bush demon

The Age article smells like the typical berley that a player manager or club throws out to fingerlings like the Dees when everything is cut and dried behind the scenes. The Only good that has come out of this constant yearlong speculation is the revelation that Jess Hogan is an almost useless kick for goal. So i say, let it bleed.

Whilst 'worked to get it right' is a meaningless footy cliche i am rapt that rugby is taking a hit, and it is great to see mass crowds at ANZ stadium following the national game. Meanwhile Melbourne are in a dog fight with about six other vic. Clubs who are also working to get it right, unfortunately most of them won't.

What I mean by stuck in the goal square is that he plays full forward stuck in the goal square. to stop him freezing up he is moved around the ground where he can use his good one on one skills to set up plays. he needs to watch some Peter McKenna on youtube.

Don't actually think this is so. Hawthorn lost Franklin, Geelong, Ablett, Adelaide, Tippett and Dangerfield yet they are all in the top part of the table. Hogan's case isn't as desire as painted by Dee tragics. He seemed to glide around at Casey Scorpions level and had an ok kicking action, but now seems too big, stuck in the goal square, and plants his non-kicking foot deep into the soil every time he roosts it a la Earl of Spaulding.

He has illness issues and players shouldnt be discounted for injuries.could be the biggest bolter since Piping Lane and Michael Byrne.

Good on him. Big agile guy who can make correct decisions in traffic. Reminiscent of Big Bob Johnson in many ways.Quickly given the shove by Melbourne.

Barassi cribbing the mark. Fantastic.

You obviously didnt see leigh mathews take out steven smith and peter giles with extreme prejudice

Its cos he has a wobbly gait and i would doubt he could fix it by now. The other thing is that he is a gorilla forward and so - like Reiwoldt hawkins and cloke can be taken out of the equation by playing off him and double teaming . Melbourne very definitely shoyldnt be offering him once in a generation pay packet because we will need the coin to keep our many emerging stars .

his bumbling kicking action is deteriorating. needs summer to fix it up, as others have in the past. at the moment his game stinks.his last shot at goal was worse than anything greg parke or john clennet could have conjured up.

the ball player should always be rewarded, gutless sniping like this should not. it was only good fortune that Oliver's head was not impacted and even better fortune he didn't end up in a neck brace

don't forget being last round geelong may rest paddy.

best win since elimination final v carlton, 2000, imo.

how is cyril rioli's leg-tackle! talk about the-umpire's-friend!

Jessie Hogan causes logjams in our forward line. i don't think he is the merchandise he was hoped to be. he is an excellent bullocking player, maybe should play off the half-back line. No dammit, we need him.

Jessie Hogan causes logjams in our forward line. i don't think he is the merchandise he was hoped to be. he is an excellent bullocking player, maybe should play off the half-back line. No dammit, we need him.

i'm not against "Perth Football Club" for example, but not some mega-organisation/concept that sucks the life out of lower tiers of the W.A competition

i am a supporter of a national competition but not of gws, wce or gc suns.if it is a national competition, where is the tasmanian team, where is the act team? greater western sydney may well win the premiership this year or next, but they are likely to end up like brisbane bears with + 10 mill debt, because the rugby community just doesn't like aerial ping pong. the tv rights bonanza is like kuwaiti oil or naura bird dung, it will be gone tomorrow with 18 hungry clubs trying to sell their premiership plans to their three game membership members. wacko jacko - like his kicking - was accurate with his comments about the selling off of waverley - a travesty, and how our local competition has been undermined. ditto the domestic comps of s.a and w.a.

Everything that goes around, comes around. In the 60's, and then with North in the 70's our premiership model was appropriated by the rising clubs. Ron Barassi, surely one of the last 'non-thinking coaches' was able to terrorise talented footballers into becoming premiership bullies, just like the Dees under Smith did years earlier. As far as 6 degrees of separation and a tenuous S.A link are concerned, I think it all started with the post '64 premiership 'championship of australia', when melbourne defeated South Adelaide in Adelaide to win this unofficial title for the third time. South Adelaide revealed themselves to be a highly competitive unit, and showed that south australian footy was definitely on a par with victorian footy, it's just that we stole all the interstate footballers to make our code look good. we tried to bring in darren? jarman in the 90's from s.a as one of our draft picks but he wouldn't come, proudly remaining home to help adelaide win their first flags. now all these years later simon goodwin steps into the hardest job in football - returning our club to their mythical, legendary status.

ST Kilda deserve all the luck they can get. a lucky bounce 50 years ago won them their first flag. an unlucky bounce a few years ago cruelly denied them their second. this time they strike it lucky. a win for the little guy.

This: http://www.theage.com.au/wa-news/melbournes-jesse-hogan-shuts-down-dockers-advances-20160720-gqaa8f.html

I think following the Dees has become a minor drug habit, like drinking coldies every night after work, or having more than one junk food meal a week. After 51 years of home and away support i will offer up the following: 1. collecting the ampol? series of player pix in vfl album, 1964. 2. getting my ron barassi boots as a birthday present, brought to school one morning. 3.. we got a telly in 1964, and i can remember a snippet of a WOS replay where melbourne thrashed collwd in the second semi. one highlight was a chain of handballs to a melbourne player in the square (J Lord?) who popped it through. my only memory of any tv highlights. 4. seeing the scores being updated on ABC 2, with the 'final scores' caption showing a melbourne victory, 64-60.in 1964. 5. buying kool mints and donuts pre-game with my late friend ray. 6. having numbers on jumpers competitions with ray and roger on the train to the footy. 7.. a game, about '67 where Hassa Mann dobbed a goal right on the siren to come from behind over North. Barry Vagg did a similar deed in another game in that time. 8.. Tiger Ridley's '71 season as coach, and going to read the Sunday Observer, with us near top of the ladder and thrashing teams each week, first half-season. 9. Games in the 70's where both Ross Dillon and/or Greg Parke dominated. 10. the announcement that Ron Barassi was returning to Melbourne. 11. the recruitment of Diamond jim, and Kelvin Templeton. 12. Cameron Bruce's snap v carlton in 2000. 13.walking into an afl video shop one year and finally seeing crompton's goal on video. 14. The career of David Schwarz, esp. his breakout year in 1994. 15. the '87 finals series, and games leading up to. 16. going to victoria park last round in 1976 and seeing us whip collingwood. almost, but didn't make the finals. 17. the night finals in the late 60's and 70's where the dees starred. 18. winning the night flag in '87. 19. our great year in '98 under Neal Daniher. 20.2000 finals series and jeff farmer's great efforts during the year.

played in a prelim. and a grand final for the dees, more than most typists on this website have done. not to mention his mind-blowing game v carlton in '94 series.

In the days of californian poppy and pomade we would have creamed them.

Agree, except that we will be the 5th team - as the 4th or 5th spoke of a cellar-dwellers wheel of fortune. We have been massaged into the role of losers for a long time now, and our essential identity has gradually whittled away. Just watching yesterday gave me flashbacks not just of early defeats this year, last year or a few years ago by the Saints, but losses stretching back to the 60's. For demon veterans, St Kilda hasn't just cut us apart on Etihad, they were doing it consistently in the 1960's. with their fleet of runners and clever small men. we live in a culture of forgetting, and soon enough we will have an offer too good to refuse; could be some, or all of North/ Essingdon/ Richmond, Carlton, St Kilda (perhaps) and Melbourne. 18 teams is a preposterous, bloated concept which survives only due to the massive dollars ushered in by sofa-TV football. we may well be the youngest team but that's cos we bleed experienced games players to other 'destination clubs'. ie Frawley and Jeremy Howe.