Queanbeyan Demon

I met Clyde at a Grand Final function about five years ago and had a long chat with him. What a gentlemen. And he was in great shape. Always and forever a Deez man, followed us very closely and thought that our recruiting, playing style and coaching strategy with Roos back then was spot on.

If we had had two Pedos we would have been at 68 percent and firing.

I'm usually in the south of France in April each year so my chalet is generally on loan to family and friends. I traded out of the Rangy 18 months ago (it was already a year old with 10k on the clock) and leased me the new Porsche Cayenne. I was a bit nervous when Covid hit that I'd have to keep it for three years, but as life is back to normal here in Brighton, I should be able to flip it in the usual 24 months. The partners in the firm are now on board with Charles and have stopped calling him Nieta. Oh, and what's this thing called a 'weekend'? (And well done number two Ol' Chap.)

Bit rich coming from a mob that had no right to Carey and Longmire.

Interesting coming from a mob with whom Ben Cousins and Justin Charles played.

Kossi allegedly sniping is a bit much coming from a mob that gave the game Mal Brown, Neil Balme, Kevin Sheedy, Mick Malthouse, Jack Dyer, Robert McGhie, Alex Rance (eye gouger), Rex Hunt and Don 'Mopsy' Fraser.

State league affiliate: GWS Giants (VFL) This weekend: GWS Giants v Footscray at Blacktown International Sportspark, April 22, 7.10pm AEST All eyes were on big-name recruit Jesse Hogan, the key forward booting four goals and taking 11 marks from 14 disposals in the Giants' 72-point loss to Western Bulldogs.

Can we get three premierships out of this list? That's the benchmark for greatness over the last 20 years.

With all these five year deals, I just hope Corda's not scrutinising our long-term salary cap arrangements.

Brett Lovett has Salem covered very, very easily.

GW at the Fox interview. Fox: you’ve got the job, congratulations. Does 235k per year sound about right? GW: yeah. Beauty. BTW, who’s my cohost? Fox: Slobbo GW: 750k per annum, 22.5 percent super and a new seven series every other year. Fox: cheaper than Lane, done.

I still miss Pedo on dayz like this.

Me and me mates developed our own lingo to get around this linguistic challenge a coupla decades ago. We can thank the brilliant Jack Dyer for some of our terms. For example, 600 of the comp's footballers are what Jack once termed 'good ordinary'. (Jack of course used this term famously to describe the Buzz after he'd just kicked the goal the year and taken the mark of the decade. A bit like Donald Richmond Horne's "the lucky country" being misappropriated, so too have we deliberately misappropriated the term 'good-ordinary'.) Another Dyeism is "going alright". This describes a player who is in and out of a team, but is managing to hold his spot "at the minute". Any footballer who cheats (we all know who you are Geelong), are called "members of the Maffra".

This. First time the club has practiced kicking since Ed's been at the club. Un-%*&@%*^-believable.

The last annual report I read had Hutchison earning something well north of 900k per annum as the CEO of SEN. And on the topic of two first names . . . Nothing will ever beat Ron Barassi's question on the day of the Bears/Lions merger in 1996 when the president of the new club, Brisbane Lions, Noel Gordon was being interviewed. He was smugly batting away questions concerning knifes, backs and 'cover of darkness' shenanigans. Ron listened to the BS being spoken for about five minutes without saying too much when I suspect he had finally had enough. A panel member threw to him asking, "Do you have any questions Ron?" Brasso, pausing for two or three seconds for affect, calmly and authoritatively asked Gordon, "What's it like having two first names?" The broadcast box fell silent. Brilliant radio and he had made his point. Then I think the host fell on the floor barely able to contain his laughter.

Woo wee . . . so here's the reality: "They're the biggest team in the league". They are not the biggest team in the league measured by membership or revenue (they barely scrape into third place on membership). They have won two premierships in 63 years (one less than us). They've been broke at least twice in that time. And Never, ever, landed a superstar from another club that's gone on and performed for them. Tracktor, I suspect, won't be the "dumb operator". I fear Tracktor doing a hammy in a preliminary final much more than I fear Collingwood's recruiting department.

The main and most important take-way from the interview is that Jake intends on keeping his moustache. Of secondary matters: the back seven are traveling beautifully ATM, Tomlinson has been great, Kossi's form is not a revelation to those that have observed and trained with him for the last 12 months, Weid and BBB at least two weeks away and implied they'll comeback through the ressies, everyone loves Danny Frawley, and Angus Brayshaw is dating Danny's daughter. He didn't say so, but it's fair to also assume the following: we’re not getting carried away with the win, we're giving full credit to St. Kilda because we knew they'd be tough to beat and come out hard, credit is due to the boys for Saturday's win, we’re just happy to get the four points and looking forward to next week, our structures are working well and we kept our shape, blokes that are not in the team ATM are training the house down and ready to go, there will be a few things that, as a playing group, we'll need to look at during the week (and possibly even going forward), the kids are doing well, at some point in the last quarter the sting went out of the game, and we know the GWS will come to play next week.

I well recall running onto the MCG at the end of the round 22 game in 1980 and making a beeline for Carl. I patted him on the back as he ran toward the player's race and implored, "please don't go Carl, we need you". As a kid, I loved the man.

Six of the 10 premierships won by the most suspended clubs.

Warms the heart to see the Tankers and Filth thirteenth and fourteenth.

Um . . . who is our leader full stop?

I thought Neita was a better CHB than a forward Wellsy . . . and that's saying something. I seem to remember Carey saying Neita was his most difficult opponent. Just my opinion FWIW. But outside of Neita, May is the best big bodied backman we've had in my 50 years watching the Deez.

What? Award the Brownlow to a good, big bodied, player? Hehehehehe.

We’re def in trouble if milkshake and Hibba are the answers. We really have got a chronic depth problem. Another year of shuffling the deck chairs.

Weid will never be the player I had hoped (for example, Kennedy, Revolt, Hawkins). At best, a serviceable 175 game career. Lacks self belief, killer instinct and high level game sense. Not sure any of that can be taught. In 2021 dollars, makes him worth 500-600k per year at best.