Sideshow Bob

i believe the club imposed the 'No di@khead' rule on Darling, same as putting a line through Dustin Martin the year before. I'm all for this policy - don't need anyone who may turn into a 'Fev' or a 'cuz' or any other good footballer that is a nutcase off the field edit - won't let you write di@khead!!

snuck away with another one RR... Thought i might've snuck it - I think it was the frees that won it. Was never going to beat you on possies but i knew i had scoring and hit outs covered. couple of injuries/the bye hurt big time

Might be the red wine speaking or perhaps the rose coloured glasses(perhaps they're also one and the same), but just did the season on the ladder predictor (no real thought process just immediate first thought as to a winner & this is what i got; Collingwood 17 1 4 Hawthorn 16 0 6 Melbourne 14 2 6 Adelaide 13 0 9 Fremantle 13 0 9 St Kilda 13 0 9 Sydney 12 1 9 Geelong 12 0 10 Carlton 11 0 11 Essendon 10 0 12 Nth Melbourne 10 0 12 West Coast 10 0 12 Footscray 9 0 13 Port Adelaide 9 0 13 Brisbane 8 0 14 Ricmond 5 0 17 Gold Coast 3 0 19 obviously the only other draw is us and Collin@%^&d again, like i said no real thought to it. just helps in predicting where everyone will end up due to match ups, will obviously be nowhere near the final ladder but i'd love it if it was.... anyone else done it yet? post your end of year 'Bailey Ladder'

cannot beleive that a thread on a debuting kid, who did have a great debut by the way has polarised the demonland forumites in such a way. 265 replies 25,000 views. Still a long way to go to catch up with Watts and Scully threads but Jeesssuuusss, move on kiddies. Let him crack a few games, even a season or 2 (he is contracted till the end 2012 BTW) before we write him off or hail him as the all conquering messiah. i'm willing to bet he will run through someone, a la the Shaw hit, every game he plays this year B) , unfortunately this may well leave him out of contention from a rising star bid but hey I'd love to see it. I can see it now Hodge running on after being used as the sub this week and runs straight into the freight train Tappy, who knocks him into tomorrow. He'd be a bigger cult figure than 'Balls' Grinter. Fingers crossed

with the Gold Coast set to debut this weekend, you would expect the AFL to continue the publicity push and announce Andrew Swallow the round 2 rising star nomination. heck the might as well do it now! Tappy won't get a gong till rd 3 at the earliest, even then they might find GC boys to award it to unitl rd 15!!

Not happy with the membership department.... GGGRRRR..... been patiently waiting for my membership to arrive to no avail prior to rd 1. waited in the dirty great big line to get my paper ticket entry on sunday. Thought i might give them a call this am - yet to issue my membership as they hadn't confirmed my seat allocation in the trident club. He then tried to tell me that all the seats in the olympic stand has been issued....Huh? surely one would expect to just get their seat from previous years.. Forunately he did find me a seat in front of the Betty Cuthbert room after kicking up stink Surely when you purchase a highish level membership that the membership department might just want to follow up with you if they don't know where to allocate your seat. Thank F^%$# i called them otherwise i might be waiting till rd1 next year!! Someone's Ass needs kicking!! GGGRRR

Very happy to sneak a win JA. Also very happy that my round 2 draft pick, big dean cox is now the #1 ranked player in the comp. Now to work on the plan for RR

the jumpers are shiny that's the problem. On tv both the blue and the red are very reflective. The blue shines while the red goes pinkish on tv. Maybe they need to go for a matte finish for the day games and something shinier for under lights.

so much man love for Tappy after today. Ready built footballer straight out of the box. Looked like a veteran. Would be happy to have 35 on the back of the jumper

Woohoo.... some good news for the dee's hopefully will deliver some good old fashioned grunt straight out of the box. Been waiting a long time for this kid to start B) YOUNG DEMON TO DEBUT

offers now open on TOM SCULLY - will only accept an established gun or 2 first round draft picks (AFL style compensation...) Sheedy are you out there?

not necessarily a bad idea there HT, there was enough happening during the off season for atleast a couple of verses it could be titled 'The dee's didn't start the fire....'

'Bout bloody time..... Longest pre-season ever, with the most twists and turns in AFL history - first off there was the St Kilda schoolgirl, then the Fev, then something else from the St Kilda schoolgirl, Tom Scully to GWS followed by Pendles, Thomas and Swan to GWS, more gold from the St Kilda schoolgirl, this time with Ricky Nixon, Tom Scully says no to GWS, more gold from Fev, this time involving the dee's and Casey, Palmer to GWS, sorry now no Palmer to GWS, the substitute fiasco, a silly lightning premiership style preseason tournament AND add to that some non-footy related news - Floods, cyclones, earthquakes, Tsunami's, nuclear reactors, Royal visits, War in Libya, uprising in Bahrain, uprising in Egypt, some pretty bloody awful cricket by the Australians, another NFL title to Green Bay, an ecouraging second for the Socceroos in Asia NO bloody wonder we can't wait for the footy to start!! Dee's to follow last years smashing of the Swanette's by right royally demolishing them on the 'G this time by 38 points

Looks like Webbo may move the the prancing horse next year.... Vettel to earn double Webber this year, therefor Webber = number 2 driver. wouldn't be a happy camper at all Sebastian Vettel signs new Red Bull deal, Mark Webber hints at possible Ferrari move

seriously looks in pain trying to lay that egg....

Does anyone if he has a g/f with Pia Millerish type componentry, that doesn't mind helping 'the team'..... that is the only possible way... (can't believe i just wrote that..... no offence intended to our wonderful female demonlanders )

Looks like PJ will be picked up by the Hawks after all. Wish him well. He has always had the perfect body shape, however never worked out how to use it properly. Daniher summed him up pretty well when we got him from West Coast - 'He's a big lump of a lad, when he finally works out how big he actually is he'll be a good footballer' (or something like that!) Pity he had so many injuries. Hopefully he can put it together and do well (just not against us!) Hawks to dump Tuck

good thing we're much more sensible intelligent than those tullamarine FC supporters deemort

Seriously B59 a tree fell...... sack Bailey now, Watts and Scully should never play for Melbourne again (albeit for differnt reasons 1. Watts is a hack delist him now 2. Scully is obvously already playing for GWS thats why lost!), Trengove must have season ending injury, Mckenzie has OP, I'm tearing up my membership because we lost a practice match..... Deep breath in....out thats better. The footy starts in 2 weeks peeps, its all just training until then, these crap NAB cup and challenge games are just traing scenarios with moving witches hats - no intensity, no consequences of a win or a loss, no care factor from players or in most cases coaches (the only exception is James Tird). Bring on the Swannies in 2 weeks. Was it 73 points against them last year, when the foot came off the accelerator? Ok round 1, they (Syd) need to lift more than us when they come to play at the 'G. CARN'T WAIT for the real stuff (yes i know i misspelt can't for those primary schoolteachers!! )

The flip side is, the new emblem is just that its a club emblem not a simple logo. I have no problems with media using the square logo for small logo related type things. Use the emblem on bigger signs where the detail can be adequately shown. Otherwise its a tiny little few dots of incoherent red and blue bits.

sent my mrs to the bedroom to watch crappy pommy tv -escape to the country! My theory from last weeks footy stands F%@# I hate Essendon, AND collingwood.... why am i watching them play between updates here and the live feed!!!! Once again thank you Mr Lehmann for your lovely drop

exactly what I'm doing... actually its more like a bottle now (thank you Peter Lehmann for lovely shiraz grenache combo....)

HT once again awesome food for thought, but no. I can't fit Dusty in my midfield. I like the idea that Dangerfield gives decent scoreboard pressure as well as being an up and coming gun of the comp. Would anyone else have done the trade Martin (centre)for Dangerfield (centre and forward)???

Bails should give Danners a call - learn from the original 'Preacher'...

By the sounds of it, we need to organise a demonland corner of the Betty Cuthbert Bar. Meet and greet over a beer 30 minutes prior to game time or something like that