Tarax Club

4 minutes ago, spirit of norm smith said:

Yes I believe we are going to be based in Maroochydore in the Sunshine Coast. 

Only small issue is it’s 2 to 2 hour bus trip from Twin Waters to Carrara for Metricon stadium. 

A small price to pay for being in a great part of Queensland. Surfs Up!

44 minutes ago, Dr.D said:

Today showed how far off being a good coach he is. I'd love a please explain as to why Weideman wasn't in the team when he clearly makes us better. 

You may recall Goody kept Angus Brayshaw out of the side at the commencement of the 2018 season. After concussion concerns in the previous season and an indifferent pre-season for a number of weeks. Seemed to be astute coaching, as Angus returned all cylinders firing and completed that season so well.

1 hour ago, Brownie said:

Geez this half time commentary is all about how bad the hawks are.

Nothing about our hard running and pressure.

Commentary from broadcast is kept subliminal here. Plenty of free air for the 'A' team On the Couch.What is more concerning is the commentator's dress sense. Jon Ralph looks like he swallowed the Cheshire Cat kitted out at Boysland and Luke Hodge's blue check two piece the other night would make a sideshow spruiker proud. Dermie well Alma Hope says "no hope".

With growing confidence from last week's performance, expect Demons to authoritatively take on Hawks.

GWS at home no problem. All their fans, still fit comfortably with social distancing in place at the Sydney Showgrounds.

28 minutes ago, BigFez said:

Gee I miss the training reports.  What the rules around attending training in the hub?  No chance I'm guessing?

Not unless you've got a MQ-9 Reaper parked in the garage.

1 hour ago, Skuit said:

Yes. Read between the lines and Goodwin has been promoting the rhythm method. 

Judging by this week's installment of 'The Talking Points' Goody's proselytising on this one has been about as successful as his game plan according to many Demonland posters.

2 hours ago, Skuit said:

I seriously don't get the AFL's aversion to Darwin/NT. It's not a stretch to imagine Covid will continue its march up the Eastern seaboard and catch up with the league in Queensland soon enough.

 

AFL may be holding that card out, as a possibility of 'last resort'. Who knows, Gil and the team may already be casting for the sequel Aussie rules On the Beach. Much prefer the original movie to the locally re-made for TV version (2000). Plus, 1959 was a very good year for the Demons. Meanwhile if a mysterious nuclear powered submarine turns up in Darwin Harbour, it'll be game on.

32 minutes ago, Nascent said:

Still want those numbers Tarax? 

Nascent you've provided a brilliant intuitive list of the whereabouts of the MFC players. Whilst others continued flipping through the pages of "Where's Wally?". Will have to politely refuse your kind offer of those numbers, as the 'magic' appears to  have left.

On 7/11/2020 at 8:55 PM, Earl Hood said:

But gee they played well and will be a force to be reckoned with in the next few years. 

Gold Coast $uns indeed. With high compensatory and priority picks. The 'Franchise' has loaded up with draft talent from the 2018 and 2019 drafts. With 25% of the available top ten of those drafts going their way,  the ☀️ is shining out of a very dark place.

2 hours ago, rjay said:

Darwin probably about to come into the mix sooner than expected....

Currently experiencing a balmy, covid free 28 degrees C with  a low relative humidity of 14%, ESE wind gusts up to 46 km/hr.

If MFC are penciled in for hub here, expect to  have home ground advantage at Marrara. Let the circus begin.

Will NSW border stipulations apply? Or are there special provisions for the AFL?

23 hours ago, Laughing Goat said:

Toby Bedford isn't even in the 'Hub', so he probably can't play......astounding considering he played round 1.

MFC is clearly a Family First club.

Tarax Show has been out bush this weekend communing with the crocodiles and other wildlife at Ngurrungurrudjba. We celebrated later with a big bold cabernet sauvignon-shiraz blend all round. Anyway here's our (    ) take...

Joeboy - keep on sunnyside!

Gawn - Captain in control

Viney - back on top

Jetta - junk yard scrapper

May - big burly bloke

Hibbert - form renaissance continues

O McDonald - solid redemptive performance

Lockhart - big city lights

Langdon - wing ding king

VandenBerg - running into bodies

Brayshaw - onions going cold

Oliver - skills determine class

Fritsch - improving goal accuracy

Melksham - Nasher understands Jake

Bennell - time and space

Pickett - doing team thing

Petracca - drove big nail!

Tom McDonald - eye early casualty

Weideman- cool kick Sam!

Hannan - possessions belie impact

Harmes - midfielder midfielder midfielder

Salem - rolled up sleeves

Lever - intercept maestro returns

Goodwin - positively influenced result

MFC - magnets finally composed

Umpires - racked up Rankine

Just now, daisycutter said:

is that still available? i thought that expired a while ago

Unsure DC did add ? mark. There was some discussion earlier in the week about its availability to current subscribers.

1 hour ago, daisycutter said:

anyone know where i can find a replay?

Kayo $5 for 2 months?

12 hours ago, Mickey said:

Bedford and Pruess were left behind. Source: Instagram

Pretty sure Jordon is in Manly too.

see Nascent post on NSW hub thread earlier this week. Pretty well spot on IOE.

16 hours ago, Deesprate said:

Jennings also had a crack at Goodwin a few week ago about the (  ?  ) of pre season training camps. Said it reflected love of training but left the players disenfranchised...Goody seem to have a mantra my way or the highway.

Karo will be pleased...remember the highly publicised player led revolt re: repeat commando style training camp pre-season 2018? Bricks on the head etc.

Drew a lot of media heat at the time. Obscured but not quite buried by the finals surge at the year end.

The ‘noise’ will only be cancelled by some protracted flipping of the switch...

11 hours ago, dee-tox said:

We'll punch the living suitcases out of Gold Coast this week and win by four goals. 

 

That may be rather difficult. If the Gold Coast Suns are true blue dinky-di  Queenslanders they will not have a suitcase between them. What they will have is ports.

22 minutes ago, Older demon said:

The movie is "The Shining" based on the Steven King horror book. Jack Nicholson at his scary best and the phrase Redrum, redrum. Look it up

Not an admirer of the 'horror' genre  but the Stanley Kubrick movie was scary.

24 minutes ago, Nascent said:

Lions

Hawks

Saints

Eagles

Demons

Bombers

Giants

Tigers

Bulldogs

 

 

Toss in the winning tattslotto numbers too!

17 minutes ago, spirit of norm smith said:

I love it. Optimism.  I believe it has been occasionally sighted here but disappears very quickly and is hard to locate.  Thank you for refreshing my memory.  

 

All inquiries can be re-directed here.

On 7/5/2020 at 10:48 PM, Nascent said:

We could probably predict the most likely candidates based on the selected 22 today + emergencies and likely additions.

22 from today vs Richmond

1. May
2. Salem
3. Harmes
4. Petraccca
5. Viney
6. Lever
7. Brayshaw
8. Gawn
9. Oliver
10. Hibberd
11. Langdon
12. Melksham
13. Hannan
14. Tomlinson
15. Vandenberg
16. Rivers
17. T. McDonald
18. Hunt
19. Fritsch
20. Pickett
21. Lockhart
22. Smith

Emergencies

1. Spargo
2. O. McDonald
3. Jackson
4. Brown

Next 7 likely candidates

1. Jones
2. Bennell
3. Jordan
4. Weideman
5. Neal-Bullen
6. Sparrow
7. Jetta

In the Mix?

1. Bedford
2. Pruess
3. Baker
4. Chandler
5. C. Wagner
6. J. Wagner

Unlikely/Injured

1. Bradtke
2. Dunkley
3. Kolodjashnij
4. Nietschke
5. Hore
6. Petty

Nascent are you the MFC travel agent? As this is a most prescient list.

5 hours ago, spirit of norm smith said:

Anyone listed who’s not in the hub

injured - neitzke kk petty hore

baker dunkley cwagner jWagner Chandler bradtke Preuss 

bedford?? 

That appears to be six of one and half dozen of the other.