socks will be banished to the back of the sock drawer. Yay lucky Dees socks!