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4 hours ago, Bang Bang Bang said:

He did some good things but he seems to have mastered the panicked dump kick turnover that can be so costly, as it was today. He didn’t have that in his game in the early days. 

I thought Bowery looked troubled by the heat and just couldn’t get himself going. He seemed a step off the pace, which is very unlike him. He’ll be much better once the real season gets under way.

8 minutes ago, Ghostwriter said:

Soz to kill your one positive HT, they’re two different posters. The Bnag still lives. 

Please say it ain’t so! 

5 minutes ago, Bang Bang Bang said:

Geez we look sloppy today. Yet another afternoon where Treacy and grandpa Walters do as they please. 
Not a big fan of the chip/mark game plan in defence. We don’t have the skill for that and it just feels pointless. 

Easy misses from Salem, Fritsch, Sharp, AJ and Billings hasn’t helped massage the scoreboard. Billings is so useless, looked defeated as soon as he marked it. 
 

Just a praccy match but definitely close to worst case scenario on what I didn’t want to see today. 

If there’s just ONE positive that I’m going to take out of today… you have fixed the Bnag in your profile name!!! Now THAT’s cause for celebration!!🎉🙌👏

48 minutes ago, leave it to deever said:

Fritta went backwards imho.

Not so much because he kicked less goals but he looked like at not a few times,l  he had lost passion. Too many times I saw him jogging after a few opposing players rather than sprint. His tackle count was too low and he seemed to be doing as little as possible.

A shame with Fritta because he is a freak of a talent. I get the same feeling about Kozzie at times. I love the bloke but not convinced he's as yet to give 100 % week in week out.

I’m pretty sure that Fritta was dealing with more than one injury for a large part of the season, and that could have accounted for his appearing disinterested.

53 minutes ago, old dee said:

Good to hear hardtack. I rang causeway construction and they said Hung is on annual leave. Believe he was visiting a rel in Melbourne. 

Well played sir!!

1 hour ago, old dee said:

Thanks GW, funny there is nothing about the game in the press up here in Singapore.

Strange…I was of the understanding that Casey have a large following in Singapore. I was told by my friend who operates a stall at the Newton Food Centre, that there’s a guy named Hung who does road maintenance around the Johor Causeway area, and who owns a transistor radio that he has permanently tuned into Casey Radio. If you ask around, you might be able to track him down and get some stats.

Oh, and as an aside, my medication seems to be doing its job.

1 hour ago, Roost it far said:

Petty? Anyone??

There are a few here who meet that criteria.

Ok, I decided I’ll have a go at this one. There is no real method to my madness, and my list was built on the assumption that the names that easily sprung into my mind, were the bands that had the biggest affect on me. They are in no particular order, other than the fact that listing one band of individual would trigger memories of other bands, hence the reason that all of the Australian bands of grouped together (again, no specific order within those names).

Anyway, I give you… my top 200 bands (including some individuals):

1. Ryuichi Sakamoto 
2. The Clash
3. The Jam
4. The Style Council
5. General Public
6. The (British) Beat
7. The Dictators
8. The Nails
9. The Stranglers 
10. The Members
11. The Damned
12. Doll By Doll
13. Psychedelic Furs
14. Gang of Four
15. Elvis Costello (the Attractions, the Imposters, the Coward Brothers etc)
16. Joe Jackson
17. Brinsley Schwarz
18. Graham Parker & the Rumour
19. Dr Feelgood
20. The Sensational Alex Harvey Band
21. The Cream
22. Humble Pie
23. The Small Faces/The Faces
24. The Jeff Beck Band
25. Roxy Music
26. ELP
27. The Nice
28. Mahavishnu Orchestra (John McLaughlin)
29. The Steve Miller Band
30. The Allman Brothers Band 
31. The Velvet Underground 
32. James Brown 
33. Lou Reed
34. Pop Will Eat Itself
35. XTC
36. King Crimson
37. Curved Air
38. Be Bop Deluxe
39. Van Der Graf Generator
40. Tangerine Dream
41. Kraftwerk
42. The Residents
43. Snakefinger 
44. Frank Zappa & the Mothers of invention
45. Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band
46. The Sex Pistols
47. The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band
48. Viv Stanshall
49. Led Zeppelin 
50. Chicago (first couple of albums)
51. Blood Sweat and Tears
52. Pacific Gas & Electric 
53. The Kinks
54. The Beatles
55. The Rolling Stones 
56. The Yardbirds
57. Fairport Convention 
58. Steeleye Span
59. The Pogues
60. The Strawbs
61. John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers
62. Blue Oyster Cult
63. The Throb
64. The Reels
65. The Easybeats
66. The Loved Ones
67. Lobby Loyde & the Coloured Balls
68. The Purple Hearts (featured our former bass guitarist Bob Dames)
69. The Wild Cherries
70. Mike Furber & the Bowery Boys
71. Company Caine
72. Spectrum
73. Ariel
74. The Stars
75. Carson County Boogie Band
76. Broderick Smith Big Combo
77. The Dingoes
78. Wendy Saddington & Chain (also with Copperwine)
79. Chain
80. Billy Thorpe & the Aztecs
81. Daddy Cool
82. Mighty Kong
83. Sons of the Vegetal Mothers
84. Billy-T
85. Paul Madigan & the Humans
86. The Ferrets 
87. The Lime Spiders (featured our guitarist Ged Corben)
88. The Cruel Sea (Ged Corben was a founder member when they were essentially an instrumental band)
89. Hunters & Collectors 
90. The Birthday Party
91. Boys Next Door
92. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
93. Sekret Sekret
94. The Sports
95. Harem Scarum
96. Jo Jo Zep & the Falcons
97. Drowning Not Waving (Dees supporter, David Bridie)
98. My Friend the Birthday Cake (Dees supporter, David Bridie)
99. The Huxton Creepers (Dees supporter, Archie Law)
100. Mackenzie Theory (Dees supporter, Rob Mackenzie)
101. Radio Birdman
102. Regurgitator 
103. Crowded House
104. Kevin Borrich Express
105. Kahvas Jute
106. Tamam Shud
107. Tully
108. The Bee Gees (pre Saturday Night Fever)
109. The Seekers
110. Captain Matchbox Whoopee Band
111. Skyhooks
112. Matt Finish
113. Midnight Oil
114. The Angels
115. The Screaming Jets
116. The Backsliders 
117. Coloured Stone
118. Gondwanaland
119. The Living End
120. Warumpi Band
121. Paul Kelly & <insert band of choice>
122. Kutcha Edwards
123. Archie Roach & Ruby Hunter
124. Gurramul & Mandawuay Yunupingu
125. Mixed Relations 
126. Yothu Yindi
127. The Hitmen
128. Mental As Anything
129. Dog Trumpet
130. The Aliens
131. La De Das
132. Ayer’s Rock
133. Healing Force
134. AC/DC (Bon Scott era only)
135. Flowers/Icehouse
136. GangaJang
137. The Allniters (featured our early guitarist Mickey Mahoney)
138. Kush
139. The Numbers
140. Freshwater (featuring Alison McCallum of ‘It’s Time’ fame)
141. Sun (featuring Renee Geyer)
142. SPK
143. Severed Heads
144. Buffalo 
145. Alberto Y Los Trio Paranoias
146. Prodigy
147. Pink Floyd
148. MC5
149. The Ramones
150. Television
151. Iggy & the Stooges
152. David Bowie
153. Traffic
154. The Spencer Davis Group
155. The Texas Tornadoes 
156. Los Lobos
157. Lemmy (Hawkwind & Motörhead)
158. Ministry
159. Van Morrison 
160. Quicksilver Messenger Service
161. The Byrds
162. Jefferson Airplane 
163. Big Brother & the Holding Company (Janis Joplin)
164. They Might Be Giants
165. Wheezer 
166. The Blue Hearts
167. Buddhadatta 
168. The 5, 6, 7, 8’s
169. Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra
170. Japan
171. Little Feat
172. Manfred Mann Earth Band
173. The Crazy World of Arthur Brown
174. Yello
175. Yellow Magic Orchestra (aka YMO)
176. Jimi Hendrix (Experience & Band of Gypsies)
177. Fleetwood Mac (Peter Green era only)
178. Argent
179. Neil Young
180. Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young
181. Joni Mitchell
182. Procol Harum
183. Robin Trower
184. Genesis (Peter Gabriel era)
185. Kate Bush
186. Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen
187. Asleep At the Wheel 
188. The Rock ‘n Roll Trio
189. Weather Report
190. The Screaming Blue Messiahs
191. Rockpile
192. Dave Edmunds
193. Nick Lowe
194. Wreckless Eric
195. Thunderclap Newman
196. Talking Heads
197. ZZ Top
198. Hank Williams 
199. Bob Dylan
200. The Band

3 minutes ago, Left Foot Snap said:

It is on Kayo. 

and Foxtel.

9 minutes ago, Go Ds said:

no one will care long-term about the result a few months .... weeks ... down the track

Whether we supporters or media pundits care or not means nothing, this is about the team taking confidence into future meetings with the Dockers… beat them today and the seeds of belief will be planted.

Just now, Go Ds said:

It'd be preferable. But if Freo thrash us in the next 5 real matches even if we beat them by 30 goals in each pre-season match during that dominance it'll mean nothing. (That said good team and player performance today is preferable.)

Yes, but we need to start somewhere, for our own belief, and a practice match is as good a time as any 😊

1 hour ago, forever demons said:

and get over a minor niggle.(Sheet burn)

The result of a good vindaloo?

3 hours ago, Deeoldfart said:

I’m really looking forward to this game. It will be a great opportunity for our boys to shed some of the inevitable early season rust, and it should give us supporters some genuine insights into the Dees of 2025.
No injuries is, of course, an imperative!      
Unlike some Demonlanders who have said that the scoreboard is unimportant, I really want a win.  Beating a quality side on the road, will be the perfect builder of confidence and self belief to kick start the new season.    
Go Dees!  ❤️ 💙

Agree with all of that… and as it was Fremantle who pretty much destroyed our season 2024, inflicting two thrashings on us in rounds 12 and 19… practice match or not, we need to show them that they don’t own us.

5 hours ago, TRIGON said:

Practice Matches, another Demonland thread that’s got derailed…

At least the distraction came after the last of the non-Dees practice matches had been played and discussed. But speaking of distractions, and more particularly, food fights @Sir Why You Little and @Tarax Club, read on…

I was a student at Trinity Grammar and recall a time when a Mr Whippy van (in their very early days - early to mid 60’s?) turned up in the narrow road behind Trinity’s old primary school play area which led to a side entrance belonging to Xavier.

Mr Whippy was perceived as a threat to our beloved tuck shop and the tuck shop ladies therein, so in what was probably the only piece of ‘bi-partisan’ action ever, involving the two groups of students from Trinity and Xavier, masses of kids queued up and purchased masses of ice-creamy treats.

Mr Whippy no doubt thought all of his Christmases had come at once, but… his Christmas cheer quickly turned to Christmas panic as every one of those ice-creamy treats was hurled at his van, while other ‘operatives’ let the air out of his tyres.  Poor Mr Whippy left with his tail between his legs and his van attached to a tow truck.

Now THAT, despite it being ridiculously one sided, was a food fight for the ages!

13 hours ago, Supreme_Demon said:

Here's a good interview that Jai Culley did a couple of years ago before he was taken in the 2022 mid-season draft.

He mentioned in the interview he did with "Into the Fire" on YouTube that he was a Demons supporter/member.

Jai also mentioned that he was doing work with a sprint coach to help his speed during football matches. 

I like the fact that he is a booming kick and can easily kick goals from outside 50 metres.

Hope he gets a chance to play in the Demons AFL side sometime this season when he earns a spot.

 

That kid’s a great interviewer!  He leaves a lot of those so called media experts for dead.

3 minutes ago, chook fowler said:

There are adult diapers for that 

Not the kind of movement I had in mind. 🤣

4 hours ago, dees189227 said:

Now Errols expected to miss months. A huge blow to the swans

My son played on him as an under 14, when Errol played for Maroubra (I think it was), where his dad was the coach. You could see he was going to be something special, but he was, at that time, as most coaches’ sons seemed to be, a bit of a scumbag.

He has developed into a great player and a great role model, so I really do genuinely wish him a speedy and full recovery.

5 hours ago, adonski said:

Jeffo to kick 6 and be flown by emergency helicopter to Perth to play tomorrow tonight, feel it in me waters

I think Picket Fence just felt a movement in his trousers.

This is DeepSeek’s prediction. Which I do like a lot more than ChatGPT…

Predicting the final ladder for the Australian Football League (AFL) at the end of the 2025 home and away season is highly speculative, as it depends on numerous factors such as player form, injuries, team strategies, and other unpredictable elements. However, based on recent trends and historical performance, we can make an educated guess.

### Potential Top 8 Teams (in no particular order):
1. **Melbourne Demons** - Consistently strong in recent years with a solid core of players.
2. **Brisbane Lions** - Have been building a strong team and performing well in recent seasons.
3. **Geelong Cats** - Known for their resilience and ability to remain competitive.
4. **Sydney Swans** - A young and talented squad that has been improving steadily.
5. **Western Bulldogs** - Known for their dynamic play and strong midfield.
6. **Port Adelaide Power** - Have been consistent performers in the home and away seasons.
7. **Richmond Tigers** - Despite some aging stars, they have a history of strong performances.
8. **Carlton Blues** - Emerging as a strong contender with a mix of youth and experience.

### Middle of the Pack:
9. **Fremantle Dockers** - Show promise but need more consistency.
10. **GWS Giants** - Have the talent but need to convert it into consistent wins.
11. **St Kilda Saints** - Improving but may not have the depth to break into the top 8.
12. **Adelaide Crows** - Rebuilding phase, showing potential but not yet ready for top 8.

### Bottom Teams:
13. **Collingwood Magpies** - Struggling with consistency and player turnover.
14. **West Coast Eagles** - Aging list and struggling with form.
15. **Hawthorn Hawks** - Rebuilding phase, focusing on developing young talent.
16. **North Melbourne Kangaroos** - Also in a rebuilding phase, focusing on youth development.
17. **Gold Coast Suns** - Showing improvement but still lacking the depth to compete with top teams.
18. **Essendon Bombers** - Struggling with consistency and team cohesion.

### Final Thoughts:
The AFL is known for its unpredictability, and any team can rise or fall based on a variety of factors. The above prediction is based on current trends and historical performance, but the actual ladder could look quite different by the end of the 2025 season.

For the most accurate and up-to-date information, it's always best to follow the season closely and keep an eye on team performances and player developments.

Collingwood in 12th, Melbourne 13th and Hawthorn, and this is the craziest prediction, 17th!!🥸😳😵‍💫🤷🏼‍♂️  It appears to be using last year’s data and not taking into account training form, injuries, draftees, etc.

52 minutes ago, La Dee-vina Comedia said:

And Kynan

And Kai in the near future.

15 hours ago, Roost it far said:

Can anyone report on how George and Culley played?

Read the report by following the link posted just above 👆 and all will be revealed.

3 hours ago, binman said:

Love that we've added another leftie.

I don’t think it’s a good idea to bring politics into a football discussion. 😉

Started third cycle of chemo today. So far not feeling and side effects and feeling pretty good. Unfortunately my peripheral neuropathy and resultant balance issues, is here to stay (upside is that I get to look sophisticated with a lovely ornate walking cane). These are how I spend some of my time in the chair…

I’m glad his first name doesn’t start with the letter ‘S’.