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Melbourne the Dees. Go you good things.

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” following two comprehensive losses to teams lower on the ladder,”

I say is there any danger you’ve actually been following the football this year? If so, pray tell – who were the teams lower than the Dees on the ladder who inflicted comprehensive losses? I seem to recall Hawthorn was equal on points with Melbourne while the Richmonds were higher. But lets not get the facts in the way of a story now shall we?

Long may the ignorant flotsam and jetsam continue to underestimate us. The flag is starting to unfurl and tis’ a Grand Old One. Even Hassa has said its the best Dees machine he’s seen. Go you mighty Fuschias!

What happened? AFL Round 10

Chaps, I say what a lot of codswallop eh. The Mighty Fuschas haven’t even begun the carnage that they will wreak. Beware Crows we will smite your unruly mob with our bayonets affixed. A Murder of Crows…? Humpf. We will be the ones committing that old son.

Awful pity is that the match is supposedly up at some place they call The Outback somewhere. Probably a godforsaken place – no leather couches from which to watch one suspects. In any event, one will be viewing in one’s theatre room instead with a decent sherry or two.

One supports the sentiments of Darren expressed so succinctly in his last two lines. Its easier to attack and conquer when the enemy underestimates its foe. Onward Dees, to inevitable glory!

The Demons still haven't impressed this season

A tad harsh my man! Firstly, one hasn’t arranged one’s 2018 local skiing retreat…yet. Secondly the aforesaid season starts in June – immediately following our (will be successful) clash with the Dentally Challenged.

Finally, The Mighty Fuchsias will slaughter the Shinbone ruffians in a canter. The latter are bereft of hope and talent and sliding back towards their rightful place pre 1970s. Revenge will be sweet.

More heaven than hell: Melbourne’s looming leap in to AFL contention

Bit harsh on the Boxing Day function eh Dunsborough especially when one is flying the MCC flag on one’s Roar moniker what?

I recall seeing part of the opening over against the old Egg and Bacons but there were many chaps to network with and the day did get a bit away from one… last i recall my man was assisting me from the Bentley just after seven bells…but we digress.

But otherwise you’ve hit the mark my good man. ‘Twill be a Grand Old Year.

More heaven than hell: Melbourne’s looming leap in to AFL contention

Good show Buckland old chap although one gets the feeling you did play it down somewhat eh?

We are poised on the cusp of a Red & Blue Dynasty not seen since the boy Smith held the reins. The Mighty Fuchsias are massing on the pre-season hills and will storm into the valley of AFL 2018 with bayonets affixed and slew all enemies before them, taking no prisoners along our path to 2018 Red(and Blue)emption.

Rest assured 2017 was just the end of the beginning. The Fuchsias have now formed a powerful group of skill, strength, speed and utter ruthlessness which will beget victory and vanquish foes such as the flotsam and filth of black and white, black and yellow and black and red so-called armies. Our Vickery (Watts) has been cast out and nothing will stop us now in our inevitable march to flag glory.

The Tweed’s been at the cleaners, the leather elbow patches are renewed and the beret has a new pom-pom. One is Champing at the Proverbial !!! Bring on the 2018 Footer!

Beware the Mighty Fuchsia in Full Bloom!!!

More heaven than hell: Melbourne’s looming leap in to AFL contention

One doubts the country’s modern lexicon has adjectives for those colours Paul D. One can only submit ghastly and dreadful to that already writ. Abomination is close. Sometime fans of this besieged team will continue to be only a splinter amongst the forest of football followers if they don’t change that bedevilled guernsey! Even the Dockers shed their infantile first colours and got a real guernsey.

One cannot overestimate the psychological influence the tribal colours of one’s team can impact upon the shuffling and marauding hordes and their influence in turn on the warriors on the battlefield. One only has to look at The Red and The Blue. Or even (one grudgingly admits) the yellow and black, the navy blue or the black and white. The maroon and blue of the Gorrillas in my daddy’s days and the black and red of the Same Old, the blue and white hoops of the Pivotonians and the red and white Blood Stained Angels years before. All engender love and hatred but overwhelmingly, passion. Passion my man, P.A.S.S.I.O.N.

This is currently a passionless side.

Change your childish colours you pretence of a team or forever be damned as outcasts, losers and misfits.

Queensland footy culture is growing without Ablett

Just one word about those pretender Gold Cost Sons or whatever they’re called people: For god’s sake, get a new guernsey! That isn’t a real football guernsey what? Is it any wonder they cant play. Until they get a new guernsey they can never be a real football team what ! And if I may make another suggestion if you will: their colours should be blue, white and yellow, for sky, sand and sun for goodness sake! What’s the red got to do with anything man? Should be preserved for real teams such as the 2018-22 premiers the Mighty Fuchsias eh.

That foolish red guernsey thingy those Sons wear is an abomination on one’s eyes. Damn things distracted me from my caviar and foie gras canapés making a mess on the carpet in the Room last time they polluted my MCG.

Queensland footy culture is growing without Ablett

Good to hear from you Dunsborough old chap. Spot on about that Punt Road flotsam & jetsam. A rabble, nothing more. Right on track to build up their downtrodden, flea bitten, barrackers hopes – only to be dashed again when it really counts. A joy to behold. As for that ruffian Martin, he has more ink than all my fountain pens put together. Uncouth. They’re not a real team Dunsborough.

As for our beloved Fuchsias, of course we will triumph in glorious battle in September. One can almost smell success in the air already. Its like the spirit of ’55 is coming alive again. I had a dream our Norman came back to whisper his secrets to young Goodwin. Alas I woke in the club after closing again and realized one’s driver had been negligent in not arousing one from one’s stupor. Nevertheless I firmly believe its an omen… the Fuchsias will bloom once again!!!

Tally ho.

Which team has the easiest run in the white-hot race for September?

I say chaps its good to be back in town and at one’s club. One’s had to truncate one’s sojourn in the slopes but by the way the Mighty Fuchsias are going one feels it will be worthwhile. Our campaign is taking on a decidedly ’55 aspect to it, with even the Tricolors triumphing last year (same as ’54) surely its only a matter of three months now before the Mighty Fuchsias bloom on the hollowed turf !

Our manager Goodwin seems a real goer and we have winners in every position. Luckily that crude attempt by the Perth skipper to headbutt young Viney Junior didn’t succeed and he will lead our Fuchsia’s to another stirring victory tonight against those blood stained South Melbourne lads. We will gird our loins, fix bayonets and charge to a glorious conquest.

Off for a few fortifying clarets now before arriving at the Room for one’s seat on the couch.

Tally ho and go you good things.

Melbourne vs Sydney: Friday Night Forecast

I say what’s the difference eh? Don’t you know one can do both?

When one goes to the footer to watch the mighty Fuchsias, one’s driver drops one right outside, with a short stroll to the Gate, then but a short walk to the lift and on to the Room to purchase a claret or erm two. Plenty of TVs in there or if one is feeling really keen, one can plonk oneself with one’s claret on the leather couch and watch the Fuchsia’s winning through the glass.

Otherwise one may pop into the Dining Room across the way for some pheasant or lobster or if one’s feeling a little low brow, back into the Room and up to the Carvery for some roast – just like the working class eh?

I say the trick is to know the chaps at the door of the Room so one’s driver can come in during the last quarter to surreptitiously remove one to avoid any, shall we say, awkwardness caused by a little er over-imbibing.

Tally ho and go you Fuchsias you good things.

Roar and Against: Watching AFL on TV is better than being at the ground

Dunsborough you’re right on the money old chap. We’ll finish the season on Her Majesty’s Birthday (not Her Majesty’s real birthday mind) with a spot of hunting – hunting those unwashed peasants from Collingwood eh. Daddy always said they were corrupt to the core and that Wren chap was nothing but a common thug dishing out payments under the table to his black & white cronies.
Our lads will triumph in the battle of good versus evil. A pox on their team of ruffians I say.

Go you Fuchsias you good things !

Tally ho!

Ten quick takes from AFL Round 11

Good point about Beckwith, Dunsborough old chap.

Much like the lad Tilbrook who earnt the moniker Diamond Jim from that Richards scallywag. But at least the Beckwith chap led the mighty Fuchsias on field to many victories including 57 & 59 even though his coaching career didn’t match our expectations. Ron junior also springs to mind here with the glorious five year plan which sadly faded into nothing too. Tell you what Id say there’s been a few like that since our Norman.

Hmm Alice Springs eh? So its not some jest? I hope they have the electric power up there now eh?

Eleven quick takes from AFL Round 9

“Seasons of mist and mellow fruitfulness… ” ah to find the joy in autumn now? One could ask where is the ripening of the fruit my dear Fuchsians? And why is the fruit oft left on the vine(y)?

Tis a sad day when those ruffian Shinboners like Cunnington punch my poor old lads in the tummy and steal the points. Cunnington eh? Never had a public school education that nasty fellow!

Never fear Fuchsians. One feels extremely confident our brave lads will storm home to win our last two games. At least they are also at the mighty Cricket Ground where one can watch from the Couch in the Room. Some lair suggested that we play against the Golden Coast in some ghastly outback place but I swiftly put his jesting to rest. No one could possibly ask that we the mighty Fuchsias would need to travel from our Cricket Ground ! There must be some injudicious tomfoolery afoot to even countenance the notion eh what?

Tally ho and go you good things.

Eleven quick takes from AFL Round 9

I say why aren’t the Mighty Fuchsia’s lauded as the best team of the round eh? Easily our best win since old Froggy kicked that goal against The Filth in ’64. Oh well perhaps we’re best flying under the sonar as they say. Tally ho chaps.

Nine quick takes from AFL Round 8

Thank you Ryan old chap. We are totally aware of the situation, with the mighty Fuchsias close to blooming in full. My driver told me the big scallywag with the number 11 wont make a return before the end of season being only four weeks away. However our boys are brave and will fight through without him.

The enemy had jolly well better be wary with the Fuchsias fixing bayonets and charging home. What a show that will be and well worth staying awake on the leather couches in the Room for. (Must admit one had a little doze on the couch at three quarter time against the Mayblooms with the game safely in the bag until rudely awoken by the chap next to me, complaining about some ghastly moisture on his shoulder. One had to offer to have one’s man have the suit cleaned eh)

But one digresses… Tally ho and go you good things.

The shoulda, coulda, woulda Demons loom as the big 'what if' of 2017

Good show about Frederick Dunsborough, one must be careful with one’s gains.

Yes, it pains me no end to think of those ghastly ruffians of working class ilk (surely one must know one’s station in life eh) in yellow and black, red white and black and especially black and white, holding any sort of expensive crockery or silverware. No doubt they’d pawn them at the first opportunity. Cant have that what. No breeding whatsoever.

Simon Goodwin: A man who respects history

My dear chap, one feels you are being just a fraction too harsh on the boy Goodwin (although not Bertie – seems the lad deserves some corporal punishment – made me the man I am today by jove). I see some strength and shrewdness in the boy albeit sadly lacking in a public schooled education.

Its round seven and the mighty Fuchsias have been admirable and even gallant in most games but sadly lacking in espirit de corps in their last outing against the wilting Mayblooms. Certainly, one quarter doth not a game make and whilst one pines for the magic and glory of the battlefield that was the 50’s, one knows that one cannot go back ( unless one has devoured the entire contents of a strong tawny whilst firmly ensconced in the churchillian leather wing chairs of one’s club). So one is resigned to one’s fate of dealing with the present, in itself jolly frightening sometimes I’ll admit, but there you have it.

So onward we must march. There are still four rounds left so our brave lads can still finish with style, grandeur and glory and be our bloodied heroes of a victorious 2017 campaign.

Simon Goodwin: A man who respects history

Ghastly result in the battle of the blooms. Fuchsia’s were absolutely caned by the referees and the Mayflowers (still have ghastly colours) no doubt paid money under the table what. Five weeks left and the mighty Fuchsias need to pull up their stockings but Ive no doubt we can. Great game by our beloved skipper Viney and ably assisted by Master Frost who played an absolutely top shelf game defending our goal.
We will bounce back against those upstart Adelaidian new comers just you watch by jove eh.

Ten quick takes from AFL Round 7

Have no fear Fauntleroy old chap, our boys will triumph. They’re not a real football team, Richmond. Johnny-come-latelys as they say with no real history. 1885? Puh. Not like us blue bloods eh. Dirty black and yellow jerseys and a team full of vulgar thugs what. That number four needs to be outlawed and sent to Coventry eh? We don’t need rabble like that dirtying our Gee, especially along Our Wing.

By jove Ive just checked the calendar and we’ve only seven games to go until the end of season old boy! Its time for the mighty Fuchsias to bloom! Good luck with that chap from the Cloth and see you at the club for pre-game G&Ts. Then onto the Room and the leather couches eh to see our boys vanquish the great unwashed by ten goals.

The Roar's AFL expert tips and predictions: Round 5

Don’t worry about those Tigers Fauntleroy old chap. No chance of beating the mighty Fuchsias. The only tiger I respect has its head on the wall in my library eh. [ Gave me a good run for my money too, but no match in the end for my trusty Enfield.]

They couldn’t beat us when it really counted – be that in that Hafey game in ’14 or back in ’40 after Dyer knocked out our Norman in the semi only to have him run rampant in the Grand. Jolly great show that, true Redleg spirit. Daddy told me he should have been locked up that Dyer for that incident but those corrupt peelers looked the other way on one of their own.

No matter eh ancient history as they say – one mustn’t dwell. We will be there at the game after a few early sherries and G&Ts at the club around 3-ish then onwards to the Gee. James is taking his Phantom so we may rough it with him what. Tally Ho!

Nine quick takes from AFL Round 4

Trust your tweed has leather elbows eh?

I say i should mention my Club is the Athenaeum but could pop across to the Melbourne if that’s where the chaps are. Some chap mentioned catching a tram from there but not sure what he meant by tram? Some sort of rickety conveyance like a an electric cart i believe eh? Can’t be seen mixing with the general flotsam and jetsam though so quickly scuttled that idea eh!

Don’t concern yourself with the absence of numbers 1 and 6 old boy. The Dees have all round talent and should triumph against those Geelong upstarts what. That Viney is from good stock and number 5 has a decent public school education albeit from the wrong side of the tracks eh. Oh and when i say public school i mean private school what. Real public school eh!
That ruffian at number 11 will really fix them up too. Those Geelong boys have no counter to him.

Go Dees you awfully good things!

The Roar’s AFL expert tips and predictions: Round 3

Hi old chap
We are meeting at the Club for a few sherries prior. You’re most welcome what. I should be there around 12 bells after picking up my new suit from Henry Buck’s.

The Roar’s AFL expert tips and predictions: Round 3

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