Tony Tea

Money quote. There's not a person in the Demons footy brains-trust who would not have expected most sides in the comp to come up with tactics to counter Melbourne. They only needed to look to what Clarko did in our draw last year to see that the Hawks pushed up to deny us space around the ball. (The Dogs would have kicked themselves after the GF.) And things like dart passes into our Back50 are bread and jam for sides who want to break up and spread out our zones. (Apparently our pressure is way down on last year, which has enabled opponents to pick us apart.) The key is: What are we going to do about it? We don't appear to have done a lot so far, but I live in hope we have something up our collective sleeve.

If we have been worked out "it’s a bad space to live in" according to Kingy. Whatever that means.

I'm broadly content to let spelling and grammar slide on a footy chat room - with the odd exception - just as long as we all agree that pretentious Dermott tries to sound intelligent by misusing big words, whose meanings completely elude him.

We tanked. Others tanked. It's just that we did it more flagrantly than the others. Same as peptides. Dons drugged. Others drugged. It's just that the Dons did it more flagrantly than others.

Every time I get pessimistic about Jackson and Brayshaw leaving, I always remember we've signed Petracca and Oliver for a decade and I instantly feel better.

I read that article last night, and quickly dismissed it as confetti when it became clear everyone is a good commentator, when in fact, the AFL is as poorly served for commentators as any sport in the world. In a word, our footy commentary is dreadful.

Try a proctologist.

Buddy was a Dees fan and even during his time at Hawthorn and Sydney he secretly barracked for Melbourne. Or so I heard.

At least the current North have provided competition for the "worst team since Fitzroy" title.

This is the reason I have kept my Demons reserved seat membership on top of my MCC membership.

I played for them too, and there were plenty of scraps in the club rooms in the early 90s.

The Blues certainly look impressive, but whenever they have struggled, both in patches of games and more generally in games they've lost, it's because oppositions' defences have shut down their run-and-gun, and we have the best shut down defence.

I love a good footy fact, and that's a beauty. Who knew? I mean, apart from medicos.

"Players have resonated towards him." Resonate towards?!? Tom Browne's schooldays were a bust? Who uses resonate in a semi-transitive sense? The man's a journalist, for Pete's sake. And a lawyer. Philistine!

The VoN will come back with interest if we don't win the flag.

I'd be stunned if we hadn't already war-gamed multiple tags.

Ahem.

He's an evil legend among all my Demon supporting school friends.

Speaking of dishonourable mentions - sorry, Neeldy.

Sorry, Balmey. Sorry, Roosy. Dishonourable mentions.

Smith, Goodwin, Northey, Daniher, Dennis Jones.

Round 1, 2019. A rancid loss at the MCG against Port.

Yes. We've got to be careful we don't overrate wins in which the opposition miss chances or we will be ambushed when sides do take chances. Still, Hawks are the best side we've played this year and as WJ said, we had an unsettling week.

"PRIMARY reasons" plural is not grammatically legit; especially with "PRIMARY" capitalised for emphasis

Does that make him a goal shark?