Demonised

Put simply, if the umpires are going to be bad, I want us to be consistently favoured by the terrible decisions, maybe winning a few close games due to their egregious errors.

He's at the centre of everything.

I was thinking about Quantum Theory and the Multiverse, as I do after a loss, and according to the Many Worlds Interpretation the universe branches all the time. Just like Schrödinger's Cat is both alive and dead, for every umpire decision it either goes against the Dees or for the Dees, the universe branching at each decision point. Likewise with each shot at goal - the Dees kicked a goal and they didn't, all at the same time. Which means that there is a universe where the Dees got all the free kicks against Brisbane. And not just that, every free kick all year, just as for goal kicking, where there is a universe where the Dees haven't missed a single shot. It stands to reason that in this universe we won every game. I want to go there.

The situation after the half time siren. For accuracy's sake, would the panel describe it as: a melee a donnybrook a line in the sand a contretemps a brawl or a fracas?

Weird how only four goals were scored at the city end and seventeen at the Punt Rd end.

Good goal kicking accuracy.

What happened after the siren? Max very angry with a North player.

The time will come, be it soon or years from now, when the lost and lonely will sigh about how the MFC is a mediocre team, winning rarely, offering false hope occasionally, dashing that hope perennially. Pundits everywhere will nod sagely and agree that the Demons are pitiable and always have been. But some among us will step forward, hand on heart, and say, ‘No! We won’t have it!’ because we few, we happy few, remember when our players strode the MCG like gods, fair of face and clean of limb, outshining all others and grasping the ultimate prize through skill, heart and grace. We’ll remember Max the colossus, peerless in his craft. We’ll remember sunny Christian, relentless Clayton and dogged Jack, never giving in, never surrendering. We’ll never forget Steven, the Jakes, the other Christian, Kossie, Bayley of the unrivalled hair, Ed the running man and others, for we all had our favourites. We were part of it. Through our commitment and love we were part of it and we will remember though times be dark, though times may grow dark for we know that when the times lighten, they lighten with fire. Go Dees.

He looked so good against Geelong in Round 8, leading up, big contested marks ... Or or that rosy coloured memory?

Windsor to do a Bradbury?

From the 70s to about 2000, the Newcomb footy club was 'the Dinosaurs'.

I can't trust myself to judge the umpiring as I can't take off my red and blue goggles. I wonder what neutrals thought?

It'll happen, sure as eggs are eggs, It'll happen.

I'm just watching Fritsch's goal on a loop. Unbelievable.

Award winning, highly regarded and ground breaking author of books for young readers.

Hard data vs opinion. Which will win? Who can tell?

There are two questions that have the same answer. The questions are: 'Why do they?' and 'Why don't they?' and the answer is 'Money'.

I was at the game last night and I'm afraid I didn't see lack of interest or effort. I saw that we were up against a talented team and our systems weren't working as they have been. They pressured us and we often fumbled or chose bad options while they were on song and very, very slick.

We seemed to be outnumbered at every contest. And they had the skills to chip right through/around us.

1937?

Wasn't it built in what turned out to be a rain belt? That is, one of the rainiest parts of Melbourne?

Pies tanking for draft picks?

I want to see more of this sort of language on Demonland. Egad. Zounds. Fie. Huzzah.

A round that starts with a Melbourne loss and a Carlton win is a glum one indeed.

And oh what heights we'll hit! On with the show, this is it!