Tarax Club

Ben Brown influential but throw those boots out. 2 goals 6 behinds or thereabouts. Shane McAdam a way off. Jeffo getting more involved. Mitch White a power of work.

Mitch White showing the way that quarter. Tholstrup getting involved too. Whole team effort is up.

Goal!!! White

Tommy Fullarton converts!

Kolt two!

Big straight goal Kolt!

Is this mob following last night’s script?

6 Christian Petracca 5 Alex Neal-Bullen 4 Steven May 3 Jack Billings 2 Max Gawn 1 Taj Woewodin -6 Umpires -5 AFL -4 Goal review ‘cyclops’ -3 First quarter disarray -2 BOM -1 Brian for just being Brian

Shane McAdam post mystery injury of the week. One response was a concussion another 'fortunately' illness which appears much closer to the mark. Will be watching with interest this afternoon. Forward posse needs a definite spark up its [censored] on a consistent basis. Not writing off Fullarton either can hold a mark.

joeboy - hatchet out tonight jack billings - added some class Given the startled deer in the headlights first quarter and the persistence with dry weather tactics in the wet. The club will employ a Maasai dietitian, add blodplatter onto the luncheon menu and use hermatogen as a gameday snack. Tom McDonald can fire up the barbecue but the steaks will be strictly rare. Ben Brown will of course be excused. The Waverley Park irrigation technician will bought out of retirement to manage Casey Fields during future training sessions.

Is Jack Watts Billings now officially the Demonland Whipping Boy?

A brave but ultimately unrewarded comeback. Four umpires but little continuity in the adjudication. Example A First quarter Petty’s arms impacted by Weitering in the marking action. Play on. Chopping the arms is unfashionable. Example B Pittonet mere hint of high contact to the neck more of a tickle than a slap. Free kick in a goal kicking position. Two goals down one denied one as soft as candyfloss. Example C Last. quarter Carlton bloke caught with ball forward pocket perfect tackle play on results in a goal. Squibb went down like wounded bull throwing his head out milks free. In front of goal square contested ball up .Petracca thrown to the ground, four myopic blind mice are tonight’s umpiring panel. Example D Cripps whose Downlow was heist of the century, must have called on Club KC to deliver the last free kick of game. Plainly on national TV a Melbourne bloke’s guernsey was held by a Carlton bloke with two hands. Noddy just plods along with the blinkers on. Going to award the Stephen Silvagni award for fair play to Cripps and Co.

Rising Star with a bullet…

Deever, you can learn something every day. Never realised Mel Brooks was a creative force behind Get Smart. Big fan of his movies, Young Frankenstein, Robin Hood Men in Tights etc. Yeah homework was not a priority afterschool. Bugs Bunny Show was an early favourite, recall seeing Get Smart on early evening TV before the re-runs though which might date me. Probably a good idea soft drink bottles sizes were much smaller and more of a treat back in the day. Rather than freely available and consumed in copious quantities. Tarax (of course) and Marchants with the inserted screw top stopper were locally available brands. A former neighbour who retired to Daylesford, was an early recycler of the family sized Marchants bottles. The mineral water residue gave the bottles a rusty appearance after continual use. Fanta first manufactured and marketed by Coca-Cola in pre-war Nazi Germany was a favourite tipple. Later oddly Schweppes bitter lemon, must have been the quinine. Paper rounds talk about exploited child labour. Just after the original Southland opened, a young mate cottoned on to the fact, keys given out with the local weekly rag as part of the prizes promotion, were mostly simple designs. The few that were more complex would open the treasure chests on display at the shopping centre. Apparently the ‘diamonds’ were sorted out from the rust pre-delivery by the paperboy cabal.

Oliver Sestan; has shown a few glimpses, after a decent outing against Port a few weeks back. Including a very positive last quarter as a midfield-forward. A mighty barrel goal against the Tigers at Punt Rd. Went back into his shell on Sunday. Will Verrall; battled manfully against the experienced, ex GWS Giant 203cm ruckman Tom Downie. A statistically well rated outing quantitatively. Qualitatively? Koltyn Tholstrup; appears to have hit a flat spot after his debut. Perceptions about him have somewhat been clouded given the almost rampant hyperbole and unrealistic expectations around. Andy Moniz-Wakefield; determined young bloke by all accounts. Surely if he keeps knocking opportunities will come.

Appreciate the link/alerts about the Guardian/The Roar stories. Both thoughtful well written articles with intelligent analyses. Reminds me of football journalism of bygone years. Alf Brown and writers of his ilk. The Sporting Globe aka ‘the Pink Bible’ after the game on Saturday night, recapping the highs and lows. Greg Hobbs, Geoff Poulter and Ken Piesse. Monday’s Age Patrick Smith et al, The Sun Mike Sheahan et al and later the Australian. More immediately the radio 3LO 3AW 3KZ and 3UZ which annoyingly had the horse racing calls during the game. And if you were lucky the Demons got football replay on 7 luckier still as winners. ABC no advertising/self promotion back then and some decent callers. Tim Lane, Drew Morphett et al. Special comments from former players and coaches, especially liked David Parkin astute, articulate worth listening to. Now IMHO the ABC caters for disparate demographics and is rife with post-Babel agendas. That attempt to appease ‘moderne’ mores but ultimately diminishes the whole. Switched off years ago. Dumped Foxtel and Kayo. Content now to choose and pick even if it is on 24 hour delay.

Showed some fight post half-time boys against men in the final stanza.

AMW leather poisoning

Casey rising to the challenge Seagulls getting ragged

Jeffo magic!

Lachie Hunter? Another absentee

He’s left the ground?

Grace Slick so surreal

Roy dynamic to Jeffo! Goal

Casey unlikely in front