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UPDATED: Recommendations for good places to watch the Preliminary Final with other Demons. VICTORIA (All 11 Sporting Globe venues offer discounts for MFC members) Melbourne City Federation Square (arrive early, limited capacity available!) Duke of Wellington Sports Bar at Crown Casino Inner Suburbs Sporting Globe, Richmond (discounts for MFC members) Mountain View, Richmond Great Northern, North Carlton Outer Suburbs NOT the Bentleigh Club – No longer affiliated with MFC Sporting Globe, Fountain Gate (discounts for MFC members) Bunjil Place Plaza, Narre Warren https://www.bunjilplace.com.au/2018-afl-finals-series Great Ocean Road The Lorne Pub NSW/ACT Sydney Courthouse Hotel, Newtown Canberra/Queanbeyan Eastlake Demons Football Club TAS Hobart Irish Murphy’s, Salamanca Place WA At the ground, hopefully with vision from Fed Square on the big screen! Pre-match: Ticketed? brunch at the Burswood on Swan; Camfield Pub (expect queues) QLD Brisbane Pineapple Hotel in the Gabba (organised by Deb from Queensland Demons) Sunshine Coast Brightwater Hotel, 15 Freshwater St, Mountain Creek Gold Coast Broadbeach Cats Footy Club (organised by Deb from Queensland Demons) EUROPE UK Belushi’s, Shepherds Bush, London Germany Belushi’s Berlin? Italy @DaisyDeeciple’s place, Rome ? Still looking for recommendations: Mornington Peninsula South Australia Amsterdam Birmingham Ho Chi Minh City (can a Mod pin this please? @Demonland)

Having read your blog over the years, I felt oddly proud of your composure in that moment. So that's fairly random but also well done I guess?

Just threw this together so that people don’t have to scroll through and to hopefully bring some Demons together in random places. I’ll try to update if anyone has further advice. VICTORIA Melbourne City Federation Square Duke of Wellington Sports Bar at Crown Casino Inner Suburbs Sporting Globe, Richmond Mountain View, Richmond Great Northern, North Carlton Outer Suburbs Sporting Globe, Fountain Gate (discounts for MFC members) Bentleigh Club, Bentleigh NSW/ACT Sydney Courthouse Hotel, Newtown Canberra/Queanbeyan Eastlake Demons Football Club TAS Hobart Irish Murphy’s, Salamanca Place WA MFC change rooms, hopefully EUROPE Germany Belushi’s Berlin? Still looking for recommendations: Mornington Peninsula South Australia Sunshine Coast Amsterdam Birmingham Confirmation on Casey venue?

Heh I don't think our players who wear bras would appreciate that implication. But we should break out the second verse more often! And I like that we never updated it to more recent successes.

Plus: LAPTOP GUY AT THE BACK: "Whoo! Now, back to the stats!"

Thanks again for all the gif-work @david_neitz_is_my_dad

DEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEES!!!!!!!!!!

Sometimes I'm a little scared of him and he's on our team! And I'm safe in the grandstand!

Some signings: http://www.melbournefc.com.au/news/2018-09-12/aflw-signing "MELBOURNE has landed Casey Sherriff as its replacement player for Daisy Pearce and secured Chantel Emonson as its final category B rookie player for the 2019 AFLW season." CASEY SHERRIFF "will come onto the list from the Casey Demons program. Casey is a 20-year old, highly athletic rebound defender, who showed great progression on our VFLW list this season and will provide some good speed in our defensive half." CHANTEL EMONSON “Coming from a cricket background where she played at representative level [for Victoria] from under 15 to under 18 level Chantel is very clean with the ball and is a strong technical kick of the footy." Also of note on the draft, list manager Todd Paterson says he hopes to read out more Casey names on draft day so that might be a clue about our intentions there.

I was glad to hear that they were at the game and also that Sam and Jim's daughter will be presenting the Jim Stynes Award at the Brownlow again this year - very special.

And what's their plan for 2019? 2020? I guess they'll probably make that up as they go along as well.

What a night. What a win! I loved that our players' response to mistakes and missed shots or free kicks seemed to be to go harder again. Never dropped their heads or lost their cool too much, even as the points piled up. That mindset seemed pervasive enough to have been coaching instruction and I think it really prevented us from collectively ever being too overawed by the occasion, which could easily have been a problem. What I'll always remember from this game though is the relentless pressure we put on, especially early: the smothers, tackles, bumps, niggle, chase-downs. Amazing. And just so proud of our supporters. We really brought it from the first bounce too. There were clearly heaps of nerves and so many of us have been scarred by the past, but the volume of support we brought from the get-go really matched and (I like to think) reinforced the players' intensity. So I guess what I'm saying is well done us! Sweet dreams, demonlanders ?

Me every day this week so far: Let's just enjoy it and see how it goes. Me today: AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH IF WE DON'T WIN THE WORLD WILL END

It's been a big couple of weeks for Daisy! Now the VFLW B&F has been named for her, jointly with Helen Lambert. Lambert was the (VWFL) founding committee member and former president. Daisy is a six-time VWFL Lambert Medal (the VWFL B&F award) winner and the inaugural recipient of the VFL Women’s Medal in 2016. http://vfl.com.au/lambert-pearce-medal-announced/

Definitely agree about being back “Wanda we sing” with a vengeance! I’ve also always enjoyed “should auld acquaintance be forgot” because it sounds like a kind of polite marketing attempt. As in, “Oh and by the way, if you just happen to forget about your team and want to switch to another team for some reason, then why not the red and the blue?” Always makes me chuckle thinking about it like that.

All of them. Can’t choose, but I’m looking forward (hopefully) to reacquainting myself with my love for Viney. For the girls, it’s almost a boring answer but you just can’t go past Daisy. Legend.

It’s super special that he’s doing all this in the famous number 11 as well. When I see him wearing it, I always think of Jimmy presenting Max with his jumper and this photo, I think after Jimmy’s passing.

People going to training doesn't matter. It's mainly the diehards that do that with any regularity (Although thank the gods for those on here who do and provide all the great reports!) Family Days, held at both Casey and our city training site, are what draws in families, kids, curious newcomers etc. and people are happy to make the extra effort for that - so long as they're held at a good time but that's another issue. I'd also love it if our women's team could play a true home game that wasn't a 3-hour commute for Dees fans in the northern suburbs. What we're looking for in a training ground is one that's got top-notch facilities, is centrally located for everyone, especially those who go there regularly - the players, coaches etc. - is connected to the administrative side of the club, and is a hub as the club's home in the city that bears our name. We want to grab people's interest where we can get it (including around Casey) and then convert that into memberships and game attendance. Who cares if those people watch training?

Since we're going deep dive on this, here's the Victorian heritage database report on Yarra Park, for some light reading. http://vhd.heritagecouncil.vic.gov.au/places/114751/download-report As you can tell just by walking through there, the physical heritage listed (scarred trees, substation etc.) would not be (directly) impacted by the proposed site.

Sorry to see these two go, but both will thrive with more/different opportunities. From twitter: Add Paxman and that's everyone accounted for? And Daisy, obviously. Loved the "us" that snuck into her commentary in the Alice ?

I guess Daisy kind of goes without saying. Clearly one of the best leaders the Dees have ever had. Completely agree on Downie though, loved the way she went about it last season. Marinoff would be a great acquisition!

I don't worry about Clayton. In the scheme of things, he's due some delayed 'second year blues'. Any downturn from him learning to deal with the extra attention, either due to his performance last year or the absence of other players, is just part of the process.

Can't un-see that now! I wouldn't want that demon now either. Something more like the 80s one but in contrasting colours, sort of silhouetted where the monogram is now.

As a kid I loved what I think of as the 'hair on fire' version. Not so much now. I can see our current one but with a demon instead of the monogram. That way it has the best of both worlds, with the demon, and also the word 'Melbourne' being in there.

Was desperate as always during some really crucial plays late.