Skuit

I've been pushing this case for many years, but now that it might seemingly be about to happen I've lost the energy to care. Three years too late, but maybe he can bring Boyd with him and more importantly Burgess. Also, whoever the massive Liam McBean fan was on here can get in the bin along with the rest of the last twelve months of football. 

I'm not going to run the numbers again, but somewhere in my posting history is a breakdown of what Port achieved both offensively and defensively in the years following Bassett's move to both ends, I think indicating that he is a very shrewd tactical operator in getting things up and running but maybe not maintaining the momentum. ?

Both my Jewish and non-Jewish friends say no. 

Tim Lamb walks into a list management committee meeting:

Lamb: Hi everybody, I'm Tim Lamb. You may know me from such draftings as Trent Rivers and Kysaiah Pickett .

Jason Taylor: Hi.

Simon Goodwin: Hi.

Lamb: What are you doing here, Simon? Shouldn’t you be off working out a tag for Nick Daicos? He’s such an amazing player.

Goodwin: Sorry, I’ll go. Learnings learned.

Lamb: Where is Gary Pert?

Taylor: Said something about attending a meeting on our new home ground, but has been posting air-fried miniature burrito recipes from Noosa.

Lamb: Great. That might help get us Caleb Daniel across. In the meantime, we need to fill a forward list vacancy. We have Wade Derksen on the radar.

Taylor: Never heard of him.

Lamb: My mail says he was drafted in 2022.

Taylor: My team only deals with incoming draftees. All the old files we take to Alice and bury in the outback.

Lamb: So should we trade for him?

Taylor: Sure. Ask Mahoney and Viney to sort it out.

Lamb: Never heard of them.

First question to Jason Taylor when he next appears on the Demonland podcast post-trade period: what are the actual specifics of your role and who should we blame and get sacked for Tom Fullarton et al? 

Double-Dutch up front with Derksen and Van Rooyen. Enter your puns here: 

I asked an 'ethical' AI search engine about Church on the Hill. It came back with this as the top result. I think the robots are getting a bit too clever now. 

7 hours ago, layzie said:

Sounds like Springfield has a discipline problem 

They can't even (b)eat the cats. 

2 hours ago, 58er said:

Where is your private Feasibility study? 

I conducted it last time I was in the gardens and concluded the guy walking his pet sheep there could offer free rides to keep the kiddies entertained.  

7 hours ago, Whispering_Jack said:

Could posters please avoid the personal stuff and try to keep the discussion friendly and constructive?

I'll stand down. But a random question: if it was proven that someone was being paid to post on this site, would that be in contravention of the forum rules? It's a bit blurry, but I see that under Demonland's guidelines an unauthorised advertisement could cop a $1,000 bill in the mail. Is that per post? 

4 minutes ago, The Jackson FIX said:

The mind boggles how he won an award for journalism. 

Your metrics may be a bit different to those of the AFMA's, which didn't mention anything about journalism, or quality of, in bestowing the accolade: “No one has had a bigger presence in football this year, via television, radio and newspapers, than Kane Cornes. No one. Now or in the past.”

Tom Morris also got a gong, along with "AFL 360, hosted by Gerard Whateley and Mark Robinson, highlighted by powerful interviews with Melbourne superstar Christian Petracca." The AFMA doesn't seem to have a website, so it's a bit hard to work out who is giving awards to who and then reporting on those awards.  

My mum flies into Vienna next week. Not sure what she's up to in Austria, but I doubt it's to attend the Red Bull High Performance Training Centre, although she has been going to pilates classes twice a week recently and is pretty good shape for her age. Still, I can ask her to keep an eye out for Christian - who she wouldn't know from a bar of whey brownies from his good friends at Myprotien Australia - and forward any questions you might have if she bumps into him at the airport.  

1 hour ago, hardtack said:

I don’t have a clue as to Peatling’s value, so I’m guessing, but would this year’s pick 3 plus our future pick two, get Peatling plus Derksen thrown in as the set of steak knives? 

You might want to edit that post again hardtack before the Demonland early risers choke on their coffees and assume you're predicting we're going to finish second-last next year and possibly spend our whole current and future draft cache on a pair of fringe players. 

38 minutes ago, DeeGee said:

Can someone remind me what Andrew Thorburn’s story was?

 

His mother was from New Zealand. 

The Roaming Brian interview with Hind is top-shelf internet. 

14 hours ago, Big Gun said:

Great news. So far, so good.

I do wonder however if there is a plan B or C also being investigated (at least locations identified) in case the Caulfield project hits a fatal roadblock moving forward. If there are still other options being looked at as possibilities, what are they? I know Yarra Park ended up being a “no go”.

I've only been to Melbourne a handful of times but always found Fitzroy Gardens to be quite pleasant. And just a short stroll from the east end of Collins for our fans to attend training. 

41 minutes ago, WERRIDEE said:

Who's Grantfield?

He plays at Casey alongside Moniz-Jakefield

3 hours ago, old dee said:

A MFC player will not grace it this decade. Think 2030+ better then than never.

And even then it will be just MFC androids. Like, who is going to go and fetch the balls that go in that dam? You can bet it won't be robot Fritsch. 

4 hours ago, pitmaster said:

I hope Skuit didn't wait up for this.

Really just more of the same.

It's "build time" I want to hear about: ie how long will it take once the project starts turning over dirt.

It is a bit of a fizzer, and now I have no idea if my breakfast whisky is for joy or sadness. 

I'm mostly left scratching my head as to why they told Roffey not to attend the email forwarding. 

24 minutes ago, ElDiablo14 said:

Go have a rest.

Best case you'll wake up to happy news.

Worst case you didn't lose sleep.

But I already subscribed to Gorgoroth's celebration or commiseration whisky philosophy club. 

16 minutes ago, layzie said:

"You'll love working here, we have a flat management structure and we work hard but play harder! We have an open plan office and the CEO's desk is here so they can be with all the other troglodytes." 

This is funny, but when I was looking for a job a few years ago in Amsterdam the first thing every recruiter told me about was the office ping pong table and beers on a Friday, like that was somehow special compared to my then current position of being unemployed.  

I've lost a lot of interest in Owies since learning the correct pronunciation of his name. Before that, I would keenly seek out Carlton's weekly injury list to see if he was featured just for a bit of a chuckle. 

For those in the know, is it worth me staying up for a while longer? 

So take away our recent trading for the moment, which is dictated by the parameters of our draft capital and may be influenced by Taylor for example declaring that this year is a bumper crop and in no way should we trade out our first pick, should Lamb be credited with a list strategy that saw us bring in twin KPDs and build our premiership from there, an innovation that I had previously credited to Goodwin?

Also, we can all respect that list management is a pretty precarious juggling act (even without the longer-term contract side), especially as to limited ruck and tall spots. As one example, no matter how good they turn out, we recently took KPFs at our first pick in back-to-back drafts, when most of us were concerned that we needed more firepower. Are there examples where lamb has completely botched the strategy as per agreed needs? 

I'm not a business guru, but I would imagine most larger old-school organisations would have a clearer vertical chain of command? I know horizontal is the buzz, but these roles at a smaller footy club appear more hands on. Maybe someone can enlighten me? 

Also, to clarify, so you're of the belief that Lamb took on Mahoney's list management job, which was previously split and structured alongside Richardson overseeing the footy department, with both equals directly reporting to Pert?