bush demon

Particularly galling, because we had the 'wood' on the pies, having beaten them in the 1989 final series (not to mention our consecutive finals wins over them dating back to 1939). I was at the WCE game at the Jackson's Rd end there was a solitary fat guy yelling for WCE all afternoon amongst us polite Dee supporters. West Coast bamboozled us with their trick of switching the ball to either side of the ground.

If the Collingwood Essendon ANZAC day politicisation of sport is cancelled then it would be fair to ask Adam not to stir up the masses. In the meantime, go for it Goodsey. I remember Muhammed Ali being despised for much the same reasons.

Moral of the story: always check the used-by date.

i will get jumped on for this, but would just like to nitpick 'aboriginal'. i think you would say 'indigenous' these days. i am not trying to be clever here. i just remember this was the term used in the 60's when i was a kid, and can sound demeaning: http://www.aboriginalartonline.com/culture/aboriginal.php

Come in spinner. Took Barassi off us by stealth. Bought premierships. The 2002 salary cap schemozzle. Elliott. Bringing in a peeved Malthouse and Daisy to win a premiership. It's taken a long time, and i hope it's a long time near the bottom for the good old navy blues. ps good song though.

bad for the digestion, one after t' other...

When you have been going around in the wash as a supporter since the mid-60's like me the wounds get deeper and deeper by the year. I got my red and blue membership materials in the mail yesterday and must say that i am less inclined to wack stickers over my car, or wear a scarf on the train these days. The national competition does not include teams such as Melbourne, we too are mere passengers. Who does the AFL really comprise? from Vic: Hawthorn, Geelong, Collingwood, and MAYBE Essendon. It's a long way back for every other team. From Brisbane: a complete stuff-up, could see those two teams merging and calling them the Queensland jungle. from nsw: who cares about gws, they have more midfielders going through the midfield than supporters through the gate. from south australia and w.a, their four teams will stay strong as they are strong footballing states. am a supporter of the national concept, just hope melbourne can remain in some form or other in the long term.

He was a 'time and space' player even at the demons. A slow burn to failure when we lose absolute guns like these.

Carlton are now a well-entrenched second tier AFL team. Blame it on the boogie, blame it on Malthouse, but definitely blame it on the John Elliott culture. The relative demise of teams such as Richmond Carlton and Essendons of this world is our only hope of sneaking back into the upper echelons of this competition. Who would have thunk back in the days of the drop kick, that these teams would have won three premierships between them in their last (collective) 70 years (carlton 1995, richmond 81, essendon 2000.

Swans also missed some gimmes. Garlett conjured a beautiful goal at the Punt Rd end, the guy is a +++ for our team. Watts was quite lively when he came on, and set up a goal under high duress, also at the Punt Rd end. Do some of these commentators go to the games? It was the Swans' second and third efforts in the first and second quarters which flummoxed our team.

The bAll was nowhere near Hogan in the first half. He contested brilliantly and was the standout player with Salem.

The team was monstered in the first half but Watts was useful and did some good things when he came on, pointless to slag him for effect. Would have liked him to at least wrestle McVeigh who humiliated him. Noticed no Dees came into support.

Dawes played well, never gave up.

At least we showed some heart and some run in the last quarter. Jesse Hogan = elite.

Melbourne participated in the greatest equalisation of all time by giving up their home ground in 1965 and subsequent years, allowing the hordes to invade us.

The guy does the best he can. Supporter websites that vilify players don't inspire, either.

MFC legend.

Without doubt, Gerard Healy, we would have won the '87 flag with him. Bob Johnston starred in WA, and played in for many years, leaving the Dees, age 25.

You might as well pillory Barassi for wanting a new environment to succeed in. Barassi got it right, Clark may have got it wrong, and this time MFC will be the winners.

Richmond's defection from Punt Rd in 1965 coincided with our mostly defective performances from this year.

Ha ha ha. Public hypocrisy concerning players' private lives is for the satisfaction of mr and mrs suburbia who tut tut at 'illicit drugs' whilst enjoying the endless humour around frothy jokes on the footy show. Then not to mention the Australian cricketers 'capping off' their national hero status by parading around smashed as a one day cricket ball.

Re-start of the large hadron collider next week may finally prove the existence of parallel universes and disprove the Big Bang theory. One way to test this controversial idea would be undertake a search for a football thread which has Ollie Wines playing at Melbourne, but putting off contract negotiations until the end of the year.

Looks like the AFL is going broke on the quiet. The figures quoted in this article mark the death knell of this code when the next economic bubble comes along. By the way, it's Australian Rules, not "AFL", that is an unfortunate and derogatory product name, (giving its lesser cousin NRL equal billing) In its haste to ward off the round ball code we got into 'start-ups' such as Brisbane, Gold Coast and Greater Western Sydney which are essentially parasites living off the host organism. The expansion clubs have given us ugly jumpers and taken away local players. Apart from the drop kick, the biggest thing our code had going for it was its local and parochial flavour. http://www.theage.com.au/afl/afl-news/afl-clubs-delusional-says-west-coast-chief-20150317-1m1f8t.html

Just need to have a second team to follow. This can be done by going into any Target store and seeing what jumpers are on sale.

The media narrative will continue along the lines of Geelong, Hawthorn, South having 'great cultures' - that being the reason why they attract players. In reality these clubs are firewalled from failure they have guaranteed access to finals and premierships.