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Which one are we?

On the train to Leipzig. Hope to have the entire carriage converted to the Dees by the end of the journey but have to somehow convince the anti-establishment Berliners that Melbourne are the flea-bitten rebels with no teeth and Collingwood are the authoritarian old regime. Hopefully they don't have Google machines here.

You're one of the few on here with expert insight. Will value your opinion.

Are you saying it's a fear of snakes?

I love Kysaiah to absolute bits. This is not a knock. He’s probably already one of my all-time favourite Demons alongside Clarry, Jurrah and Jakovich. But the question is, is there an issue here that can we address it if so, through mental prep, game planning or something else? I understand goals aren’t the only metric, and know forward-pocket is one of the hardest positions to play (I defended Garlett to the end). Some of the statistics are actually quite damning though. An admittedly small sample size (and my stats may be dodgy here and there), but: Pickett has kicked three goals or more 16 times in his 81-game AFL career. Only four of those bags occurred at the MCG, two of them back-to-back in a hot streak in 2022. Pickett has kicked four or more goals four times in his career: three of those occasions being in Alice, the ACT and Tasmania. Pickett’s average, including his first season, is somewhere around the 1.5 goals per/game mark. Meanwhile, against the three biggest clubs in the country who we have key match-ups with – Collingwood, Richmond and Essendon – Pickett has kicked a grand total of nine goals from 13 games. I don't think he has ever kicked more than two when the crowd reached the 70,000-mark First question is, is there an issue, or just a statistical anomaly based on a small sample? Second question: if there is an issue, what can we do to fix it? And third: is there something about the MCG which delimits Kozzie’s input perhaps?

I've always preferred a traditional two-pronged KPF set-up, with maybe two mediums and a fleet of smalls. With Petty down, I now think we need to give up on that idea and ride our luck with an unusual approach. In the parlance of footy-fans, Brown and Tomald are cooked and Schache isn't up to it. Love them all. Milk has come out of nowhere, Fritsch always contributes, and Smith is a growing threat (love his tackle pressure). Three athletic/dynamic mediums plus a KPF in JVR is unusual, but would stretch defences and confuse planning. I think Fritta in for Laurie (last-in first-out) is the way to go, and lock it in for the finals. Tommo stays back. May and Lever seem to have more trust in Tomlinson that Smith, whatever the former's limitations. I would put in on JVR: "We know you're only 20, but we think we can win the flag if you attack every ball'. I also think that calls for Hibberd over Bowey have merit. Would have never thunk the Essendon duo for 2023.

I think you may have got this one a bit jumbled rufus. The correct phrase is queue in Iraq.

I still need someone to explain this to me, because I'm clearly missing something. A lot of talk about Grundy now being an almost certainty to request a trade to another club. Previously, there was much discussion about our liability for his massive contract. Please help me with my understanding. (Not exact figures, but the gist remains): Brodie is contracted on $1 million per year for the next four years, with CFC paying a portion. On the open market, he would likely fetch something closer to $650,000 per year. So if he requests a trade, why would we still have to stump up? Wouldn't it void his contract? And if that's the case, it could cost Grundy in excess of $1.2 million in career earnings if he left, right?

Yes. Every bottom team has tanked over the past 20 years and we must immediately address the issue lest our equalisation measures are compromised once again. A lottery system should help West Coast get better.

Outside of that I enjoy swimming in the various local lakes and indulging in European [censored].

I live in Europe again now so almost exclusively drink champagne - for like $4.99 per bottle - and I reckon only six or seven out of ten people here have ever heard of Nic Naitanui. They also don't know what a hot-dog is, so my diet mostly consists of eating affordable horse O'derves,

I've consistently reiterated how wrong I always am as to drafting, including in regards to Luke Jackson, whose MFC scouting vids only came out once we had drafted him at #3. Nothing from the above Curtin footage screams top ten to me, let alone being the next Pavlich (I played alongside the original one for a bit when I was younger and thought he might become the future 'Pavlich'). Are your big-ups based on something observable in the footage, or via an off-screen assessment?

Took a massive grab right in front of me once to win a pre-season game in Perth. My hotdog was even worse than possibly imaginable. But I got free transport tickets to the ground, and beers only cost $27 per cup.

Binman's personal assistant floated 'Rhythm is a Dancer' earlier, alongside some La Bouche classics. However, I fear such openness may cost him his current job, and he may have to go back to making films and coaching kids' football, which sounds suspect when written together alongside the promotion of Cher's vocally-distorted abominations. (Please note, I love Adam and this is only a friendly jape). x

Snap. Not the awesome German band behind 80s power-tracks 'I've got the Power' and 'Rhythm is a Dancer', but as to my personal life story. Loved Collette a little bit too much.

Especially grandparents, who probably lived through multiple wars.

WCW and I met after another Simon, not Paul but Red, put us in contact courtesy of a request from my scientific handlers. Apparently Walking had some involvement with the Skyhooks as well? Still not sure how that song relates to me, except that even singing 'Happy Birthday' is a 'Horror Movie' due to my condition, my salty tears spoiling every frosted cake in the vicinity and upsetting any gathered family members.

As WCW mentioned - or maybe envisioned - you were in for a hiding for no reason trying to guess. It's a reference to a personal medical issue, in which I was born with the membranes of my tear ducts connected to my vocal chords and can't sing karaoke without involuntarily crying, with the curious exceptions of Skyhook's 'Horror Movie', 'I go to Rio' by Peter Allen, and the Paul Simon classic 'You can call me Al'. My name isn't Al though, or Betty, and neither me nor my baby has ever been to Rio, which adds to the intrigue for the medical professionals currently studying me.

A lot of people suggesting the 'soft call' should be scrapped (or muted), with the decision sent upstairs and then returned to the goal umpire if there is no conclusive evidence. Others have pointed out the occasional (highly infuriating) miscommunications between the goal and field umpires and what ARC ends up reviewing. Why not then just get rid of the faceless 'middle man' adjudicator, and leave ultimate responsibility for the decision up to the experienced goal umpire who was on the spot and knows exactly what he or she was in doubt about? If unsure, the goal umpire can call for a review, and then directly direct the technologists on what to play back. This could be done via a movie director-style playback 'tent' set up somewhere behind the goals (sounds cumbersome and potentially dangerous, but I have faith we can figure it out). Goal umpire, in this particular instance, can then ask for the best footage on whether it touched the back of so and so's hand from various angles and freezes. On the balance of the available evidence, the call would probably have gone our way; the goal umpire is absolved from making one poor, split-second decision, and is only hounded if it's an absolute post-review howler. Add a clearly defined 'benefit-of-the-doubt' rule, be it a goal or point, which the umpire can signal if they remain uncertain.

Why aren't you even trembling? Because AI probably already smoothed out your bumps.

AI will decide.

Other posters on Demonland:

Brodes back in the team:

I agree. Red and black should be reserved for Nazis, deadly spiders, and demented dommes.

Philactides is a must: