bush demon

On 9/3/2023 at 6:29 PM, Queanbeyan Demon said:

Brodie is both a participant in, and the victim off, the pernicious consequences of the diverse forms of neo-liberalism, the market-economy, and the populism of the meat-market known to us as the AFL. All souls are available to be sailed up the river by shameless, self-righteous and conniving sleaze-bags. If he’s feeling betrayed, I cannot blame him. Yet, we all play a part, consciously or not, in our own betrayal. And on a reported $1.2m per year for seven years, guaranteed, my mercifulness toward him is somewhat circumscribed. As they say in other places, Brodie has what can be termed, “a better class of problem”.

That's extremely humorous.

I have a friend of a friend here in Warragul who kept a beautiful scrapbook of 1964. She was a member even back then. And l would like to share a photo l took of her club member's medalliin from that year. Go Deeeez!

14 hours ago, dees189227 said:

But disappointed to see Goodwin's comments about McGuinness. I mean that's the job of a tagger, to get under the skin of the player.

Who doesn't remember Simon Godfrey and how he annoyed the hell out of his opponents.

Maybe yze could work through with Clayton how to handle the tag

After all, this is Australia. If you can't niggle, jumper punch, harass and berate a player off the ball, what's the country coming to.   Australia rues rules football.  Sock it to 'em, Simon.

21 hours ago, Fromgotowoewodin said:

It is a pretty vaguely defined sub-clause 18.5.2(a):

Last week Lever got done for blocking when Eddie Ford tried to jump over him in what I would define as 18.5.2(e), but then this week Tom De Konig discovered that jumping on Gawn from behind while not touching the ball is a valid way to stop Gawn from taking a mark (did it at least twice from memory).

What is or isn’t a block depends mostly on 1) the vibe, and 2) what side of the bed the umpire got up that morning.

There are NO rules in Australian rules football. As soon as that rule is appreciated then you can enjoy the game. 

Lever or May. Otherwise the cupboard is bare. We can't win without a narking forward.

On 6/19/2023 at 10:19 AM, bush demon said:

I remember in the good-old, bad-old days we had Melbourne - Masters of the MCG and Melbourne Greatest Ever Exponents of Perfection Football displayed across the northern and southern stands in perpetuity. There was a third one l have forgotten.

Now l remember: "Forever Forward Dashing Demons".

Donald Trump. He would be excellent at re-arranging the bench to help guarantee favourable outcomes.

On 8/6/2023 at 9:27 PM, IRW said:

There should be a moratorium on umpire comments aroind here or a group action taking the AFL to court .

We know( every clubs supporters know)that umpiring is difficult and sometimes they are "shockers" but... fmd they don't pick on the MFC.

Grow up..it will be more fun watching the games .

Pathetic  much 

Having said that it would be fair to say that the game has become un-umpireable. Retarding players off the ball, "nudges" in the back when flying for the ball, "ball" decisions ... it is impossible to guess which way the umpires are going to call half the time. 50 metre penalties are an extravagant penalty on many occasions. Insufficient intent... what a laughable rule. Mens rea, indeed.

Soft modern-day  football boots is the problem.  The past players' association should insist on our players only wearing  Ron Barassi boots with  appropriate metal caps (ouch, kicking in danger) and thick leather soul and hard leathered skin.

In strict football parlance probably should be "Jack the blind miner.."  (From the Mike Williamson book of hyperbole, exaggerations and commentary prose".

54 minutes ago, samcantstandya said:

The best player I ever saw. Great mark, brave and fair. Watching him run and bounce the ball was a thing of beauty.

Watching him bounce EITHER hand was something else...

Apologies if this already posted somewhere. (Brodie In)

https://www.afl.com.au/news/992852

On 7/16/2023 at 10:14 AM, Colm said:

Is this true? Surely not, a contract is a contract AFL can’t just decide it’s ok for some players to break them. Do you have a link or where did you read it?

The AFL will no doubt put it on their Gettable" segment: "We make the rules, we break them."

3 hours ago, old dee said:

As everyone knows. I have always been a  doubter on Sam from very early on. I feel very sorrow for him. I hope he gives it away and finds other things in life. There are lots Sam  

Like doing Special Comments on Demonland, for example. No one knows l thought that.

Great Scot!   And not so great Scott.

Essendon out of the 8 on the live ladder (just quietly).

14 minutes ago, david_neitz_is_my_dad said:

Highway robbery. Brisbane looked so dangerous in transition they almost took back the lead with a push forward from the stoppage with just 12 seconds left

The umpire's dodgy ball up with ten seconds on the clock was an utter disgrace.

7 minutes ago, Dee-monic said:

I don't think Whateley was far wrong. Defeat tonight would have been a big psychological blow and could have left us in a potential logjam of teams battling to make finals.

Wasn't it Whately who memorably extolled Petracca's dribbler in the '21 GF as being "TRULY from the top shelf". He still has credits for that...

On 7/7/2023 at 2:53 PM, Bystander said:

Far be it from me to step on anyone's literary toes, particularly on demonland, but, in Australian slang, "magoos" means a lower level of competition, not the umpires.

E.g. "He will be in the magoos if he keeps that rubbish up".

Then again, if you were sympathetic to the myopic cartoon character, "Mr.Magoo", it's easy to spot the mix-up... 

1 hour ago, Diamond_Jim said:

Go Blues

Is there anything worse than having a hundred plus thousand Bomber supporters eyeing off our fourth position.

We'd better win next week for my sanity

Essingdon won't bea Geelong at Geelong, and they won't beat Collingwood. There's two.

The umpires don't so much as umpire, as blow the whistle and point left or right. (@17.57, unrewarded Dee taclle).

See that Simon, Ben Brown is our full forward.

ANB ridden into the ground = NFK. 

Hand tackling should be banned, inherently dangerous. Not envisaged in rules.

BBB a premiership hero, is one of our top full forwards of the last 60 years.

1. Neitz

2. Bennett

3. Jakovich

4. Dillon

5. Brown

6.  Robertson

7.  Parke

If Melbourne is seriously contending this year the selection committee will need to swallow their pride and get him back in the team.