Nasher

No change.

I've figured it out. There's an in-joke that I'm not part of, to always just say "drop Melksham" irrespective of how he plays or how the game plays out. That's the only explanation for it.

Nah, point not proven yet. Keep proving it please Tom!

Harmes was great. it's easy to get excited about the shiny and new (Sparrow), but sometimes the old and worn in is just what you need. I thought he was awesome. May was HUGE.

Corky according to post match interview with Ling. He'll be right.

Imagine if you said at half time in the match thread that you thought that the best setup was to have Tom McDonald in defence? Won us the game with that mark and goal. I might have to dust Plugger off again. That was by far the most tough opponent we've had. Definitely not the prettiest win but I'd argue the most satisfying one yet.

Cool. My position is that by the end of the season, having played every game between now and then, he'll have settled and established himself as an AFL quality key defender. Let's meet back in the first round of finals and compare notes.

Imagine not looking that good as a 21 year old, 12 game key defender. There is 0% chance they drop him now. Show him some belief. He will deliver in the back half of the year.

Enjoyed the games of Harmes and Jordon so far. Harmes has justified his selection and Jordon continues to improve. Benny Brown looks more of an aerial threat today compared to last week. Dees by 30.

T.McDonald - 1 tackle B.Fritsch - 1 tackle M.Hibberd - 0 tackles MUST BE GOODIES BESTIES IF NOT DROPPED IMMEDIATELY

Good to see the Melksham haters out in force. The most obvious case of groupthink I’ve seen on this forum I reckon. He’s the best deliverer of the ball in to the 50 we have. For the same reason you all argued (rightfully) with me until you went blue that Spargo’s job isn’t about getting heaps of the ball, Melksham’s job isn’t to lay stacks of tackles. It’s to link up at half forward, win contests when needed and make sure we get meaningful delivery. Many seem to be assessing Melksham’s performance against Spargo’s role.

@Finkswas instrumental in the platform move - he was basically the project manager and I was the technical resource and made most of the decisions around it with my advice. He was the site rep who I saw as my “boss” in that process and we talked on the phone often during the migration. Not sure why but Andy (Demonland) didn’t have a lot of involvement in the day to day management in that era. Finks faded in to the background and Andy started actively running the show again a few years later.

I’d prefer reason and objectivity, personally. There are more than enough angles matters can be viewed on with good thought, without the need for deliberate, provocative contrarianism.

As a wise man once said, nuffies gon’ nuff. There’s no better example than Kane Cornes. I’m pretty good at being able to see an argument from multiple angles but I can’t understand Cornes’ position on this one, or anyone who’s been critical of it. What are people worried is going to happen? He’s not going to plateau yet. For the first four years of the seven, he’ll improve, and he’s already a star. He’s a core element to our flag push over the next 5 years - of course we want him locked away. It gives certainty to everyone who is working on delivering said flag - the players, the coaches, Christian himself, and the supporters. The only thing is that could plausibly happen is he slows down in the last few years, but so what. Petracca at 80% is still better than the average player out there that would otherwise be on the list.

I agree. Myself and @Rhino Richardsdid the vast majority of the moderation on here in the early days after the platform move. Both of us copped quite a lot of stick for our hard line stance on things, but I’ve got zero regrets, I think it was essential for setting a benchmark for expected behaviour. I think it’s paid off now, but I’m probably biased!

I’d forgotten about two sheds jackson - that was a gut wrenching moment too. These forums do certainly offer a bunch of strangers a sense of connectedness.

Yep, the Bailey rebuild was progressing. Who’s to say how it would have finished up, but the board stuck their neck in, dragged the playing group in and the rest is history. A shameful period in our history.

That reminds me - markc was another passionate Melbourne man that frequented both sites. I hope I’ve got my wires crossed here but did I read recently that he had passed away?

@george_on_the_outer?

Maybe this is optimistic but I think he’ll recognise that if he is good enough and waits long enough, his time will come. He is only one BB or TMac injury (or form lapse) away from getting in - then it’s his spot to lose. His position is no different to Harry Petty’s. I can’t see him going. He strikes me as a well balanced kid with a good head on his shoulders. I think he’ll back himself to break in to the side and hold his spot. I certainly wouldn’t resent him if he did choose to look for further opportunities, I just don’t think he will.

It was just called “Nasher’s test” - pretty sure the skin got wiped in one of the software updates years ago. I reckon I’ve still got the original Demonology source code at home. If I find myself with a few spare hours with nothing better to do, I’ll have a go at recreating a Demonology skin on here and we can have a throwback Thursday or something.

There was. I can’t remember what it was called but it was run by a guy called Deestroy (no relation to our own @Deestroy All) who had ragequit from Demonology for some reason and started his own community.

I was more active on ‘ology than ‘land in the earlier years too, until I helped move ‘land on to the platform it’s still on today. That was in 2005. I still remember it, we went live the day before my birthday, I was home sick with a shocking cold. You’ve all been stuck with me as admin, hater of haters and defender of whipping boys ever since :) At one point when ‘ology was struggling and Tim was offline, I was working on a plan to move Demonology on to the Demonland platform, but re-skinned to look exactly like Demonology, to keep the members who liked the simplistic look and feel ‘ology had. There was a hidden forum on here that if you clicked on it, took you what for all intents and purposes was Demonology, but was just another corner of Demonland. Never got that plan off the ground though. There are still heaps of the original ‘ology crew kicking around too. Baghdad Bob, Pollyanna, Axis of Bob, RGRS, demonstone, as well as the ones who have posted on here already. The ‘takeover’ of ‘ology was done by a lunatic who had been banned from ‘land and was a serial pest. I lost track of what happened after that.

10 games at the MCG out of 131 total.

Going to go out on a limb and say @demonstonecares about spelling and grammar, at all times. Great news about Trac, although I’m looking forward to it hearing it from the club and not notorious “news breakers” (bottom feeders), Browne and Morris