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I've been waiting all day for another of Demonstone's excellent challenges. While I've been waiting I have put together one of my own. What does this team have in common? (Apologies to Demonstone for stealing his thunder...but it's a long time between last Thursday and next Saturday). B: Colin Garland (Melb) Peter Giles (Melb) Charlie Payne (Ess) HB: Nathan Brown (Melb) Mark Graham (Haw/Rich) Trent Rivers (Melb) C: Brad [censored] (Coll) Taylor Adams (GWS/Coll) Daniel Chick (Haw/WC) HF: Matthew Bate (Melb) Ken Hunter (Carlton) Maverick Weller (GC/St K) F: Oscar Allen (WCE) Doug Wade (Geelong) Maddie Gay (Melb) Foll: Stefan Martin (Melb/Bris/WB) Clayton Oliver (Melb) Daisy Pearce (Melb) Inter: Bill Sykes (Fitz), Chester Read (Sth Melb/St K), Charles Brownlow (Geel), Marley Williams (Coll/Nth) Coach: Chris Fagan (Demons) Edit: The thought never occurred to me that the wingman, Brad, would have his surname censored. It's a common abbreviation of Richard.

It takes humans over 20 years to get into Level 2 of the MCC Members. It took Covid just a few days. If that's not a justification for everyone getting vaccinated, I don't know what is.

Not to mention posters who refuse to use upper case.

I'm notoriously poor at identifying people, but when I looked at that photo (thanks for prompting me to do so) I immediately thought he was the grey haired gentleman on the extreme right of the photo. It's the mouth and the curly hair that I remember... But I could easily be incorrect.

I've heard of terms such as "passive aggressive", "backhanded compliments" and "delicious irony" but there must be a term to use for this bolded line. Is it "implied overconfidence"?

I seem to recall the site being ultra-busy the day it was rumoured and subsequently announced that Paul Roos would be appointed as coach. It wouldn't surprise me at all if that was the busiest day ever on the site. Followed the next day by people asking if the salt from their tears was affecting their posts because their keyboards had started to corrode.

Well, that's just ruined my productivity for tomorrow. (Looking forward to it, even if I know I'm no chance.)

Back in the 70s I used to see Ken Emselle for about 45 minutes every weekday for the best part of a year. He was my maths teacher. I still remember him explaining integral calculus to the class.

No chance. But if Jack Watts was still around...

I haven't seen enough of Bedford to know whether he's good enough, but there's a chance that someone might take Viney's spot. Whether he's lacking fitness or has another lingering injury, he's not playing well. He was given the task of tagging Wines on Thursday which is hardly an endorsement. However, while the bigger Wines brushed Viney off like an annoying blowfly, he (Wines) was not at his most dominant, so Viney should get some credit. Nevertheless, if Goodwin persists with using Viney as a tagger rather than as a creative player, I suspect Viney's days might be numbered. I hope Viney can get back to his best and be the creative beast, albeit with disposal flaws, that we all want him to be.

Forget forecasting wins at the beginning of the year. Did anyone pick 6 or more winners for the round just completed? If you didn't, then what's the point of predicting any other future results? And if you did...you obviously know nothing about football!

I assume the English team can take some learnings from the result.

Respect. I wouldn't watch a replay of a game if I knew beforehand that it was a loss.

Do you watch replays of losses as well as wins?

I have a concern with this post. Why isn't Carlton in there with Collingwood and Essendon?

I'm not a fan of Kevin Bartlett calling games. However, kudos for this comment (paraphrased): "I'm tipping well. It's just the teams I pick are letting me down".

Have we ever won on a Thursday night before? In fact, have we ever played on a Thursday night before (other than Anzac Eve)?

Was he? I have no problem with Viney's efforts, but I thought he was too small to handle Wines. Nevertheless, to Viney's credit, although Wines still got a lot of the ball, I didn't think he was particularly influential overall.

I wondered about that. I remembered him as President but never as a player. Then rather than correcting it, they just made it sound like he was both a player and the club President over the same time period. Nevertheless, on balance, it was better that they made the effort to remember him than to have ignored his passing.

Worked alright for a bloke called William Shakespeare.

The best special commentators on Seven are (in no order) Leppitsch, Watson, Bartel, Pearce and Hodge. They all have one thing in common. They're all only recently out of the game (or still even involved). It shows that the passage of time makes other callers redundant because they don't understand the finer points of the way the game is played today. I like Matthew Richardson as a person. His goofy style is engaging. But he and Carey (who you will notice I haven't said I like) are too long retired to be valuable as commentators any more.

Didn't think he'd ever left I think this is our best team. However, at some stage we might want to get more games into some fringe players such as Sparrow, Melksham, Jones and even Bowey so they are on the pace should we need them in September. However, I don't think the next game is the right time to do so.

6. Petracca 5. Salem 4. Oliver 3. McDonald 2. May 1. Petty A toss up between Petty and Gawn for the final vote. Still not sure I've chosen the more deserving.

I can see a new useless stat being produced by Champion Data: Goals per km. Back of envelope calculation would suggest that a 60 goal season at 15.5 km per game would equal about 5km per goal. Now, all we need to work out is whether a high or low number is better! Then David King can go beserk with his analysis.

I saw the picture before I read the post. I thought it was fluoro green zinc cream on his face and wondered what sort of weather conditions the game was being played in. (Good practice for the World Cup in Qatar, I suppose.)