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Yes, and if we had done the bootcamp and lost the first round, no doubt supporters would be blaming the bootcamp for taking too much out of the players. Damned if they do, damned if they don't.

No it is not! Biffen's original post does not mention Europe at all... it discusses the impact of Islamists on western society. So either you don't consider Australia a western society or you didn't bother to check the OP.

Gee, those pesky refugees must have been sneaking advance parties off to Sweden in the 1990’s... ”In 1996, Sweden registered almost three times the average number of rape offences registered in 35 European countries.” (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_in_Sweden#) You could be right about them not functioning properly...maybe those lascivious Lutherans have a few sexual hang ups.

This is Demonland... this thread has at least another 83 pages worth of repetition left in it.

You have all the facts? (does anyone outside the club?)

And let’s not forget that if the boot camp had gone ahead and there were injuries that curtailed important players’ pre-seasons, the same people accusing the playing group here of being soft would be up in arms at the football dept for not having learned anything from last year’s debacle and would be calling for Goodwin’s head.

"was gonna"?

It could be worse... I could be living in Melbourne and joining you and your illustrious company.

The footy department have been wonderfully helpful every time I have contacted them, but they are hardly going to make an exception for you and provide a year patch to keep you on board. As for what you could do with the scarves, how about donating them to one of the charities that clothes and feeds the homeless... I'm sure a scarf (regardless of the team) would be greatly appreciated by some of those doing it tough during the winter months. As was stated by another poster, it is a pretty bizarre reason for not renewing.

No need to do that... just use a site like Hotels.com to find the best deals... my son and I always get a comfortable hotel in the middle of the city for around the $120 per night mark.

Any discussion of Watts on Demonland always seems to produce what could best be considered "Pavlovian" responses. He states that we was obviously joking around in the interview and that of course he is going to talk up the team he is now playing for; all perfectly reasonable. http://www.smh.com.au/afl/afl-news/port-adelaide-recruit-jack-watts-laughs-off-premiership-quip-20171212-h02z3p.html

That's a rather unfortunate shot of Baker... or rather, unfortunate positioning of (is it?) Jetta's backside.

There's not much of a better recommendation for the film than this:

I thought Dunkirk was an excellent film... it left me exhausted. It's available on DVD/BluRay on the 18th of this month.

If the cap fitz, caraldo.

It's the MFC Arts Club performing a re-enactment of Théodore Géricault's painting, "The Raft of the Medusa".

Maybe you held your Return Key down for too long?

It's probably fair to say that Viney was the only Hungry Jack... the rest were more Wimpy than Hungry Jacks.

It's somehow comforting, in a weird kind of a way, to see that MFCSS extends beyond the firewall of Demonland. If nothing else, this does prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that the Ox IS one of us!

Even ENYAW called it in August in the Delistings at End of Season thread.

Exactly... and if you ever needed a Neita comparison, there it is... he spent time in the back line before moving to become our most successful forward.

I had a brief chat with Mitch Hannan at Monday's training session and asked if he thought Fritsch was a chance... he seemed to think they must be looking at him and that he would love to play one flank with Fritsch on the other. Personally, I get the feeling we will grab Fritsch with pick 31 and Bailey with 29... no idea about the others.

His height and intimidating physical presence would be to our advantage, but I think his age may not be in his favour.

What the "beautiful" game has come to... even the ball boys are diving!

Ok, as promised, a few photos from Monday's session. These are more me being a little self indulgent playing around during the editing process, so they end up being more studies of the players rather than action shots. Also, please don't get your knickers in a twist over the colours of the jumpers etc... I just amped up the saturation settings, so the blues (in particular) have become much more vivid. One more thing that I would appreciate... if anyone feels they would like to share any of the photos here or on other sites (Facebook, Twitter etc), I have no problem with that... but could you please at least acknowledge that the shots were taken by me (that is, attach my name to the post - Tim Fleming NOT Hardtack). Thanks. Hope you like them regardless...