Tony Tea

33 can precisely be called 30+.

"In retrospect" - not my favourite phrase.

Do we need a 30+ sweeper (read: loose man, kick chaser) well past his prime?

The zones were supposed to operate on a rotation, but the clubs who got the good zones convinced the VFL to make the zones permanent.

Sydney is the only team in the AFL to not miss the finals two years in a row since 1996 when they made the GF. And even when Roos took over from Eade in 2002 the Swans came a not disgraceful 11th and finished the season on a roll winning 5 of the last 6 games.

Jack, you're a lawyer. Is there anything wrong with Robbo playing the tape privately to people?

We all know the MFC was a basket case (since passed to StKilda) under Neeld - that is old news. Ralphy took a comment from Manger which, via a non sequitur, he turned into a free kick at Melbourne. Then the subby applied the garnish with an OTT headline. Click. Bait.

I certainly agree with that.

I was in the MCC too but I don't remember any booing, although I do remember several angry fans.

Taken out of context, misquoted, sorry if I offended anyone.

Crap article - even crappier headline (in the paper): "Demons in disarray." I would be obliged if anyone can point out to me how Magner having a sook about being left out of the side becomes a "picture of dysfunction and confusion".

Taggart could not get a game for the worst team this century...

You guess right. In case you missed the last 20 odd years, light, outside, undersized opportunists who go missing when the heat is on have seen us lose pretty much every game in which hard-nosed, big-bodied, head-over-the-ball competitive animals were needed to stop us getting monstered.

Didn't we squash the Nahas nonsense several months ago?

Tom Hawkins went to Melbourne Grammar under the father-son rule.

6:30am on Sunday morning? Fortunately I will be asleep.

Fingers crossed Viv will be more Andrew McLeod and less Craig Nettlebeck.

You may be confusing 2000 with 1993, when Sheedy selected Wallis for the grand final to replace Derek Kickett. That year Wallis had not played since late in the home-and-away season, but came in and ironed out Mil Hanna.

Mono, your imaginative point rests on the bold and underlined assertion that Sheedy & Wallis are beneath contempt because Wallis was selected out of the blue for the 2000 grand final as a hired gun, brought in for his only game of 2000 simply to pick off Demon players. Would you like to know that Wallis actually played 16 games in 2000, including the qualifying final and preliminary final. (Re-read that.)

If Wallis did the same playing in a Melbourne premiership side no one here would bat an eyelid.

Can't shake the tank.

Tom Gillies is available.

Cameron Schwab writing about club management is like Terry Wallace writing about list management.

Lynden "Limpet" Dunn will stick around past the end of his career.

Supporters comparing the relative worth of their own club's players with opposition clubs' players is like comparing apples and oranges with chalk and cheese.