bush demon

any later it will be geriatric wards...

stabbing animals in the neck for thrills...

1. John Northey (five finals straight, one GF) 2. Neil Daniher (one prelim, one GF. Preim in first year after low '97 year. 3. Paul Roos (stabilised club and pointing north three years in a row. 4. Ian Ridley who can forget fantastic '71 first half season. 5. Neil Balme attacking football coach, lost a lot of players in '95 through injury. 6. Carl Ditterich flew the flag. 7. Bob Skilton almost did the unthinkable; getting us into the finals in the 70's (1976) 8. John Beckwith had a mid-table finish in '67 after taking over from NS. 9. Ron Barassi some great recruiting coups (Moore, Icke, Jarrett? and forgot the other norf player) and breathed some life into our 80's campaign. 10. Dean Bailey had some positive moments in his early coaching phase. undone one day on the G. v Hawthorn and we seemed to bottom out after that. Honourable mentions: Dennis Jones, Mark Neeld,

i would hate this usage of 'compliment' to disappear entirely from demonland.

Ha, ha. Both premiership players a la Bourke, Vagg, Williams, Townsend etc etc and this lamentable would-abeen poster screams his penny's worth from bay 13.

Isn't 'till the end of the year' a time-honoured formula for players intending to shortly transfer to a premiership window club but not leave mud on the host carpet's floor?

As I said on another post, match-fixing.

Song of the vulgar gw yes-men.

The set-up for GWS is a benign form of match-fixing. It is match-fixing, none the less. It is also a payment to the media companies for financially supporting a national competition. Melbourne is no longer unique as a bottom-feeding club however, as dinosaur clubs such as Richmond, Essendon, Collingwood and Carlton, long super-powers of the competition are now minnows only propped up by the generations of supporters who still remember when these clubs were good. I remember similarly disliking Sydney in the 1980's, and Gerard Healey in particular. I was especially satisfied when the Dees smashed them in the '87 finals series. These days I would be happy for Sydney to survive and the Greater western sinkhole to founder, as this would be karma to the AFL for how they pick winners through cash allocations, fixturing, TV coverage and not to mention psycho-away footy jumpers which dilute the heritage of the foundation clubs.

I remember it well. We were down against Richmond and came home with a wet sail. every game after that was like a carnival, with the dees creating a sense of euphoria with each victory. a truly wonderful season which should have netted a premiership, IMO.

Great to see him sporting the red and blue.

Right now we need Mitchell Clark back in the side.

Plus they don't take money from gambling, ranking them as a people's team.

i once gave deeluded a lift to casey fields. he is an out and out demon footy tragic.

Esssendon Richmond 'dreamtime' being promoted as the game of the day today on ABC today sums it up. both teams playing on our home ground whilst we play our home game thousands of miles away. both melbourne and port placed above rich/essendon on the ladder.

next you're going to insist that metricon is not the secret lair of the afl commissioners.

Foucaldian. I like that. The next one shaved my off stump though.

http://www.afl.com.au/news/2016-05-19/dangerfield-v-treloar-who-has-been-the-better-recruit?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=RSS+feed%3A+AFL+Latest+News There is a 'go-home' factor for both players but the AFL is supposed to be driving a balanced national competition. These players are hardly 'recruits', they were poached by victorian power clubs and are 'transfers' to those clubs they are not recruits. in these kind of stories, afl propaganda conceals the real power plays which drive the competition at the behest of the few clubs that can effectively compete for premierships.

you mean a 'once-in-a-generation' footballer... (Ed: Sorry, clicked the wrong quote).

hoping it's not another one of those games where the opposition continually gets the ball 'out the back' then slingshots it home for repeat goals. we are well capable of winning if we bring our best to the table.

It is the secrecy around this 'advice' and career move of Barassi's which galls so many old time melbourne supporters. footballers supporters on the other hand are unlikely to make a private pacts at half-time to start supporting the other side for the rest of the game. As Martin Flanagan says, we are all just chasing laundry.

Yup. And taking a winter sports (football) clinic tomorrow with four small country schools. Second week so we do 30 minutes of activities and then a lightning cup, five a side, four teams. Totally outside my normal work activities.

If the players genuinely think they can make the 8 a sense of momentum takes hold. Once we are in the eight 'possession is 9/10's of the law' takes over. In previous runs at the 8 we had huge winning streaks and tended to run over the top of teams in the second half of the year. I am hoping this will happen in 2016.

Sadly, it won't be until there is a serious injury at the highest level with a Phil Hughes, common law reform come about. There is an ongoing emphasis on creating collisions to win the 50/50 contests and the head is inevitably going to be hit. In American grid-iron it is documented that a significant percentage of their players end their careers with brain injuries. If parents see such stats emerging in our code then sports like soccer (which also have brain impact issues) will increasingly be favoured.

in my childhood one of the single best things was kick to kick with my brother, and demon buddy, Ray. there was no biffo, just lairising and plenty of practise perfecting drop kicks and torps. I played fantasy football with a soccer ball from the age of about 7 before progressing to Springvale under 12's and under 14's. All the kids grew into gorillas over summer that year and i decided i would play soccer for a few seasons. i used to love juniors football at springvale but was always an outside receiver. the main playmakers seem to wax together so the best i could do was pick up the crumbs. i remember peter bundy standing on my hand at the bottom of a pack one day and my hand instantly puffing up. i also dabbled with a season of fantasy marble football in 1970. at the end of that season i threw all the marbles away cos i had become addicted. i think that season my brother became addicted to fantasy balloon footballer, which was basically an indoor sport. I then played a couple of seasons for Dingley and Parkdale in the firsts and seconds in the federal league in my early 20's. i remember one game i kicked a beautiful torp. goal from the half-forward flank and got promoted to the ones the next week. it was a brief appearance and i was soon back in the twos. One game i got king hit in a game at parkdale and spent the second half chasing the guy around for payback. a couple of years ago i had a run around with the gippsland vets team, it was a lot of fun and great doing drills again with all the true believers. last friday i took a group of kids for winter sports and lamented that most of the kids can't kick any more. good to see some girls participating though.