Tony Tea

The fact that you can win the Brownlow because you had one really good year should be reflected on by the AA selectors who employ legacy picks to reflect a player's body of work, not their performance in a particular year. Robbo... cough, cough... Brad Johnson.

Eek? Eke!

I'm looking forward to 2021 going down in history as the first flag of our premiership Deenasty.

Lynch is a key forward, so it's fair to assume he cops heaps of treatment from his weekly tormenter. If he hands out the occasional sly one it's no big deal for me.

I almost considered making a worthwhile comment.

This has been my worry for several years now. We are never going to win a flag if every time we start to build a list we lose a key player.

What, since when did Charles Dickens start commenting on Demonland?

Jack Viney reminds me of Brett Kirk - can't kick, can't handball, can't mark, bl00dy champion.

If Oliver left I'd give footy away.

Watch the selectors tie themselves in knots inventing ways to keep Oliver out of the 22.

DisMay at May dis.

Idiots.

No.

Had his cards marked when he dropped that last seconds mark against us last year.

"Brownlow Medal favourite" - there's your get-out clause right there.

Caro glibly makes a raft of assertions about the club. Fair enough, it's what she does. But I was left wondering why I had not heard about any one of them. Admittedly I'm not plugged in to the main vein, but after seven years I figure I would have heard at least a skerrick.

Michael Voss?

This is probably the wrong time to confess that I like James Brayshaw.

There's a reason he keeps getting picked.

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.