daisycutter

Rubbish Dave. A quarter-back (or point guard) has no equivalent in AFL - totally different roles with no comparability What next? A tight head? lol

you might be onto something there F'em this could be the missing link in the team's form and morale drop and 186 hmmmmmmmmmmm....what say you wyl?

[deep] if you had knickers made from a sugar bag you'd understand [/deep]

Zacchary Billy, as bad as Hose and his point guard tish

Instead of this thread being titled "Cloke and Dagger" it could have equally been titled "Cloke and Daddy" I'd only have Cloke at Melb if we could be guaranteed it didn't include his father

Yes I understand but recently there has been (supposedly) an enhanced emphasis on sliding in with the knees especially front on And where injury has been sustained. Blease had to be subbed off and could miss weeks I have only seen this incident replayed once after the game with little comment With a zillion afl journos/commentators supposedly starved for stories it is surprising this (and kelly) didn't get more discussion If Blease had been Rioli or Thomas or DelSanto it would have had massive coverage

why are the press so silent on these incidents (fletcher, ryder, kelly)? is it just a case of knowing which side your toast is buttered?

LOL..........are you Eddie?

I'm staggered. All the commentators thought he was gone, Same with Ryder for tripping Same with Fletcher for front on kneeing And I think of JT getting 3 weeks for a sling tackle..............................where is the consistency

I think it might be easier to land a man on mars od

The Ugly The umpire for taking the mark off Garlo after he flicked off his opponent to the ground in the last quarter did everyone else feel that he just fairly stood his ground?

we should have a contest to see who can come up with the worst bummer clash strip

Good point DS.........but then essenscum would have to wear their clash strip Whats that you say? They haven't got one! Well then it'll have to stay at one home game a year Wouldn't do to upset essenscum or make the afl look impotent would it?

Well it would have if Beamer didn't look so dejected and miserable. He didn't seem to enjoy being there even after a great win I found it embarrassing

LOL I knew my argument was struggling and if I was a bummer supporter i'd probably have argued the opposite in the heat of the moment (and after glow) should definitely been a vid referral but unless they had other angles would have been inconclusive and goal umps first decision would have stood maybe in the future we will replace goal posts and padding with brightly lit laser posts only a millimetre wide?

This whole situation is in bad need of clariication It seems to me the following is true 1. At least part of the ball was over the line (inconclusive from cameras if all of the ball was) 2. Essendon player touched a part of the ball already over the line i.e. his touch was behind the line. Q. what is the "line". Is it the line between the post measured from front of posts inc padding, or the back of posts inc padding or a mid line. A. Pretty sure it is the line at back of posts inc padding. So all of ball must be past this back line? Note thickness of post plus padding is at least 50+% of ball lengthwise and 90+% of ball width wise What I find contentious is that the touch was to a part of the ball behind the line. I don't know what the rule is here but I think the touch should only count if the touch is forward of the line (remebering the line is at the back of the post). It doesn't seem right to me that a goal is disallowed when a player touches a part of the ball already over the line. If the Essendon player had marked the ball (cleanly) would it have been a mark even though all ball contact was behind the line?

Will the gadget man be cited by the mrp for a sliding knee into sammy blease's hip put him out of the game and maybe more weeks saw it on ch7 this am - didn't look good and gadget man has form

sounds like she has put the saddle on backwards then

LOL Post of the season WYL

Saw Sylvia after the game , smirking, grinning and laughing..........WTF........Oh thats right we won As you were....

Yeah Eff off scum

Your humble pie is in the post Jackie Hope you choke on it

It's been getting hard lately reading/posting on demonland, what with having to wear a gas mask and all I was thinking that this year instead of an inter-forum football match we should have an intra-forum contest with the apologists & pollyannas versus the doomsayers & chicken-littles - pitchforks at 20 paces should do the trick

never been the same since that tree ran him down

our new midfield coach? Sign him up quick