Tarax Club

Evokes memories of ... Let Trac wander north to the goal square, Way out further on there to score, By a boundary line throw in, let Gawn linger, Where Sammy Weideman has flown high. When the players tangle on the centre circle, And clouds fill the old northern stand sky, And the midfield moves back from the forward fifty, When the rain tumbles down in July. ...with more than a nod to the bard of Nulla Nulla Creek

Backing Tom to return to best 22 form and selection sometime very soon.

Any sign of a periscope Skuit?

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

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.

Joeboy - serotonin levels up Gawn - lion hearted performance Viney - beast is back Petracca - infinity and beyond Jetta - experience plus composure May - attacking defensive mentality McDonald - Oscar for Oscar Salem - lose Hollywood tinsel Hibberd - less run today Melksham - leather poisoning unlikely Fritsch - better off leash Jackson - some terrific involvements Pickett - creative pocket dynamo Bennell - classy forward contributions VandenBerg - physicality on show Brayshaw - simmering off boil Oliver - just add polish Hannan - set ball rolling Weideman- stamped his presence Harmes - synchronicity off kilter Langdon - ever ready energiser Lever - clever football IQ Lockhart - must be 1%'s Goodwin - praiseworthy coaching performance MFC - made footy combative Umpires - some possession clangers

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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

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

Kayo $5 for 2 months?

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

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...

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.

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

Toss in the winning tattslotto numbers too!