bush demon

Players are signing on, and showing confidence in Neeld's coaching.

Despite win/loss ratio, we are playing games out, and convincingly beating the teams below us. Jeremy Howe: haven't seem anything like him since Jesaulenko/ Hart.

Our utopian AFL competition is a prime example of a nanny state, with the AFL propping up teams like North, Melbourne, Footscray, GWS, GCS and others. Without salary caps, drafts and massive funding, half the competition would go out of business overnight.

'nose despite his face' ... surely this another demonland 'mute' point?

Over-achieved for a pick 55.

Just watched a funny show on ABC called, "Would i Lie To You" where the guests quiz each other on seemingly implausible scenarios and then have to guess whether the person is lying or telling the truth. I think Sam does really play for the MFC but he has only just started displaying his wares. Was once a mate with a club legend and is about to throw in his lot... with Melbourne.

Barassi's subsequent failure at Melbourne illustrates how you need the cattle as well. ie "Crosswell, you're @#$%".

That grouping is surely the axis of entropy and should be left unamended.

http://www.theage.com.au/afl/afl-news/demon-loyalty-goes-to-hell-20120808-23umq.html Now forgive me for being somewhat incredulous, but I heard Brad Green on the radio conceding that he had had enough and that his footballing career would terminate at the end of 2012. And then Jesse Hogan of The Age tosses up what Argus correspondents would call a 'Tom Wills speculator' by insinuating that Green is being (yet again) shafted by the Melbourne F.C powerbrokers. This is nothing but a wannabe troublemaker news item. Brad Green is playing beautifully at present, but with a clear mind that he has given his all at the club and displaying his wares for those short of memory. Signed, Bush Demon.

Do either dad's eat pizzas? Just checking.

NOt to mention our 1986, 1997 and 1999 seasons where we surged up the ladder the following year to play in prelims and a grand final.

What about me? It isn't fair, a so so list but I don't care...

You would not be just sacking the coach, but all his admin. as well. Crazy stuff.

you guys seem to be forgetting peter yeo. ps clark shouldn't play at full forward, he will kill himself the way he flies for marks.

you shouldn't let these programs get under your skin. there have been some good stories in the media last few days about other teams tanking their way up the ladder ie collingwood in 2005 when they lost a stack of games toward the end of the year and scored pendlebury and that little guy who takes speccies. it is common knowledge that carlton played the system to build their fab team, and hawthorn were down for a few years before the draft swept them up. gerard healey got his come-uppance vis-a-vis the demons in the '87 finals, anyway.

who took out the geelong player in their second last goal? it was slightly off camera. a high shot.

good point, but in my defence i was on a roll.

Suck it up, Hawthorn. ps Matthews on Giles, Dipper on Flower, Guerra on Bruce... Dees don't forget.

hope the afl gets sued by in coming years with its tolerance of headhunting teams like hawthorn. sickens me how taking out playmakers is seen as a legitimate, manly trait of our game by MRP and rulemakers. ball players like johnson and chapman will be front of the queue.

Clash strips are all about AFL hegemony and a strategy to dilute the branding of the clubs. This in turn entrenches 'AFL colours' and badging, and makes the clubs - except for the powerful - kowtow to every petty decision town hall makes. Why isn't there a clash strip in grand finals? Shows the concept in the lead-up games to be petty and ridiculous. The league will itself one day be subject to its own inquiry - and expensive litigation - by the many concussed players who accept the mal-administration of this competition.

Stage 6: Secretly admiring the weekly grunt of another team and wishing yours was even a tiny bit like it: GFC, and I don't mean greater financial calamity. How has Geelong mopped up with likes of Christensen, Menzel, Duncan, Vardy, Smedts etc whilst all our shiny new warhorses have turning circles like 1968 Austin 1800's?

The 18 team concept is a stinker for many reasons, including an unnecessarily long chase scene (the home and aways) too many finals ($$$) season-ending injuries, non-competitive teams, boring, inconsequential games and supporter apathy. A ten team competition will be the reality in future years and how the red and blue fits into this reality is difficult at this stage to imagine. The news space given the Brock McLean story suggests that rationalisation forces are moving ever closer to our club. We are being fitted up for a crime that other clubs have regularly partaken in. What better punishment for being the worst performed Victorian club than being placed under official notice by the governing body. What better way to take the heat of the tanking Giants than to run us out of the competition.

I think Northey was more a ball player than Sheedy. Sheedy was more an Austin Powers consequence-free style footballer.

My training notes on the subject: I am more miffed with KS for what happened to Green and Snake in the 2000 grand final. An article in the media the other day about Green saying that he got 'a knock' in the GF was laughable; he was pinned back and punched in the throat. Now presides over one of the league's tragic teams, the others being MFC and ... Footscray? An over-developed sense of entitlement, thought he would be appointed, anointed? ... as coach of a lesser club such as ours. Tried to sleight us and massively misfired by spending all his spending money on our unproven golden boy. One of the few things we have got right in recruiting was the Sheedy/Scully/AFL tango.

Even the mighty Stan Alves and Mark Maclure would bang on about Tom after some of our 2010 wins. Unfortunately, Tom hasn't lived up to his expectations; fortunately for him, he has become a wealthy man at a young age. He was too young to bluff his way through 2010, he is a footballer not a PR man. Still, his pantomine messed with our club and helped undo steadily improving performances. We have come out of the experience somewhat 'sullied' but have the afl's draft picks in our saddlebags, and have used the tom money wisely to secure a player who does live up to his reputation.