Queanbeyan Demon

Bit hard on the Russkis there LG.

This takes the award for the most bizarre thread of 2022. FWIW - here's the truth. We'll know in 15 years who got it right.

If we were to go 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.

Please advise when the footy department responds.

It's being talked about WCW. But as per usual, the media has pulled the wrong reign. Buddy is a sacred cow. I think he's a different sort of a cow.

Um - it was satire. Obviously not very good satire.

Regarding the backline . . . and to some unremarkable salient points made by some posters that I am now going to remark upon. I would say they (and 'they' are named later on - I have no fear) are all pretty one-dimensional back there. And the comp is full of OD players. Just in my era alone: Hudson simply chat himself when shooting for his 151st goal - no good under pressure at all. Robbie Flower the same. Often missed running goals in the wet from 55 metres out after taking the ball at half back and being bashed by Matthews for his trouble. Barassi had to permanently move him to half back to save his career. Carey was cr&p as a backman . . . Pagan had to move him forward where he carved out a barely passable career. Voss, Black, Lappin and White were no good in the granny of 2004 - lost the plot in the fourth quarter - wonder any of them played another game quite frankly. And don't get me started on Dusty . . . slack bast*#d only plays well in grannies. So yeah - unfortunate Maysie, Jake the Snake, Tommy Petty, Pig Hibbo and Christian Salem need to take a good long hard look at themselves this week. The future of the club depends on it.

Thanks TT. It's the lack of connection between players and lines that causes us grief more than turnovers. Players that get the ball a lot are going to have a higher rate of turnovers. This is because they get the ball in heavy traffic where the tempo is white hot and shoving the ball out through a cluster for 20 players is the work of magicians. For three years Dusty was the best player in the game by a fair distance, yet he was also in the top 10 turnover merchants in the game. Paradoxically, he is also one of the cleanest ball handlers I've ever seen when outside the player scrum. Took Miller may win this years Brownlow, and he's the biggest turnover merchant in the game! My point is this . . . blaming Melbourne's defeat on turnovers at the expense of examining why they are occurring will not provide an accurate diagnosis of the teams problems.

We need to go hard after Zurhaar, McStay, Lobb, Tom Green, Hopper.

Franklin is a [censored] cheat.

Demonlanders upon hearing: Jacko has signed up for the next 300 games, Buddy kicks 1.7 tonight and South loose by five points, and Grundy to play for Essendon and they pay all of his current salary.

Excited by the prospect of having a coffee with @Bitter but optimistic

I once ate a Fishermen's Friend.

A movie made with an iPhone can win an academy award, surely figuring out how to use a Samsung to capture goals can't be that difficult. Alternative is to put in longer goal posts when Lynch is playing.

Has Dimwit left the box yet?

Brilliant analysis TU.

Lots of yous seem to know a heap about Mrs. Jackson's private life.

Edmond would know - for sure.

Maybe against the Ashburton Towies. Scored an average of two goals a quarter against us. When Glenn Frey hits town and starts playing, they are in the Seaton Street kindy.

Probably ghosted by Kevin Sheedy BBO.

The last ruckman we got from the Filth worked out alright. So applying the usual D'Land logic, it's a near certainty that Grundy will as well.

Phuqu me! I've been stressed out the last 11 months dreaming of our 14th flag.

Um . . . sorry mrtwister. Just checking. You mean the club that plays poor drawing, weak sides, eight times a year on a pocket handkerchief shaped like a triangle, effectively gifting them 32 premiership points, is being hard done by? The current draw is virtually a handicapper event with Jeelong deemed to be on one leg with a blindfold on.

How so dl4e? Hibba takes Papley, Heeney and Florent. The rest you raffle.