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And that's partly because they're neither one thing or the other. Their online versions mostly just rehash what's in print. I haven't got a solution for them, by the way, unless they can find digital profit centres that can offset their loss-making traditional media businesses.

I think to be fair, as a business model the only way print has any chance to survive is to replace much of the "news" with opinion as the "news" will almost always be out of date by the time the print newspaper is bought (or delivered). A "newspaper" which had only "news" would be stale; at least with opinion pieces it is able to deliver something analytical and thoughtful. At least, in theory. It depends, of course, on whether the opinion writers are worth reading. Love them or hate them, that's what Andrew Bolt, Caroline Wilson, Martin Flanagan and Terry McCrann do and why they are crucial to those newspapers.

I think what you'll find you're left with is barely edited media releases masquerading as news from politicians, businesses and anyone else. The evidence to back that up is the lack of a byline on much of the Herald Sun's copy.

Nice combination pun and ambiguity. Either you want us to get doctors who can perform at a higher standard or you believe we have unwell doctors...which is kind of funny, yet disturbing (that you care) at the same time.

You sure know how to insult people!

Chazz, I presume you don't mind being "trolled", shamed or criticised. If not, this has to be the most ironic post on Demonland ever.

Troy Menzel? Tom Bell? Mitch Robinson?

What does this actually mean? I assume the crack you are referring to is in the bone which makes up the heel. So is it a bit of bone growing in the wrong place?

I'll miss him. He's the thinking person's Mark Robinson, even down to the bogan voice. Love him or hate him, he's been working at a newspaper company struggling to move with the times and effectively stuck in no-man's land. As an example, it goes to print too early to include coverage of night football matches and hopes readers will jump online to catch up. Every one of those readers who goes online is potentially one less buyer of the newspaper. I don't blame the current management of Fairfax or The Age. It goes way back to the days of Ron Walker and Fred Hilmer who mistakenly did not believe the online world could ever replace print and didn't prepare accordingly.

This thread seems to have morphed into dietary advice.

Wearing a helmet sometimes encourages players (in all sports) to take greater risks than they otherwise would because of the belief in added protection. I hope Brayshaw doesn't fall for this trap - although I imagine it's more a subconscious thing which may be hard to overcome. Either way, whether he wears a helmet or not, I'm sure we all wish him all the best and hope that he never receives another concussion.

The photo which accompanies the promotion for Jeff White's interview in the forthcoming podcast helps explain why he was so successful. I had no idea he had four arms.

I'm surprised how many people find coaches' post-game press conferences (or any media interviews by coaches) informative. I find with the exception of two coaches, the remainder, whether their team has won or lost, speak either in cliches or without saying anything meaningful, or both. The two exceptions are Chris Scott and Nathan Buckley who I find fascinating precisely because they are forthright and honest (or, at least, appear honest). The worst - by far - is Ross Lyon. The remainder just seem to be treading water. Similarly, if I read an article published in the paper, I find that I will read the analysis but just skip over the bits where the paper regurgitates a coach's comments, whether I've heard them already or not.

One thing that is often overlooked is that the State of Origin series for NRL has reduced interest in the regular NRL series. Crowds see State of Origin as the pinnacle of that sport and as such consider the regular NRL season as (relatively) inferior and therefore of lesser interest. The same thing has happened to whatever the Sheffield Shield is called now. In cricket's case, it's because of over-saturation of test cricket on TV. The Sheffield Shield has been killed off as a spectator sport by the very people who should have nurtured it.

Given the AFL's ability to find a way to create something to promote out of nothing, I'm amazed that at the same time as they announce the All-Australian team, they don't also announce a "State of Origin" team for each State (plus Allies) and give the players named a jumper. They won't get to play a game in it, but they will have the satisfaction of knowing they were considered worthy enough. I expect the players who get named would be thrilled with the honour.

I'm glad my votes are too late to be included because my viewing platform was worse than TV - it was streaming on my phone. But I guess that's better than nothing. 6 - Garlett 5 - Jones 4 - Melksham 3 - Oliver 2 - Hibberd 1 - Lewis Watts and Tyson were also in consideration.

I have no idea what that means but somehow it feels a bit dirty.

I find myself with a moral dilemma and seek guidance from Demonlanders. I discovered today that iSelect emails are automatically sent to my spam folder. As iSelect now supports my team, am I morally obliged to change my spam filter settings so iSelect's emails make it through to my inbox?

Quite right. My apologies for raising faultydet's ire and blood pressure unnecessarily.

You say it's tongue in cheek, but I really like the idea of an "Immigration Round". Over the years the AFL has successfully attracted immigrants as supporters and players. Silvagni, Jesaulenko, Jakovich and many, many more. Of course, it will probably never happen as the moment the idea is floated the debate would get distracted by (a) the argument that all of us, other than the indigenous population, are immigrants and (b) who knows what some of our more odious politicians and media hacks - from all sides - would do with it.

Do we have a "special" category of membership for the people of Alice Springs and Darwin? It seems to me we should have a one-game membership option for residents of these two places which gets you into the game and provides other standard perks (although I doubt the people from Darwin would want a scarf - perhaps their membership could come with a cap instead). If we did, we could sign people up as they enter the ground and that would give us a nice little bump in numbers over the weekend.

It's the "reverse compliment". Phrases like that are generally used to hide weaknesses, not promote strengths. "Tough-nut" is usually code for "not very skilled".

The old poster's curse. I suspect the odds of Trengove being picked this week just shortened.

The Age had a story yesterday about players who each team can't do without. Have a read and try not to laugh, cry, vomit or question the overall sanity of Demonland.

What, exactly, is the difference between "indefinitely" and "taking it week by week"? It seems we need to add "indefinitely" to the list of words which have figurative rather than literal meanings. Other words and phrases in this group now include "average" (and "very average"), "ordinary" and, ironically, "literally".