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An effective one-on-one defender but when he had a bit of time to show initiative he was too often exposed as a slow thinker.

Don't get it . The first player selected to follow the coach and captain finished 16th in the B&F.

I'm certainly interested to see if you if you get a Demonland cheerio......oh hang on.....you're a "birthday unknown" .

Dare I confess to a childlike pang of disappointment upon reading "no members are celebrating a birthday today" . My profile clearly includes my "Richie" birth date of twenty-tew/tew .

YEAH....YEAH . Look to the left !

Will be there as usual , optimistic that the Cameron and Prendergast recruiting days are well behind us and glad to be rid of the Business School gobbledegook of C.S.

Thrashing the Bummers in '05 by 46 pts was our last First Round win . I'll also claim the Draw against the Swannies in 2011 as a non-defeat !

Gee you're a hard marker Moonie . I'm no Nelson Mandela . Surely you can allow me the SINGLE exception of the greatest double-crosser in the history of the MFC .

One of the worst aspects of Demonland are posts of regular updates on former players now at other clubs . Can't we just move on and concentrate on our promising young talent ? Maybe with the single exception of the detestable $culs who was virtually gone before he started .

Our off-field administration is located at no cost to us courtesy of the MCC in the former VFL offices (Southern Stand) . The cost of replicating this elsewhere would be horrific . Apparently Melbourne Rebels are lobbying to take our spot at AAMI . I reckon there is a fair chance they wont be financially viable for much longer . Gosch's is just fine for us.

What a bunch of scoundrels . I'm disappointed Governor General Cosgrove accepted a knighthood from the " No Surprises Man " . I've more respect for the likes of our Bodyline captain ,Bill Woodfull , and more recently , David Bowie , who famously declined the "honour" .

Spot on..........SA is the driest state and they are often forced to use Murray water that is part polluted with agricultural chemicals and salinity . The water for their beer has to be excessively filtered and chlorine treated .

The word 'portent' comes to mind . Concise Oxford Dictionary definition : " Omen , significant sign ; prodigy , marvellous thing ."

I wonder how many Bummer fans with long memories are uncomfortable with the appointment of Whelan the Wrecker to their staff after his treatment of their Golden Boy in a final . Personally , I would be devastated if , for example, Dean Wallis ever got a gig with us after his targetting of the teenage Brad Green in the 2000 G.F.

...........and if scores were level late in a game the aforementioned fence-sitter would exclaim : " I tipped this , Butch " .

" HIT THE BOUNDARY " --------- Alan " Butch " Gale ( commentator closing seconds 1966 G.F. )

He had huge North connections being born in the area and living most of his life there . He was Club President before the War and was the local federal Member .

I am of 1949 vintage and J.C. retired in 1975 after 25 years in the job.

It seems that somehow you have confused the federal leader of the Labor Party of half a century ago , Arthur Calwell , with our legendary club Secretary of the same period ,Jim Cardwell .

How I envy the True Believers .

Of course we are now literally better off without him but he will always cop jeers from me . I can still picture him receiving the legendary Number 31 from Ronald Dale whilst daddy was plotting his lucrative escape . I won't forget or forgive .

It wouldn't be Christmas without a dorky Dees team video . Yes , "terrible", "cringeworthy" maybe , but also oddly endearing .

Any sign of the alleged hyper "bubbly personality" that an already forgotten scribe attributed to Christian Petracca ? A beat-up surely .

Just when our self respect is returning we get THIS reminder of past humiliations .

Wayne Carey for one.........."my hardest opponent" !