Tony Tea

Maxy's absence deprives us of the enjoyment of listening to the commentators tie themselves in knots telling us that although Max is playing better, Grundy is playing better and is a better ruckman and a more valuable contributor and an all round more luminous human being.

I've also had Bomber mates ask why Brown wasn't getting a game. Most rate him for at least the first 22.

Echoing the thoughts of many Demonlanders, hopefully last night's game put paid to suggestions we trade Oliver.

... I will shrug and chalk up another Demonesque loss.

I have a mate who used to be high up at a club who told me it was club policy to bring back injured players against weak sides with Melbourne being most often the side targeted to give the returning player a soft reintroduction to league footy.

Dean Bailey brought those ideas to us, and were on display from his first game, but he lacked the players and ultimately club support.

Cyril areas. And Stix Brayshaw with a textbook Demonesque handball to a teammate's feet.

Bartlett operating like an adult. Tick. VG.

WWI says hi.

No Lever, no Adelaide.

Carlton have been a league power, they have won a lot of flags, and it won't hurt them to spend a couple of farcical decades emulating us.

I had always thought that Melbourne beat Hawthorn at Glenferrie in round 18 to clinch top spot, but that was round 17. Melbourne actually lost in round 18 to Footscray. The bigger loser was Geelong. Had the Cats beaten StKilda they would have finished top. That means in 1964 Melbourne won pole position and the flag courtesy of a Geelong loss, then returned to the finals 23 years later courtesy of another Geelong loss.

Kicked 11, should have kicked 22. Typical Jacko.

Round 10 Carlton was sitting on four wins, but Judd gave them the nod so Carlton made sure they didn't win another game. The Kreuzer Cup was more about Judd than Kreuzer.

I think the sibling rule is a good idea. There are not enough imperfections in the draft.

I had thought we blew 1990 by losing to cellar dwellers, but the six games we lost were mostly against respectable sides. Hawthorn (5th), Collingwood (2nd but eventual premier), North (6th) and St Kilda (9th) all played good footy. Geelong (10th) had a poor year amidst good years. The Sydney (13th) loss, by 5 points after kicking badly, and the hammered percentage against North were crucial.

When we got flogged by Norf, John Longmire was only 19 yo but kicked 14 and our percentage went from 119 to 106. A typical Demonesque loss. What's more, the Norf loss dropped us from 3rd to 4th but despite winning 7 of the last 9 games we stayed anchored in 4th place even though we cracked 16 wins.

2003. Anzac Day. There was a lot of booze and bad manners that night.

Umpire Caulfield. Dogs got a shed load of goals from frees and to rub it in Chris Grant got 3 votes in the Brownlow despite getting killed by Neitz. (Which enabled Grant to get his Brownlow cancelled by Collo - karma bus.)

I remember people saying Weetra was going to be a good player, but when he finally got a game, and I finally got to see him play, I groaned.

I won't bother chasing a refund.

He had an ugly kicking action, but the ball generally went where it was intended.

Anthony Ingerson.

There's as much chance of a privately owned AFL club as there is of Geoffrey Edelsten inventing a cure for Corona Virus and bringing Christopher Skase back to life.

A cohort? I would have thought Darwin was more of a contubernium.