Jump to content

La Dee-vina Comedia

Life Member

  • Joined

  • Last visited

View Profile Find content

Posts posted by La Dee-vina Comedia

    I haven't seen him play yet this year, but from what I've seen so far, he knows how to run, jump, tackle and mark. His kicking is not bad, but not great, either. His greatest weakness is his understanding of the game itself, that is, what to do with the ball once he's got it. I don't know if he'll make it, but I suspect that the bit in his game that's missing might be something that could be quite quickly learnt. And if that's correct, he could be come a valuable commodity - too tall for small defenders and too fast for tall defenders.

    On 3/9/2019 at 11:38 AM, Deeoldfart said:

    Salo always seems to find time and space to exercise his silky skills and football smarts, and his hardness belies his demeanour.   He might fly under the radar a bit, but he's a unique and vital cog in our wheel.  I'm rapt to have him on board.  

    I'm not sure he flies under the radar and more. Among my non-Melbourne supporting friends and work colleagues, he seems to be the third player (after Gawn and Oliver) who they comment on when discussing the best players in our team.

    18 minutes ago, dieter said:

    He died when he was fifty eight. I was shocked when I discovered this. I mentioned it to a friend who pointed out that until the advent of blood thinners and blood pressure medication, coupled with the fact most men smoked and that the basic Aussie diet was heart attack tucker,  most men died before they reached 70, hence the retirement pension allocation of the number 65.

    Dieter, usually when I read your posts I think your name refers to your nationality; today, it seems that I should read your name as someone who is careful about what he eats.

    • Haha 1

    19 hours ago, Supermercado said:

    Quick kip for Ron.

    More photos (in galleries) here.

    What is it about these black and white photos which make people look so much older than they were? Is it the clothing? Or the hairstyle? Or is it just the way we think about older photos? Norm Smith was born on 21 November 1915, which means he could not have been any older than 49 when this photo was taken.

    On 3/9/2019 at 1:54 PM, DV8 said:

    Put the players change rooms in the southern stand...so all rank & file supporters and members, even Mcc members will be welcome and able to visit the team.

     

    All Kids are equal_   as are Adults.   SO... lets show that. or does the club stand for segregation.

     

    .

    Were you meaning Richmond supporters? If so, there's a typo in your post as I imagine you meant to write that they are "rank and vile" supporters.

    • Haha 1

    ·

    Edited by La Dee-vina Comedia
    Fixed a crime against punctuation

    22 minutes ago, Lucifer's Hero said:

    The headline is a tad misleading.  Pert says “We’d like to be approaching towards 60,000 members this year and if we are performing well we want to see it tick towards and up near 70,000,”

    Well, Pert has put in the resources to help make it happen:  " It’s understood Melbourne has hired five new faces in its membership department in recent months in a bid to sign new members and re-sign lapsed ones". With that investment 60,000 is doable.

    For those that follow the 2019 Membership thread we are excited if we click over 50,000.  60,000 would be sensational.  70,000 - the stuff of dreams.

    Hope Pert can pull it off.  How good would it be to be thought of as a Big Melbourne club ala Pies, Carlton, Rich, Ess and Hawks.  (Carlton aren't deserving of the label by the way). 

    Two crimes against English here. "It's understood" is completely unnecessary and who describes people as "faces"? They don't have bodies? minds? souls? Ugh

    • Like 2

    On 3/5/2019 at 5:55 PM, Demon Disciple said:

    Cough.......................Cyril Rioli........................Cough!!!

    Get Jordan Lewis into his ear

    Because of the change in the rules allowing recruitment of relatively recent retirees, you'd have to assume clubs are striking deals with their higher-quality retirees which commit those ex-players to agree to come back to the club they've just retired from, should they decide to play again. The equivalent of a "non-compete" clause as used today in business.

    13 hours ago, monoccular said:

    Did I miss something about a further reduction in rotations, hidden in the mindless plethora of rule changes?

    I don't think there's been a "mindless plethora of rule changes", but I agree there's been a mindless plethora of discussion about the potential impact of rule changes. Not on Demonland, of course.

    Having thought about this a bit more, I'm quite keen on replacing JLT1 with the first bye round and JLT2 with the second bye round. And I'd be quite happy to keep JLT as the sponsor. So, you'd have the JLT Bye Round 1 and the JLT Bye Round 2.

    • Haha 1

    1 hour ago, DeeSpencer said:

    Good. Now someone needs to make sure he doesn’t fold to the pressure of banning walk up seats for big games. The greater unwashed complain the mcg isn’t full for big games due to a bunch of seats at the top of the members being left empty. I say,  bad luck. 

    Couldn't agree more. Those seats have been paid for (many times over). That no-one happens to be sitting in them is irrelevant.

    • Like 1
    • Thanks 1

    I should probably know this as I'm an MCC member, but the MCC announcement states that the new member of the Committee, Annabel Brebner, is "Chair of the MCC Football Club". What is the MCC Football Club? (Soccer? An amateur football team separate from the MFC?)

    11 hours ago, Males said:

    Surely Nic Nat wouldn’t be getting his full contract though? Unless there’s nothing written into his contract about injuries and amount of games he has to play per year etc?

    Interesting but dangerous point. If players' contracts include clauses where payment are reduced when players are injured, it puts unwanted pressure on players to return too early. That would be particularly troubling for players with concussion injuries.

    57 minutes ago, Macca said:

    The AFL are late to the party though ... if they were ahead of the game then this conversation doesn't even exist.

    The explosion of rotations led to where we are now but the new rule changes does address the issue from a different direction

    Reminds me of the introduction of the diamond in the early 70's to counteract the congestion we saw in the late 60's

    The VFA went to 16 a side in the early 50's for the same reason.

    Sort of. But if the AFL made rule changes before the problem was visible, supporters would complain about the AFL making unnecessary rule changes. Even if we were to say that the AFL sat on their hands too long before making changes, there would be others who believe the game should be have been given more time to "fix itself" without interference. 

    14 hours ago, Neil Crompton said:

    I always watch the D's no matter what the standard (just complain later). I'll watch any other game if it is a good flowing exciting match.

    I think a lot of people turned off the game when keeping off-football was the rage. In its infancy that was often slow, boring, bruise free football - and for good reason people turned away. 

    Then congestion football tended to thwart the keepings-off style and many more fans were lost.

    In more recent times teams like Richmond (spit!) initiated a style of game that was exciting to watch - and others, including the D's, have produced their own versions that have made watching footy so much more enjoyable. 

    Like most things in nature, natural selection generally works out in the end - it just takes a bit of time. In the case of football,  it is also the  desire and quality of the coaches to produce a winning formula that has the satisfaction of the viewing public - who essentially pay at least part of their salaries (us!) - as a prime factor in their plans. 

    Imagine a film director making a film that didn't consider the viewing audience. He wouldn't be allowed to make another.

    Perhaps if we had more intelligent coaches, we wouldn't need the Gils of our world interfering with our game so much.  

    If a coach wants to be paid, he needs to have his team win. He doesn't get paid to make the game look pretty. That's why we need the "Gils of this world" because someone who doesn't get rewarded solely for winning can look after the aesthetics of the game.

    We don't yet know whether the new rules will work, but I take comfort that for the first time I can remember, the AFL has approached the rule changes strategically, rather than making piece-meal changes.  

    I've always liked the idea of AFL clubs being banned from playing against each other before Round 1 as I believe it would enhance the level of anticipation. Clubs would be free to have as many intra-clubs or practice matches against non-AFL teams.  

    • Like 2

    8 hours ago, DeezNuts said:

    If they were true leaders at AFL house, they’d all take the test in the interest of the game before the players and announce, yep this is what we’re about, this is what we believe in - well, true leaders that is.... ?

    The trouble is, where does one stop? True leaders would donate blood; true leaders would sleep at the G for the homeless; true leaders would pick up rubbish on Clean Up Australia Day. Nevertheless, I concede that as the drugs policy is the AFL's, I think you make a point and if I were an AFL Commissioner I would agree to being drug tested under the same scheme (ie, randomly - which means it wouldn't necessarily be done "before the players")

    1 hour ago, Smokey said:

    This type of conservative thinking paves the way to a hyper-nanny state which is terrifying to imagine...

    In the old days - and not that long ago - conservative politics was the opposite of the nanny state. 

    • Like 1

    2 minutes ago, daisycutter said:

    and let's face it, judging by the number of tests per player per year, it's just the afl paying lip service

    they made the decision a few years ago in haste under outside pressure and now they are unwillingly stuck with it

    they don't have any hard conviction over illicit drugs, they now just employ secrecy and spin and hope that with so few tests they can keep it under the radar, but it still bubbles along and occasionally threatens to erupt

    it's their redheaded step daughter

    Up until recently, I would have thought your reference to a "hard conviction over illicit drugs" referred to Tony Mokbel.

    Witness X has changed all that. The AFL's conviction, as weak as it might be, might still now be stronger than Mokbel's.