“It would cost them next to nothing...Steven May would help them." 🥧

@CalTwomey and @RileyBev breakdown why the Pies should target Steven May on @gettable_afl: afl.com.au/video/1428663

Junk time media. May to Magpies.

Farrrk-off !!

No way!! 💙💔Dees would rather keep him than send him to the Pies for a chip packet !!

Christian Petracca though has interest in Adelaide and clearly is looking at moving...they are keen on him." 🐦‍⬛

@CalTwomey and @RileyBev discuss the Melbourne star's future on @gettable_afl

1 minute ago, spirit of norm smith said:

Christian Petracca though has interest in Adelaide and clearly is looking at moving...they are keen on him." 🐦‍⬛

@CalTwomey and @RileyBev discuss the Melbourne star's future on @gettable_afl

Felt like this was the right thread to talk about the Geelong players and their mad Monday costumes.

I cannot believe that a club that has just had a star player abuse a female journalist is ok with players dressing up as Caroline Wilson. It stinks of absolute childish schoolboy behaviour. Not to mention Smith & Dangerfield (who definitely knows better) posting captions suggesting they’re dressed up as Brokeback Mountain. Why exactly is that funny?

And yes I know the usual ‘it’s just a joke’ bridgaide will disagree

These Reels put into perspective where we were and how far we’ve come.

(MFCFSS Warning)

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DPC8BTHEivS/?igsh=dDRieW8xNjRtMzJ2

(Click Watch the curse at the bottom for next Reel)

4 hours ago, deegirl said:

Felt like this was the right thread to talk about the Geelong players and their mad Monday costumes.

I cannot believe that a club that has just had a star player abuse a female journalist is ok with players dressing up as Caroline Wilson. It stinks of absolute childish schoolboy behaviour. Not to mention Smith & Dangerfield (who definitely knows better) posting captions suggesting they’re dressed up as Brokeback Mountain. Why exactly is that funny?

And yes I know the usual ‘it’s just a joke’ bridgaide will disagree

The players are [censored]. Don’t want to be caught. Do it behind closed doors and don’t take photos.

1 hour ago, Doug Reemer said:

The players are [censored]. Don’t want to be caught. Do it behind closed doors and don’t take photos.

I mean, that's what the Giants did last year lol.

Sam McClure

Is a genuine piece of [censored]

He declared Melbourne is a joke of a club

“Who’d support them”

"They hit the Titanic … and they didn’t even know it”.

Why do you do it to yourself, @spirit of norm smith ?

You must be a glutton for punishment because, knowing in advance what you're going to get, you still choose to listen to these clowns and let them upset you.

1 hour ago, Demonstone said:

Why do you do it to yourself, @spirit of norm smith ?

You must be a glutton for punishment because, knowing in advance what you're going to get, you still choose to listen to these clowns and let them upset you.

fuels the mfcss, makes him stronger

“This is a club that is willing to pay $700k (a year) out of their cap to a player to play for another club.”

Kane has called out the Demons over the Clayton Oliver saga...

10 hours ago, Demonstone said:

Why do you do it to yourself, @spirit of norm smith ?

You must be a glutton for punishment because, knowing in advance what you're going to get, you still choose to listen to these clowns and let them upset you.

Just capturing the moment.

Would love us to be successful again so we can tell McClure and Barrett etc to FARRRRK OFF !!!

10 hours ago, Demonstone said:

Why do you do it to yourself, @spirit of norm smith ?

You must be a glutton for punishment because, knowing in advance what you're going to get, you still choose to listen to these clowns and let them upset you.

Never seen a person on here get as highly triggered by the media as what SONS does....

What's even more funnier is that he is the only one on here that self inflicts on this thread.

11 hours ago, Demonstone said:

Why do you do it to yourself, @spirit of norm smith ?

You must be a glutton for punishment because, knowing in advance what you're going to get, you still choose to listen to these clowns and let them upset you.

its known as hate reading

11 hours ago, spirit of norm smith said:

Sam McClure

Is a genuine piece of [censored]

He declared Melbourne is a joke of a club

“Who’d support them”

"They hit the Titanic … and they didn’t even know it”.

Does he mean that the MFC is a gigantic iceberg that can sink the most modern powerful luxury ship?

3 minutes ago, sue said:

Does he mean that the MFC is a gigantic iceberg that can sink the most modern powerful luxury ship?

No, he means he supports Carlton and can’t call them pathetic, for fear of being banned.

If he actually said we are a joke of a club, that is not reporting, that is his opinion. That opinion is pretty disgraceful and I would support the club also having an opinion that he is a joke of a journalist and therefore, as there is no respect for him, not allowing him any access to players and staff, thereby not subjecting them or the club, to a joke of a journalist, who could harm them or their workplace.

Edited Friday at 23:201 day by Redleg

The pen is truly mightier than the sword. So spoke Caro, who today unloaded the best spray of all to the Geelong football club. I have never been a fan of hers, but in today's Age, she has won my admiration for her response to the GFC and their attitude. I was so pleased to see another club cop it instead of us. She is the one journo who has called out their culture.

It would appear that a number of cats have gone missing, and Smith deservedly gets most of it. The Stengle incident is mentioned. Many here complained last year that Stengle's medical episode hardly got a mention. It would appear that even Geelong, the masters of rehabbing and resurrecting fallen souls, is being tested by the behaviours of Mr Bailey. If we are the Titanic then I hate to think what Geelong are

But Geelong have a great culture

As evidenced by winning. Because winning games means good culture. Losing games = bad culture dont you know

/s

Edited Friday at 23:391 day by biggestred

Media and Eeyores be happy with us only appearing to have major outs at this stage. Long way to go in the trade period but the narrative has to impact perception in the mind of potential recruits. Saints are a destination club and we are a shambles. What a strange world we live in.

5 hours ago, biggestred said:

But Geelong have a great culture

As evidenced by winning. Because winning games means good culture. Losing games = bad culture dont you know

/s

I'd challenge the extent that Geelong's 2007, 2009 and 2011 flags from the 2000's onwards are due to culture vs:

1. Father/son picks for their 2007, 2009 and 2011 flags.

2. Thompson/Robinson/Dank high performance programs which were susbequently adopter by Essendon and Hird.

3. Access to local players outside of the normal VFL program.

Since this time they have only the one flag in 2022 to show for their culture despite benefiting greatly from free agency as the only Victorian team that is outside of the Melbourne football bubble which is appealing to mature players who don't wsnt to be hassled in the streets.

Bang !! 👏👏She didn’t miss

From Caro: just an extract below

Full article in the link …!

Geelong’s season-long ticking time bomb that has been Bailey Smith finally exploded last Monday for all to see and the fallout is far from finished.

The collateral damage has spread from Patrick Dangerfield, the captain who has worked since late last year to nurture Smith’s talent and protect him from himself, the 2025 club champion Max Holmes, the coach Chris Scott who had again found excuses for him after he abused photographer Alison Wynd and the Cats chief Steve Hocking who has remained silent since the Mad Monday disaster. The so-called rock-solid culture at Kardinia Park, long respected and with few peers since Frank Costa and Brian Cook led the club out of the wilderness, looks fragile. The club famous for turning lost boys into premiership players has hit a fork in the road with Smith and seems at a genuine loss to know what to do about him. Ditto the AFL.

There have been several occasions this season when Smith has been hard to find and even if the club’s leaders had wanted to address his behaviour in the days between Mad Monday and Thursday’s best and fairest count, most at the Cattery had no idea of Smith’s whereabouts.

Geelong’s response after the club’s annual post-season dress-up – once a fun and largely original diversion from the brutal realities of competitive sport – was to release a generic apology after 48 hours of argy-bargy with head office. No individual put their name to the statement which declared costumes would be banned forthwith.

Frankly, it was a pathetic response which completely missed the point. Even allowing for the Anti-Defamation Commission’s condemnation of the three players who turned up as Kneecap; the real point, of course, was Smith. Smith offended the gay community, briefly dragging down one of the game’s most respected leaders, the unwitting Dangerfield. He once again offended women across the industry and beyond by targeting me with a disgusting social media post. And the post was only taken down after my female colleague Jacqui Reed complained to the club. Geelong’s media team has been MIA throughout September, and where was football boss Andrew Mackie on Monday?Maybe it is because Smith has been occasionally unreachable, but where the AFL is concerned he remains untouchable.

Just ask young Giants Toby McMullin and Cooper Hamilton who were suspended for two weeks after dressing up as the Twin Towers 12 months ago at the deeply disappointing GWS Wacky Wednesday.

On a personal note, I probably wouldn’t have had a major problem with Max Holmes dressing up as me, even though it would have been nice to have been given the heads-up as we had spoken during the previous week. After the event he has been in touch twice and did apologise if he had given offence.

But I did have a problem with Smith’s social media post and an emoji my daughter had to explain to me. Judging from comments which came my way from people across the industry – the majority being women – I wasn’t alone. This is not a case of professional outrage. How dare Smith get away with sending such an insulting and sexist message to aspiring females with strong opinions working in the media or elsewhere in the AFL.

Full article

https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl/bailey-smith-s-social-media-post-about-me-was-insulting-and-sexist-how-dare-he-20251003-p5mzrt.html

Just as an aside, when i hit play on any 3AW pod, real footy theage or footy classified ep, the moment I hear Sam McClure filling in and introducing I close that down immediately haha. He's the worst by a mile.

8 hours ago, spirit of norm smith said:

Just capturing the moment.

Would love us to be successful again so we can tell McClure and Barrett etc to FARRRRK OFF !!!

@Demonstone McClure 💩posted this without sense of being completely [censored] wrong with his anecdote and that he could edit redo or restart his video post …

“They hit the Titanic … and they didn’t even know it”.

Seriously @spirit of norm smith , who cares? I don't take any notice of anything he says and I don't know why you do.

But speaking of the Titanic, was the sinking a miracle for the the lobsters in the holding tanks in the galley?

8 hours ago, Older demon said:

and Smith deservedly gets most of it.

Hang on. I am looking forward to the Quarter Final where Bailey slags off at Steven May. Well worth the price of a ticket.

Edited yesterday at 08:021 day by redandbluemakepurple