bush demon

The vision thing raises its ugly monicker again. The only tinker worth looking at would be adding Melbourne to our American theme song: "it's the emblem of the Melbourne club, the team of the red and the blue" might do the trick.

The club song is already based on an American song - You're A Grand Old Flag' - so what would be the point of talking up a New York Yankees connection whilst talking down our Yankee theme song.

i don't know what all the angst about this is. surely 'the viney bump' has bumped us past the bruise-free tag we were previously clobbered with. most commentators have given viney plaudits for his style of football, as far as i can see. i also don't get the barrett-bashing, although i may be missing something as i only occasionally see him on the footy show.

Tapscott reminds me of Johny Tilbrook. Similar name, similar build, similar profile.

If Dillon and Parke had played more together during that period we would have played finals.

The swans are only as good as gws is, and the suns are only as good as brisbane bears are, if that makes any sense.

The Swans were in red-hot form coming into the game V Demons. The crowd was absolutely in raptures in the first two-finals, and Flower re-invented himself as a high-marking forward. Unfortunately we just lacked the self-belief to finish off the Hawks. We would have beaten Carlton.

Yes but aren't we glad we didn't waste that 4.2m? Is my point.

Scully's career hasn't really been helped by his 'recruitment' anyway. The AFL are trying to head-off soccer, so they set up some stupid thing called GWS. For teams like GWS and gold coast to succeed then the bottom clubs in victoria have to drop off. fortunately, in our case the player we lost was not what he was being built up to be so we emerged out of it ok. in the long run, 18 teams is a crowd-killing concept, and when the Aus. economy takes its next dip and the tv rights drop off, that's when the proverbial will hit the fan.

who on here wouldn't take that kind of cash and guarantee their financial security for life? i say good on him. the one to blame is sheedy, who - spurned by the dees, and with the afl's monopoly money - used scully to try and do a job on us. (a la 2000!).y

the understudy has to be there long enough to absorb what Roos is preaching, so he can adapt it and go from there.

The following day my father took me to Olympic Park to see my first game of soccer. Everton beat Australia 8-2. I had started barracking for Melbourne but because our dad hated Aussie rules we never went.

He took the critical mark which resulted in Crompton's goal.

The thing was, we didn't really have stars, we were a "sum of the parts" team. Lord, Crompton, Adams and Barassi left the the club during this period. I think we started '66 with several good players out injured, inc. Townsend and Bourke. The funny thing was that many of the '64 players were not that old. I remember Hassa Mann as being our out and out best player in that period.

I think the same thing happened to Neville Crowe in 1967.

just droppped by this demonland-mates page to mention that my just-deleted geelong v hawthorn thread read as follows: "Geelong v 2Pooz, the only game in town. Then, something like, "The Geelong v Hawthorn fixture is the only game worth watching", or words to that effect. Sub-text: too many teams, too many teams locked out of AFL approved elite team status (fixturing, media coverage, blockbuster allocation etc). terribyl Sorry t0 have left my non-relevant thread on MFC matters on the otherwise hallowed demonland threads...

Just got to admire the Cats when they play Hawthorn,. every other fixture is plain boring in comparison.

Should have been a free to Watts, shocking umpiring. (get off his back).

WJ, my friend's sister has a week-by-week scrapbook of the Demons 1964 season. The inside cover has signatures of all the players. I asked her a couple of weeks ago if I could borrow it, will then post on here.

Sorry for being pedantic, but doesn't penultimate mean second last? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3n2KEfZxwVU

His best and most reliable feature is his quick give-off handball which creates space for the breakaway player. His long arm reach allows him space to be very creative. also, his dreads are excellent. We made the right decision every day of the week with Jack Watts.

Does he have Melbourne v North and Melbourne v South (Sydney) from the '87 finals series?

What tosh. If only we had a couple of Steven Stretches running around today we wouldn't be glued to the bottom of the table.

Or this, "Healey off, Ellingworth on. Weak as p*$$!"