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    14 hours ago, Little Goffy said:

    It is a strange thing, I've been a statistician for chunks of my career and an all-round genius my whole life, but I absolutely peel [censored] bananas when it comes to this kind of quiz.

    I drive people insane when I'm on their team at trivia nights;

    "Hey, Chris, you know history, when was the battle of Austerlitz?"

    "Well, the early morning was crucial as the fog masked significant deployments by the French forces, and then by midday when the sun burned through the fog and revealed the French in powerful flank positions, the Austrian army's morale collapsed."

    "So, you're answer is...?"

    "Brunch-ish?"

    Long story short, I'm gonna be useless at this one, but thanks for sharing, I'll see if I can find it online.

    The battle of Austerlitz! Great win. BOG? A nuggety litttle Corsican fwd pocket,

    ‘3 votes N Bonaparte’

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    Grand Old Flag just played at the final siren!

    What a win

    In Albury

    Port Melbourne has beaten GWS and is banging on the door of the Top 10

    Now let’s hear it played later this arvo at the MCG

    (Very handy having the only them song without the clubs name in it 🤓)

    Go Dee’s

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    I think it’s great

    if I was a young WA (or whatever) kid joining the Demons,  and looked at how we cared for our potential Top 21 who in their late 20's had missed out through an everyman injury and bad luck, …. I would think … this is a good family, i can trust them, I'll stay with them 

    And whats more, the guy can play 

     

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    That is a terrible decision

    He intended no harm,  but he did not exercise due care. He should have known that jumping at a player running straight at him was very likely to result in that players serious injury. 

    And he didn’t even smother the ball!

    The AFL has to appeal. It has to. If it wants to help its own defence against not doing enough to protect players from head injury, it must fight this. It must fight for the next payer running selflessly towards goal in the spirit of the game, as Brayshaw was. 

    its not about whether it was a ‘dog act’ or a deliberate intent to harm, … it wasn’t. It’s about was it a tackle or smother that reasonably considered the well being of the other player. It was an excessively high risk move that could never have ended safely for Brayshaw 

    I am very upset about this decision. It shows the decision makers are in a different world, a different time.  Where is the AFL players association? 

     

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    45 minutes ago, Webber said:

    If the 5-6 weeks being rumoured is correct, that’s an enormous win, could just as easily have ruptured ankle medial ligament, inferior tibio-fibular syndesmosis, or fracture (the things I was worried about). 
     

    The way he injured it, with the ankle in dorsiflexion, meaning toes toward knee, is very unlikely to cause a Lisfranc disruption. It almost always occurs with foot in plantarflexion (ballerina ‘point’ direction). 
     

    As a dweeby aside, the Lisfranc injury is named after Napoleon’s cavalry head honcho, Générale Lisfranc, who reported the injury occurring commonly to soldiers who were knocked off their horse, only to have a foot locked in the stirrup in forced plantarflexion. Ouchy. Too much nerdy-know? Not if you want to win your next pub trivia night! 

    And his treatment back then was amputation across the mid foot! Thank heavens he isn’t our club doctor!

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    I enjoyed that game 

    In Binman I trust 

    I can see what the coaches are doing. But even they must be surprised by how well the fwd line worked today 

    PS  I spent yesterday at a party with John Beckwith in the room. Not that he would have known I was there. I was too shy to give him a well done and a high five. He looked great. Ninety years and many more to come. Five winning grad finals, wow!!!

    Go Dees and thankyou to the podcast team. You help us understand what is going on 

    Great win 

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    And if you go far enough back in time religious affiliation was a factor . Those links don’t bare repeating but I remember it was still a thing for some in the 60’s 

    Irrelevant now of course

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    7 minutes ago, Bitter but optimistic said:

    You may very well be correct willmoy - I simply don't know.

    I just assumed that all Demonlanders used a bespoke tailor - as I do!

    Can I suggest that is the first time the words ‘bespoke tailor’ have been heard on Demonland?

    Great get as a sponsor. All we need now is RMWilliams and I’ll be fully clothed with a 20% discount!

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    Great rundown of the game and where we are at. Thanks so much for the effort you put in lads. You are not taken for granted and the value you add to the supporter experience (that sounded awfully modern and BS!) is very much appreciated 

    From all the Demonlanders who rarely post but often listen… thanks enormously. 

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    Remember the cry of the anguished Demon supporters ….. across the wilderness years 

    Hasn’t  been heard for the last 3 or 4 years 

    ‘Just KICK it!!!!’ 

     

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