Queanbeyan Demon

Depends on what 'player ratings' one follows. On the set I refer to, he's 58. There are five ruckmen in the comp in front of him. And only Max might be paid more. And that in a nutshell is the problem.

Based on his performance tonight, I hope we don't chase him. His ruck work is atrocious. Expense does not equal output.

LJ horrendous. He actually hasn't improved since he was with us. If he wants to come back he'll need to take a severe haircut - and that ain't gunna happen.

My local milk bar is big compared to Flogmantle.

LJ has had one Jack Dyer "good ordinary" season at the Shockers in three years and isn't currently ranked in the best 50 players in the game. I would certainly have him back at Melbourne, but the Garry Meadows "Price is Right" must apply.

Brian Taylor was Barge before he was BT, Bristle and now %^&*head. Gary Crazy Horse Cowton. (Mostly a backman that could be swung forward in a crisis). Slamming Sam Kekovich. Rene The Incredible Hulk Kink. The greatest football nickname of all, in my view, belongs to the former brilliant rugby league player Phil Sigsworth, who was known as Whatsapacketa.

Youtube Peter Hudson. Great footage of him flat punting. And check out how still his head is.

Got you covered @Ethan Tremblay. There's six in the small jar located inside my pantry.

Bang, bang, bang. The crux of our problem. Since 2021, our senior/best players have regressed (with the notable exceptions of Max and TMac) and the tier under them have not improved to the degree necessary to take up the slack. It's why we are in the bottom third of the ladder.

It’s the kind of day where the light seems to hesitate, where victories drift past like half-remembered dreams, and the scoreboard whispers things no one quite understands. We stand at the edge of the moment, unsure if we’re walking toward something, or if something quiet is already walking toward us — a ripple in the mirror, waiting for the next wave to arrive.

Max Max Gawn is the difference between us winning and losing, I’m not looking forward to seeing the hit out to advantage differential, if we do win it will be a Herculean effort. I’m hopeful but not expecting. Based on last years game vs Dees, and the fact he has been made an emergency, it wouldn't surprise me to see Baily come in as a late change to do a job on Gawn. I recall last year in the game where we beat them, Bailey put a lot of work into Gawn off the ball, he constantly blocked and bumped him and stopped him from easily running to positions to intercept- almost like a scragging tag. Really put him off his game and reduced his effectiveness, even if he didnt win the hit outs. Ill be looking for similar tactics to annoy the [censored] out of him and shift his focus. When it's such a big discrepancy in quality in ruckman it's actually easier to plan for. Midfield sets up to rove to Max's taps everytime and Baileys job was just to put some physicality into him Everything else Hough in the midfield is exciting because he isn't a panic merchant. Would seem a good matchup for Petracca We're not allowed to talk about weights anymore so I wouldn't know They are both beautiful on the inside. Well maybe not Trac after King's Birthday last year. Too soon? Sure I Saw Steven May wandering through the city last night. Didn’t expect to see Melbourne players in so early, thought they’d have flown in today. Unless he came in seperately. Did he take a swing at you? That's a good sign, when we beat them last I saw Gawn, and two other Demons walking along Railway Pde in West Leederville. Going to be really grim if we cannot put in a cracking showing. That being said, I think we do it to the Demons again with: May moving like a 60 year old McGovern Trac being Reid's bunny Gawn being Flyin's launch pad Fritsch burning his team mates left right and centre Petty being the biggest source of falling moisture on Optus this Saturday And most importantly, they won't have any footy boots after Oliver confused what was actually in the "Gear Bag", when he pinched off the bus before they left to go to the airport. Dees are the only team ranked worse than us in 4th quarters this season West Coast by 45. Harley 3 Votes. Owies to have a break out game. Oliver out is massive. He’s not had his greatest year but he’s their best clearance player by a mile. Not beyond realms of possibility we get up this week His clearances have usually involved blindly bombing it long to the oppositions defenders though. Coach has some inside knowledge on Melb, albeit a changed game style now. If we're gonna win a game in the first half of the season it's this week or next. Melbourne are barely going themselves Dees to leave the chocolate cake out and the Eagles to come out to play

Healey would be close to the last person i'd been taking draft advise from.

Was he still referring to the ground at this point?

Go easy on MAFS and WWE please @Mel Bourne and @layzie. At least on MAFS the breakdowns are scheduled and in WWE the tackles stick.

Can someone please publish the two minute mark to the 17 minute mark of the third quarter ladder?

I won't say anything is case I say something . . . other than Kim and Kanye are poor role models.

I also have severe queries over Langford. For example, will he win 3 or 5 best and fairests, 4 or 6 All Australians, 1, 2 or 3 premierships. And of course anything less than a couple of Brownlows is a bust.

I'm happy to take a day off work and walk him through the Demonland threads over the last 12 months. He'll then be ready to pick the team for the Meth Coke game this weekend.

Same here @DistrACTION Jackson - still waiting too. Might be delayed — Carlton’s still working out which end of the phone to talk into, and Norf are arguing over who gets to use the last working Nokia.

Tonight’s game revealed a grammatical tragedy of Shakespearean proportions (where's @Ghostwriter in an emergency like this?) "No Bontempelli; No Bulldogs" — tight, mournful, the stuff of banners and battle cries. "Yes Bontempelli; Yes Bulldogs" — sounds like a bad motivational poster found in the general manager's office. "Eventually it’ll just be silence — no Bontempelli, no Bulldogs, no meaning — just the wind" — We are all mad, insane with the hopelessness of trying to find meaning where there is none. Dostoyevsky

Calm down on the whole dog's breakfast shtick — calling it that is an insult to dogs everywhere. The old VFA might’ve been broke, brawling and slightly feral, but at least it had a soul. Now it’s just AFL seconds wrapped in plastic, pretending it’s still a competition. Springvale in the mud had more dignity than half the fixtures they serve up these days.

Is anyone else finding it hard to hear the commentators and on-ground interviews over the crowd noise lately? It feels like the crowd is cranked up so much that you can barely make out what’s being said. Foxtel is bad, but I've virtually given up on hearing anything on Shamble 7.

Just a final reflection on Ben McKay @Go the Biff and @BoBo, - he is not inside the top 150 players in the comp. Yet North got pick three as compensation for him. Get your head around that 🥇. Everyone gets a participation medal.

i watch the roos every week. he was horrendous.