bush demon

Anyone still around from 1948 will surely enjoy this: https://youtu.be/dI_Z5EFboNE?si=wPKgsRkv3jtJq1LL

"C sharp" is a bugger of a key to play in. I hope the match committee know what they are doing.

Looks like The Crows, The Eagles, The Swans and Hawks could be in for some grief...

I liked to get my early 70s football from The Sunday Observer...

Don't forget RDB bolted in the middle of the night and we got nothing except 57 years of grief. At least in modern times there is the fig leaf of compensation...

There's always Truth Social...

It was 1972. Mel 23.17 def NM 6.11. Melbourne 11 goals to 0 at quarter time. From memory we had 7 goals on the board in first 5 minutes.

The last time l went to Arden St we didn't arrive until 5 mins into the first quarter. Melbourne already had multiple goals on the board. 7? We went on to win by 100 points. Brian Dixon was new coach of North. I think it was 1970.

What if a player got suspended in one of these games... would his suspension affect his next game - whether that be either another indigenous game, or merely a knee in the back home and away game?

I just want to say that l went to the footy for years with Paul Callery's 35 on my back, and have never regretted it...

Ian Cooper was very skinny...

Melbourne smashed previous year's premier in this round 14 clash. Showcases the Dees in their early 60s pomp. https://youtu.be/q6OzEFifWVU?si=iKEre4ElFm4iY1Zg

The following week we would be flogged by grand finalists, Hawthorn. I think we won our last six games by very big margins, but RDB got suspended v Tigers and we lost our mojo.

Some real gold from Rhetrospective: Melbourne v St Kilda, R9 1963 https://youtu.be/t3uuSbCgiZI?si=X4mvuNg8HSkQDn7y

Robertson was a great player.

Well there was always the option - in the old days, of reading Jack Dyer's "Dyer'ere" articles in The Truth...

Oops...Essendon snuck one in 2000...

We have won a premiership since the inception of the AFL. How many Afl clubs can't say that? Fremantle GC Suns GWS St Kilda. Essendon Carlton North Adelaide haven't won one this millennium.

That's an anomolous stat... why not choose a period more representative of recent history... we had a historic bad patch, but have had good five years snd currently have an excellent list. The glass needs to be half-full before it is consumed.

This fearless duo would have been nothing without Jack Little.

Barassi to Townsend to Bourke to Mann...

The passage of play taking the ball from the back line involving Barassi, Bourke and Mann (l have forgotten someone) is the best sequence of football - preserved on video - from the Demons' golden era. PS Did you ask Hassa why he shanked that shot on goal?

That could be possible. They were thrilling games, via radio 3DB...

Don't think Gary Hardeman ever played in a final...