Nasher

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

In: Petty, Harmes Out: Tomlinson, Baker Jones to be the sub again.

Did you vote in the second round of votes, or the 50th?

They were lenient on him then.

Same. Dinner may also get burnt. Oh well, sucks to be my family.

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Just taking a deep breath here. We had a scare against a lowly team, we now have a couple of important injuries, and there’s a long way to go yet. There’s bound to be a few bumps and blips on the road to come. I’m really enjoying footy at the moment, but I’ll be burnt out by the end of the year if I stay excited the whole time.

I started out preferring to swing TMac back and bring Weideman in, but as time goes on I'm coming around to this view as well. There is a need for a KPD for the rest of the season; we would want Petty to be established and settled by the time finals rolls around - and if it turns out he's not up to it, we've got plenty of time to adjust. It also means more continuity for the forward line as well, especially now that it looks like Fritsch is out.

I think we paid the price for having an inexperienced winger in the side. We proved that you need more than speed. Angus doesn't have a lot of speed but he reads the play and defends well, be it out of our on 50 or going in to theirs; he gets there and contributes. I lost count of the number of times I saw North go out on Sunday through Baker's flank, and the only time I saw him roll back, he missed the tackle on Cunnington and he kicked their only goal for the last quarter. I know your argument wasn't pro-Baker, but my point is if we're to move Brayshaw out of the wing, we want to be REALLY sure whoever takes his spot has the nous to play it so we don't shoot ourselves in the foot. As an experienced player I have more faith in TMac than I do Baker, but my main preference would be to keep the player who has proven capability in the role to keep doing it, even if he's not a natural per se.

We missed Brayshaw on the wing terribly on Sunday. He might not be a natural winger in terms of skills or speed, but he’s intelligent and he’s had continuity in the role. Baker did a few nice things, but he didn’t know when or how to defend the way Brayshaw does and I think it hurt us. We’ve got plenty of other options on the inside to cover Viney such as Jones, Harmes or Sparrow. Leave Brayshaw playing in the role he’s now used to, where we need him and where we’re skinniest for options - the wing.

The bitter irony is that reducing the panel down to a single person was supposed to *increase* consistency. That’s the line the AFL sold us. I don’t know who the genius was who thought that would work, because it clearly doesn’t.

Are we going by the dictionary definition of “strike”? If so, it was very clearly a strike.

I had Trac ahead of Oliver in my D’land votes. So me, Goody and Nobes are on the same page, you nuffies can please yourselves.

Look I could be wrong, but my gut feeling is WE ARE DEMONS AND ON TOP OF THE LADDER is not likely to be a very compelling argument for the tribunal.