Tarax Club

From WA played with Peel Thunder.

Lovely goal Roy George!

Wellsy by that stage of the match there was a little man inside JC’s head his mind was elsewhere.

joeboy - Tom MacDonald’s career is having a finale like renaissance but must say your 3 word player analysis is very much on song. Personally l would have blown up Clayton Oliver’s saddle bags a little more. Pivotal role in… his second half was excellent IMO. Great to see Ed Langdon in terrific form as well. Harry Petty admitted his last two games had been ordinary. He had a cracker game. May the fourth be with you. After tonight’s team performance dare we dream of another flag. Bloody oath!

Geelong will be on the Karma bus traveling down to Sleepy Hollow Rab. Chris Scott is the coach captain. Should be a barrel of 😆 laughs.

Defibrillator not required fortunately. Some brilliant Demons’ goals in the last quarter after the drought broke. Loved it 🥰! Tom MacDonald proved JC doesn’t walk on water.

Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees!

How was that not a free kick???????

🖐️🖐️🖐️RED AND BLUE HEART OF SATURDAY NIGHT Rather than ski we're all here at the 'G. . You can have all your Hawk'ins and keep your JC squawk'ins Meanwhile we'll just let the ball do all the tawk'ins. Tracc and Jack will smack the Cats around the packs. Take it to the Max, centre, forward or backs, Gawn is giving them stax And Clarry's ridiculous parry even delighted Prince Harry. JVR leaps like a demented Roo escaped from the zoo. Fritter's outrageous banana kick is really a charmer. Kozzie will o' the wisp kicks true thru the sticks for another six. Mr Ed it is said on a another thread is at his best without the rest. Disco's red and blue brisk is ever so slightly risque. Oops! Rick and May's domestic has just gone public. If it's more about loyalty rather royalty, Caleb's already a celeb. Rivers dismissive shimmy will gives them the shivers. Listen hear Bud we'll back in Judd and the boys to beat the rest of the crud from the Kardinia Park mud.

Deever, probably need to pull my head in. Verbosity Meter is going off its #*#%!

Just need a better cistern system.

Use it or lose it?

Can the resolve from our flag year be re-ignited, or is it like grasping the nettle? Sentimentality aside the three 2021 performances against the sCats represent a relatively recent high water mark. The two contests since have resulted in being ultimately being runover in the last quarter at Kardinia Kittylitter Park. Payback seemingly for our opportune good fortune in the premiership season. The usual suspects represent the biggest threats Jezza 🔔end and the 🦅 . (His portrait remains out of public view in GFC boardroom cloakroom). Add the quality of recent recruitment and Chris Scott's maturation as head coach. The big challenge is can the Demons change a good red into vinegar and start to sour the sCats season? Fingers crossed third time lucky.

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Houston we have a problem...

Seven rounds + zero and it’s all preordained? Premiers, Minor premiers, top four and final eight are all in, if you follow the orwellian logic of ‘the pundits.’ The fortune teller, oracle, soothsayer and gypsy woman collective on these boards needs to have a good lie down, a bex and a cup of tea. Moderators don’t leave the empty tea cup please. Add the conspiracy theorists, AFL headquarters, the maggots, the media circus and the Flat Earth Society. It’s enough to send the self-flagellates into delirium ecstasy. Next you have the MFCSS missionaries, juxtaposed with the messianic visionaries and then, there are the Statistics and be Damned sect. All confident in their self-persuasion and evangelically seeking further converts. Followed by the coodabeen coaches, keyboard commentators, excommunicated physios and self-anointed sports medicine ‘professionals’, defrocked silks, ex-chalkies and other assorted hangers on. Feels like dragging fingernails down the blackboard whiteboard? Those remaining, best go into hibernation. Set the timer post last Saturday in September. You’ll awake none the wiser apparently.

Yes, first half was a Clanger fest. Not wishing to be naming names, but it was on for young and old. Two of those clangers howlers coming from the most experienced players, resulted in goals. Tigers score was the lowest against Demons since… . Well Norm Smith was still coaching, but Ronald Dale had recently departed to make his own way in the footy firmament. “Forty two points!” if Deep Thought was re-programmed to do appearances on the Sunday Footy Show. Not only would Kane Cornes be out of a job, the Velvet Sledgehammer would be speechless and Damo re-assigned to AUSkick. So subtract those two gift goals and we would be going back to when Methuselah was an orange boy to find the lowest score. So despite the ‘G being universally cited as having the ideal dimensions for Australian Rules. Giving players the opportunity to execute their skills in “Space… is big. Really big. You just won’t believe how mindboggingly” bad the foot passing was.

Laughter is the morale booster here. A number of those interviewed post game May, Gawn and Petracca referred to the first half as being well below par. The tension relieved, the team returned and lifted the standard of play. Goody’s message about valuing the ball and it’s use obviously resonated. Simon Goodwin’s post match media conference is worth a watch. He communicates with humor, warmth and Joie de Vivre.

Done pretty well for a country girl from Dalby. Impressive in her role in Babylon. Although the movie was rather over long and would have benefited from some serious editing. Rarely comment on these hypothetical threads. Re-team selections, doubt Goody and the match committee bother to tune in. Bit like democracy ideas get proposed, debated and either are applauded, dismissed or derided. But in reality the elite decide. Adam Tomlinson was getting plaudits on his on field performances pre-ACL but is now out of favour both here and it appears within the inner-sanctum. Despite appearances last season and this where he didn’t appear to stink it up. Maybe he needs to get the Polaroids from Jake M.

Would like to see Adam Tomlinson take on Jezza 🔔 Cameron. On the strict proviso he can translate VFL form to the AFL arena

joeboy- (spot on) espresso after halftime A few observations; Langdon watch; Mr Ed is a bit like Max runs his own race. Harrison Petty uncharacteristically playing without confidence. Jack Billings 3rd quarter purple patch showed how it’s done. Dan Turner trust thats not a flash in the pan. Reads the flight of the ball superbly and his kicking was excellent overall. Bailey Laurie knows how to thread the needle. Well done! Taj Woewodin strong tackle on Dusty, struggled to match the younger Rioli fleet of foot. Clayton Oliver a better impact after half time. Blake Howes performing like that instills belief and self-confidence

Came out of the shed after half time with some serious intent. Comprehensive.

Several folk here need to book an appointment at SpecSavers. Jack Billings is one of the reasons we’re back in it. Keep self-flagellating…

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Didn't know Leave it to Beaver (black and white) was on Foxtel reruns or would appeal to younger viewers Deever. 🙃