Demonstone

This is an old post of mine, which may give you an indication what that horrible place was like. In round 20 of 1982, my Demon mate and I went to Victoria Park for the first (and last) time to watch Melbourne play Collingwood. We found standing room in a packed outer but soon realised we were surrounded by a seething mob of dirty, ugly, loud, abusive, obscene, smelly and toothless black and white supporters. Almost without exception, they were drunk, smoking like chimneys, swearing like wharfies and even at this early stage of the day fighting amongst themselves. Rather than relinquish their spot in the crowd, they were peeing where they stood. Some of the men were just as bad. We started well with the wind but the Pies had regained the lead by half-time. The third quarter was all ours with eight goals and in the last, we kicked another eight to finish all over them by nine goals. Glenn McLean was magnificent that day, marking everything in sight and earning the three Brownlow votes. Collingwood were so impressed that they traded for him and you will rapt to hear that Glenn went on to have a wonderful two-game career with the Pies. Having kept very, very quiet all day for fear of attracting the wrong sort of attention, the beers (ice-cold cans!) finally got the better of me and this is when I did the craziest thing in my life. As Mark 'Jacko' Jackson kicked his seventh to seal victory, I let rip with a loud "Go Demons!!". Things then went eerily quiet in the outer as hundreds of pairs of beady eyes bored into us. I looked at my mate, he nodded and we turned and ran as fast as we could towards the exit and kept going all the way to Johnstone Street where we jumped on the first bus we found. It didn't matter that it was heading in the wrong direction, we just wanted to get away from that horrible joint. Only my drycleaner will know just how frightened I was that day.

Snow White is at home one day when she hears an emergency siren sounding, which means there has been a bad accident at the mine where the seven dwarves work. Full of trepidation, she races down to find there has been a cave in and her seven little friends are trapped underground. She puts her ear to the blocked mine entrance and very faintly hears a small voice in the distance singing "Good Old Collingwood Forever". "Thank goodness", she says. "At least Dopey is still alive".

Pretty sure a suspended player is only ineligible for the season in which the offence occurs.

The stress fracture is in his ankle, not his foot. I don't know if that makes any difference.

The whole stinking entitled club should be suspended for wasting time.

What about "Freed From Desire"?

From the early 80s in fact but I'm rolling down the stairs, too drunk to fight.

That very clever chap Andrew Denton named his production company Zapruder's other films.

She'd be OK, but I reckon Tayla Harris would be even better.

That's two weeks suspension for you, EO. No appeals shall be heard.

Sorry to mess up your thread, WJ. Maybe we could prevail on Andy (I believe you may be acquainted) to get rid of your superfluous apostrophe and the trainwreck of responses that I set in motion.

WalkingCivilWar could get the Demon Army to turn that into a chant you know, Bbo. Gee are you en dee why ... Grundy! Clap clap clap. Grundy! Clap clap clap. etc

May they continue to waste further time and resources on fruitless, distracting appeals. The MRP assessed the incident as deserving of two weeks suspension. The AFL Tribunal agreed. I can't see how Carlton/Cripps have the slightest chance of winning. Next stop the High Court! It's the vibe. It's Mabo.

I thought tonight was the appeal?

Appeal unsuccessful. Cripps' two week ban stays.

https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/former-demon-takes-legal-action-against-teammate-over-sharemarket-loss-20220809-p5b8b7.html

Post amended accordingly!

You'd be more at home in the grammar thread, Jimmy!

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If Josh Kennedy didn't want to retire, he'd still be playing at West Coast. Can't see him coming to Melbourne.

Meanwhile, Brodie Grundy has been ruled out for the rest of the season with a stress fracture in his ankle and Jamie Elliott has re-signed for a further three years at Pieland.

I'm wearing my favourite t-shirt at this very moment!

You set 'em up and I'll knock 'em down! There's no apostrophe in "apostrophes".