bush demon

We also got Ron Barassi from North

Jarrott?

one flag since september '64, underwhelmed.

There are already enough fake umpiring decisions.

Billy Snedden.

That version lingers...

Best get for a v. long time. Crackers and Stan, all is forgiven!

Everton are still top of the table FWIW. The AFL is dead, long live the top 4. Anyone who thinks this is one competition obviously hasn't sat through every episode of Breaking Bad.

Was driving to Traralgon about March last year on a sporting assignment when I got a call. It was Clayton Oliver on a membership drive. I said I would re-sign, since he had called me! - but couldn't talk because I was driving. Headline: Clayton Oliver gets Bush Demon's signature after phone call.

These pictures are courtesy of my friend Donna's 1964 Melbourne FC scrapbook. Inc mobil swap cards. https://app.photobucket.com/u/normnc/p/ef3c9513-8b4d-4730-9cc6-103ea33f6cbc https://app.photobucket.com/u/normnc/p/bcd1709b-18b6-469b-a937-7be62b20b6b8

An archival rarity:

Thought I'd share some Dire Straits. Prophetic, it turns out.

From The Age, Monday 21 September.

My friend's sister in Warragul has a ripping round by round scrapbook of 1964 culled from the papers. I am more than happy to help you out. She went to training one night and got the players' autographs as well.

This is spot on. We have had good enough teams since our last flag and if this team got photoshopped into other club colours our fade outs and underachievement would vanish. So are our AFL players just journeymen on fat contracts? Look at the players after the games, they are all best mates. If Clarkson had coached Melbourne the last ten years he would no doubt have been consigned to the scrapheap, so it's not just about the coach. We just seem to rise to a certain level of achievement and then blancmange back into our previous state of mediocrity. Get sick of it after a few decades because the cycle of failure is so routine.

Keep your eye on the red and the blue.

How many A grade footballers did Melbourne recruit between their 1960 flag and their collapse in 1965? Bourke and Townsend? Now compare with the champions the other clubs were accumulating during that period.

Cliff from Clematis.

Heroic efforts by Barassi, see his courage spoiling a mark, and marking under pressure.

Errrm, thrice.

this: "they call me will-A ("Tommy") Stay so cool, I'm chilli I done made that milli On my way to that valet Used to have a piggy bank, but now I got that bigger bank Who who cares what the haters think They hate on me 'cause we doing what they can't I stay on that hustle, I flex that little muscle Hate to bust your bubble I'm on that other level I'ma take it higher and high and high and higher I stay and buy attire (ie Melbourne/ gws / Hawks jumpers) Keeping burning like that fire..." etc