Demonstone

I hope @Demonsone is watching.

Half-time entertainment? Bring back the long kicking competition and dogs* catching frisbees. *Australian dogs, of course.

Researchers have tracked down the primary school reports of current GWS players. Some examples of their teachers' comments are listed below. It's fortunate for these kids that they grew up to be good at football. Toby Greene - "Toby has set himself an extremely low standard, which he has failed to maintain" Sam Taylor - "The improvement in his handwriting has revealed his inability to spell" Harry Himmelberg - "This child has been working with glue too often" Lachie Whitfield - "Shows a unique ability to turn any maths problem into a story about dinosaurs" Brent Daniels - "Expert at locating lost pencils, except when they're in his hand" Jesse Hogan - "His spirited debates with the classroom clock about time are quite philosophical" Tom Green - "Since my last report, Tom has hit rock bottom and started to dig" Connor Idun - "This student has delusions of adequacy" Callan Ward - "Callan excels at turning oxygen into carbon dioxide" Finn Callaghan - "He should go far and, the sooner he starts, the better" Lachie Ash - "Lachie would be lazy but for continued absence from class" Kieren Briggs - "He has given me a new definition of stoicism. He grins and I bear it" Aaron Cadman - "This student is depriving a village somewhere of an [censored]" Jake Riccardi - "Uses a unique form of sign language, particularly when he thinks nobody is watching" Darcy Jones - "Master of the impromptu show and tell, often featuring items from his pockets" James Peatling - "Shows a deep commitment to ensuring every classroom plant is well conversed with" Toby Bedford - "It would seem that Bedford thinks he is running the classroom and not me. If this attitude persists, one of us will have to leave"

Thank you for your weekly cut and paste that you know is not even true. I noticed that you went missing after we beat Essendon, only to bob up again after we lost to Fremantle. Haven't you got a bridge somewhere you could be lurking under?

Guy Bradshaw?

Sorry @Big Col, I misunderstood your format. I thought you meant that the pool finalists play each other twice (once home and once away). Five weeks it is then. Your system would also work with a 20 team comp I think.

Kynan Brown, son of Nathan. He's on the MFC list. Most Demon fans would be aware of this. Anybody? OK, I'm 183cm tall and weigh 78kg. Of course not. Don't you know how drafting works?

Fourth from left on the fence. Essendon fan gets a close up of what a winner looks like.

I'm taking my Camry for a drive to buy a pie floater.

Nice to see somebody come up with an original idea. The Big Col Finals Format (BCFF) would mean an eight week finals series, but that is absolutely workable if the H & A season consists of every team playing the other teams once only (18 weeks) with one or two byes added. As @whatwhat say what proposed above, the H & A venue would rotate from year to year. It would mean that the footy season would run for about the same length of time as it currently does.

State Bank of Victoria? Pyramid Building Society? Nugan Hand, perhaps?

Is that the hole that the Bulldogs fell into halfway through the third quarter of the GF?

That's only part of the story. He did ride home, but only to have a shower, pack a bag and then hop back on his bike and set off on a nice ride to Perth for the Freo game on Sunday.

The only smoke here is that which is being blown up gullible fools' fundaments.

This is not just rubbish, it's two day old stinking rubbish.

I'd be very keen on Houston but, then again, I'm a "glass half full" kind of person. I think Dan's more of a "glass about to be empty" kind of person.

Zeke Uwland is the younger brother of young Sun up and comer Bodhi. @WalkingCivilWar will be pleased that he has an easy name to spell.

I'm pretty sure I've posted this previously, but it's worth another airing. In a pre-season game v. Collingwood at Princes Park, by quarter time Jako had twice led and marked strongly, converted with two lovely long goals, got reported for snotting an opponent then tweaked his hammy and his day was done.

Spencer was a Victorian lad who was recruited from Portland, just like the recently departed Clyde Laidlaw. He went to Tassie after he finished playing VFL at the young age of 25.

Have you heard of Bodhi? Apparently he's even better!

Freak. All-time favourite of mine and any Demon fan who saw him in his pomp. He burned out quickly but he burned very brightly to the point of incandescence. Coincidentally, it's also the 35th anniversary of people spelling Jakovich incorrectly.

No need to apologise mate, I couldn't care either way. I was just curious as I always associated the nickname with former Australian cricketer Mark Taylor and had never heard Jason given that sobriquet.

I had the pleasure of hearing Max talk at a Sportsman's Night (remember those?) on one occasion circa 1980 and he was a very funny and engaging speaker. He described his unusual bowling action as "right arm over left earhole". Max also related the (almost certainly apocryphal) tale of the Aussies on tour in England where they were enjoying an evening in a rustic pub when they heard Rod Marsh yelling out for help from the outside dunny. He claimed that, whenever he tried to get off the loo, somebody kept grabbing and squeezing his private parts. Turns out that he was sitting on a mop bucket. The punchline brought the house down, as they say.