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    1 hour ago, bush demon said:

    We need to learn the lessons of history, especially the 60s. In particular, l remember an episode of Get Smart featuring a seductive character called "Simon the Likeable".

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    I missed a key phrase...

    We need to learn the lessons of history, especially the 60s. In particular, l remember an episode of Get Smart featuring a seductive character called "Simon the Likeable".

    1 hour ago, Leopold Bloom said:

    So 100 years ago, the Hawks were road kill. I think they stole our thunder from the late 1960s after which they became a regular power and we were meh for so long.

    In Red Fox the story is told how Norm Smith knocked back Percy Cerutty's post '60 flag summer boot camp and cerutty then turned Hawthorn into Kennedy's commandos.

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    1 hour ago, DeeSince73 said:

    This absolutely makes me lose my mind. I have been around long enough to have witnessed a lot of this stuff.

    Almost every time a Melbourne player gets injured during play, the commentators downplay it in favour of the offending player. And to top it off whenever we do something remotely similar our player is made out to be the world's worst. It does my head in and it's been happening for years.

    It's not me seeing the game through red and blue glasses there is definite media bias.

    But, it's not as if anything is gonna come of it. Just our usual whack, all part and parcel of being a Demon.

    The worst example of this of course was the 2000 GF where Brad Green and Troy Simmonds both fell victim to football-type actions. Otherwise, it's a remarkably violent game, because it seems that what the punters, and head office want.

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    23 hours ago, Dee Zephyr said:

    If I was in charge I’d never take Kozzie off. I feel they got back in the game in the 2nd when Kozz was off for 5-10 mins. He was ripping them a new one up to that point.

    Absolutely. There is so much group think about rotations, decision to "rest" him beggars belief.

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    The problem is we have no respect for our opponents, (thinking we are are still the fabulous INVINCIBLES of '21) hence all the inwardly-focussed savaging of our NQR'S. The problem is we lack a gorilla forward, hence all the savaging of our not-quite good enough goal-kickers who have to fashion goals out of extreme negativity. Tier One teams can just import whomever they like into their teams and just waltz up to the goals like the jolly swagman. We are expecting heroics out of Gawn, Petracca, Oliver et al, who are expected to be master extractors on every occasion, and in every situation. For a sober, black and white perspective on our goal kicking yips just look at all the slapstick misses and blunders by Barassi Townsend, Kenneally, Lord, Vagg etc (barrass0.4, Vagg 0.5, Lord similar) in the recently recovered HEROICS of '64 video. If by chance Froggy Crompton had not snapped our one and only last quarter goal we would no doubt have crucified that whole team into early retirement. And they didn't have a gorilla forward either, unless of course John Lord is accused of being a gorilla.

    14 hours ago, Tim said:

    Saturday is the 40th anniversary of Leigh Matthews giving Neville Bruns a busted jaw behind the play. Amazing vision on YouTube; Matthews himself ends up staggering off the field with a bloodied face and helped by trainers after the subsequent melée. Apparently it was 20yo Steve Hocking who took on the role of equalizer. Lethal was charged by police, deregistered as a player for 4 weeks by the then VFL, but still managed to get amongst the goals in his final 9 games, including bags of 6 and 4.

    That was a dreadful day, not unlike the John Greening king-hit in early 70s. These days AFL have codified king-hitting in the guise of CTE-inducing "football acts" where any player on the ground can get his head pounded at any time.

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    42 minutes ago, John Crow Batty said:

    I guess we started it when we poached Jeff White from them. It’s just normal every day football shenanigans and the exploitation and uncertainties of the go home factor.

    There was a long-drawn out media saga in 1998 where Fremantle were trying to poach one of our champions, Steven Tingay. Thankfully it didn't come to pass.

    23 hours ago, Previously known as LITD. said:

    Cats defender Tom Stewart cleared from a bone rattling bump.

    To be fair, he didn't leave the ground. But at 190 cm, he's a big bloke, so players of his ilk are always going to get a lot of players higher up.

    It seems a tough area to adjudicate on. Didn't look to have eyes for the ball and certainly took the recipient out.

    Basically now the precedent is someone like Max could "bump" a small player and totally clean them up. But I'm sure they will flip flop.

    None of us want to see the game become too sanitary in this area , so maybe they got this one right. It's a tough game AFL. Maybe there's a bit of bloodlust in a lot of us.

    Well not wishing for permanent harm but I think we all do enjoy seeing a little bit of physicality in the game.

    Let's just hope for some consistency on this issue. And a few decent bumps against the pies tomorrow.

    There's always MMA, if you like that kind of physical injury. Hopefully some kind of class action in the distant future will clean up this carnage and lighten the pockets of some of these Sports executives, hopefully the AFL as well.

    8 hours ago, Dr. Gonzo said:

    Facebook comments said it was found in a shed in Perth

    https://www.nfsa.gov.au/latest/1964-vfl-grand-final-rare-footage-rediscovered#:~:text=Found%20among%20a%20collection%20of,long%2Dunheard%20live%20television%20commentary.

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    1 hour ago, demon3165 said:

    Great analysis and it was good to see him mention about not getting sucked into the contest and hold, this is what the pies are doing, you watch Nick Daicos will lead his opponent into the contest and then peel away same with Josh it's smart play just hope we can continue to do those little things.

    In primary school the technical term was "stacks on the mill".

    1 hour ago, Roost it far said:

    Considering I put my house, car, partner and kids on it I’m feeling quite relieved. Also I’ve now got 2 houses, 2 cars, 2 partners and 4 kids. Sheesh.

    We win next week and it's polyarmory...

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    4 hours ago, picket fence said:

    What's badly needed is a stand alone AFL reserves comp, and as you all know I've been saying this since the dawn of time!

    Only on the condition that a brass band plays at half-time...

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