Bitter but optimistic

It could have been much worse !!!

[censored]. This is getting ugly

Goffy, you are clearly a gentleman of refined taste.

Bah! Wine casks maybe the ambrosia of the hoi polloi but merely dregs to aristocrats such as my good self. Do not mention such things again.

Win or lose - the whips will be cracking at The Manor tonight Red!

Stuie might be going over Ethan.

A bit of a jog should be no problem to a svelte and finely tuned athlete like yourself picket !

Your good old Uncle Bitter will be trotting off to the G today to enjoy some beer, some sunshine and a rebirth of the club. I shall be meeting twice excommunicated Demonlander - Moonshadow and shall indulge in some intellectual discussion with Demonland's " voice of reason" - @picket fence ! I have invested some of The Manor's cash reserves on a Dees win but .... with a degree of trepidation. It's all new today so there will be many points of interest. Latrelle will certainly be one of them and I'm sure will prove to be as exciting a prospect as his cousin was. Hopefully the new 'old' faces in Steele, Mihocek and CJ will also settle quickly. Our preseason opposition was ordinary so it's difficult to gauge where we are ,but there was some refreshing footy played and hope to see some of that pace and risk taking. St Kilda is seared in my brain as a part of my worst footy memory and taking some of huff and puff out of the over hyped Saints would go a little way to erasing it. Dees by 17.

This has happened before! Someone out there with a better memory or research skills please sooth my itch.

..... but few remember it!

How about a Fuchsia festival !

As a result of my discerning observation of that game, I am confident in predicting that we will finish above Norf in 2026!

Endless amounts Frog, provided the quality is to my high standard. None of that cask rubbish that the peasants bathe in. A request. Would you please inform me when and where you are next going hopping with your toad cousins so that I can come and run you over.

This thread has become nauseatingly nice. Time for some Uncle Bitterness.

You sound far too chipper Frogger! I am going for a long drive northward in the next few weeks and I intend running over as many of your cousins as I possibly can.

"Good news" is totally out of place on Demonland.

Go easy chook ..... or I'll head butt the [censored] out of you!

How about Killer Kowalski Cranky ? ( and I think i read of his demise a few years ago ) Jack little and World Championship Wrestling ! Great times !!!!

[censored] sniper !

Robbie was a skinny bloke who played in an era of thuggery and king hits. Yet somehow .... he played a game that was both cerebral and aesthetic .

Yeah ...... and there's been more 'mail' in this thread than ever passed through the GPO !

Good work with the Brownie Box @Redleg !

You are correct EL D ! Your good old Uncle Bitter squanders his wealth on ...... shall we say ..... sins of the flesh.

Filth to go out in straight sets - by humiliating margins!

And they all hang out in a place called pandemonium. Which word , in modern usage, often aptly describes the state of our club.