Tony Tea

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.

For years we've had to sit through the media showcasing famous Grand Final moments that always featured other sides, and the Demons never got a mention. There's only the barest footage of Neil Crompton's goal in 1964, and all other great Demon moments were pre-TV. Even the Saints have the footage of Breen's famous point, and Whitten's "hit the boundary". (Perhaps that's a curse.) Now, finally, we have our very own Great Grand Final Moment, and it maybe tops all others.

I live in Castlemaine and was light on for Demon company (plenty of Dogs fans) but serendipitously, it turns out the bloke who lives across the street is a hard core Demon. Still, the fact that Castlemaine is not a Demon hotbed hasn't stopped me from wearing an item of Demon clothing every day since the Grand Final.

The Grand Final umpires, who largely refused to pay coodabeen-paid frees to the Dogs. Although, that was the Dogs' own fault for overacting earlier in the finals (and all year).

I ordered a Premiers shirt from the AFL last Friday, and received it yesterday.

I'm at the limit to the number of paid subscriptions I'm prepared sign up for.

Dermott is probably a good bloke, but his footy analysis is too often poor and pretentious. Ask yourself how much weight his opinions would carry if he wasn't a famous (and very good) ex-player. He tries to sound impressive but too often uses big words he doesn't know the meaning of, and butchers other big words. Take apart his wise-old-man pronouncements and you find the essence of what he says is okay, but often garbled in layers of sloppy garnish. That said, we have to be wary of Cats 2007 and Tigers 2018. In both years they were clearly the best side, but were ambushed in the finals. There's a good chance we will be the best side next year, but I hope we don't expose our flank in the finals.

Even when it was flying high it had "hmmmmm" written all over it.

The fact we won a flag without him speaks for itself.