Monbon

Yeah: I'm wagging it. I'm 74 and still in Prep. I am bored, its Chairman...

Oh dear: and I faut Ron Barassis and Sturie Spencer were still playing. I'll be !

Really? Why I had no idea!

The 'Experts' on this site never cease to amaze me. I recall the Barrie Vagg and Geoff Tunbridge days. They played in a similar way to Fritsch - and in the end, Fritsch is Fritsch, he's not Pickett, Brereton, or Barry Hall.

Um, today Christian and Co. chose to fine an Essendon player who kicked his opponent. I am so disgusted by the AFL: nuff is enough.

My point, exactly...

I agree, a disgrace - obviously a member of the Carlton privileged set. ( I do hope it was empty though...)

They've all had injuries, every team. Collingwood would still have smashed us without the 2 Daicos lads, Pendelbury, Sidebottom, Lipinski, and Elliot...yeah, sure man...

And what is THE POINT????? You are still allowed to bump a player: it is NOT against the rules as they stand now. Had Moore stayed upright the contact would NOT have been to his head. It's not about blaming Moore for diving, or Pickett for 'raising his elbow' - it is about a split-second incident in a game fraught with these possibilities and inherent dangers. The ONLY way to avoid these incidents is to turn it into a non-contact sport. IN THE MEANTIME, TO DIVE INTO A CONTEST IN WHICH PICKETT'S SOLE AIM IS TO WIN THE BALL IS INHERENTLY, AS THE RULE STANDS, PUTTING YOUR LIFE INTO THE CONSEQUENCES OF YOUR DIVE. Sanctimonious Demonlanders make me wanna puke.

Great al bum, great band!

Are you aware how essentially undermanned we were last night? Think about who was out. You are a typical know-it-all all whinger who knows everything better than any Melbourne Coach.

Hello Demonlanders Just to inform the Literary 'Cognitivescenti' on this site - I hope there are at least 3 - that a Collection of Short stories - the back cover reads 13, in fact there are 16, what a Bonus, by my best friend Dieter Barkhoff is available online. You can look him up on Facebook. Regards to all. Mister Monbon, the husband of another infamous writer, alias, The Missus. I can supply details...of her publications.

My wife, who is not into footy at all - she's too busy publishing novels - has walked past my cloister where I trype stories and watch footy when Melbourne is winning - I have followed the Demons since the losing 1958 Grand Final and experienced way too much pain first hand to watch another battering - and once heard someone exaggerate the name Petracca: it became Petraaaaaaacka and she now mumbles it every time she sees me watching footy. To be honest, all this hoo ha about a player who was nearly mortally wounded by yet another E Coli Wobbler atrocity - I would like to see some justice in the Season Finale, yes, E Coli Wibbler Blood - and I am totally fed up with the hornets nest Morris has stained the stratosphere with. He is a yarn spinner who would only get a kick on a real footy field if someone kicked his backside. Suddenly the Demonland World erupts into more spin on how Goodwin is no good, the whole club is no good, then the inevitable Schache, Billings, Grundy, Macadam, Draft pick fiasco, Stafford, Recruiting Officer Whinge Fest erupts. Yes, this is the best example in Lilliputia, I mean Australia, where the theory of 'Society of the Spectacle' - and he ain't writing about framed things called Glasses - by Guy Debord is manifest. I finish with a quote from my wife, the much-published writer: Petraaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaca!

A 5-and-a-half-year-old Swiss Shepherd: had her since she was 10 weeks old. Leila!!!

6: Viney 5: Langdon 4: Gawn 3: Turner 2: Neale Bullen 1: Rivers.

Just finished watching the replay: Sacre Bleu, if I ever have to listen to Brereton and Russel - 11th win for Suns 155,000 mentions - I'll either slash my wrists or walk the dog.

I've just watched part of the last 5 minutes of the Brisbane/Coli Wobble game and after the third Tiggy Touchewood free to Collingwood I switched it off. MacRae was 100% correct in his assessment that his team get more than very favorable treatment from the so-called White Men when they play in their hometown MCG etc. In other words, to beat the E Coli Wobblers you have to beat the umpires as well.

Yes, Schache is such a great player, he would have made ALL the difference, just as he always has at the three clubs who have invested in him and sighed...

My rocks are Bach and Bruckner and Beethoven. And, yes, I can tell the difference between Collingwood, Melbourne and Geelong, and not only because of their jumpers ( Jack Flash). The main differences are to do with the fact that Geelong and Collingwood play interstate about once every Leap Year, even the Collingwood coach admits it's why they get so many free kicks and non free kicks, i.e. when home crowd umps look the other way, and umpire with their ears, why Melbourne has played Geelong at the MCG once in two centuries, and not one E Colli Wobbler has ever been in strife for Missing De Meaners outside footy hours, and every Geelong player has always loved their coach, ditto Collingwood. Yes, Herr Doctor Gonzo, the Demons are the victims of Media Cruelty and I have lodged a complaint with the RSPCA. By the way, do you Bulk Bill?

Stop pretending you are my Doppelganger. Get the Un outta here...( A secret joke, a German joke, no laughing matter.)

Love the armchair coaches on this site: they all know more about coaching a Premiership side than the current coach. Sure, times need a'changing, and I agree that Stafford seemed to be hijacked into a job he had no qualifications for - I mean, he was a great Ruckman, not a Forward - but, give the coaching staff a break from your congregated superior knowledge....

Arrive a Derkie.

Yes: it seems the only team with any ISSUES is THE MELBOURNE FOOTY CLUB. I've yet to hear about how the E Coli Wobblers might not make the Finals, this year, why Geelong failed the year after it won a flag, and all we hear about is STRIFE AND MAYHEM AT THE DEMONS, THE HOUSE OF DISCONTENT. At least Melbourne played Finals in '22 and '23, and had they kicked straight last year, had Maynard not knocked out Brayshaw, they might have stood a chance to win the '23 Flag as well. Yes, this year has been a downer, but - yes, I know, all the other teams had Injury Issues as well - Melbourne has been hit hard in '24, being 2 players down from before the first ball of '24 was bounced.

And the rest of the day to your good self...

Cranky Knows Best: Hollywood, 1950/60's, Disneyland. And Cranky knows how to Coach goodly or badly, and knows a badly lot about failure. Nothing 'substantive' to back up his credentials about Coach Judging, then again, Demonland is full of armchair experts who know everything about coaching, football, luck, Injury management, recruiting etc. etc etc etc, how to pick a team, who to pick and who has played well, as indicated by a player who gets a total downgrade in the Three Word Assessment segment getting two and three votes in the Player of the Year voting. Yep, dat's Democracy, dat's Demonland, the Land of the Free Thinkers.