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Well, the time has come for me to return into the embrace of the Rusty Priest, so from January 5th, I will be off the wagon and back on the toxic juice, renewing acquaintances with the wonderful staff out at Concord Hospital. To celebrate this occasion, I thought I’d go with a touch of Maxfield Parrish-like romanticism, surrounded by Nymph Lodes; I suppose you could say it’s a Rusty Parrish Priest.

Also, as it was going to be difficult fielding a team for what, as it turns out, would have been my last gig for possibly the next six months (going on past form, but I’ll definitely take a rain check on that), my band has had to knock the Butchers Brew gig scheduled for the 20th December, on the head.

Footnote: this kind of imagery makes me feel a little Trumpian, and I fear I like it!

3 hours ago, Demon Disciple said:

Love the 7th photo of Bowzer telling the kid off for being a filth supporter 😝

I liked the shot of Langford ordering that same kid off the field, and the shot of Taylor about to rumble with that bigger than average kid.

I also liked that most of those kids seemed to be taller than Bowser.

For anyone who subscribes to Apple TV+, I highly recommend watching ’Down Cemetery Road’. It’s written by the same person that wrote ‘Slow Horses’ and is equally as brilliant!

I was informed today by my oncologist that despite my CT scan and blood test results looking good, I’ll be getting back on the ‘juice’ early in January, so unfortunately, all of my musical exploits will have to go on the back burner yet again.

So just two more gigs coming up in December (an xmas lane party and a bar gig), unless I can convince a couple of venues to squeeze us in. In the meantime, here’s a couple of shots from yesterday’s gig at a place called The Gasoline Pony in the Sydney inner west suburb of Marrickville; and if I have enough allowable space on this site, an AI animation I put together (don’t want to say ‘created’ when it comes to AI).

13 hours ago, rjay said:

Hassa was my favourite player as a kid growing up...a true Melbourne legend.

Same…I had his number on my jumper. I also have vague memories of his brother Lenny.

I shed a tear when this man passed…

My former bandmate’s son, Tom Ralphs (based in Norwich, UK); oh, and he happens to be wearing one of my band’s t-shirts 😉

1 hour ago, MrFreeze said:

Hoping for a Sinema rookie pick 🤞 Most likely he will have to fight it out in the SSP period

Is there any chance they might opt for Noah Yze over Sinema?

On 19/11/2025 at 19:54, picket fence said:

I know who the Traitor is please... peeeeez off!

You seem to be channeling a certain world leader PF 😉

On 19/11/2025 at 14:48, Go Ds said:

Hold if on the criticism at least until a few upcoming training sessions are done.

I would suggest everyone holds off the criticism full stop. He was putting in the effort over the last preseason, and by all reports looking the goods, until he was floored by an Achilles injury, which I’m sure he would have preferred not to suffer! He didn’t choose to get injured, and for the fact that he is still prepared to try to get himself back on the park, he should be lauded rather than admonished!

I’d love to see him succeed, although I do get the feeling time may be his biggest enemy, but if not, then I’m not going to begrudge him seeing out his contract, at least playing competitive footy at Casey.

On 19/11/2025 at 13:23, Ted Lasso said:

I disagree that it's a "bad investment" on balance i'd say it's a "terrible investment."

If you’re going to take on a profile name of Ted Lasso, shouldn’t you perhaps, be taking on a more conciliatory position 😉

On 19/11/2025 at 12:08, Dee Boys said:

Nice to be called a whippersnapper though, I'm 40!

On Demonland, 40 IS whippersnapper territory!

Is it an indication of how highly we rate Tom Matthews, that this topic is yet to bear his name in the title (when they’re usually updated within seconds). Poor… what was his name again?

12 hours ago, heath55 said:

Steele and Viney are the future, so you wouldn’t necessarily NOT pick an inside mid based on that if you highly rate them - there’s every chance they just didn’t rate sharp becoming that level of inside mid and see - to your point - opportunity next year to fill a potential need

I guess that’s what my son was getting at (no, I’m not throwing him under the bus 🤣), so yes, I do understand your point.

I’m so happy that we’ve taken Latrelle onboard, as it’s about time we had another X factor player running around in our forward line (well, since his cousin has gone into the mid-field, in a more or less permanent posting).

There’s a certain regular poster on here, who I hope won’t take a fence at my comments, but, as my son so wisely pointed out, Sharp would likely have no place in the team in the short term, as he would be somewhat superfluous, seeing that we have Viney and Steele there already. Also, I’d think that Taylor et al are looking forward to next year’s stronger draft, to pick up a mid or two, and there’s also every likelihood we’ll be making another play for Humphrey.

Oh, and I’m reminded of another player who had a lot of x-factor about him, but who’d played little senior level football (Darwin and a trial at Port Melbourne) and was taken pick 3 in the rookie draft, Aaron Davey.

1 hour ago, Little Goffy said:

Thredgold.

Not from the Thredgolds of ‘Thorough Grip Garterettes’ fame, by any chance?

2 hours ago, red and blue forever said:

why do they dilly-dally so much,

The dilly-dallying didn’t annoy me half as much as all of that shilly-shallying!!

5 hours ago, hillie said:

I see Langford as Petracca reincarnated

And Petracca says (in a Monty Python voice, of course). “I’m not dead yet!”

On 07/11/2025 at 07:59, spirit of norm smith said:

Jack Ison – Kysaiah Pickett and Cyril Rioli 

Interesting choices, given that he is 191cm.

Being a now youthful team:

An ominous entry onto the playing field:

5 hours ago, Ghostwriter said:

How about…

Guerrilla Radio - Rage Against The Machine.

Sleep Now In The Fire - Rage Against The Machine

Bulls On Parade - Rage Against The Machine

Killing In The Name (Of) - Rage Against The Machine

Renegades Of Funk - Rage Against The Machine

Wake Up - Rage Against The Machine

Pretty much anything RATM

If you’re after something energised and not necessarily linked directly to ‘demons’ as such, I’d go for this…

I am the god of hell-fire…

On 12/11/2025 at 19:49, bing181 said:

(Mods, please delete if inappropriate).

Since updating to iOS 26 on my iPhone, I now have a floating navigation bar across the screen when browsing Demonland in Safari. It blocks the text and leaves me reading the tiny space above or below it.

I’ve tried all the online tips I could find, but nothing seems to work — it’s making viewing the forums a bit of a nightmare.

(This happens on other sites as well, though not always and not always as persistently.)

Is anyone else experience this, and have they found a solution?

Happening to me as well, but no solution that I’m aware of, I’m afraid. It seems to be rather haphazard, not doing it all the time.

1 minute ago, Devil In Disguise said:

I bet if Brisbane finished above us this game would have been played on their ground. Get stuffed AFL.

And if it was at Casey and we played like we are today, we still would have lost; other than our first quarter, we’ve played incredibly poor footy.

I reckon that if we trade up we’ll possibly throw in a future first (GCS pick) so we can get a high first plus a pick that could get us Dovistan (otherwise Pickett).

If we just go with 7 & 8, then there’s every chance we’ll grab Dovistan with 8.

As you can tell, I’m absolute dog [censored] when it comes to this sort of thing 🤣