Demonised

prefer others

Yep. I think he could be a sleeper. Tall, good hands, good footy awareness. Watch this space.

I want a premiership.

Straight swap with Marty McGurk?

Confirmed: Marty McGurk is going to be invited to join the G20 group of nations in his own right, bumping out Canada.

The whisper is that Marty is showing up on Celebrity Master Chef ...

I'm gutted, and I currently have my Stanley knife out to cut his number from my duffle coat. I understand, footy's changed, but isn't there such a thing as loyalty? After all the effort and time we've put into him. I guess it's a bad week to be giving up wart killer.

I've reconsidered. Much as it pains me, if we can get a first round pick for this guy, I'm prepared to trade him.

I heard his name mentioned as a trade possibility, but take him off the table, now! This guy is our future!

I think Scully will, like, tie the place together, man.

My treasure, from the early 1970s.

Very young in '64, needed a team to support and when the Demons won the flag I thought they were the obvious choice. Get with the strength, years of success ahead, that sort of thing. Hasn't quite turned out that way, but no regrets. We're the best.

Carlton? I didn't know they were coming and I hardly noticed that they've now gone ...

'The first club will be No. 1 again' or 'Older than anyone. Better than anyone.' or simply 'We are Melbourne.'

I used to be sad when footy season was over. Not this time. The agony is over. I hope.

No, I'm Spartacus!

That's the one. I've had to have two bone grafts on my scaphoid after an undiagnosed break a long time ago (footy related). I wouldn't wish it on anyone.

MUST take good care of a scaphoid. It's potentially a very nasty injury. Didn't it end Sean Charles career? And didn't it hasten Gerard Healey's retirement. Good luck, Brad.

I like the one that's navy blue with a red yoke.

I, for one, think it may be too early to talk about back to back premierships just yet.

"aerial ping-pong"? Must be a Sydney news report ...

Got to agree with Ho Chi Dee. It's a common mistake to think that spelling and pronunciation are always linked. Try 'knife' and 'pneumatic' for starters (a little linguistic joke there for you all). Assuming that looking at the spelling of a word tells you how to say it results in things like people adding an extra syllable at the end of 'temporary' and 'ceremony' or pronouncing the 't' at the end of 'trait'. The science of pronunciation is called orthoepy and it is a complex and thorny area. What makes it harder is that pronunciation in English is an evolutionary thing. We can be sure that we'll be prouncing words differently in a hundred years time ...

Agreed. I'm currently gearing up for my 45th season with the Dees and I'm champing at the bit. It's been a long, tough pre-season but now the excitement has set in. After all, we haven't lost a game so far ...

Interesting question. On the cover, it doesn't actually say what it is. Just MebourneFC and 'Bringing Back the Demon'. Inside, though, each page has a header and it's there that it's called 'Season Guide 2009'.

My 2009 Season Guide just arrived. Looks good. I like the A4 size, and the detailed player portraits with interesting 'Dean Bailey Says' comments for every player. A moving tribute to Tiger Ridley is a feature, too.