bush demon

You are making my argument for me: re Kossie and Spargo. Fritsch is a finisher. And it's easy to kick a player/team when they are down.

Getting out the back is a time-honoured profession. Fritsch got out the back in the 2021 GF and won us the premiership. Barry Vagg was a goal-sneak, Teddy Hopkins the same. You don't want these lightly-framed players getting exhausted racking up the K's and then being unable to perform their magic.

You just have to remember the cardinal football rule: always be second to the ball so you can take out the ball player with a big knee or hands in the back. Umpires look away when ball players suffer these Football Acts.

Harry Connick Jnr and Jack Viney.

j American magician Mat Franco, Jack Billings, MFC.

The state of lawlessness in the last five minutes of Collingwood v North was a site to behold. Shoving of players nowhere near the ball, Daicos red-hot in front of goals = not paid. Unwatchable.

It's all "AFL" sanctioned violence. it gets patrons through the turnstiles, and pays the bills.

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.

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.

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.

Is it just me or is there a paucity of snow-related humour since the Coodabeens went the way of The Kevin Dennis Football show?

The Original: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doug_Heywood

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.

That's a poor comment. Norm had his own failures before he got MFC to glory.

John Beckwith hits the boundary for the very last time. R.I.P

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.

Why are players allowed to [censored] an opponent off the ball. Simple. There are no rules in the game anymore. Just whistles, 50 metre penalties and goal reviews.

Gettable is the AFL's own patented version of draft tampering.

That was clearly a football action. Explain that to anyone from another country.

Dermis cut short one of the commentators who said Geelong had an off night. Dermis said Melbourne forced them to have an off night.

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.