bush demon
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Jefferance Farmer took an absolute speccy in front of goals in first minute of game then missed from dead in front. -
Makes sobering reading: https://www.theage.com.au/politics/federal/as-a-long-suffering-fan-the-demons-dynasty-looks-over-before-it-began-20240611-p5jl0j.html?btis Got a bit of a stench of '65 about it. Funny thing is l think it was the North loss in '65 that broke our back. And we play them next.
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This is a really good discussion, but there are so many vested interests in maintaining "AFL", as a colosseum sport, and there are so many violent aspects to our code that the crowd just bays for. Two things have turned me right off the game. 1. Was the big hit l saw Daniel Bell take a few years back at Casey, the other was the premeditated flattening of Angus Brayshaw last year. Having said that, l don't condone either "bumps" such as Liam Ryan's which knocked Maynard rotten a week or so back. You just have to see how ingrained this ambivalence towards violence is when someone like Hamish Brayshaw forgives the backhander that wiped out his brother. Because the teams are so even across the competition the niggle and the hit have become points of difference in close games. I just hope that tribunal members and AFL execs. who condone some of these barbaric aspects of our code are one day held personally liable through class actions etc.
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What punters don't realise is that the players are all mates flying under flags of convenience. The AFL distributes betting colours, otherwise known as non-clash strips, and then the supporters decorate the stadiums for the gambling industry.
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The Original: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doug_Heywood
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Goodwin now has a place in Demon history with the '21 flag. When Smith started (coaching) the Dee's had already won four in the preceding ten years. Too many people quick to tear a man down.
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That's a poor comment. Norm had his own failures before he got MFC to glory.
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John Beckwith hits the boundary for the very last time. R.I.P
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The AFL needs to do a "Gettable" item on Kalani pronto, in furtherance of them getting him to GCS, and as further confirmation that they (The AFL) are the unrivalled draft tamperers of the competition.
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Gettable is the AFL's own patented version of draft tampering.
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This medallion from a friend's 1964 Demon scrapbook.
Read (and have copies) of a couple of Ivan Southall books in Grade 6: To The Wild Skies", and Hill's End. Would love to get hold of a copy of this.
Lest We Forget: https://demonland.com/forums/topic/46969-barassi-vs-dean/
It's a tricky area, where players can dive after getting a love tap from someone giving them a "close tag". And we don't want players diving willy nilly. Having said that, 6 weeks would be fair.
Just filling in time here watching a whole lot of Victorians running round in Canberra 1. There are some grounds for calling last night's south The Checker-Yze Cup, on account of the way Richmond were able to shut us down for half the game. Yze went from Melbourne to Richmond, Frank went from Richmond to Melbourne. 2. Checker-Hughes was that smoker sitting next to Our Norm when the '64 siren went. So much for Barassi's excuse that he was worried about Smith looking over his shoulder If Barassi had stayed in red and blue colours. If it was good enough for Checker to blow smoke in Norm's face what was Ron's problem having his old mentor fiddling around with the whiteboard?
Port have dropped 13.6% so far today.
Imagine a Tassie v Gold Coast grand final at Gosch's Paddock. Parking would be bedlam.
