Red and Bluebeard

Unfortunately scoffed the lot. Happy to shout you some next time.

Had some banana cake myself today, and it was a lot better than stale cardboard (and not Starbucks, too).

Too right on both counts.

Not to mention getting lost on the way down

Presumably you won't be back, then? Unless you prefer fresh cardboard ...

That last bit is the key, OD. Long may it last! Maybe one day we can sit near the old race, watch the Dees win and laugh about 'when we were crap' :-)

Amen to that, Redleg. The Zen nature of this thread is a real joy.

Sounds like a weekend to savour, OD. If the iPad is still behaving itself, then maybe the only thing lacking is the Dees beating Hawthorn by 10 goals in two weeks time (yes, I am an idiot! )

Sounds good, but don't drink the stuff they pretend is coffee in that place ...

Get some bananas into them before the game to fire them up, perhaps? Knowing our lot, they will probably come out and play like B1, B2 and the Rat in a Hat

Good to hear you are back in form, Redleg.

Perhaps the bananas got done for peptide abuse and were banned for two years? Otherwise, the sky really is falling ...

Glad to hear it, OD. May the force continue to be with you!

Maybe he has borrowed some foot cream from Jack Trengove, and got high on peptides?

To make them much easier to counterfeit, of course (especially all the Masonic symbols on the $1 bill) ...

There is a whole lot of self-flagellation on most other threads, which is understandable, but I find it gets a bit boring after the 37th time ... I find it hard to understand why some people seem to enjoy arguing the pants off each other about how bad we are ('No, I said we are crappier than crappy crap' 'But I think we are crapper than that!' etc). But then I find it hard to understand how people make money out of hip-hop ...

Whenever that happens, Redleg, I'll shout you a banana smoothie ...

Or you couldn't give free ones away ...

That's Georgia in the USA, I presume, not the one in the former USSR ...

Yes, but don't tell anyone else! First prize is a reserved seat for our next game at Geelong (second prize is two seats )

I hear you, OD, but living on the good stuff is better than the alternative. 1981 lives on in my memory for a visit to training with my Dad (who knew one of the then training staff) and briefly meeting Ron Barassi, the applause that greeted Ron before the first game against Hawthorn (grrr!) and Robbie's mark in the goal square to kick the winning goal against Footscray for our only win of the season. Otherwise a season full of garage, long since forgotten. Life is too short; you have to focus on only the good bits. Interesting comment about the old race --- small world, eh? (or large crowd ) I have a feeling that I may end up there more often if we perform like we did in that quarter ...

Were you there for the last quarter against the Giants? I had been up the back of the northern stand for the first half, but I went to sit near the cheer squad behind our goals for the third quarter, wanting a goal rush that didn't come (well, at least not then). For some reason, I moved back towards the members, and ended up on the left half-forward flank, Punt Rd end, which is where my Dad and I used to sit when I was a kid (near where the old Demons race was, for those who remember it). To be there when that great rush came on is something that even swearing at the TV last Sunday won't take away ...

They were the first, OD, but IMHO there are better implementations of the idea around now. Come to think of it, that is a bit like a footy team I know ...

I think you are right, WJ. There certainly is an interesting story here. What are the odds that Cameron Schwab is currently writing up his memoirs, to be published in a couple of years or so? 'Tanks for the Memories', perhaps? That would be an interesting read ...

I hope you are right, Redleg, but it may be more of an insurance agent playing the percentages. Playing poker with the AFL sounds like a good way to get shot, now that someone seems to have hidden AD's dummy and refused him a biscuit. The more this goes on, the more the AFL hierarchy look like rabbits in the headlights ...