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Stephen Smith, great player for the DeeS. Infamously wore a heavy hit from Leigh Matthews.

Probably now timely to have an external review of the AFL'S footballing acts, and driving knees into a player's back.

The bottom line out of all this may well be that any medium or smaller club (not under-written by head-office) by definition has a bad culture.

I hope they don't bring up Brian Dixon being dropped from the 1957? Grand Final team. That would truly be explosive.

If you are referring to the collision with Andromeda, that's about 5B. years.

Eery parallels with the RDB departure, similar age, similar profile. Club had recently won a premiership. Looking to expand the brand. Walked in to a club gathering one day (acc. to Red Fox) and didn't like the vibe. Went to Carlton.

Trac said he wanted to go to Collingwood because they kneed him very badly.

Not sure if we have ever had another 28 yo premiership champion - of similar heritage seeking to walk out in the dead of night. Plus ca change.

Anyone who lived through Melbourne's first decade of gloom would place Hassa Mann right up in their top five. Schwarz had top 1-2 in his hands until fate intervened. Robbie Flower got his due recognition in State games and in the '87 finals series - a true sporting genius. But Ronald Dale was the driving force of a sustained period of greatness, making him number 1.

AFL, you are supposed to be running the competition, you are not the commentariat.

You are making my argument for me: re Kossie and Spargo. Fritsch is a finisher. And it's easy to kick a player/team when they are down.

Getting out the back is a time-honoured profession. Fritsch got out the back in the 2021 GF and won us the premiership. Barry Vagg was a goal-sneak, Teddy Hopkins the same. You don't want these lightly-framed players getting exhausted racking up the K's and then being unable to perform their magic.

You just have to remember the cardinal football rule: always be second to the ball so you can take out the ball player with a big knee or hands in the back. Umpires look away when ball players suffer these Football Acts.

Harry Connick Jnr and Jack Viney.

j American magician Mat Franco, Jack Billings, MFC.

The state of lawlessness in the last five minutes of Collingwood v North was a site to behold. Shoving of players nowhere near the ball, Daicos red-hot in front of goals = not paid. Unwatchable.

It's all "AFL" sanctioned violence. it gets patrons through the turnstiles, and pays the bills.

Jefferance Farmer took an absolute speccy in front of goals in first minute of game then missed from dead in front.

Makes sobering reading: https://www.theage.com.au/politics/federal/as-a-long-suffering-fan-the-demons-dynasty-looks-over-before-it-began-20240611-p5jl0j.html?btis Got a bit of a stench of '65 about it. Funny thing is l think it was the North loss in '65 that broke our back. And we play them next.

This is a really good discussion, but there are so many vested interests in maintaining "AFL", as a colosseum sport, and there are so many violent aspects to our code that the crowd just bays for. Two things have turned me right off the game. 1. Was the big hit l saw Daniel Bell take a few years back at Casey, the other was the premeditated flattening of Angus Brayshaw last year. Having said that, l don't condone either "bumps" such as Liam Ryan's which knocked Maynard rotten a week or so back. You just have to see how ingrained this ambivalence towards violence is when someone like Hamish Brayshaw forgives the backhander that wiped out his brother. Because the teams are so even across the competition the niggle and the hit have become points of difference in close games. I just hope that tribunal members and AFL execs. who condone some of these barbaric aspects of our code are one day held personally liable through class actions etc.

What punters don't realise is that the players are all mates flying under flags of convenience. The AFL distributes betting colours, otherwise known as non-clash strips, and then the supporters decorate the stadiums for the gambling industry.

Is it just me or is there a paucity of snow-related humour since the Coodabeens went the way of The Kevin Dennis Football show?

The Original: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doug_Heywood

Goodwin now has a place in Demon history with the '21 flag. When Smith started (coaching) the Dee's had already won four in the preceding ten years. Too many people quick to tear a man down.