Queanbeyan Demon

Stringer and de goey having a laugh together. 'nuff said.

you know you can't defend when membery kicks 4. they thought he'd be the cream on the cake . . . the cake turned out to be a shiite sandwich

you know you can't defend when membery kicks 4.

looks like he jail broke the creche.

Can anyone explain how Kingsley, in his 4th season as coach with the list he has - never seems under pressure?

Out of interest, what could he learn of Cripps? IMHO, Cripps doesn't have 10 years experience, he's had one year 10 times.

This is the nub of it I recon. I can count on three fingers premiership players who have improved since that game. Message is this: The premiership party is over boys. The protection racket is being dismantled. There's a new sheriff in town. The comp's improved 10 percent and we haven't. I love yous all, but if you fumble under a modicum of pressure, don't stick tackles, turn it over or don't run both ways, you're kicking off the dew in the 11:10am game.

Ah — one of the great myths of our time. I can show you publications from 1911 that use en dash as a punctuation mark. And since you asked: Baumeister, R. F., Bratslavsky, E., Finkenauer, C., & Vohs, K. D. (2001). Bad is stronger than good. Review of General Psychology, 5(4), 323–370. (BTW, Baumeister et .al. use en dash punctuation marks in their 2001 article.)

@Ghostwriter, you've stumbled onto something psychologists call morbid curiosity — that involuntary compulsion to witness catastrophe even when the rational mind has already calculated the outcome. Baumeister's work on negativity bias tells us the human nervous system attends to negative events with far greater intensity than positive ones. What you're describing — the inability to look away from Essendon's unfolding season — is a textbook case of involuntary attentional capture toward aversive stimuli. The prefrontal cortex has already processed the result. The limbic system doesn't care. It wants to witness. And here's the darker truth that I find difficult to admit about myself: the spectacle only works because somewhere beneath the schadenfreude is the memory of when it mattered — when these clubs were genuinely dangerous. The slow-motion wreckage is only compelling against the backdrop of what once was velocity. The media hype you rightly mock is simply the broadcaster's version of the same compulsion — dressing up attentional capture as appointment television. This is the AFL's version of MaFS . . . on steroids. Watch the game, Ghosty. We both know you will. We all will. This is not tribal loyalty anymore. It is the human species fascination with the McCarb.

It's nowhere near the end of the story. This is Demoland and we're only up to 119 pages. He's still got a couple, three, four, five years left on our payroll.

The Zurich logo sits on the Melbourne guernsey while Zurich's hired doctor — one against seven — blocks a former Melbourne player from money he is clearly owed. 761 days. Private investigators. Wedding photos submitted as evidence. This is what the sponsorship relationship looks like when the veneer comes off. But Zurich is not alone. Westpac was ordered by the Federal Court to pay $1.3 billion — the largest civil penalty in Australian corporate history — for 23 million breaches of anti-money laundering law, including failures to monitor transactions linked to child exploitation networks. Westpac then sued its own insurers to recover $400 million of that penalty. It is now the principal partner of Cricket Australia, its logo on the Australian cricket shirt. Rehabilitation complete. The sport washes the stain, the stain subsidises the sport. No Westpac employee was prosecuted. Researchers have documented this pattern. A 2024 peer-reviewed study found that harmful industries — tobacco, gambling, alcohol, fossil fuels — use sports sponsorship specifically as a public relations strategy to counter negative perceptions of their products. Sport is purchased to launder reputation. Angus Brayshaw cannot speak publicly, cannot work, cannot play golf without private investigators documenting it. Melbourne FC's silence is not neutrality. It is a choice. And it is the same choice every code makes every time it accepts money from industries whose conduct, examined without the gloss of sport, would make most supporters recoil.

The ol' terminal uniqueness paradigm.

I said to @Anti Saint at quarter time that we’d pretty much break even over the next three quarters. I would have thought an eight goal loss: on their dung-heap, with bias umpiring, off a six day break, with a badly bifurcated list, with our best backman on the bench is pretty much expected.

Are we being beaten by 8 goals or 18?

No way should Max be pulled off.

What does this even mean? They are not in the top 792 players in the world?

980,000,000,000

Severe reality adjustment for some Suns no doubt.

@Cranky Franky is right on the list management of the time. I would argue that the recruiting decisions didn't happen in isolation — they were symptoms. In hindsight, these were disastrous decisions, but what many of us did not fully appreciate at the time was the toxic infestation from board level through executive management to the coach and players. Bad culture produces bad judgement. You don't let Baker and Jordon walk and bring in Schache, Hunter et. al. in a healthy organisation. You just don't. The list is the bruise. The board is where the injury happened. Thank you Green and Smith for cleaning the joint out.

I understand the car park in the Steiner school is setting up a projector in the carpark. Someone else is bring activated almonds. @Ghostwriter is bringing a plan for the last quarter.

Not again. This has been going on for 150 years now.

Bomb it long to Plugger, Buddy . . . oh right . . . that bloke from Carlton.

The absence of surnames that one would actually find in a mainland telephone directory is astonishing. To channel Jack Dyer, I'm not gunna talk in case I say something.

This is so good there is no equivalent response in the known universe.

Thank you so much to all the track watchers who post here. It's so wonderful to be part of the Demon community who love the Club so much.