Tony Tea

I never like to see anyone else win the flag. I just have sides who I would prefer not to win.

How did they know to pick MY Taylor out of all the Taylors? Uncanny.

Even taking into account the Freo absentees, Melbourne's footy was very good.

I'm more worried about May's "tightness".

Sounds even less appealing than the Australian version of Would I Lie to You.

1969 had 20 games. There was two step transition from 18 to 22. 22 started in 1970.

Based on running into Lachie Henderson and gifting top spot to the Dees.

I stand corrected. Well, sit. He looked pretty ready today.

HUGH FITZPATRICK hasn't watched much footy if he thinks Sam Weideman has great hands.

What we got 'ere is failure to commun'cate. Daisy shows up all the recent special comments commentators because she is one thing the they are not - a good communicator. You'd think the ability to clearly communicate would be a KPI lock for a commentator, but for the last few years - decades - the special comments commentators have been players first and communicators last. Duck is an absolute wood duck; it's no contest between him and Daisy. Bucks is actually a good communicator too, so he'll be a welcome addition to the commentary ranks.

Trade him for Sam Walsh.

There can be no doubt that the umpires looked at the first final last year when Free Weightman conned the umps 5 times, and decided to pay no coulda-been-paid frees. The Dogs got a few cheat frees in the GF, but mostly the umps pointedly ignored the Scray's shenanigans. In short: the Dogs had no one to blame but themselves. They overplayed their hand, and got hit by the karma bus. Chuck in the 2016 GF for retrospective caution by the umps.

Tomlo is probably not quite ready, but they love Smith, and the Van Rooyen is taking big strides. Embarrassment of riches.

#DestinationDemons

Plenty of Demon players retired early for career reasons, which makes me wonder whether the Dees were more observant of the Coulter Law than other clubs whose champions received incentives to continue.

A funny take on "hanging up his boots."

I'm the right vintage, but I don't think I ever saw Cook play.

Jack may not be the most polished footballer, and has copped stick here for it, but was made to win finals. He's a better version of Brett Kirk who couldn't kick, mark or hand pass but was a vital ingredient of two premierships.

Bowey's clean hands and precise disposal for the win.

Funny you mentioned that. I've been adamant on the Twitter, and copped a pasting, that Hawkins intentionally clocked May in the match early in the season. It was an absolute no-brainer that Hawkins had a swing because no one would convict him (especially the ex player gang in the media) because he could always say it was an accident. But you pull any one of those media pundits aside and I'll guarantee they'll agree Hawkins had a free hit, and they'll acknowledge with a nod and a wink that everyone knows what Hawkins was really up to.

Glenn is Scott's uncle. Grandfather played for sash trash Richmond.

Do you know what were Ron's symptoms? Every time you hear someone has caught Covid, you never hear what it was like.

Robbie was more graceful, but Clarrie is now my No.1 Demon. (Born in 1961.)

Check the note at the end.

Yesterday I was looking for Castlemaine carpenters on Facebook and found one Ben Hovey. A quick squizz at his profile showed he was from Geelong. I'm assuming he is the same Ben Hovey who as a kid used to ring up Demon Radio (and who was from the Geelong FC Hovey clan). So there's one other Dees fan here.