Tim

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.

Quirkily, four of our 18 that played that day against St Kilda ended their careers playing for St Kilda - perhaps the Saints boys were responsible for the “pleasant” atmosphere of the match mentioned by umpire McMurray, and that impressed our boys? Only four of that team made it onto the field for our GF win only two seasons later, which is quite a turnover - from reigning wooden spooner to premiers in two years. There would have been five, but infamously Bob Corbett had his jaw broken early in the 1926 PF and was unavailable - but still a big turnaround in playing personnel. And @Whispering_Jack, it was Ramsay MacDonald who was “the big fellow up forward” for the British Government at the time, becoming the UK’s first Labour PM in January 1924.

Casey played a praccy match against Carlton at Princes Park on Friday evening. Lachie Hunter played and Taj got some more miles into his legs after his brief Adelaide cameo on Thursday night. Sestan not playing. Well done to Max, Rick and Petts for turning up in the cold gloom to support the lads in a “crowd” that was comfortably outnumbered by the players on the field. Kynan Brown was excellent, as too was the Kolt. Taj and Bill were also good.

I know they didn’t exist then, but it’s gotta be a core value of ours!