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11 hours ago, Dees_In_October said:
If only everyone in Melbourne had such a thought process, our membership would be through the roof!
New membership strategy based on this thread:
- Put a membership delegate at the Irish embassy.
- Find a way to reach out to influential older siblings in families likely to produce several children (and then occasionally check in to make sure none are secretly harbouring disloyalty!)
- Have a "give your neighbours a scarf" membership option.
- (After googling what the "Tarax Show" was) get a Dees player on an episode of Bluey ASAP.
- Seek out regional/international sporting teams with the same colours and convert on that basis.
- Reach out to players with short or non-playing careers and cement the friendship for generations to come, so no one can question the validity of their claims.
- Give junior members money for playground bribery.
- Start enforcing the "no choice" clause when it comes to house-kicking-out.
- Pets with red and blue strings attached.
Every club in Aus (there are many) which plays in the red and blue, and calls themselves the Demons should be offered some kind of affiliation status, even it is merely symbolic.
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The first point to make is that when you are a kid you are highly impressionable. And football games for boys at a young age can be excessively addictive. So when we got the massive TV aerial put up in central Gippsland all of a sudden it was Ron Barassi mania. Sometime in '63 l must have chosen Melbourne, because there is a wasted part of my brain that remembers channel 7 replaying ad infinitum Ron "decking" Roger Dean, which we all know didn't happen. There is another wasted part of my cerebellum which recalls highlights of Melbourne wiping Collingwood in the '64 second semi. Strangely enough l don't have any highlight reels of the GF. But my English father took me to see Everton v Australia that year at Olympic Park and the green'n'gold were smashed 8-2. Funny that l have supported Everton since that day, as well. (And it is wonderful to see them climb out of adversity this year, culminating in a 2-0 thrashing of Chelsea overnight). So l caught the very tail-end of Demon Greatness, then proceeded to spend fruitless decades turning up at the G. For me though, the 2021 flag trumps all misfortune. And it is a timely reminder that Gods do do indeed, exist: Petracca, Oliver, Brayshaw, Bennnny Brown, and Bayley Fritsch. To name just a few. Truly from the top shelf.
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On 19/09/2023 at 21:21, monoccular said:
I vaguely remember that Dean at some time in the last decade or so did admit to staging.
In the multiverse, TV footage of the incident was accepted and RDB got off. But we lost by a point after Doug Wade blatantly dug his knee into Bernie Massey's back and converted after the siren. In the following year Melbourne inexplicably slumped because RDB couldn't get over being beaten by Norm Smith in the club's mid-season darts tournament.
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32 minutes ago, WalkingCivilWar said:
Oh ffs, tell the guy who’s still living thanks to Goody that this is a “touch dramatic.”
Obviously need Kane Cornes to dig deeper into this...
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This is a heartwarming story and illustrates the traits of courage, decency and bravery we see exhibited week-in week out by AFL sportsmen. Less so, the sensation-seeking click-baiting columnists feeding off our club at the present.
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13 hours ago, Older demon said:
I don't particularly like the Melbourne synopsis. In fact, I don't find it funny but bordering on libellous.
That should be taken down asap.
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I think the article meant to refer to North...
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Not sure if this is good, or not.
I'm just listening to the bloke now...
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You wouldn't see TH getting front-end loaded by "footy acts" either. As Walt said in Breaking Bad, "I am the danger".
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11 minutes ago, Jaded No More said:
A remarkable human being and one of the best people you could ever hope to have at your club. He brings so much to our club and we should be incredibly proud that he plays for us.
Even if he doesn’t play another game, his contribution next year will be immeasurable. If every young player at our club models themselves on Ben, they’ll be better for it.
There's a guy in my town (Warragul) l think he works in Woolies, has a hot Cooper S mini with BBB demon number plates.
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Not sure if this has already been posted:
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This is the year Jake Melksham came of age on the demonland forums.
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History will record that the only two times collingwood has beaten us in a final since ww2 was courtesy of their roughouse, dirty tactics in 1958, and then in 2023, courtesy of the AFL-sanctioned poleaxing of one of our key playmakers.
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Said in an article that the top six vote getters were also top 6 in the coaches award...but that's just confirmation bias, with umpires ticking off the box beside the big name players.
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Educated guess, but is that Doc Roet third from left?
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Is that John Lord far left?
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I bet you didn't say that when we poached Diamond Jim.
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10 hours ago, von said:
They’re a highly skilled team
They take the first option, like a top premier league team. We are always stopping and propping with no options upfield.
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GWS play with no fear. (Unlike us: we seemed mentally fatigued). Maynard certainly would not attempt to poleaxe Toby Greene, he would get his face caved in. Would be excellent to see Collingwood get knocked over after their recent AFL-approved performances.
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JVR gets a week and disgraceful tribunal lets Maynard off. Tells you all you need to know about the thugs running the AFL, not to mention their goons and cheer squad in the media. Bring on class actions and get these glass box execs into a courtroom where they can defend their "footy actions" in a public forum.
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16 hours ago, bing181 said:
A bit unreal to see people defending Maynard. He had other choices while still attempting the smother, which is why he'll face the tribunal.
As a side note, umpires paid a downfield free, which isn't going to help the "football act" defence.
Haven't seen it mentioned here but great to see the old boys code of football violence swept away by new broom, Laura Kane. The sooner these "nothing to see" drongoes are removed from media positions, the better. It's football, not headball.
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2 hours ago, Roost it far said:
Play Grundy in the ruck as he’s great as an extra mid when the ball hits the deck ala Luke Jackson. Let him and Max share the ground. He has to come in, there’s no one else
About time someone started making sense around here. The solution lies in plain sight. And if sonething did click, it could be the catalyst that we so absolutely need at this moment.
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Making a statement and taking out a key playmaker. A time-honoured footy act, practised in finals. Like the last time Collingwood beat Melbourne in a finsl, and Murray Weidemann took out Ron Barassi. Or the 1990 GF when Essendon snipers tried to stop Collingwood. All for us patrons in the Colisseum, who want to see blood, who want to see highlights reels of "footy acts".
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Maynard must get at least four weeks
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It's so funny how they bandy around the expression, "Will now owe a duty of care"... duty of care already exists in the common law, it's not something the AFL can presume to regulate.