Demonstone

This is an old post of mine, which may give you an indication what a dreadful place it was. 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.

Confirmed not concussed AFAIK. Crook shoulder might be his main concern.

Get rid of the bounce altogether. Appoint umpires who are best at decision making, not those who (supposedly) are better at the tricky art of bouncing the footy.

That would make Kozzy our Mo Salah.

Why on earth would you rest him after one game? Continuity is the best way for him to return to his best. Viney for Spargo (shoulder) is the only realistic change for mine, assuming JV has fully recovered from his concussion.

Lets hope he's a star, man.

TMac looking very pensive at the back of the room in that photo.

Ha ha! Demonsone is a bit of a misery guts who always posted when Jordon had a decent game, saying "Why did we let him go? I hope Goodwin was watching". I was just being petty (not Harrison) and childish. I'm still a bit giddy with excitement after our excellent showing today.

James Jordon: 10 disposals, 2 tackles, numerous stuff-ups and turnovers. I hope @Demonsone was watching! 😀

Late goals: Sydney 2, Melbourne 1. And that was after we kicked four in a row.

There's another game at Docklands tonight, so I guess it's to allow enough time to clean and set up for the second match.

People I know in Hobart say the proposed site is poorly chosen, with not enough parking and little public transport. What do Tasmanian Demonlanders think? @Clintosaurus ? Others?

Geelong took their chances and kicked straight. Footscray did not.

Binman: I think your missing drevs point ds - as I noted it's also 5 metres narrower. Which means there's less area. @D Rev is clearly talking about going straight to goal from the centre bounce. Nothing to do with the width of the ground or overall dimensions.

A smaller ground (with shorter distances to cover) should result in higher scores.

My Captain sent me to see Private Parts who referred me up the chain to Corporal Punishment and I eventually ended up with a Major Headache.

I do. 155 metres is only five metres shorter than 160 metres. That's a difference of a mere 2.5 metres in each direction from the centre circle. (Imagine Max Gawn with his arms up ... about that distance) The SCG is almost the same length as the MCG. Any further queries should be directed to my Captain.

Chin has a wife AND a girlfriend? For his sake, I hope they never meet each other.

Fans often deride their players for "guarding grass". Jeff's analysis demonstrates why they do this and how a zone defence operates.

The SCG is 155m from goal line to goal line. The MCG is 160 metres. There's hardly any difference at all, but the myth persists.

I like to think of him as the St Jude of Demonland, still waiting for Juice Newton and Jeffo to come good.

This has popped up in a couple of other threads. Compulsory viewing if you haven't already watched it.

1 - That Jeff White video is most informative and a good watch. 2 - So much for the theory that the umpires hate us and/or the AFL instructs them to be biased against us.