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    NON MFC: Rd 07 2021

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    2 minutes ago, Forest Demon said:

    You’ve got to love how knee jerk footy fans are with their comments! Doggies are rubbish now according to the masses. We will lose a game soon too you realise?

    True but in the meantime, let’s not fall for the notion that beating the Tigers is a significant achievement. The real indicator of a team’s strength is how they go against North Melbourne. The Dogs set the benchmark against them at Marvel Stadium in Round 3 and I doubt that we can come close to emulating that performance.

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    AFL Mid Season Draft 2021

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    1 hour ago, whatwhat say what said:

    Isn’t Raak only eligible for the national draft at the end of the year, and part of Footscray’s next gen academy?

    I thought the message from the Doggies when they didn’t pick him at last year’s draft was that he could Raak off. 

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    Demonland will be shutting down.

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    From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

     

    Demonland
    'The Worm Ouroboros' location
    Demonland.jpg
    "Many-mountained Demonland"
    Demonland hippogriff.jpg
    Emblem of Demonland
    Created by Eric Rücker Eddison
    Genre High fantasy
    Information
    Type Monarchy
    Ethnic group(s) Demons
    Notable locations Galing (capital), Drepaby, Owlswick, Krothering
    Notable characters Lord Juss, Goldry Bluszco, Lord Spitfire, Brandoch Daha, Lady Mevrian

    Demonland is a large island in Eric Rücker Eddison's fantasy world, described in The Worm Ouroboros. The people who live in Demonland are referred to as demons, though they appear as humans with small horns adorned on their heads.

    Detail

    Demonland is the setting for much of the action in the story. Although it has a complicated geography, it was never fully defined by the author. Demonland is one of several important realms in the book. The others are Witchland, Impland, Goblinland, the Foliot Isles, and Pixyland.

    This is how Demonland was described by Lord Juss when he saw it in Chapter 8:

    Westward, facing the thunder-smoke of dawn, the fine far ridge of Kartadza was like cut crystal against the sky: the first island sentinel of many-mountained Demonland, his topmost cliffs dawn-illumined with pale gold and amethyst while yet the lesser heights lay obscure, lapped in the folds of night. And with the opening day the mists swathing the mountain's skirts were lifted up in billowy masses that grew and shrank and grew again, made restless by the wayward winds which morning waked in the hollow mountain side, and torn by them into wisps and streamers. Some were blown upward, steaming up the great gullies in the rocks below the peak, while now and then a puff of cloud swam free for a minute, floated a minute's space as ready to sail skyward, then indolently stooped again to the mountain wall to veil it in an unsubstantial fleece of golden vapour. (page 126)

    In fiction, Demonland is somewhat comparable to Rohan of Middle-earth or Cimmeria in Conan's world. As a real place, Demonland is similar to Norway during the Viking Age, both in geography and in its economy. Eddison describes a rugged land where people follow a pastoral economy inland, while near the ocean there are many ships and fishermen. No major cities are named but many castles are described; each lord of Demonland seems to rule over a territory centered around a castle. Major castles are:

    Many other places are named such as Switchwater Way, Glaumry Pike, Rammerick Mere and hundreds more. However, Eddison, unlike his better known contemporary Tolkien, never mapped his world.

    Government of Demonland

    As Paul Edmund Thomas explains in his introduction to the 1991 edition of the book, Demonland has no clear government. Lord Juss is not a king, and what orders are given are issued after a council meeting. Lord Spitfire says early on "Are not the Demons a free people?" Despite this, the ordinary farmers and fisherfolk of Demonland are content to follow their leaders into battle without much question or complaint.

    The main leaders of Demonland are the three brothers, Lord Juss, Goldry Bluszco, and Lord Spitfire; as well as one other great lord: Brandoch Daha. Lesser leaders of Demonland are:

    • Lord Volle of Kartadza
    • Lord Vizz of Darklairstead
    • Lord Zigg of Many Bushes
    • Other notable people from Demonland are: Astar, Tharmrod, Styrkmir, Quazz, and Melchar (see page 354)

    Several battles are fought in Demonland during the book:

    • Battle of Grunda - Corsus of Witchland defeats Lord Vizz of Demonland
    • Battle of Crossby Outsikes - Corsus defeats and kills Lord Vizz
    • Battle at the Rapes of Brima - Lord Spitfire defeats Corsus
    • Battle of Thremnir's Heugh - Lord Corinius of Witchland defeats Lord Spitfire
    • Battle of Krothering Side - Lord Juss and Brandoch Daha defeat Corinius and the entire Witchland army is driven from Demonland

    In addition one other battle is mentioned taking place before the book begins:

    • Sea battle at the Races of Kartadza - The fleet of Demonland destroys the fleet of the Ghouls (page 126)

    Demonland is also the home to the last of the wild hippogriffs, and a second hippogriff egg is found in the waters of Dule Tarn by Brandoch Daha. This allows Lord Juss to rescue his brother Goldry from the enchanted prison of Zora Rach.

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    2020 Phantom Drafts & Rankings

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    2 minutes ago, Patches O’houlihan said:

    I wouldn't even bother with a phantom draft this year 

    Agree. I couldn’t stand three more weeks of endless discussion about whether Findlay Macrae or Archie Perkins can run 0.07 seconds faster over 20 metres. Just bring on the draft night. 

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    2020 AFL National Draft prospects: The next batch

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    1 minute ago, Whispering_Jack said:

     

    18. EDDIE FORD 

    (Western Jets/Vic Metro)

    Forward, 189cm, 83kg

    Ford plays taller than his 189cm stature due to his exceptional vertical leap, topping the charts at the Vic Metro combine (94cm). The Jet regularly took flight last year and has strong hands overhead and good speed. The forward was looking to transition into the midfield this season, requesting vision of Fremantle superstar Nat Fyfe from the Dockers to help improve his midfield craft. He goes up a gear in big games, highlighted by his hot start to the All-Stars clash on Grand Final day, finishing with two goals and 20 disposals.

    Could Ford become a Rolls Royce? 

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    AFL Trade Radio

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    8 minutes ago, Chelly said:

    They’re off an running for the 2020 Trade Period and Titus O’Reily has it all pegged out.

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    Speaking from Washington DC, President Donald J Trump has announced that unless North Melbourne completes the trade of Benjamin Brown to Melbourne by the time the ballots close in the western states, he will file a case in the Supreme Court of the USA to have the entire trade period declared null and void.

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    DEEDAY: Dockers vs Bulldogs

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    11 hours ago, Yze_13 said:

    One was played in near perfect conditions. One was played in a maelstrom.

    There were two teams out there in that “maelstrom” on Monday 7 September but only one of them produced 53% disposal efficiency which would be the worst or close to of all teams for the season. The other produced 71%

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