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Not only has Clarry removed #13 Melbourne fc from his insta bio, but he's also now set up a LinkedIn account. I had no idea he worked as a kitchen hand in Echuca before being drafted. Imagine that kid on the pass! He is also currently undertaking a commerce degree at Deakin, so clearly has his eye on the future. About bio: "My name is Clayton Oliver. I enjoy playing any sport really, being outdoors and being with friends and family. My main passion is sports, and hopefully one day I will be involved in a sporting environment eventually. I would like to see myself as a hardworking, reliable, determined and loyal worker. My strengths include supportive, reliable, observant, enthusiastic, loyal, hard-working and good practical skills."

It's great that you are passionate, living and supporting the team where they come from. There are a few on here who also pay for the team who don't live in Melbourne. Couldn't care less where and how we broke our drought. Stop [censored] sooking. If it had been staged and I lived in Melbourne at the time I still probably couldn't see it, because it's just for one tenth of our richest supporters.

What if some of the way of your understanding of the club had been planted in the media? We had a bad year, sure. Amid our most successful in half a century. Would you be happy if the club you support was being torn apart by much bigger outside forces due to just money, and you were part of that because you were [censored] at Simon or whatever?

I would suggest decent posters of the change/Lawrence type, jump off now. It could get ugly.

Can't even tell if you're joking.

I said I would stand down. But that was kind of an invitation to someone else to also stand down before they got fully exposed. But they keep posting, maybe because it's profitable. Some questions: Does anyone see some similarities between the board challenges at Richmond circa 2016 and the recent Hawthorn one and now ours? Very similar m/o and language. Maybe refined from back in the unorthodox Don Scott anti-merger days? Why would Peter spend an estimated $1 million on a campaign to become an unpaid board member from his own pocket? Rich people are rich for being sensible with their money. So just for the love of the club? I won't use the word stooge. The crazy thing, Hawthorn had Dingley and now we have Caulfield when these challenges come up, and I think Richmond might have had $60 million in Punt Rd. redevelopment funds at the time of their challenge. It's just such a bizarre coincidence. Even more crazy, each of these clubs were undermined with a lot of dirt in the media beforehand. Poor Fagan. It would be an especially bizarre coincidence if one of our fans on here had a father who was connected to every one of those board challenges in recent years, in some cases openly. And was also involved in state politics. I'm taking a snap-shot of this post. I don't think it breaches any Demonland rules, but may get deleted. If so pm me, or if my account is erased you can ask around for my email address.

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.

They can't even (b)eat the cats.

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.

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?

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.

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.

His mother was from New Zealand.

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

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.

He plays at Casey alongside Moniz-Jakefield

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.

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.

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