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Hmm, sounds .... 'Stradivarian'

No, I always think of some version of this for hold music. 🤣 ("Un Homme et Une Femme")

Isn't that every Demonlander? 🤣

Maiden name? Thank you! Using his secret question I've just got into his bank account, Mygov and Netflix. 😂 I bet millions get annoyed that people can't pronounce or spell their name right - even Garry or Crystal. Admittedly it's a very first-world problem.

And it's "in fine fettle". But I'm just thrilled to hear that phrase and to be able to read about my team's training. The internet is such a double-edged sword. BTW does Luker regret his parents' name choice? I guess if there's one of those quizzes and it's for players with unique first names he goes in. That's not all bad.

For a second there I thought you wrote "Trac a no-show" 🙄 Do you know whether Harves actually got concussed? Or is this the club being very, very cautious?

Ah. But still no fan would like to see the son of good player doing well at another club.

I think failed F/s picks should be judged less harshly. Some of these players' fathers may still be strongly connected to the club. Recruiters know how excited/disappointed those fathers will be after draft night. And of course fans love these picks too. There is the principle that people hate more losing something than not winning something. In the Tipping Point game show contestants 'stupidly' can choose to NOT risk 2000 dollars to win 10,000 when it looks likely that will happen. (Better to NOT lose than to miss out on a gain.) I reckon if we turned down Jack Viney and he was snapped up soon after (and went on to be as solid as he's been for us) Dees fans would be grumbling still, AND moreso than if we miss(ed) with a future AFL legend who gets/got selected straight after a Melbourne pick who wasn't one of "ours". I bet Sydney fans and St Kilda fans rankle about Dunkley and Bowey winning flags elsewhere. Every time a recruiter overlooks a FS pick theyre taking a risk .

Perhaps. But even if he lied or changed his mind would leave the city of Melbourne? Tasmania is beautiful. But it's colder, quieter and well, obviously not round the corner from his current life. It's not exactly moving to Mars but there will be sone players and coaching staff from the current clubs that turn down Tasmania offers for these reasons.

Ah, at first I thought this was specifically for Demonlanders. 😂 Have fun , guys. Given our age demographic will all of you(/us) be wearing your 90s bands or 'The Goodies' T shirts to help identify DLers you don't know? 😂

Ahhhhhhhhhhh! I hate these @#_##$@# things (and love them too.) They're so obvious ....afterwards. I'd like to think I have a brain in my head. Maybe not! 😂

Cool. So the girls dont also have to go behind a tree?

Honestly if a grand final side was all 21 or all 35 I wouldn't write them off solely off that fact. There's usually an element of truth to stats like this. But I doubt in 2 or 3 years time any club suddenly realises they should've acted now re their list's age. Every thirty-something player and his coaches would be conscious of his football 'mortality'.

Don't ask me. Despite my childhood home being metres from a golf course I've barely played minutes of golf. Even our cat spent more time on greens. 😂

Umm, different conditions, yes? How many hours is training? I guess in games a player has to last about 70 mins till half-time, with a chance to go into the rooms if needed in that period. And then the same after half-time. Are training sessions spaced the same way? And what about if players need to empty the other exit? I reckon every guy has used a tree in his life. But this arrangement sounds ridiculous (especially if an AFLW player has to expose herself, even if behind scrub.)

A Titleist ..... number one?

A wider range? 😯

QED ... A player doesn't have to have mongrel.

I must add this.... One of the tricks of sensationalism / propaganda is to not start the horizontal axis at 0 on a graph . Tiny changes on the line on such a graph would look huge, even though a value has only gone up from 24 to 25 in 4 years or whatever. Nearly every team's average age is 24.1 or higher. In other words, our average is only 5.4% higher than the fourth youngest team. It's time to panic! 🙄

More crude stats. I guess the footy media needs to discuss something in the silly season. Weren't all the guys who got to 400 still playing pretty well? If a team had them all , on paper you might write it off. But not in reality. BTW losing an eight-time All-Australian will damage any team. But I'm not convinced Gawn is about to drop away, nor that the club are unaware we have some older players needing replacing in the next year or two.

Imagine being paid a million a year yet being forced to pee like an animal at your workplace.

Question to everyone is this actually true? Did Robbie Flower have mongrel? If it's exactly the same as competitiveness I guess I agree. I just want to see players giving their all. Is that the same?

Seriously, people go off on tangents all the time and given trackwatchers will use some nicknames in their reports it's a pretty small tangent. Honestly if someone mentions a player's baby or Labradoodle or One Direction T shirt or how they watched The Three Amigos last night or The Flower Drum what's it matter? It's all part of the rich tapestry. And as someone else said you can scroll down. I'm assuming you did anyway - Roosiah and I didn't slide in some tasty morsel about team tactics or Viney's limp in our nickname posts. Just scroll down. (BTW you must find the jade monkey before the next full moon. Dang! I meant to hide that!)

I don't like these things. It's good to have goals - and measurable ones at that. But the goalposts (excuse the pun) can get moved so easily. It's almost like Mr/Ms Right - you can have all these impossible criteria like people tend to put up on dating websites and then when you find your Mr/Ms Right they're not quite what you imagined. Anyway, I'd like to see improvement. That is one can see lots of long-termers playing better than last season, improvement in the young players, a few of the draftees slotting into the seniors team later in the year, CJ, Steele, Miochek etc fitting in well and Casey putting pressure on the senior team by performing at a high standard. If this happens I guess almost automatically we start winning some close games, improve in ball movement and are more efficient. I think this is more important than overall wins. Of course if we're 5 and 2 I'll dream bigger.

@Roosiah mileage will vary how much people care about this. 🤣 Anyway some more ... May - Wint (almost winter) Salem - Lot, Slot, Cat, Sabrina, Citrus (lemon) Lindsay is hard? So not Lohan? He's XL so Jumbo, Spreadsheet, App even Strive or Prosper. I don't mind Leb but Duke would suit Windsor too Viney - Creeper, Grape, even Gilbert Steele - Remington or Rob (steal) or by going from saint to demon something like Lucifer or Judas or plain Bad Turner - disco Tholstrup - Buya (as in Buy A Vowel in Wheel of Fortune Culley - slaughter man (I'd prefer Shooter) Melksham - any variety of milkshake is your favourite (I’d call him chocolate) (or Dairy) Matthews - New-Leigh? Jefferson - Prez Howes - that (or Zat or Zing) Mcadam- Tea or Golf (caddy).... or Shack. Nut? Rivers - Nile or Delta. Darling would be amusing . Flow? Campbell - TC is fine (No, We've had one before in late 80s). Soup? Warhol? Sharp - Blade Fritsch - Magnet White - Wong Petty - Cash or Crime or Crim Berry - strawbs (or Goose or Cackle or Digga (bury) Mentha - Butter or Cigs Henderson - as an 80s child .... Kids , or maybe Cluck or he could be the Chook Kentfield - If he's Clark then the Kenterfield confusion will disappear AMW - how about ..... B?