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How anyone can base anything on round one in Perth and still be bitter is so far beyond me as a human being. Even with years exposed to this website and the eternal disappointment of being a Demons fan, like really?

Can we still buy his magic cream?

Read whole thread thinking it was a discussion about Garry Lyon. Had to read again. Response not much different.

When you agree with Picket for providing the most balanced post of the lot. This is like the Demonland equivalent of the great nurture vs nature debate. Even with some ideal world variations, I think it's pretty fair to conclude that Neeld was ultimately a [censored] coach and Cale wouldn't have amounted to much at another club either.

I was all ears for what Cale had to say. Until the quiz at the end, and then started questioning whether he would have bright enough to play football.

Not sure if this has been posted anywhere? A bit more insight into the boys' lock-down programme.

Here's another bump. I didn't want to start a new thread, as I'm sure that it will just descend into an inane discussion. But good to have the interview documented somewhere on here I suppose.

Can we change the misleading thread title?

Thanks for relieving me of my ignorance.

Half the world is begging for a couple months away from their partners at present. Sooky love-sick kids.

This will be the definitive image that will remain in my mind forevermore, both as to aesthetics and life repeating art:

I was going to go with Jurrah as well, but this bloke played alongside Liam his whole career and didn't seem particularly excited:

Here's where I really get to let my MFCSS shine: In the back end of 2014 we lost two games by under a goal in the space of a few weeks: vs the Dogs and Port They were tight matches, but we had the run at the end in both, until Marcus Bontempelli and Jay Schultz. What is particularly galling about these losses is that the AFL used them as justification to refuse a priority pick.

Why on earth did the analysts select 1995 as a baseline? Most pundits and fans who complain of a diluted competition are referring to the latest expansion teams - so since 2012. How much has the population grown since then? How much of that growth is immigrants or first-generation with no interest in football? From the Census data provided the trend-line for football participation for ages 15+ had declined from 2006 to 2012. The childhood participation data is meaningless. How many aspiring footballers miss out on the draft or recruitment to state leagues and then just quit football? That's the reserve talent pool, the adult ammos, not some kids who played Auskick in primary school. It's subjective of course, but I would posit that football reached it's heights in the years leading up to around 2012, with several dominant and exciting teams. Since then the standard has plummeted, especially over the past three or so years. Nostalgia for the mid-90s is another matter. Football was different then. But now it has no grounding - the evenness of the competition is not a benefit in my opinion but a detraction. I want to see the best football possible, not even scorelines and manufactured excitement. My and many others' early projections of a diluted competition on recent expansion were slightly wrong. The impact isn't felt immediately, but five or six odd years later when the quality reaches it's peak playing years. That's the dilution - a wider spread of top talent across more teams. It's subjective again, but form my perspective that is exactly what has occurred, the inability now to assemble a genuine, top-level team. I still have no respect for current Richmond in the way I did for the Geelong, Hawthorn, Collingwood and Swans' teams of the recent past. I've basically stopped watching football over the past few years, and it's not because of congestion. It's because I no longer get the opportunity of watching titans in the sport crush other teams, or occasionally play against each other. Nothing has moved me to watch in a way that a Hawthorn v Swans or Geelong match-up would have done so not so long ago. Richmond v West Coast or the Giants in 2018/2019? Whatever. I may be getting old. But I find arguments against the football talent pool having been diluted illogical. Why would you even use population growth as a starting point, it's completely irrelevant. There's two new top-flight teams. That means a wider spread of top-flight talent as compared to when those teams didn't exist. That dilutes the competition. The Fox Sports article draws from here: http://www.hpnfooty.com/?p=31834

I came on here for some light relief and am confronted with Sophie's choice instead.

Jake Melksham or Michael Hibberd.

On a related note, we should all pitch in to drive traffic to the MFC site as well - as it could have a later impact on sponsorship dollars if there's a severe dip in numbers. Set it to launch automatically with your browser perhaps. Keep on truckin' Demonland.

I had started a very similar thread the other day. And then didn't hit send for whatever reason. I'm not okay right now. A million difficult things are all converging at once. So please ignore any bizarre posts or tetchy responses etc. I will be okay though. And I'm all ears for whoever wants to chat. Probably better at dealing with other peoples issues than my own. It at least provides a distraction. But I will also be open and frank in regards to myself. For better or worse, this is the community I'm probably most actively involved with. Best wishes to everyone, Ronnie.

How's things mate? I'm stuck in Oz, my lady in Sri Lanka, and maybe my ma in NZ. I know I'm struggling to get it up at the moment. Apologies for the crass analogy, but I think if you took away the scars from last season then none of us would even bother to judge. Chris Scott was super-serene last night. Anyway, the season is over, and if the [censored] really hits the fan, there's a spare boat sitting there in Centrum that you're welcome to grab.

Called a six-goal loss maybe a week ago (check the archives - @Pates can back me up), revised down from a four-goal win. Everyone was super-chuffed about no crowd - but footballers simply can't travel 4000-odd clicks across a continent and perform in an empty stadium against the home tenants - especially when their loved ones are at home and you can't even get within four square metres of the flight attendant, let alone achieve any mile high credits. Any criticism of the team or Goodwin right now is untoward and misguided. Imagine fronting up alongside William Wallace when you've been forewarned an hour prior by some weirdos called Bill and Ted (or Gill) that the land will ultimately be ceded regardless. Enjoy your next twelve weeks of freeeeedom from MFCSS my friends.

Checking in from . . . Darwin! Was excited that for the first time in years I haven't had to make complicated calculations about when to set my alarm to catch the match. Then realised that it's being played in Perth while I'm in the Territory in what remains of the various Australian daylight-savings periods. Wasn't previously a fan - but thanks for setting up the game-day countdown clock Demonland!

Shudders at the AFL live ladder: Collingwood Essendon Richmond Carlton

Whoa - I thought you were a bot! This is like reverse Westworld.

Cheers man - I forgot to consider the distinction between company and product (which share a name). The article is quite evasively worded - never fully referring to the drink. "Red Bull’s product has been used throughout the pre-season to assist with performance" I do believe they are referring to the drink, but if they're not then that is pretty dodgy in itself (falsely leading kids to believe sports-stars are using a given product for performance is not cool). The main thing: I may have gone off half-cocked. I was thinking of the near 30g of sugar per can and my own experience (a kick before an even bigger crash), but there could indeed be benefits for elite athletes. Quite a bit of literature out there in favour and against - and I'm not going to sift through it (along with determine who funded it). But, Burgess also referred to previous match-day use, and I doubt there would be much research into AFL-type conditions.