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So Libba's throws are handballs?

Really? You're kidding me! ( Um, you missed the joke, Joyce, dats why he got a mention.)

Oh no : not you again....

And it's all Goody's fault, like, I mean, players have 'chequed out', um, the recruiters are all Orangutans, anti-deluvian, the coaches are all part-time bozos, not to mention so totally incompetents they weren't there at all in 2021, and Viney, Sparrow and Chandler and Oliver are milking the system to build great investment portfolios. Oi Weh, the MFC is mired in duck muck, is all I can say, they are all nincompoopers, and it's got nothing to do wid the luck of the AFL Charlatans, the Draw, or injuries, just plain incompetence. I mean, even noncompoopers win flags, don't they? Like Sheedy and Jeans and even Joyce, and what about Malcolm the Blight...

Imagine if that was 'Goody' instead of Longmuir on Demonland.

And I haven't even mentioned Hawthorn: from the ashes....

Then again, there have been lottsa goodies - to coin a phrase - as well: McVee, Tholtsrup, Jefferson, Van R, Windsor, Bowey, as well. Babies need to survive bathwater dumps: yep, Schache, Macadam, Billings were gambles, but we're not Robinson Crusoes re recruiting botcha motcha's

Demonland, as usual, is abuzz with Let's sack the Happapotamus, cos he can eat the lot of us. Goody's no good, Lever the same, Oliver should have been traded, all the coaches are goons, and the recruiting dude who selected Fullarton, Sache and Billings and Turner should be banished to Corsica. In the meantime, I am totally perplexed by Season 2024. Sydney, at one stage unbeatable, has lost 4 in a row. Brisbane, early in the season a misser rather than a hitter is booming again, Carlton was Ace, bin trumped a few times since, the E Colli Wobblers, thank de Lord, are paddling upstream in a creek we can't mention because we are such a polite bunch of Demonlanders, the Bombers were nuking everyone in sight, have turned into Zeppelins, and the Cattery is twixt being neutered and prowling for prey. GWS looked tres ordinaire at times, and how often was Hinkley gonna be Koched this year? Yes, I know, Freemantle look the goods at the moment, but how many games have they won at the MCG? And how many times earlier - in fact, not that long ago - were Beveridge and the Bulldogs a 'basket case'? In the meantime, the once mighty Demons, coached by a certain Mister Goodwin, one flag to his name, was hit at the bginning of 2024 with being two players down - good players at that, neither able to be even made up for numerically, an Oliver besieged by fitness and other issues before the season began - a season in which that same player can be seen visibly aiming high again, but below his best for reasons to do with fitness and general midfield issues, and a season in which Petty, Brown, Melksham, Hunter, Petracca, Gawn, May, Lever, Spargo, have all missed through injury, many for the best part of the year. Yes, we don't have a back-up Rucker sack because the Grundy experiment failed, and that was, of course, all the fault of the Hierarchy because they were not clairvoyants... In the meantime, the AFl has been exposed as a farcical joke in its week-to-week defence of Tribunal and Umpiring atrocities, and the simple question that the AFL is not and never has been an even playing field, is in the eyes and brain capacity of many Demonland Naysayers and mythical Dragon Slayers the fault of Goody and everyone else associated with the Melbourne Footy Club. I rest my cases

Just checked the ex BOM site: clear Western sky after current showers...though slight patterns developing over Port Fairy...

To quote Gustave Mahler's Song of the Earth: Dunkel ist das leben.

I got plenty of nuttin. Too cold for anything to happen.

And now the can of worms is open: where are the rotten bananas?

Twas Zig or Zag. Then again, so, probably was Jeffrey Epstein.

I'm catching up with Zig and Zag and Happy Hammond and Rin Tin Tin and Swallows Juniors...

Exactly. The Cameron decision was equally baffling. It seems that any tackle from behind has huge potential to cause serious damage. The problem is that the outcome is totally in the lap of the gods. Equally baffling is that when some players inflict similar damage, they are either exonerated or warned or receive light sentences. And, to ban these two tacklers for three weeks and to give a player one week for an elbow to the head as he runs past an opponent is further proof that things are getting even crooker in Tallarooker.

There was also Graeme Watson....

6: Langdon 5: McVee 4: Rivers 3: Pickett 2: Melksham 1: Windsor.

Che? What about a Mauritian or an Inuit hitchhiker?

What would you prefer, without getting 'political', as a comparison?

Reminds me of the time my brother and I and our neighbor were kicking footy on the fringes of Selwyn Park one winter's evening. It was Thursday, payday in those days. My father and my mother did the weekly shopping, caught the train back to Albion, and slowly trudged home from the station, laden with groceries. Just before they reached Selwyn Street, I had pushed my younger brother into the ground, picked up the footy, kicked it back to our neighbor. In the meantime, my brother picked up a yonnie, as we called a rock in those days, and threw it at me. It hit my head, blood gushed and by the time my parents entered our yard, my brother and I were returning home to find a bandage. My father asked what had happened. I told him, and while my mother washed my skull and stopped the bleeding, I heard my father go to the back of the house to find the cane mattress beater. I returned to the kitchen just as my father was about to administer a full-bloodied whack on my brother's backside - he had been ordered to lie face down across a chair. My brother yelped. My father repeated the dose and as he raised his arm to deliver the final blow, I blurted out, Dad, please don't - I started it, it was my fault. My father looked at me and said, Don't worry, you're next.

If that's true, I refuse to follow AFL any more: it is a stage occupied by puppet actors who simply follow orders from above, and I ain't talking about heaven. Also, WHY is the Press silent about this total distortion of Justice?????

When will we know about the Suns' Appeal against the ridiculous Fine handed out to a player who pushed Maynard - poor, poor Maynard, why, it hurted him so much he fell holding his tum tum and his head, obviously total bodily disorientation. Scre Blue, he desperately needs to be protected from such major assaults and given Academy Awards, or maybe he should be in Neighbours. Is that still on any more? If not, maybe get a gig on Rin Tin Tin...

So what? So The hanger' is more sacred than life??????

I made a similar post after Petracca's injury. The rule as it stands is a kind of demented adoration of 'The Speccie'.

You have given a 'Footie' perspective to my father's instinctive amazement that using the backs and heads of opponents either to mark or spoil is fundamental thuggery. Yes, he came from a soccer perspective, but he understood that thuggery and sport are not acceptable bedfellows. Also, I've been watching UEFA highlights and I am always struck by way the role of the referee. When in doubt, he/she refers a 'dispute' or questionable situation to a third umpire, as now happens in Cricket. The AFL Industry is so far behind - and always has been - on matters to do with personal safety. It took Maynard's assault on Brayshaw to finally face the fact that such acts are life threatening, just as it took decades to stamp out much of the blatant brutality which allowed the likes of Matthews and Dieperdimenico and Brereton and his ilk to rule a football field with an iron fist. Things are crook in Talarook...