Well tonight over dinner i did spy in the news a bit more on Marks role at the Demons.....His first assignment is teaching the boys to kick.....Thats what he said.......as i said earlier poor Ben Brown is use to the men slapping it on his chest so you know....i was a bit amused they traded for a leading forward when half the team couldnt hit the side of the Queen Mary sailing ship from 30 meters away.....

 

It has not gone unrecognised at least by me how we butcher the ball going forward.....maybe thats why big Tom got into Simon and ended up in the bad books....well im looking forward to some decent kicks going into the forward 50 next season.....oh...who is going to teach the forwards bar Ben Brown how to lead? When the ball goes forward in a Demons game it resembles them Easter Island rock status that haven't moved in a few thousand years.....

 

Ps....i did watch on the Demons youtube channel there first day back to training this week....and boy oh boy.....Tom Macdonald looked likes hes all fired up and going to make Simon eat his shirt....havent seen him so trim ever...looks  like hes dropped about 5 kgs, a greyhound.....im dam sure hes gonna try and keep Bennie out of the side....

Will and Scea.  Sorry off topic. What is happening on the ground in Chiang Rai re covid .

It's been pretty good here, people have generally been following the rules re masks, social distancing etc and we'd had no cases for months but the untested arrival of a group of professional ladies from Burma last week who managed to spread the bug around a bit before being pulled in showed that the fat lady hasn't sung yet.

My mrs has pretty well grounded me again until things settle down.

39 minutes ago, sceadugenga said:

It's been pretty good here, people have generally been following the rules re masks, social distancing etc and we'd had no cases for months but the untested arrival of a group of professional ladies from Burma last week who managed to spread the bug around a bit before being pulled in showed that the fat lady hasn't sung yet.

My mrs has pretty well grounded me again until things settle down.

Yep.

 

The locals do seem rather more worried this time though.

CV19 may not be the only disease that those naughty ladies have spread around.

1 hour ago, Will27 said:

Yep.

 

The locals do seem rather more worried this time though.

I think that it's started to sink in just how dangerous this thing is.

At least we don't seem to have the "it's all a trick to make us jump through hoops" conspiracy nutters that are plaguing the rest of the planet

1 hour ago, Radar501 said:

CV19 may not be the only disease that those naughty ladies have spread around.

At last you don't die of the other... or so a friend told me... ????

RIP

 

Sydney have done really well in the draft.

Logan McDonald is going to be a jet.

Surprised Norf didn't get him first TBH.

 

Braeden Campbell as midfielder is going to be a beauty as well.

 

WC didn't have any high picks due to Kelly trade the year before, but happy with our picks as well.

4 minutes ago, Will27 said:

RIPo 

Sydney have done really well in the draft.

Logan McDonald is going to be a jet.

Surprised Norf didn't get him first TBH.

 

Braeden Campbell as midfielder is going to be a beauty as well.

 

WC didn't have any high picks due to Kelly trade the year before, but happy with our picks as well.

They seem to be very good picks. Time will tell.

Someone with the minerals to speak out about Ed.

 

Eddie Nowhere: why McGuire will not be missed when he exits Collingwood

With a lengthy rap sheet, the outgoing AFL club president’s legacy will be one punctured by scandal and hypocrisy

 

For more than two decades, Eddie McGuire has been the biggest figure at arguably the biggest club of the biggest sporting code in Australia. It should be the profile of a man approaching deity status. But now, as the news of his abdication at Collingwood sinks in, instead of reverence the overwhelming sentiment is relief. Relief that McGuire will soon be on his way. There are few in the industry who will eulogise his tenure as Magpies president and mean it. Most of those outside Collingwood will be happy to see McGuire’s back.

Many within will probably concur.

 

McGuire choked back the tears on Monday when he said he would spend 2021 “setting up a new era of Collingwood” before standing aside. As he has done throughout his autocratic reign, McGuire will depart on his own terms, having been re-elected until the end of 2022. In truth, it is a miracle he has survived this long. There is no doubting McGuire did some good at Collingwood, but with a rap sheet as long his, his legacy will be one punctured by scandal and hypocrisy.

 

McGuire’s exalted position, coupled with the exposure brought by his multi-pronged presence in the media, afforded him immense power. But with it came enormous responsibility. Sadly, that power was too often called upon to get McGuire out of messes of his own making. McGuire turned talking first and thinking later into an art form. And nobody does damage control quite like Eddie.

 

Of all the mistakes and missteps, the Adam Goodes affair will be one that will follow McGuire to the grave. It is also the one that underlined McGuire’s disproportionately gargantuan standing in the game. By rights, McGuire should have gone after likening Goodes to King Kong barely days after the Sydney Swans star had been racially abused by a teenage Magpies supporter at the MCG.

 

But instead of resigning, McGuire dug in his heels. There was little by way of censure from his Collingwood cohorts. Andrew Demetriou, the AFL chief executive of the time, might have called for McGuire’s head but preferred a process of education and mediation. If it was possible for one person to become bigger than the game, McGuire was now it.

 

There were other mindless, regrettable incidents. In 2016, McGuire said he would pay good money to see AFL journalist Caroline Wilson immersed in iced water while others “stand around the outside and bomb her”. The comments came barely days before Collingwood ushered in their women’s team and amid the AFL’s involvement in White Ribbon Week, the national campaign to prevent violence against women. This time it was Gillon McLachlan’s turn to offer lip service to a serious matter, at once failing an early leadership test and underlining McGuire’s dangerous position of strength at AFL headquarters.

 

As recently as last year, McGuire was forced to explain himself after mocking a double amputee who conducted the coin toss before a game between Sydney and Adelaide. It was another example of McGuire speaking before thinking, but by 2019 his guard had well and truly dropped. It was just another slip of the tongue from a man who could not be touched.

 

For many, McGuire’s conflict of interest as a media personality and club president was too much to bear. On the television, on the radio, even hosting gameshows: Eddie Everywhere was the shoe that fit. In 2002, commentator Tim Lane cut ties with Channel Nine over his refusal to call Collingwood matches alongside McGuire. Even now, there is something not right about the sight and sound of McGuire commenting on rival clubs’ games.

 

McGuire took the reins at Collingwood on his 34th birthday, an age when many adults are still wondering what to do with their lives. A born administrator he was not. He became president of the Collingwood Football Club not because he was right for the role but because the role was right for him. McGuire improved the club’s finances, was one of the first Victorian presidents to do away with poker machines and presided over an upturn in on-field performances, though in his 22 years at the helm the club has managed just one premiership.

 

But tension and tumult were never far away. McGuire’s messy coaching succession plan drove Mick Malthouse from the club and a wedge between Malthouse and Nathan Buckley that will probably never be removed. This season, the club plumbed new depths of mismanagement when salary cap dramas forced it to offload a number of star players, including Adam Treloar, for less than their market worth. And there were always contradictions. McGuire talks about the benefits of equalisation but resents any concessions handed to expansion clubs. He trumpets Collingwood’s advances in racial equality but cannot escape allegations of deep-seated prejudice at the club, brought to light recently by Heritier Lumumba.

There is no bigger name in the AFL than Eddie McGuire.

 

But stature and ubiquity do not equate to greatness. And not even giants stand tall forever. For the sake of the game, Eddie Nowhere has a much better ring to it.

 

6 hours ago, Will27 said:

Someone with the minerals to speak out about Ed.

 

Eddie Nowhere: why McGuire will not be missed when he exits Collingwood

With a lengthy rap sheet, the outgoing AFL club president’s legacy will be one punctured by scandal and hypocrisy

 

For more than two decades, Eddie McGuire has been the biggest figure at arguably the biggest club of the biggest sporting code in Australia. It should be the profile of a man approaching deity status. But now, as the news of his abdication at Collingwood sinks in, instead of reverence the overwhelming sentiment is relief. Relief that McGuire will soon be on his way. There are few in the industry who will eulogise his tenure as Magpies president and mean it. Most of those outside Collingwood will be happy to see McGuire’s back.

Many within will probably concur.

 

McGuire choked back the tears on Monday when he said he would spend 2021 “setting up a new era of Collingwood” before standing aside. As he has done throughout his autocratic reign, McGuire will depart on his own terms, having been re-elected until the end of 2022. In truth, it is a miracle he has survived this long. There is no doubting McGuire did some good at Collingwood, but with a rap sheet as long his, his legacy will be one punctured by scandal and hypocrisy.

 

McGuire’s exalted position, coupled with the exposure brought by his multi-pronged presence in the media, afforded him immense power. But with it came enormous responsibility. Sadly, that power was too often called upon to get McGuire out of messes of his own making. McGuire turned talking first and thinking later into an art form. And nobody does damage control quite like Eddie.

 

Of all the mistakes and missteps, the Adam Goodes affair will be one that will follow McGuire to the grave. It is also the one that underlined McGuire’s disproportionately gargantuan standing in the game. By rights, McGuire should have gone after likening Goodes to King Kong barely days after the Sydney Swans star had been racially abused by a teenage Magpies supporter at the MCG.

 

But instead of resigning, McGuire dug in his heels. There was little by way of censure from his Collingwood cohorts. Andrew Demetriou, the AFL chief executive of the time, might have called for McGuire’s head but preferred a process of education and mediation. If it was possible for one person to become bigger than the game, McGuire was now it.

 

There were other mindless, regrettable incidents. In 2016, McGuire said he would pay good money to see AFL journalist Caroline Wilson immersed in iced water while others “stand around the outside and bomb her”. The comments came barely days before Collingwood ushered in their women’s team and amid the AFL’s involvement in White Ribbon Week, the national campaign to prevent violence against women. This time it was Gillon McLachlan’s turn to offer lip service to a serious matter, at once failing an early leadership test and underlining McGuire’s dangerous position of strength at AFL headquarters.

 

As recently as last year, McGuire was forced to explain himself after mocking a double amputee who conducted the coin toss before a game between Sydney and Adelaide. It was another example of McGuire speaking before thinking, but by 2019 his guard had well and truly dropped. It was just another slip of the tongue from a man who could not be touched.

 

For many, McGuire’s conflict of interest as a media personality and club president was too much to bear. On the television, on the radio, even hosting gameshows: Eddie Everywhere was the shoe that fit. In 2002, commentator Tim Lane cut ties with Channel Nine over his refusal to call Collingwood matches alongside McGuire. Even now, there is something not right about the sight and sound of McGuire commenting on rival clubs’ games.

 

McGuire took the reins at Collingwood on his 34th birthday, an age when many adults are still wondering what to do with their lives. A born administrator he was not. He became president of the Collingwood Football Club not because he was right for the role but because the role was right for him. McGuire improved the club’s finances, was one of the first Victorian presidents to do away with poker machines and presided over an upturn in on-field performances, though in his 22 years at the helm the club has managed just one premiership.

 

But tension and tumult were never far away. McGuire’s messy coaching succession plan drove Mick Malthouse from the club and a wedge between Malthouse and Nathan Buckley that will probably never be removed. This season, the club plumbed new depths of mismanagement when salary cap dramas forced it to offload a number of star players, including Adam Treloar, for less than their market worth. And there were always contradictions. McGuire talks about the benefits of equalisation but resents any concessions handed to expansion clubs. He trumpets Collingwood’s advances in racial equality but cannot escape allegations of deep-seated prejudice at the club, brought to light recently by Heritier Lumumba.

There is no bigger name in the AFL than Eddie McGuire.

 

But stature and ubiquity do not equate to greatness. And not even giants stand tall forever. For the sake of the game, Eddie Nowhere has a much better ring to it.

 

I like Eddy,next best thing since John Elliott.

People forget these guys started in different era's of todays lame pc world.

 

 

11 hours ago, farmerjo said:

I like Eddy,next best thing since John Elliott.

People forget these guys started in different era's of todays lame pc world.

 

 

We'll agree to disagree.

 

I don't think Ed ever worries about the games best interest.

Not like like Sheeds does.

He has made life difficult for some of the expansions clubs.

 

It's true he's done a lot for the club, especially financially, but he's also hurt the club.

His role in getting rid of Malthouse to retain Buckley put the club back years I reckon.

One premiership during his tenure.

His role in recruiting Beams has also come back to bite them.

 

It's all about Eddie the Emperor.

He's only announced he's stepping down so he can have a farewell tour.

 

Eddie MCG  takes the high moral ground on a wide range of pc issues to advance his own agenda.......but all too often he makes a freudian slip when his mouth is wobbling.......which exposes the screaming hypocrite he is.   

 

Paul Hogan was the anti-hero for racism, sexism and homophobia  back in the 70's, but nobody ever asked him to explain coz wot you saw is wot you got.    Different world back then, not ruled by loud militant minority groups.

 

Anyone remember Karen Pini?  Centrefold spread in the very first edition of Australian Playboy............and very pleasing on the optics it was.......so I've been told.      Love the song ........The Mixtures........Pushbike Song.

 

 

Karen Pini made a living exhibiting her body, and a lucrative one at that.

Did that give people the right to a free grope or other forms of sexual harassment when she was off the job?

I don't think so, so if that makes me PC so be it.

 

McGuire says what he likes and pretty well gets away with it, he's one of the golden untouchables of the celebrity scene.

One flag from a club that's been competitive for the 22 years he oversaw it means he wasn't any good at his job though, shoulda stuck to TV where a big mouth gets results.

 

3 hours ago, sceadugenga said:

Did that give people the right to a free grope

Was it this bloke?   Rolf has an extensive rap-sheet for such lewd behaviour, and it would seem that he had the opportunity with Ms Pini.

 

12 hours ago, Will27 said:

We'll agree to disagree

Not the 1st time Will but they are few and far between which is good.

 

 

9 hours ago, farmerjo said:

Not the 1st time Will but they are few and far between which is good.

 

 

Mate

 

What did you think of your draft picks?

Can you believe how bad the umpiring has been in the BBL.

3 hours ago, Will27 said:

Mate

 

What did you think of your draft picks?

Can you believe how bad the umpiring has been in the BBL.

Not happy we didn't pick up McDonald as a key forward.

Looks like were going to play with 15 mids,2 backs and a forward next year.

Saying that i think we will be competative next season.

 

Umpiring nothing short of shocking in the BBL,up to about 8 howlers already.The Stars got a get out of jail free card last night.

Best wishes to Cam Green today getting a baggy green.

 

 

22 minutes ago, Radar501 said:

 

Career over you'd think.

 

AFL star Sydney Stack is JAILED in Western Australia

 

 

Sydney Stack has been charged with skipping home quarantine in Western Australia after allegedly being spotted out at 1am in Perth's nightclub district. 

The Richmond Tigers star, 20, is now behind bars and has been refused bail after he was charged with failing to comply with a direction on Saturday. 

 

Just three months ago, he was kicked out of the AFL's Queensland coronavirus hub and carted back home for alleged quarantine breaches.  

 

Stack was granted approval to enter Western Australia on compassionate grounds via the G2G Pass system.

 

He arrived at Perth Airport on Thursday from South Australia, and was ordered to self-quarantine for 14 days at a nominated address in Northam.

 

Police will allege Stack breached his self-quarantine direction by visiting Northbridge, where he was allegedly found by officers the early hours of Saturday morning.

'It was also identified he had been staying at a residence in Belmont,' WA Police said in a statement.

 

The Melbourne football player will face Perth Magistrates Court on Sunday. 

10 hours ago, Radar501 said:

Very off topic but a great post. 

20 hours ago, Will27 said:

Career over you'd think.

 

AFL star Sydney Stack is JAILED in Western Australia

 

 

Sydney Stack has been charged with skipping home quarantine in Western Australia after allegedly being spotted out at 1am in Perth's nightclub district. 

The Richmond Tigers star, 20, is now behind bars and has been refused bail after he was charged with failing to comply with a direction on Saturday. 

 

Just three months ago, he was kicked out of the AFL's Queensland coronavirus hub and carted back home for alleged quarantine breaches.  

 

Stack was granted approval to enter Western Australia on compassionate grounds via the G2G Pass system.

 

He arrived at Perth Airport on Thursday from South Australia, and was ordered to self-quarantine for 14 days at a nominated address in Northam.

 

Police will allege Stack breached his self-quarantine direction by visiting Northbridge, where he was allegedly found by officers the early hours of Saturday morning.

'It was also identified he had been staying at a residence in Belmont,' WA Police said in a statement.

 

The Melbourne football player will face Perth Magistrates Court on Sunday. 

A very naughty boy 

20 hours ago, Will27 said:

Career over you'd think.

 

AFL star Sydney Stack is JAILED in Western Australia

 

 

Sydney Stack has been charged with skipping home quarantine in Western Australia after allegedly being spotted out at 1am in Perth's nightclub district. 

The Richmond Tigers star, 20, is now behind bars and has been refused bail after he was charged with failing to comply with a direction on Saturday. 

 

Just three months ago, he was kicked out of the AFL's Queensland coronavirus hub and carted back home for alleged quarantine breaches.  

 

Stack was granted approval to enter Western Australia on compassionate grounds via the G2G Pass system.

 

He arrived at Perth Airport on Thursday from South Australia, and was ordered to self-quarantine for 14 days at a nominated address in Northam.

 

Police will allege Stack breached his self-quarantine direction by visiting Northbridge, where he was allegedly found by officers the early hours of Saturday morning.

'It was also identified he had been staying at a residence in Belmont,' WA Police said in a statement.

 

The Melbourne football player will face Perth Magistrates Court on Sunday. 

Just curious, when was he awarded "STAR" status.

Well men i read with some interest last week that Glasgow Celtic fans wanted to take a hatchet to there coach a one Neil Lennon for not winning any games in the preceding 5, storming the club headquarters demanding Lennon to get the axe....mind you and this is where i was seriously amused.....now Celtic recently and during these 5 games where unable to get out of the group stage of the Champions League and then failed to qualify for the Europa League plus something like 15 points off first place in the Scottish Premier league with Rangers leading the table but mind you Celtic have 3 games in hand to play still.....and its only mid way through the season still.....yes there's more up untill last week Celtic had won every cup going in Scotland 11 out of 11, the last 6 years plus....theres more.....Celtic have won the championship the last 8 years straight ...yes thats right...it means they haven't lost anything in 6 ys taking the 2 cups per year plus the championship.....god dam spoilt is what i think.....no wins in 5 games there were a few draws..no wins in 5 games and they want to kill there coach after the last 8 years....and Neil and Celtic won the Scottish cup on the weekend so that makes it 12 out of 12 which has just managed to quite them a little....and to think us Demons supporters how mild mannered we are and put up with the <deleted> they serve up tp us year in and year out since 1964....

 

Demons play finals 13 times since 1964, far cry from Celtic hey? I must be the only lone voice in the wilderness wanting Goodwin's head on a pole.....Bartletts too.....

 

Watched another Dee youtube vid recently where members zoom in on zoom and ask no prickly questions of the coach president or G Pert its all slaps on ya back good on ya chum....we really have a problem you know....we really do....

 

 

AFL site's "Your club's Best Midfielder of the 21st Century"

 

https://www.afl.com.au/news/432425/your-club-s-best-midfielder-of-the-21st-century

 

Not a lot of controversy here.

Kane Cornes for Port is a bit hmmm....

 

 

 

On 12/26/2020 at 7:43 AM, Will27 said:

 

 

I'd be inclined to give Green a go at the top of the order and put Burns back to 6 in the 2nd dig.

1 hour ago, sceadugenga said:

AFL site's "Your club's Best Midfielder of the 21st Century"

 

https://www.afl.com.au/news/432425/your-club-s-best-midfielder-of-the-21st-century

 

Not a lot of controversy here.

Kane Cornes for Port is a bit hmmm....

 

 

 

Not sure I'd call James Hird a midfielder either TBH.