Skuit

Tell me when I can finally vote these lame duck rookies out of contention.

Every year this same thread and I never know if its predictions, desires, a horses-for-courses best 22 as to round one, or just a list of each poster's favourite players squeezed into a team Here’s my hoped-for round one team, based on the sole criteria of being the players I most want to watch play and succeed put together into a single list. Hibberd May Jetta Salem Lever Frost Kolodjash Viney Hunt Oliver Gawn Brayshaw Petracca TMac Fritsch Garlett Weid Melksham Harmes ANB Jones Pruess Emerg (others I’m looking forward to seeing play this year) Bedford, Baker, Stretch, Sparrow Some of the players not in this team who played finals or more than 10 games last year and can provide back-up: Lewis AVB Omac Spargo Hannan J. Smith Notes: the above interchange is a pretty serious midfield rotational back-up. Also, I said it last year and I'll say it again, Goody will again double-down on our game-plan. That means even more of: a lot of frustrating quick forward thrusts, manic midfield ball-movement, and an exposed, leaky defence. The team above has the capacity to reduce leakage by two-to-three goals per game (which is top spot/premiership significant) while the half-backs and mids are all tough and instinctive with a a heap of dynamic weapons. This will be the most exciting team the MFC ever assembled.

You guys must be on pills. I've been promoting this bloke for the past two years, but his disposal in our second to last match was atrocious - by far the worst on the field. I'm afraid that can't ever be fixed. If we're to move forward, Vanders doesn't have a place in the team without significant improvement - despite his physical impact, which the majority are now bringing to the mix. Werridee, others inclined, show your best 22 and who Arron will keep out of the team in the longer course of the season if we are to approach and make our mark on the finals? Setting the tone is one thing, for a young immature team, but maintaining elite standards for a flag-challenger is another thing altogether.

Was the disparate font-size of this post intended as a before and after Megatron? if so, I'm SOLD, ALL KNEEL BEFORE MY GLORIOUS NEW BODY.

Lever not back till round nine or ten?!!! Viney being managed??! They were missing targets all session??? I prefer Saty's reports

The toe issue is obviously far worse than we feared. Tommy can't even use his legs to get around the gym.

So now that Tyson is gone, does anyone else feel relieved in not having to live in some unfortunately deep down conscious state of denial about the future?

Since we're lacking in opinion around here, here's my previously unexpressed one: I think Petracca became less effective last year in some core areas due to a loss of strength, specifically in shrugging tackles, marking one-on-one, and breaking through a pack up forward. Not sure if that's due to the opposition figuring him out or an already slimmed down physique, but I don't have any any concerns for the future as to Christian/the footy department arriving at his optimal role and then suitable matching weight.

Wait. Are you ragging on Petracca for telling the physio he was having pain in his knee, possibly the one he had reconstructed? While previously bemoaning his supposed immaturity? Would it help if we added a trigger warning to posts discussing Christian?

Didn't read the article. We have the best midfield.

Currently Northeast of the Dominican Republic. Doesn't seem to any Aussies here at all let alone footy fans let alone the any of the few of those still supporting the Demons.

Okay so here's the truth - or one of two truths. I use to live in the Kurringal Flats in Darwin. Known as one of the foremost slums of Australia as made famous by A Current Affair. My neighbours would quite often ask me for money, for 'lady in the boat'. It took some months before I realised that they were asking for cash for a box of Coolabah wine. Skuit (or lady in a boat as above) became my name thereafter. Or: I used to live in Cambodia, known as one of the sexpat capitals of the world. I would quite often go to girlie bars, where the female hosts would respond to my outrageous sexual requests by saying that I was ch'goot, or 'crazy' in the Khmer language. It took some months before I realised what they were saying, and then I took on 'skuit' as a transliterated moniker thereafter.

Sometimes a thread persists at the top of the list, a thread you reasonably expect would have disappeared into the internet ether at some earlier stage. But there it is, when you open Demonland, still at the top of the list. And finally you succumb, and open the thread again, and gain absolutely nothing from doing so. Long live Pedders.

Woman's suit with a skirt? I have no idea what you're talking about Daisy. A skuit is a type of boat in Afrikaans.

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Listed as 180 and I presume would have lost at least half an inch with the alopecia . https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Lovell

It's actually pronounced Skuit.

Here's a collection of crystal-shaming from an entire decade ago from the willing folk still overtly present here on Demonland: Dappa Dan: Yze to win the brownlow. Little Goffy: Into the eight with about 13 wins, win a home MCG final against an overated Collingwood titan-uranus: Jones, McLean, Moloney to become the no. 1 midfield in the comp Praha: We'll make finals. Clint Bizket: Melbourne to finish 5th. Please note: Melbourne finished 16th in 2008. Adam Cooney won the Brownlow ahead of Simon Black. Paul Wheatley finished in approximately 65th place as the highest MFC player with 5 votes.

Sorry, I forgot to include you. SWYL will choke on a bitter artichoke.

The Demonland MFCSS crystal balls-up. Little Charlie Spargo will collapse into an on-field coma after being denied a well-needed rest before round three, to be later diagnosed with late onset narcolepsy. The AFL will reintroduce a condition-specific sub-rule to cater to Charlie’s condition, only for the other clubs to take advantage of the new clause by pumping warm milk into their under-performing players through an IV drip at half-time. While the Bombers prove to be well ahead of the game, scandal will rock the AFL when Jay Kennedy-Harris is discovered with a tell-tale milk-moustache after exiting the main-break huddle. Although Jayden Hunt will be banned for two years in the subsequent investigation after testing positive for Nippy’s, Clayton Oliver will escape sanction, with the judicial panel finding the submitted visual evidence of Clayton sporting a milk-moustache to be highly inconclusive. Oliver, however, will be one of the first humans on Earth to be officially recognised as a victim of global warming, succumbing to the 0.00000134-point rise on the ultra-violet index. His ashes will be left on the MCG in a moving but practical response to the tragedy. Pundits will say he should have altered his zink to banana-boat ratio. There will be calls for Alex Neal-Bullen to be dropped before Easter. The proletarian MFC selectors will finally succumb to the demands of the self-anointed Demonland High Council, but when they approach Alex to inform him of his demotion, ANB will just run away, and just keep running, from coast-to-coast, an unlikely protagonist in all the nation-forming events to occur in Australia for the next 30 or so years. Sadly, Alex’s fumbly hand-eye co-ordination will prevent him from ever rising up as a world-champion talent at terrestrial ping-pong. The MFC is like a box of snakes. As a senior leader of the club, and otherwise unavailable for the next 18 weeks due to an on-field incident which effectively ends Sam Frost’s career (of which the majority of Demonlanders will accept was a reasonable act under the circumstances), Jordan Lewis will be sent to chase after ANB, but will immediately and inexplicably fall over. As a senior citizen in general, the broken hip Lewis suffers in the fall will prove especially unfortunate, marking both the end of his own career and the beginning of a rapid terminal decline. Stay tuned for further MFCSS crystal-ball updates direct your psyche in the coming pre-season weeks. Go Dees!

A skuit is a woman's suit worn with a skirt in place of pants. Pretty self-explanatory really.

Snap. I've always maintained that Hunt was nowhere remotely near as poor a kick as what he is made out to be on here - based partly on - and I can't be bothered going back and retrieving old posts - my conviction that the footy department were encouraging him to break the lines by run and by foot. Some shockers, sure - but in my mind he had been asked to execute much higher degrees of kicking difficulty - with the full support and expectation of Goody. Wasn't dropped for his disposal, but lack of confidence and getting his hands on the ball. Build that back up and he'll be one of the first selected.

As was mentioned by a few posters here during the season in defense of our often lamented supposed lack of defense: Points against: 2018: 1749 2017: 1934 2016: 1991 2015: 2024 A cursory glance at the ladder shows that at least nine teams conceded more points than us during the regular season. Maths says no.

Viney tanked out the season for those debating his relative coaching merits. Check the interviews and footage.