Whispering_Jack

Left field replacement for Warner in the squad = Michael Klinger who is in England playing county cricket. A little while ago he scored back to back to tons. Also is a Demon supporter which makes him a chance

Me too. On a personal level, it's a tragedy but, reluctantly, it's something that had to be done.

Just been watching a replay of the first half of the Queens Birthday game but can't work out why we're wearing Bulldogs jumpers and why the game's at Etihad.

I've just realised Redleg that you have more excuses for your horses performing poorly than I have for my footy team. If it makes you feel better, after reading a few threads on this forum I'm convinced the problem is not the horses but the jockeys. What happened at Geelong today?

Quiet day really but things got interesting on the football front this evening when the Hawks did the job on the Blues. The result proved to me that Jeff's a lunatic. Why would you give up supporting Buddy, Roughhead and co to become President of the MFC? Surely, if he really wanted a challenge, the green pastures of GWS await him. There's a certain recruiting officer in that area who could do with some mentoring and weight loss advice.

So what's news?

Congratulations on getting this thread to 200 pages Redleg. As one of the moderators on Demonland, I think our decision to allow it to go beyond the second or third page would be, without doubt, the greatest blunder we've made on the site but now that the damage has been done, please continue ...

Happy? I believe he's a band member. On the left, back row.

I know, I can hear her now from across four sets of fences.

A pet cockatoo. Now fancy that!As a near neighbour, I always thought the loud screechy voice belonged to she who must be obeyed!

They crumble and take spin early

Changes passed in Parliament will make Fawad Ahmed eligible to represent the country in the Ashes series. A chance? Fly him over ASAP I say.

Certainly when discussing whether to sack the coach (this week at least). Anyhow, I'm so taken by the genius of the song that I'm going to use it for my preview of the Collingwood game this week. I'm against it.

Let's face it, many in the media are inflicted with the same negative tunnel vision mindset that a lot of Demonland posters seem to have adopted in recent times. When it comes to anything to do with the club at the moment, they're reminiscent of the great Groucho Marx playing Professor Quincy Adams Wagstaff in the classic movie Horse Feathers:-

... or be gelded for looking sideways if you were a male horse and not a mare.

Does Robbo have any suggestions as to what might happen if we got up and won?

I saw a terrific game of footy on Saturday afternoon. B Grade ammos where they get paid nothing and put in a suitcase more effort than some of the blokes I saw the following day. Come to think of it, my grandson's under 9s ...

Terrific posts goodoil (and with due respect to those who post here, somewhat wasted in this thread). Surprised that Redleg missed your point. We sat through quite a few of those CAC drafts shaking our heads in dismay at what was happening. I rate the Morton, Grimes, Maric, McNamara and Cheney draft as another disaster, all of it generated by our failure to realise the importance of getting the priority draft pick that year. Our wins against the Bulldogs at the Dome and in the Kreuzer Cup were costly as well. How much of our history could have been changed for the better had we list managed properly and chosen a decent coach at the end of that year?

What's this? Why are you talking football on this thread?

Jackson has done more for Melbourne in his four days as CEO than Paul McNamee did in his four months at the club. The strange thing about that is he hasn't done anything. Not even booked his tickets to Wimbledon.

Can you imagine if they had the anti-obesity drug AOD-9604 around in 1977, Elvis could have become a champion Essendon footballer?

It's actually the second leg of a double. First one got up last week.

Sorry but I was educated in northern Georgia.

How many times have you heard the locals playing "Duelling Banjoes"?

The young spinner Ashton Agar will be in England during the time of the tour and could receive a call up if absolutely necessary. And if Julia wants to pick up some votes from the cricket fraternity she should arrange Fawad Ahmed's naturalization ceremony ASAP. I'm underwhelmed by the batting line up, a legacy of no succession plan reminiscent of Daniher's last three seasons at Melbourne. I'm usually an optimist but I reckon by the end of the third test, it's going to be all over red rover. A bit like playing Port Adelaide, Essendon & WCE in successive weeks.