Redleg

Note that timing is everything. North case out of the way. Crows by next tuesday. Then AFL staff fly out to GC for a couple of days sun and relaxation before the draft. After the draft a couple more days in the sun and then home. Dees inquiry will go on until nearly xmas and IMO then be abandoned. AFL staff then off to xmas holidays.

Just watched the first half of Dees v GC at the G on Fox Footy. Morton had 1 possie i saw and put it out of bounds. Gysberts looked apathetic, got a couple of possies and then turned them all over. He didn't tackle, chase and basically spectated. Beamer did nothing other than point which he does very well. Can only say they were pathetic that day. I am sure they would agree.

ABC kids show Bananas in Pyjamas should give an update.

Can't update on the banana situation up here on the Gold Coast, unfortunately.

It will be interesting to see how the Casey situation ends up.

That's nice.

Believe it or not just ran into Ricky P and Meesen in Broadbeach. I am sure someone will pick Ricky up.

Cocker Spaniels?

I think the other one will zoom past this one if she writes any thing else bad about us.

Up in Queensland with WJ. Looking at banana prices. There could be some developments.

Something positive. That's nice.

Can fully understand.

Saw Silvagni at a Restaurant last night and nearly wanted to ask him how you know who was going and who they were taking 1,2 & 3.

In my backyard as a 12 year old with a Magpie mate listening on a transistor radio. Couldn't get a ticket and my parents weren't into football.

At this point that wouldn't worry me.

Congrats guys. 100000 views and 127 pages and 3155 replies and still going strong.

Any news today?

Here it is for those that can't be bothered searching for it. I am 60 and have supported them all my life. My wife and kids the same. Never seen them win a flag. Copped [censored] from other clubs fans all my life but never strayed. I started the first supporters club magazine, called Demon's World. I started a supporters group called the Premier's Club. I have been a Director of the club. I have been Team Manager of the club. I brought in a new President, Wayne Reid. I am a Foundation member. I am a sponsor. I enjoy Demonland. I have given all my hope and soul to this club. I don't want anything but success for the club. I have watched Boards fight each other. I was even part of one big fight. I nearly cried at the merger meeting when I saw the way people treated the late Tiger Ridley, a true Demon great. I have seen the club tear itself apart. This year I watched as Jim passed away, not long after two other Demon greats in Sean Wight and Stewart Spencer. I watched a sponsor stuff us up. I watched the Jurrah situation. I watched as our Coach was falsely called a racist. I watched the team get smashed week after week. I watched the media go to town on us and they still are. It just seems so unfair. Other teams cheat and win Premierships. We are the only team to win a game that losing would have given us a priority pick and we did it twice. When we did get a pick the kid spent a year lying to us and his dying President before the AFL took him away from us. There is so much more i could go on about. We seem to spend all of our time worrying about our club. It nearly makes you want to cry and give up. However that is just not acceptable as I have my children and grandchildren who I want to one day enjoy success that I have been denied. Stop the fighting amongst each other and all get behind the club. If we lose draft picks I want this club to fight all the way and I mean all the way. We owe it to those who came before and those who will come after. I don't give a rat's arse what we have to do to prevail in this situation, I just want it done. If we have to bring in every other club or destroy Demetriou or hurt the AFL I don't give a sh-t anymore. I have had enough. Yes we may have been naughty but no different to many other clubs yet we alone once again are copping it. Our brand is being trashed and our future hampered and in fact put at real risk. We have 40 or so players who want to win for us and we need to support them. I don't care how dirty we need to be just do it. We are seen as a weak club. NO BLOODY MORE. If we lose draft picks, we should hit the Courts, rally at the AFL and show the rest of the clubs that we are here to stay. Sorry for the rant, I have just had a gutful. Edited by Redleg, Yesterday, 10:53 PM.

I understand the GC and GWS have a free banana policy, where they are paid for by the AFL and not included in their salary caps.

Anything happening at the moment?

Don't panic, there will be no draft, thanks to the Supreme Court, if we lose picks before we are afforded natural justice and the right to call our witnesses and cross examine the AFL's.

Welcome to the thread Spork.

48 years of failure, yet still we support and hope. What will the AFL do to us next?

Another interesting day.

I sometimes wonder if the peripheral football matters get more media than the actual games.