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As far as I understand, Jake Spencer is an unrestricted free agent.

The psychological issues the team face that are constantly raised are far more likely to be performance anxiety related than hubris. I highly doubt we win a big match and then think we're the best and don't have to try anymore. It's more that when you have every man and his dog saying that the Demons are incapable of backing it up, overcoming that frailty becomes the focus rather than just going out and playing our natural game. We're more concerned about potentially losing than winning. When players say things such as 'we haven't won two in a row in a while' it becomes clear their focus of attention has drifted off-centre.

Your ad lapidem horse-chuckle let's me know they've got to you too. What did they pay you Ted Fidge - or should I say, 'Gift Deed'?

Before I was a lunatic I didn't concern myself much with the financial ins and outs of the club other than red/black. Can someone briefly outline the for/against arguments for why the attendance receipts are divvied up the way they are? So I don't have to use my brain. The big clubs already have a pretty decent leg-up, and much of that is at the expense of other clubs rather than based on marketing investment etc.

I'm afraid the sinister tentacles run much deeper SWL. Gil undertook the Senior Executive Program at Stanford U at around the same time Rebekah Mercer was in attendance. Rebekah is the director of the Mercer Foundation (and was on the Trump transitional team) and daughter of Robert, the man credited with actively achieving the Brexit vote and having Trump elected to the White-House by way of the secret psych-based data-analysis system he developed, a notable feature of which deploys 'bots' and operatives to sway public opinion on social-networking sites . . .

Your username is suspiciously close to an anagram of Gil-Bot . . . In addition, you joined Demonland at the exact time of the commencement of the tanking investigation. A sensible thing for someone associated with the chief investigator to do in exploring potential leads. And, one of your only other three posts here was extolling the virtues of us playing an additional game in Darwin, as it would be 'good for the NT Tourism as well as for the MFC.' Lastly, another slip-up in the same fashion as the recent 'Rangie HSE' troll who never responded to my accusations of not being an actual Melbourne fan before finally thankfully disappearing: 'As Melbourne supporters you'd well know how it feels in August when all hope is shot'. Supporters of teams don't generally refer to their own team in a fully collective sense as 'they' and other supporters as 'you', but use the pronouns 'us' and 'we'. Confess now, or I will scour the other supporter-boards for a match in prose-style to unmask you as a social-media infiltrator in the employ of Gillon.

Time to get the ball rolling on impeachment proceedings.

In fairness, I think the poster meant 'it could be a bit dewy, (however) we should still be able to win it in the air'. In even greater fairness, if I was a North supporter I would be arguing all the exact same points. I've been concerned about our lack of height going into recent games. We know we're up against it with our ruck issues and worry about top-line ruckmen getting a hold of us. There is an expectation that Oliver will tagged soon enough and it remains to be seen if he can shake a hard one. And our form-line over the past fortnight is equivalent to theirs. Dees by 48 points.

With all the apples-oranges caveats - a close study of this data-map can offer some very valuable insights into the psychology of team-selection. https://interactive.twitter.com/premierleague/#?mode=team&teamId=all

There's a couple things slightly fishy about the appraisal of our list (although I'm a bit confused to which part is DD and which is the source). It's close, but a reasonably astute outsider could identify our needs, player limitations, and positional options. First, there's no mention of Frost among the KPD McDonald discussion. Maybe something that an outsider might have failed to pick up on? Second, we're probably capable of releasing Hunt up the ground without recruiting another HB - and if we did, we're not really bringing in extra pace - just shifting it around. I would imagine we'd want an additional outside runner as a marked priority.

And Zak - he was a slight draft bolter from memory, or better put - the Swans took the punt on him at 15. He's come on as they would have hoped - so what would they want from us in return now? Can't see us staying out of the first round two years running - even if we did pick up two first-rounders the year before, so a player? This is never a wise question to ask here, but who might that be? Or what are their specific needs?

Surely not Aliir? If kosher - is the source keeping mum on the specific target or doesn't know exactly - other than perhaps members of our recruiting team boarding north-bound flights? 'North of the Murray' is a curious phrase if it were known to be a Qld-based target.

Give BB a break. His point is that there is active first-person participation in our metaphysical reality and then the same through virtual re-creation. (Reading books or watching scripted TV is passive engagement in fantasy worlds). The latter will have an effect in altering human psychology - which is not in itself a judgement statement. BB prefers the former, and follows convention by terming this experience 'reality'. I probably feel the same for the most part, at least by choosing to alter my reality through my own 're-creations'.

Did Tayla work at the club previously? I have some vague memory but can't quite recall. She did work in comms at Brisbane though, and I imagine these sort of things would be a huge incentive for interstate transfers in the AFLW. Does anyone know the legalities here?

Interesting insights. Persisting cultural traits that are perhaps suggestive of SA's greater British lineage? Can you now do a comparison between Havana and Idaho?

It's a pretty crazy daunting stretch for a young team. Monday: QB vs Collingwood. Sunday: Bulldogs @ Etihad. Saturday: West Coast in Perth. Friday: Sydney under the bright lights. However, it comes straight off our reset. And, if we got the ball rolling here, our momentum would be irresistible. We will be everywhere. Kicking off with centre-stage on Queens' Birthday, and wrapping it up with a Friday night at the G' - while accounting for two of the big fancies in between and crossing off our Subi hood-doo. It will be huge - the football world won't be able to escape us. A win, and whammo!, six days later, another scalp, and just six days later, there we are again on the front page! Throw in the glorious return of our two players with the biggest media profile in Max and Jess and it's complete saturation. It will be Clarry choo-choo and the MFC Express - all aboard! The opposition will start to fear us, and, most importantly of all, the young Demons will get a real sniff and begin to believe. I have no doubt our brains-trust has already spent a fair bit of time considering this monster stretch, and will take the break to carefully strategise our approach. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if the plan from the start of the year was to consider the season in two halves. Spend the first half before the bye tinkering, trying a few players, looking at the game-plan, altogether not being too concerned about the W-column, and then release the clutch with a settled best 25 in the back half and see where it goes. However, most of this is just an elaborate psychological ploy to allow me not to worry about whether we win or lose against the Roos. And dream momentum aside, it doesn't get a great deal easier after this stretch, with a atmosphere-flattened small-stage Australian backwater tour to Darwin, Hobart and Canberra in the following month, leading into some potentially clutch games against the Saints and Pies in the final rounds.

I think the winner of Goal of the Year gets given the use of a new car for a year as a part of the prize. And I was under the assumption Clarry was disqualified from driving. The media would be quick to make the connection and it would bring unflattering attention to what will otherwise be the end of a year to celebrate.

I bet that if we enter an era of sustained success, the traffic here will steadily taper off.

We can't just talk in solid numbers in regards to growth. We have to think in terms of percentages and of outpacing the growth of other clubs. And I just don't see it regardless. I may be lacking imagination, but, generously, say our natural current point of membership is around 50,000. That's supporters who would likely be members if we hadn't been so pathetically horrible in the close recent past. And as the oldest club in Australia. We're going to double that through migrants who have never before seen the sport in just 6 years? Last thing I'll say on the matter - and I haven't wanted to say it to date, because again it's a generalisation - but I strongly suspect that the majority of Indian students and migrants would find the cultural aspects of our sport, and the sport itself, boorish. And that's even before being in attendance. Heck, there's even people on here talking about being menaced by Camry Crow fans. The Indians are a graceful people. Despite the great joy it brings, there's nothing graceful about guzzling beer and shouting 'maggot' at the umpire.

Just chardonnay mate. And no one throws away 5c refunds on bottles like that.

And Robinson would be ranked around second or third for goals on Carlton's list right now. Edit: 3rd - and somehow Levi has managed to kick 13.4 while no-one was watching. That over 75% accuracy!

Probably for the best that Clarry didn't end up with a shiny new car to commit criminal offenses in.

Numbers-wise I was responding to this (in my overall contention that there is no magic-bullet): 'This paper seeks to outline a path whereby the club develops a membership base of 50,000 within three years, and 100,000 within six years.' Followed by the above statement that the OP considers overseas markets secondary. There seems to be a sense of disappointment that the club ignored the suggested initiatives, but we do have professional marketeers (although all ideas from anywhere except Eddie McGuire should always be welcomed) - so really, without intending to be negative, it's just taking a realistic look at the projections and reward for investment. By your numbers - 1/10th of the AFL states' existing Australian footy-mad population are members. Following that rate, 10,000 permanent migrants to Melbourne will become members each year - with half selecting the MFC - along with a further one third of all migrants choosing to support our club? I won't even raise traditional gender issues here, (or the myriad of other reasons why I and many others don't think our club would be attractive to new migrant supporters) but the numbers just simply aren't realistic. Otherwise, I say go for it.

So I went and had a look. 2016 included Betts (3rd in total goals), Rioli (10th) and Greene (15th). 2015 - Betts (2nd), Rioli (24th), Wingard (8th). While a third-tall/utility/forward-ruck may steal a pocket, the littler guys/goal sharks can get a look-in at HF.

You're talking about a supporter-base which was famously known at the time as the 'Chardonnay Club'? I was a Footy Park member from the AFL get-go, and I always felt that the 40,000 Crows supporters would get quite easily intimidated by a very small contingent of toothless Pies or Tigers fans. Never saw any biffo whatsoever in all my years of attending, and find it bizarre that people are talking of a threatening environment. We Crow-eaters are are odd and inbred lot, but beside a mass-murderer here and there and the ultra-perverted underground criminal elite, we're hardly what could be described as menacing.