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5 hours ago, mpc said:

I've started watching on mute this year also, and I find it a lot less stressful. The ideal TV option would be just crowd noise with no commentary.

Yes please, commentary is just to keep eyeballs tuned in, zero analysis. Bring back Our Daisy. Selwood is a sleeping tablet. The rest apologists for the AFL. All the [censored] about players ‘ learning’ , prep for the tsunami of damages claims…

Commentary dreadful, all their cash on the bombers? Give is a crowd noise feed please!!!

14 minutes ago, binman said:

Alot to love in this post.

Great, short lived Sydney band.

Family.

My second favourite city.

Dees.

Go redlegs.

 

I drove the Hume in the 80s and 90s before it became the relaxed drive it is now ( can highly recommend a break at Jugiong), very risky drive then. What was I thinking! No chance of losing concentration here, 180 kmh does tend to focus one’s attention. 

Headed up the Deadly Hume after watching the Dees at Casey versing The  Tiges. Spent 5 days coping with 39 degrees and a tsunami of Taylor Swift fans, visited my demons supporting brother ( member) before flying back to Berlin. Beside myself waiting for this game, Go Dees! 

On 08/02/2024 at 23:47, WalkingCivilWar said:

 

This is how it looks today…

The large brown area is where the stage will be.

The MFC admin staff have to relocate and work from home and/or Casey and/or AAMI for 10 days. No functions will be held during this time. If a room that has windows which overlook the ground does have to be used during the lead-up to the concerts, the windows will be ‘blacked out.’ There are huge black curtains already erected between the concourse and the ground level seating. All this because Mz Swift demands total secrecy. She doesn’t want the details of her spectacle to be known before the event.

As for the Demon Shop, I was there today and asked about them shutting, and it seems one reason is because it’s not worth opening when there’ll be so few people wandering in and out of the ‘G. (Many people who visit the ‘G incorporate a visit to the Demon Shop.) I don’t know why they’re shutting for such a long time though. 

Ah, so my visit to family from Berlin will now not include a Demons shop drop in? Cant rent a hotel room or Air b and b for miles? Still dont know one of her songs, but if she gives Biden her endorsement all is forgiven…..see you at Casey on Sunday thrillseekers!

Taken by the neighbors across the road in about 75, including Greg Splatt who later went on to captain Oakleigh. His dad Ron drove us all to the G in a blue Ford Falcon station wagon, got into an argument in the car park on the way out and suggested I bring some boxing gloves next time! The Splatt family are mad Melbourne, as we are too! 

3 minutes ago, Skuit said:

On the train to Leipzig. Hope to have the entire carriage converted to the Dees by the end of the journey but have to somehow convince the anti-establishment Berliners that Melbourne are the flea-bitten rebels with no teeth and Collingwood are the authoritarian old regime. Hopefully they don't have Google machines here. 

Wilmersdorf Berliners are natural Dees supporters!

7 minutes ago, DeelightfulPlay said:

Didn't make it to training, but did bump into a few Dees supporters at a wine tasting on the Derwent.  Our supporters also seemed in force at Salamanca markets this morning!  I can report on general good spirits!

Just So Melbourne ( been in the wine game all my life!)

Watch AFL Ladies and Gents, but i am surrounded by Germans….

1 minute ago, nedleg said:

We need to get these cars together!

Too afraid to drive this 12 y o Jazz outside of Brandenburg! ( even with the emergency rug for my knees ( or reserving seats) on board as pictured .

On 4/7/2023 at 5:09 AM, nedleg said:

Got it from me dad, but his story is he emigrated here in '62 – times were still good for the red and the blue, and he saw a guy named Ron Barassi on a kids footy show of a Saturday morning and the deal was done. Later in his work life he got to meet Ron and compare codes – AFL and opera – and Ron apparently commented on the athleticism of the latter, being a fan, apparently.

As a dees fan I've always felt we were somewhat the outsiders wherever we were based (though maybe not in the inner south-east, which is a part of town I've never really had a lot to do with). A mate of mine was spotted in a photo at a game wearing dees colours and someone commented something like OMG I never knew! His response: "That's because I'm a classic Melbourne supporter."

To this day my car is the only one I've seen in Germany sporting a Dees sticker. Not a heartland. 'cept at my place. Been grateful to get to the two home games this year whilst back in Oz, my little one was disappointed not to get Maxy's hand at the race in round 1, but I told her "s'alright, I got him". Then I got Maysie's Round 3 so the kid in me is satisfied. Hot tip, bring a kid so you don't look like a dork at the race, plus you'll have the longest arm.

Sorry, there are 2 in Germany, this on my wifes Honda Jazz in Berlin !

1 hour ago, No10 said:

I find Watchafl to be the most frustrating service.

The games live are fine, but on replay they edit out all content between quarters and even now trim time after goals.

They now cut as much of the channel 7 coverage as possible, switching back to the Foxtel team in a sad studio nowhere near the game.

Do Foxtel management even watch afl?

I’m going to try the @Hatchmansolution

All of the above is why its so good!

5 hours ago, Nairobi_Demon said:

That seems very inefficient 

Update: Tess from the club advised me my payment in October did not go through for automatic renewal, i sent her new card details and it was fixed inside 1 hour and the code for watchafl renewal supplied simultaneously ( and at the same time.., one for the buffs) cant ask for better than that!

Dear Fellow International Demonlanders, anyone know if we receive a code for Watchafl like last year (came in January)?

I have not seen anything yet and cant access Watchafl, therefore no Fox Footy and no cover of Match Sim I think, any clue?

Mine because i was actually at the game at  the Simon Eishold Goals end. Still not really over it …..,

Any word on Watch AFL for us over here in Forren?

1 hour ago, nedleg said:

You might test out by next Friday...

counting on it

23 hours ago, waverleyheartbreak said:

Hi Deanox, in Berlin as well, will know more on Thursday. let you know.

Hi again, corona positive today, ! So i am locked in the loungeroom! Bugger  

4 hours ago, nedleg said:

I'm in Berlin too. I use the watchafl app (I share the costs with a pal in London and never been a problem watching concurrently).

Would be up for a meetup though, let us know if something pans out.

Would love that but will have to wait for the PF or Granny, tested positive for Corona today, ugh!

4 hours ago, deanox said:

For our overseas supporters or those travelling, how do you plan on watching the final?

This thread can be a place to post looking for others to watch the game with, no matter where in the world you are!

 

To kick it off I'll be in Berlin for work, with a conveniently scheduled late flight, meaning I'll be free to watch the game during the day (1250pm local time).

Will any locally based supporters be meeting anywhere to watch it together? Or does anyone know any Berlin AFL haunts that show games so I'm not watching on my laptop in the hotel lobby?

 

Hi Deanox, in Berlin as well, will know more on Thursday. let you know.

James from Jolimont

18 minutes ago, DEE fence said:

Chaos here in Finland....

Berlin auch!

Corey Ellison looks like a player.

17 minutes ago, sue said:

Think I saw somewhere chan 7 restricts to inside Oz. VPN may be needed

Thanks Sue, 7 are dinosaurs 

9 minutes ago, Little Goffy said:

Live broadcast is available on afl website:

https://www.afl.com.au/vfl/matches/4258

Stream blocked by a geo location error message in Germany, bugger, but why???