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My first thought on seeing this, was "I hope his preferred side is Melbourne, who is making a play for him?". FMD please don't do that to me!!

It's not as much fun to read the opposition fans' sites now that people are taking us seriously. Where's all the "who have they beaten?", "Pretenders!" posts gone? I'm also getting a bit sick of my non-MFC friends saying stuff like "well, if my team doesn't win, I hope you guys get up this year". I want us to be hated.

I think you're mixing up 1994 and 1998! One interesting point. In all the years we made finals between 1987 and 2018 we NEVER finished high enough to earn the 'double chance'. At this stage, even 6/5 for the rest of the season should place us in the top 4.

Back on Trac!

Re Brownlow. I did a calculation on Brownlow votes if they matched AFLCA between Clarry and Bont. After Rd11: Bont is on 13.5 votes with a range 12-14. Clarry is on 14.5 votes with a range 12-18. Not sure about other players. Clarry has possibly 4 BOGs so far. Another 4 in the second half and the Charlie is probably his.

I was thinking the same thing!

The 3/0 split on Petracca is interesting. Was it Beveridge giving him 3 votes because you really notice him, and Goodwin thinking 'meh, just another good game, nothing special' or the other way round? I think it more likely that Goodwin gave Harmes 3 votes given the way Goodwin, May etc spoke about Harmes post-game. (BTW I don't think it's possible that Harmes/Lever were split 2/2 but my brain is hurting with the maths).

YES YES YES

Oliver is in Brownlow form. Forget Patracca and Bont - Cayton is the ONE.

THAT WAS BRILLIANT

you beauty!!!!!

I really can't see how we can justify bringing in BB after today's underwhelming display. When Roos took over in 2014, one of the first things he implemented was only rewarding players who had played well in the VFL and not simply dropping players from the seniors only to replace them with players who had been dropped 2 weeks before. Apart from his poor accuracy, Mitch Brown has been the premier forward over the last 2 weeks. He's got to be ahead of BB for the replacement for Weeds. I'm crossing over into a different thread now....so will post further there.

How is it that we have to watch a Casey home game on the Swans youtube channel? Get it together Demons.

Use this link for youtube and casy radio for commentary. Theres a delay with the commentary but if you pause the video foe enough seconds you can sync it. https://youtu.be/YZIJ8w9PL-U

I disagree. If I had a choice between beating the Bulldogs and losing to the the Crows or the other way round, I'd choose this result by a mile. I think it says more to to have beaten (all of the) premiership rivals before September, with a glitch against a bottom side rather than be worried by our rivals. Rather win every game though!

Weed and Jacko worked well together last year, before Jacko was injured. This will be their first game together since then.

Listening to the game with no vision reminded me of my childhood listening to Demon games on the radio back in the 70's when i was a kid. I know people still listen to games on the radio but it'd been a while for me. I enjoyed it. Meanwhile, we seem to have a few players who are able to fit straight in should injuries/form demand it. I'm thinking Mitch Brown, Jetta, Daw, Sparrow and more. It's shaping up as a great year ladies and gentlemen!

YOU BEAUTY!!!!

Step Up Sam. This is your chance. Create a headache for us in 2 weeks when Jacko is back and ready.

I feel much more comfortable with Geelong getting to 4th place than Richmond, even though we've beaten both! Go Cats.

I took the same username on Land and probably stopped posting on ology about 3 years ago, maybe more. A pity, there was some fun banter - including the non-footy stuff. Does anyone remember the thread started by Robbie F called "Are we in , or about into enter a recession?". It was started soon after the election of Rudd in 2007 or early 2008 but before everyone knew of the impending Global Financial Crisis. It was so passionate that 'ology had to split the boards between footy and non-footy after that.

In 2015 he was being touted as a potential AA backmen. And even though he'd been back and forth between forward and back between 2015-17 he became a permanent forward after the injury to Jesse Hogan. Because he did so well there esp in 2018 he's stayed there. Now we're deficient in the backline. I think he can do it.

being nominated yet, he's 3rd favourite

He's such a stalwart of the team now it's easy to forget he remains eligible for the Rising Star. 13 players have received multiple nominations over 2 years, 3 of them were Demons and one of them played today. Without googling do you know who the previous Demons were?

% is points for / points against x 100 In order to increase percentage we would need to win by a greater amount than our current %. Any other result will result in a decrease in % The longer the season goes on, though, the less impact an individual game will have on % though the principle remains the same.