Tim

Like night follows day, Dew follows Frost, I guess.

That is a complete mis-take of what happened I would suggest. To put it another way, if messing up an interview were the one reason only that she left then we really do have a problem at board level.

Two small observations from the footage about kicking. Amazed to see at one point in the video John Townsend at about CHF going to the city end, wheeling out of a tackle and under pressure doing a drop kick with his left foot to move the ball forward. And how about Brian Dixon in the lead up to the famous Crompton goal at the end? Collingwood full back kicks off after a behind, goes to a pack and marked by Dixon (well done!). His “give it everything” kick then goes all of 30 metres to a contest where Crompton is still at least 30 metres out when he snaps the winner. Thank heavens for his tish-house kicking skills in that instance!

The Bombers on steroids…now that’s an idea to conjure with.

The round 6 video at the 1.50 mark: very Malcolm Blight-like, but not in a good way.

Maybe…was thinking more Hawthorn, in the Rochford Devenish-Meares tradition.

Great post, and the opening line in particular nails it.

Nasty, unnecessary and wrong post.

In their Richmond top 5 there’s no mention of Dusty. Nuff said!

Goal umpire called it a point, so without the arc it would still have been a point.

And in 2 of those 7 games we got some revenge against the Cats, with M. Gawn front and centre in both! (And btw, Max was lucky enough to miss 186, but was called up for the next game, a 76-point relative cliff-hanger loss against Carlton.)

Until then 186 connoted the cc capacity of a Holden engine. After that 186 took on a very different meaning for me. Eerie memories of a previous “Day of Infamy” for our great club, 28 July 1979 out at Waverley against Fitzroy where we conceded 238 points and lost by 190. What is it about the last week of July for us?

I have a memory of Daicos scoring the “winning goal” from the boundary pocket late in the game, and as the Filth supporters were having a collective orgasm, G. Lyon was instructed by the umpire to take the free kick for an infringement against him in the goal square. Magnificent. Breakout game for the young Ox - his first 3 Brownlow votes game. Alan Richardson playing in the black shorts, and Jako had Pert moved off him after rebounding from the earlier dragging by Northey and finishing with 7.5 (10 marks, no handballs!). Magnificent.

His 9th game. 14 marks, 22 kicks - 19 of which scored! And on the day he got 3 more Brownlow votes than he had handballs, another trademark of his game style.

40 scoring shots to 29 and we lose.

Of the 13,000-odd players who’ve played AFL/VFL, he tops the poll for having the winning-est career of those having played 100 games or more: 81.05%. Saw him at a local cafe last year, sporting his Demon cap. Nice man.

Good call, LG!

Game-saving tackle for his first touch; forget the dime-a-dozen ”goal with his first kick” - that’s a memorable stat to be really proud of. Like his Dad, first game was a cliff-hanger win - Doggy’s being a famous Princes Park 2-pointer against Carlton. Well done young fella!

Good to see some continuity over the centuries with our goal kicking accuracy.😉

I was contemplating a longer time frame than since 2019, where those teams have been fairly consistently “thereabouts” over substantial periods.

Wouldn’t mind regressing to the Geelong mean, or the Swans mean, or the Hawthorn mean (and they seem to be getting set to be back to their “mean”), or Collingwood for that matter in terms of perennially putting themselves “in the window” for their fans. Our mean has been pretty mean to the fans since 1964.

From “day one”????😳

My avatar says: “Welcome to the pack!”

Always at the Casey games, as per last Friday night at Princes Park. And on Saturday arvo was there at Como Park to see Kyah Farris-White playing for St Bede’s in the Ammos. Leadership in action.

MFC did this about 12 months after our 2021 premiership, with a dinner and presentation of premiership rings in the MCC Committee Room involving the 23 in the flag team.