Kumamoto_Ken

Petracca not happy with the diet, he already misses the pasta and pizza. He's gone! #MFCSS

Looks like Phab Phil $cully is taking up 4 seats at the GWS table.

Shocking news. Just terrible. Vale Phil Hughes.

He's still recovering.

And keep $cully on his toes.

Really hoping the Demonblog Solid Brown Dancers will be involved.

It's a mystery...my own recollection was that the ump called it back to the Wiz because he'd blown time off. One thing I do remember was the look on Big Balmies face in the coaches box. They zoomed right in and his (already large) noggin completely filled the Jumbotron...fricking enormous.

I'll be encouraging everyone I know to vote just so they can marvel at the photo of TJ at the end.

If you behave yourself GS you might even get a dinner (& homebrew) invite.

200 required? [censored] elitist [censored]!

True DA, you've never been contradictory...

The Yeats-Lovell mullet competition is a toughie.

Who the F knows exactly what's going with Phil Rudd, but I'm an unashamed Acca Dacca man from way back. This was really before my time, but in my opinion it was them at their best...rock solid, without the theatrics, plus the Demon horns on the Angus cap!! Goes right off at about 1:08. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_efiJnALt8

At least I typed 'coot', and not what I was thinking...

I have a huge preseason planned, DA. I'm building a keg fridge on the back veranda for my homebrew and painting it Red and Blue. It'll be particularly useful for when I need to drown my sorrows (i.e. 20 minutes into Round One or following the first three catastrophic preseason injuries). I'm also training my kids up on profane language in preparation for the Round Two clash at Manuka Oval (Tom Scully Carnival of Hate). They're growing up in Queanbeyan so they already have a pretty good excellent swearing vocabulary, so I'm concentrating on grammar, context and combinations. " Nice one $cully you [censored] [censored] glass-eyed, soulless [censored]!" That kinda thing. Good times!

I imagine the whole thing will be skewed to more recent players given likely age profile of the voting population (no offence intended to GS and the other old coots). But that's fair enough, it is a popularity contest. I was a Dullard voter...great name.

If Kent has just started on that mo for Movember he's a machine, especially for a fair haired fella. Good to see them back into it.

I have terrible news. Seven year old daughter was exploring Deezone and got really excited. "Dad, guess which Demon I am most like?" Mitch Clark. I had to smile like that was really great. Then had to go through all the questions to see who I was... Jack Watts.

Welcome Jeffy. Trade question: why do they bother including those low picks? Just to make Carlton feel better? From a big picture perspective what's the diff between 79 and 83? I'm genuinely curious.

I’ll add my few cents…possibly probably a bit self-indulgent but hopefully that can be excused for an occasional poster in these circumstances. My dad started taking me to the footy in about 1981 when I was 10 and my sister was 8. From that time on we went to nearly all the home games at the ‘G, often to Waverly Arctic Park, and then as we got older to more and more of the enemy territories (Moorabin, Western Oval including that game in ‘87, and the Junction). So I was fortunate enough to see Robbie play a lot, and he was my hero from Day 1. I think I’ve taken for granted how often I got to see him play, and reading the responses here from the younger members makes me appreciate it more. We lived on the Mornington Peninsula but my dad was originally a Murrumbeena boy and when he was 21/22 and playing for Murrumbeena 1s he also coached the Murrumbeena Districts under 11s, featuring none other than R. Flower. I live in country NSW now but was visiting my folks this past week while the kids were on school holidays so we did a lot of reminiscing and also a lot of rummaging around in my old bedroom, and this was in the cupboard. It’s hard to see (camera photo) but there are two signatures on the number two: Flower and Barassi. Believe it or not in the pocket was a ticket (booked through Bass!) for the 13th of September 1987 (the flogging of the Swans). After more digging around we also uncovered the poster that adorned my wall from the mid-80s until I left home (longer really, as I kept coming home to play cricket on weekends, so it remained on display in my room). Dad has more stuff, a picture of the U11s side, the gift they gave him as coach, a three page fax from Robbie that Paul O’Brien (who taught with dad ) organised when dad finally gave up the teaching game. Memorabilia aside, my memories of Robbie the footballer are inclined towards hero-worship, no matter what happened he could do no wrong. Watching the old youtube stuff shows things I’d forgotten, or possibly never appreciated, how quick he was, how he routinely made would-be tacklers look silly, how his kicks were low and very penetrating. It’s horribly sad and my heart goes out to his family. To complete the loop a little, for me anyway, when I was at Uni I ended up living in Murrumbeena and although I’d been playing Rugby Union while at Uni (more as a drinking exercise than physical exercise) I had a crack at footy for one year because I knew I was moving overseas the next. I played at the ‘Beena, 15-16 very undistinguished games in the Magoos as a ‘determined backman’. Great fun, made great friends and was proud as punch to play at the same club as my dad.

Congrats to Priddis. Funniest moment for me was The Chad channelling Ricky Bobby when being interviewed by Timmy Watson. Painful, and yet I couldn't look away.

"The B is for Bargain!"

Does anyone know when this actually starts? I have two bits of info, one says 10:30 and the other says 11.

Hi McQueen, I'll be there, flying down tonight. I started a similar thread a few days before you and got about the same level of response...so it might just be the two of us!

As predicted that hit got some good airtime. It was a great show, although I am biased....love Neita. Odd question, but does anyone know if he's an asthmatic? Every now and then there was a real wheeze through the mic.