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Look at that big grin on Kolt's face! How good! Must be all those culture problems we have 🤭

Perry was picked before her album launched and crashed, I believe. For mass appeal, she has so many hits that she could play and easily keep a crowd happy with. Quite a few on here would probably know her songs from radio saturation even if they wouldn't realise those songs were hers / have an interest in those songs. She performed at the cricket women's world championship in March 2020 (literally the weekend prior to Melb's first ever lockdown) and it was great entertainment since she just did the hits. Not fine art but fit the bill

Hahaha I just want to recreate the 2021 grand final in every respect!

Baker Boy, his music is infectious!

Well, at least both of these ladders make me feel happier about our current ladder position!

Appreciated Melksham saying in the post game interview that Choco had soaped up the balls at training to help our wet weather skills. I wonder if we've done this in previous seasons or if we finally decided to address our skill deficiency in this area after one too many embarrassing losses in the wet and/or humidity! Certainly being at the Opening Round game this season, it was disappointing how we seemed to have never met a slick ball. Glad it's becoming a strength now!

Good summary Joeboy. But harsh re Chandler and AMW!

Com'on boys, 6 mins to go. Don't put the cue in the rack yet!

It's the obscuring the view that drives me nuts - I made half the group wait for Gawny to take his shot at goal during the Cats game. Bless our captain, he missed it of course. We were all rather silent as I allowed them to return to their seats haha Don't have this problem when with the Demon Army! Generally the obscuring means we're all waving madly after a goal 😁

From memory, it was looking worse for wear from being carried in on the train but y'all were brave enough to accept a mangled slice! You and @Lucifers Hero are very kind hearted. This is the enemy we're talking about haha

If I'm with family, we generally bring mandarins and a freshly baked cake. Occasionally I might relent and get some hot chips too. At the Cats game, one of the 20 year olds that seem to have endless money and time for the beer at the G but not watching the game exclaimed in the first quarter and asked for some of our apple tea cake. I said it was only for Dees supporters - but once we beat them and our song was playing, recanted and offered him a slice in pity!

Don't they say strangers aren't really the danger, it's those we know? 😜

If you go on the Demon Army website closer to round 23, the ticketing details for the match will be posted. We normally sit behind the goal posts (at the end where there is no built up stands, but lots of sun). WCW will probs know more exact details!

Alternatively, such a meal might ensure I'll stay in Melbourne for longer than planned... but definitely not achieve visiting the game 😂

Actually this is quite common in legal drafting. Where there is a list of things, the conjunction between the final two subparagraphs is taken to implicitly apply for the rest of the list. So taking the above example (but reformatting for readability), the rule is intended to read: A field Umpire may* award a Free Kick against a Player from the Defending Team where such Player: (a) intentionally Kicks, Handballs or forces the football over the Attacking Team’s Goal Line or Behind Line or onto one of the Attacking Team’s Goal Posts; AND (b) the Player: (i) is greater than nine metres from the Goal Line or Behind Line; OR (ii) is not under immediate physical pressure; OR (iii) has had time and space to dispose of the football; OR (iv) from a Ruck contest, hits the football over the Goal Line or Behind Line on the full. Essentially the umpire can award the free kick where the player taken an action in or around the other team's goal posts and that action falls within one of the categories of (i) to (iv). * the original word in the rules was shall - this is an example of bad drafting because shall is ambiguous. It can mean "must" or "will" (mandatory language in legal drafting) or "may" (discretionary language). Based on how footy is umpired atm, I'd say it's a rule applied at the umpire's discretion

Dammit, I arrive in Melbourne on Tuesday night... It's a 30% chance I'll make the game, but I'm hoping to at least make the banner prep session with the Demon Army!

I think this is one of Langdon's better seasons. It seems he's finally recovered form after that knock to the ribs (which seemed to have created a psychological block).

TY, I did indeed miss the reference haha Yet it seems my colleagues surprisingly have missed it too! It may just be that comically I somehow miss any AFL related conversation? There were a lot of people at my old workplace who would pretend occasionally to be a Swannies fan. But here I never hear of it! Lots of talk about golf though.

Going AFL media free, and now AFL colleague free, has made this season remarkably peaceful aside from what I willingly expose myself to on this fine site! I do miss my AFL colleagues from my old workplace, but not enough to reawaken the group chat currently..

This made my Friday... hopefully tonight's game tops this video!

Sounds like a good measure for your sanity, El Diablo. I am only aware of one colleague at my current employment that follows AFL (the sad reality of living and working in Sydney)... Unfortunately, he prominently displays a Collingwood jumper on his office door. I have yet to speak a word to him and have no plans to do so in future - and he appears to have taken the same approach, given my prominently displayed Melbourne scarves! I instead pester my other colleagues with AFL chat (to their enduring despair haha)

I'm tired of being the Lions' bunnies. Dreaming of another 60+ win against them but more realistically hoping we win - even if only by a point. Carn ya red legs!! ❤💙

I can't help but feel that if Clarry was to play VFL in response to being down on form, as many have called for, then those same folk would be criticising and piling on their fave whipping boys Laurie and Billings... Catch 22, but there's not much big picture thinking happening when it comes to repetitive emotional venting. Discussion and constructive criticism is important (and venting in the immediacy of the Game Day thread and shortly thereafter also serves some purpose) but weeks of griping and piling on does not a constructive discussion make...

Maybe a putsch?

Trac posted on his social media and discussed in one of the recent interviews he did that the doctors at MFC did what they could and he doesn't blame them. Whether his family agree with Trac's public statements or not is another thing, but Trac has certainly not been a diva about almost dying. So many posters (not saying you, necessarily, adonski, but certainly plenty in this thread and elsewhere after our losses) on here are warped in the head - requiring players to be hard as nails, spouting all sorts of toxic ideals... then when Trac almost dies because of trying to tough things out, baying for the blood of the club alongside the rest of the media.