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It’s a bastard of a disease that sadly doesn’t discriminate when it comes to the victim’s age or situation. It’s so wrong that someone in the prime of her life and with a young family who love her, should have to suffer so much and be taken from those who love her, far too soon.

Do you have a link to the article @Redleg ?

I thought that was a very good article which was a little more honest (transparent?) than anything I’ve read coming out of the club in recent years; however, my inner ‘Nosey Parker’ would love to have read the reason for Clarrie’s supposed storming out of his meeting with King and what was actually said at that point of the meeting (particularly Clarrie’s parting words).

There’s a lot of talk about the new recruits such as Mihocek and Steele and the influence they will have on the playing group, not to mention May’s commitment to teaching the young up and coming players that will replace him in the not too distant future. However, the big unknown is whether King is capable of successfully implementing the plans he sold to the interview panel… I live in hope!

I’m looking forward to season ‘26 with a reasonable level of excitement!

4 hours ago, YesitwasaWin4theAges said:

We need another livewire small forward who going to bring tackle pressure.

Hopefully we pick up Lachy Dovaston in the draft.

23 minutes ago, Willmoy1947 said:

"Rude" in my day used to cover all sorts of innuendo. "Trite" was a cop out.

I did say perhaps. What do you think? Baloney?

I don’t think it’s baloney at all… for all we know, I could be as old or even older than you 😉, although if the 1947 in your profile name is your year of birth, you do win by 5 years 😁

In this case I believe ‘trite’ is appropriate… particularly as the comparing of a footballer’s onfield performance (or lack of) with ‘being in the trenches’, is somewhat trivialising something as serious as trench warfare.

Anyway, it was a tongue in cheek comment and is definitely not the first time this point has been made on Demonland over the years. Let’s just leave it at that.

16 minutes ago, Willmoy1947 said:

As I said, rude as in discriminatory.

Perhaps showing my age, as in old times inference went on unnoticed for decades.

Well, you actually didn’t mention anything about ‘discriminatory’, and as the Oxford describes that term as

“making or showing an unjust or prejudicial distinction between different categories of people, especially on the grounds of ethnicity, sex, age, or disability.”,

I’m a little unsure of the point you are making.

I doubt that you’re much older than myself so can you explain what your last sentence means. I certainly wasn’t inferring anything at all…merely commenting that the expression is ‘trite’ (if that’s what you were getting at).

3 hours ago, Willmoy1947 said:

Uncalled for, perhaps rude.

It was a joke…but just out of interest, in what way was it rude? It was not directed at the poster, but at that phrase which is so often used and so inappropriate, in describing a footballer.

On 16/10/2025 at 16:12, Gator said:

Thanks. I'm really interested in your opinion.

As you should be! You’re most welcome.

20 hours ago, Gator said:

I wouldn't want to be in the trenches with him.

While I agree with the rest of your post, this trite old phrase should be put on the banned forever pile!

30 minutes ago, GS_1905 said:

What really annoys me is how all the media are now applauding Essendon, Saints and Suns for holding onto their players. But it was absolute crickets last year when we held onto Trac and Oliver.

The narrative controlling mind****s really does my head in.

Also very little pundits mention the fact that we got 3 first round picks for Trac - Suns absolutely paid overs for him. He'll be a dud up there.

Does it really matter what these media pundits say? Not worth wasting energy on, in my opinion.

44 minutes ago, Viscount Cardwell said:

Also, White and Sinemma will come on board as rookies assumably

And let’s not forget Noah Yze is a possible rookie (is there room for him?).

If we trade 7 & 8 up, then I like the look of Robey. If we go with 7 & 8, I’d be hoping for Noah Hibbins-Hargreave or Grlj and Dovaston.

I haven’t seen it actually stated anywhere, but are GCS taking on all of Trac’s contract? If so, that really softens the blow of the Clarry ‘deal’, in which case I’d have to say B+ to an A-.

4 hours ago, Demonland said:

“…while fulfilling Christian’s and Clayton’s requests for a fresh start.”

The part of the letter that I find a bit dodgy, is the bit I’ve quoted, regarding Clarrie… requested? Really?

Takes me back to the old Bellbird days…Charlie Cousins, did he fall, or was he pushed?

(oh, and Andy, you may want to consider a minor change to the post’s title 😉)

I don’t know the truth or otherwise of this, but someone in one of the Dees groups on Facebook just posted that pick 8 was off to West Coast. Anyone know anything about this?

A couple of more clips from that gig a few weeks ago follow. We will play another show on Saturday week 25th and then our 10th anniversary show on Sunday November 23rd. I’m still feeling the effects of chemo, even though I’m now almost a couple of months free of it… the peripheral neuropathy is here to stay, I’m having constant vertigo if I’m getting up from bed or from reclining on the sofa, my taste buds are still screwed and my energy levels are somewhat depleted. Other than that, everything is hunky dory.

Anyway, here are a couple of tunes on my Instagram…

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DOvVCLik5Cp/?igsh=MXJldXBmYTBjeGIwZg==

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DOA7AQ-E5Fs/?igsh=c3V3Nzl3NzU0MzZ2

1 hour ago, Wrecker46 said:

Watch Sparrow get an actual role and become a great footballer

I gave him the nickname of ‘The Difference’… now my son is certain that I’ve lost the plot! 🤣

1 hour ago, John Demonic said:

Unless there's a suitcase of 3 park superpasses, I'd guess it's the salary cap that says no?

I don’t know about that… we’d be paying a substantial portion of Trac’s contract as would the Pies, assuming he’s still contracted (I’ve no clue), be paying fair slice of JdG’s; not to mention that they’ve moved on Flanders and others, who would clear a fair amount of cap space.

4 hours ago, Demonland said:

@Rockets , is that you? That is remarkably close to your post on page 140 😉

26 minutes ago, daisycutter said:

never ever thought i'd be rooting for da-gooey

Consensual?

4 minutes ago, Gorgoroth said:

I still don't know if the silence from Lamb is a good thing or bad...

We’re getting Sir Anthony Hopkins now??😵‍💫

39 minutes ago, BLWNBA said:

This wasn't directed at you mate. But there's multiple posters across various threads taking issue with things being posted, because it's not in the media, but having previously shouted down any media reporting linking our own to another club.

It's tiresome.

Understand, and agree.

54 minutes ago, Demon4Life said:

Not shocked we are on different ends of the political spectrum. Lets leave our discussion there and keep in common our hope for successful 2026 season

It’s not political, but I can see why you might think that. Anyway, we can agree to leave the discussion and yes, I’m always hopeful that we might experience success. At least I got to see a GF in ‘21 (albeit on TV) as I only got to listen on the radio when I was a kid.

2 minutes ago, BLWNBA said:

This is hilarious. Half the people complaining about this saying there's no truth to it as the story hasn't appeared in the media were the same people banging on that the media were bullsh1tt1ng about Oliver and Petracca not being at the club next year.

When it suits, am I right?

You’re way off in my case; I’m regularly checking in on the AFL app to see what developments have occurred… but as far as the footy media are concerned, and I’m sure you’d have to agree, they would usually be all over something like this!

I mean, apparently channel 9 I think it was, used The DeeBrief’s (Facebook group) photo of Humphrey in a hoodee walking with Chunk and King in their secret meeting, on the same day it occurred; the fact that there’s just crickets/silence in this instance, makes me think that they did their due diligence and their investigations turned up nothing worth reporting.

2 hours ago, Demon4Life said:

  12 hours ago, hardtack said:

Hey, I’ll be perfectly happy to swallow my words and apologise if your claims are proven to be based in fact. Given that Ghostwriter has heard a similar claim re Humphrey, I may well be offering such an apology, but let’s wait and see how it turns out.

Literally two posters mentioned the ‘medical’, and you call that multiple… there’s every chance that you both have the same source connected to the club… I will apologise when it appears in the media. And talking of the media, as I posted elsewhere, I’d say that those media pundits trawl sites such as this in search of ‘scoops’, yet so far nothing, nada, zilch, zip, not a peep out of any of them…why wouldn’t you say that is?

Ok, I’ll give you the fact that a lot of your posts are not trade related, so apologies for my generalisation, however, there you go again with your need to boast… seriously, who cares about how many reactions your posts have had, who cares about how much money you have given to the club (every single person who has a membership is financially and emotionally invested - that doesn’t work on some sort of dollar scale)… go through the Humphrey thread and tell me which posts are getting the biggest numbers of likes etc… I’ll save you the time, it’s the posts offering false hope or those critical of the GCS for not handing over a player who hasn’t even nominated us or for only offering the outrageously ‘cheap’ (sarcasm) picks 7&8 for Trac!

As far as your last statement about having better things to do than troll, trolling isn’t always about simply being disruptive, it is often a desire to be praised and recognised. I’m not saying that that is you (I already explained why I considered you a troll - I’ll apologise for that as well), but trolling is not purely mischievous behaviour… look no further than certain world cough leaders.

2 hours ago, Sean Balor said:

There was no medical today was there...

It’s certainly not showing up when I do a Google search, it’s not mentioned on the AFL site/app…in fact, I think the only place I’ve seen it mentioned is here on Demonland. I’d be happy to be proven wrong. The weird thing is that it’s been mentioned by two different people, each with a supposedly reliable source with club connections, so could it be that their source is the same person?

I’d be pretty sure that the media pundits scan club related sites such as Demonland in search of rumours etc, but why wouldn’t they have run with the ‘Bailey Humphrey does medical at Casey’ story? I’m really hoping that it’s true and that he did do a medical with the club… I guess we’ll find out hopefully today.

2 minutes ago, Macca said:

Yes HT, the same people who make the call on the quality of the various draft's also make the call on all the individual players

And let's face it, as you've correctly ascertained, they can't help but get it wrong with some of the individual players, because of the nature of drafting

But Jason Taylor swims against the tide, despite all the variables

One year we might give him a few extra choices in the late 2nd round or in the 3rd round of picks

As previously stated, we should be reasonably confident that if we end up with 2 x top 10 picks, that Taylor will come up trumps with his choices

2 quality mids will do as you can't have enough quality mids (see Brisbane)

Agree 💯%