Queanbeyan Demon

Either: locked in talks with lawyers all day, or "yeah.nah. She'll be right mate . . . let's not over cook this. It'll blow over. I'm Clarko."

The only thing vaguely surprising about this is how surprised everybody is. Horethorn have been a bunch of hypocrites since the 1960's. The 'Family Club' monitor is a complete triumph for the marketing profession. Remember, this is the club that condones thuggery, bash artists and cowardly, behind the play, king hits. There's a veritable arms-length long list of serial offenders. These people are also fathers, brothers, sisters and parents. How dare they knock unconscious someone else's loved one. No wonder in some circles the club is known as Hypocrite Highway. Despite the BS we tell ourselves as a country, we are a deeply racist society. We are a country, like most others it must be said, full of myth making, repressed collective memories and denial of historical truths. We are, for the most part, unwilling to confront our violent history. The shame and guilt is too much to bear, so we scapegoat to ward off the inner demons (no pun intended). I now await the victim blaming to come the way of the accusers. We are now in the era of past wrongs being surfaced and reparations and amends sort. Child sex abuse, rape and sexual harassment, money laundering by the big banks, historical wage theft by everyone from the big corporates to the ABC and the university sector. And now it's the AFL's turn to deal with historical endemic racism in the game. I would be very surprised if there are not skeletons in other closets, including ours, waiting to emerge. Your author is not guilt free in this context. Time for me to write a letter to Glen James and apologise. The AFL has much to be proud of in the First Nation's space. However, this is stench wafting across the AFL landscape that is truly appalling. May the AFL lead the way.

For some 'Landers, the servers are the only things that go down.

the question is: does he love the boys?

This gets funnier and funnier.

Completely not surprised.

I just opened up a big can of worms. They just sit there….the worms. Hardly the chaos that’s advertised.

@WalkingCivilWar . . . could you help @Sir Why You Little on this one please?

That Dennis Lillee bloke was absolutely sh%thouse in Pakistan and Sri Lanka. And have you seen Pat Cummins's stats against Bangladesh?

There are a number of specialist professions who know how to get people off SWYL.

Just give the job to Daisy.

WTF???

Makes sense . . .

David Mundy, Lance Franklin, Shannon Hurn, Scott Pendlebury, Joel Selwood, Todd Goldstein, Tom Hawkins, Travis Boak, Jack Riewoldt, Isaac Smith, Dayne Zorko, and Robbie Tarrant all say hi.

Had he stayed, we would be premiers this year.

Are you married to Filth jane02?

May of us have been through that - very difficult. Send him to the SCG this weekend with the knitting needles.

Are you the parent, teacher or student?

Very quiet on 'Land tonight @WalkingCivilWar.

They don't call us Demons for nothing . . . all four options are hell in my book.

We've Gawn out in straight sets. How does the Club respond during the player draft/trading period? Does it: a. undertake minimal list changes in the belief that a couple of game style tweaks and natural improvement in player development and skills can deliver a flag in 2023, b. undertake a minor list renovation, moving on a couple of good servants that are unlikely to play in our next flag, c. undertake a moderately radical list renovation, moving on eight or so players, including at least a couple that played in the 2021 flag, or d. do something else? Thank you for a wonderful pod each week. I'm a big fan.

Canadian.

A philosopher I'm studying. You wouldn't have heard of him

Demonland is like any other community WCW. We come together because we are all Demons, but there are many different experiences within the Demonland community. And most people's knowledge, including QD's, is at best, partial and incomplete. Our respective horizons may be opposed dialectically. What in one is found intelligible, in another is unintelligible. What for one is true, for another is false. What for one is good, for another is evil. Each 'Lander may have some awareness of the other's viewpoint and so each in a manner may include the other. That's what we do. But we are human and all of us, at least in part, are seduced by wishful thinking, to an acceptance of myth, to ignorance or fallacy, to blindness or illusion, to backwardness or immaturity, to bad will and to a refusal of truth. Humanity is in this boat together and it's virtually inescapable. (With thanks to BL.)

I have confidence in Goody and the Club. After the horror of 2019, a significant number of hard decisions regarding the list were made. The side that won in 2021 was quite different to the ones we took into the final rounds of 2019. The Club turned it around then - I see no reason why Goody won't make hard decisions over the next couple of months and we reset for another run at it in 2023.