bush demon

Yes, farcical rule, farcical application. I would prefer a clampdown instead on players who convey their dissent with dead-pan straight-faces, perhaps (also) sneakily coupled with a total absence of gestures or arm movements. These players are the true villains and such nasty, albeit well-concealed sarcasm/dissent should not be tolerated in the modern age. Surely we do not want a grand final decided in this fashion.

Any team that was strong from mid-sixties on was gifted massive media exposure as TV replays improved in quality and the same teams were getting constant exposure.

This one's a beauty, deserves its own post.

There's too many teams chasing too little silverware, and too many dead-rubber games of no consequence. To mis-quote No 2 from Austin Powers', "The Spy who shagged Me", the home and away games represent an unnecessarily long chase scene. We could go undefeated through the season and still get beaten by a team that has lost 10 games.

Hope BBB is iced after two quarters.

It must be a great advantage to have the 4 points in the bank before the w/e; the players are able to relax and recover without expending nervous energy.

Port were chopping off most of our handball strings, this may be what clubs are looking at to stymie our run. We just have to cut out some of the Hollywood handballs.

While the AFL continues to allow shameful hits on players in the name of manly aggression head injury symptoms will continue well into the future. The "its not basketball" defence remains sacrosanct in our code.

After following the Dees for too many decades I'll take ten wins in a row, a flag and the red and blue raining supreme on the G any day.

I think Tingay played in a final v St Kilda in 1998. He really smashed it in that game.

Seems like only yesterday I was reading the latest goss. on whether Steven Tingay would or would not go to Fremantle. Fortunately he dropped anchor with the Dees.

Bevvo should instead have planted a story and see if it got reported ie Teddy might do a lap of honour.

Funny how I went through my (part-time) cricket life with an incorrect grip/action and could never, ever work out spin bowling. Then a couple of years ago I watched a brilliant Shane Warne YouTube lesson and bingo, the ball was turning. Warnie was a master craftsman and a great cricket teacher!

I think 'soccer' is an abbreviation of 'association', aka football association. Not unlike 'league'.

I get annoyed when Sydney people call rugby "footy" when it is essentially a catching and throwing game.

Seeing Stan Alves in Melbourne tie has been worth the wait.

The Bartlett/"Chief" combo very underwhelming. Having a laugh and a joke last ten minutes, "junk time" etc. It's a GF, boys. Wouldn't be like that if Hawthorn or Richmond put on that display.

That GF surpasses the 1970 Carlton benchmark IMO. After all, that game was only in black and white.

You missed the 1971 fixture! We smashed North by over one hundred points. We got into the ground about the ten minute mark and the Dees were already 7 goals up. Brian Dixon was North coach. The group-think was that VFL Park was soulless but we loved that ground, it p$%ps all over Qatar airways stadium.

Slightly off topic! but I lost my keys on w/e and spent two days searching and stressing. Then a phone call from work... had I lost my keys. They were found in an office supplies car park and keys were traced back to my workplace. The demon lanyard and Angus Brayshaw key tag were described and manager knew keys were mine. Brilliant work again, Angus making something out of nothing.

Rockin' around the Christmas Dees!

Melbourne's GF win had echoes in Carlton's come from behind sensation in 1970. Yet in round 1 1971 Carlton were comfortably between by North, who would finish 9th that year. Come round 1 next year we need to leave the memories to YouTube, I'm sure we will. Still, every time we kick a big goal, or series of goals I'm the crowd will remind the boys of last year's heroics. I'm looking forward to that.

If it's an EV, and preferably with blade battery technology then is good.

Tom Sparrow and Canelo Alvarez.

When is the next Casey session, just quietly?