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mauriesy

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  1. mauriesy replied to Demonland's post in a topic in Melbourne Demons
    Dwayne calling the 50m line "the paint" ... uugghh!
  2. More underestimation of our opposition. They lost to Collingwood twice by a total of 3 points.
  3. You could have left off the fry pan. 😄
  4. All close games between good sides can ebb and flow.
  5. We should be celebrating the win by wresting back the momentum when it was severely against us.
  6. mauriesy replied to Ollie fan's post in a topic in Melbourne Demons
    I don't find Barrett's diction to be conducive to my ailing hearing. Very mumbly.
  7. I'd love it if ANB has 30 pressure acts and 15 tackles a game, plus the occasional goal. But he does screw up a lot of disposals.
  8. I got the definite feeling from listening to Goody's press conference that he actually prefers the 10-day break (with 4 days off) because it is less impactful on their continuity than a 14-day break, and the fact they are training a few times before the Thursday match (including at GMHBA) will be better than losing training time. Correct me if I'm wrong.
  9. mauriesy replied to Demonland's post in a topic in Melbourne Demons
    We had a 15% success rate everywhere since 2000, at least up to 2018. 😄
  10. Well, it's not the player old boys. That's the point of the article. Didn't we get into more trouble when we had a lot of old boys that were too involved in the club?
  11. mauriesy replied to Demonland's post in a topic in Melbourne Demons
    Nothing like a 10-goal win at the MCG over poor interstate opposition to deceive Carlton into thinking they're any good.
  12. The Big Freeze is all a cunning plot to sell lots of blue beanies so it looks like most of the crowd is Melbourne supporters. ☺️
  13. So do I, but I think using Jordon instead of Jordan should be easy. It's not like it hasn't been raised before.
  14. What I really wish is that player's names could be spelled correctly. 🥲 Also, I've never played AFL, but it doesn't mean I can't have a valid opinion. FWIW, one of the world's most respected and commercially-successful golf course architects, Tom Doak, is an 11 handicapper who has never played professional golf. By contrast, not too many people like the courses designed by Peter Thomson as being far too hard. Down at the National they ripped one of Thomson's courses up because no one wanted to play it. It goes to show that sometimes those outside the professional game can have just as good a perspective.
  15. I wouldn't take too much notice of DE% between, say, 60 and 80. But if one player is on 90% and another on 30%, it either says something about different roles (e.g. outside v extractor), or that one really is a poor disposer.
  16. Definitely not a SPAngled dRonGO.
  17. The Age game day blog said Sparrow was subbed off. Close enough to Spargo apparently.
  18. Undermining Collingwood is my favourite thing. 😄 Gee, it must be hard for you to accept that perfection is unachievable. Listen to Justin Longmuir on AFL360 tonight, when he says that players will always make mistakes, and that it's how they handle them and recover from them that is the true measure of a player and a team.
  19. mauriesy replied to Demonland's post in a topic in Melbourne Demons
    I think their list is over-rated. They have three elite players: Curnow, Weitering and Cripps. McKay should be but has the yips, Docherty is OK, but the rest are average.
  20. mauriesy replied to Demonland's post in a topic in Melbourne Demons
    Fremantle supporters could not possibly blame the umpires for the loss. 😄
  21. mauriesy replied to Demonland's post in a topic in Melbourne Demons
    I don't think there's one player in the Bulldogs backline that I'd choose (type for type) over May, Lever, Petty, Salem, Rivers, Bowey and McVee.
  22. If the game is "sold out", and the ground holds 100,000, but they're "expecting 90,000", what happens to the other 10,000 seats?
  23. One day, in an alternate reality universe, Kozzie will get a free for a head-high tackle.
  24. mauriesy replied to 640MD's post in a topic in Melbourne Demons
    The Wednesday Footy Classified is the very bottom of the barrel, mainly because Eddie never shuts up.