Clayton van Oliver

Definitely a recognisable brand of football ✅

I dunno... OMac to the forward line? ? This [censored] club.

You are spot on mate about the measures against the pandemic and that’s not the arrogance I meant. Among my WA (WC supporting) family was full expectation that it would be handed to them. That arrogance is pretty typical of how they enjoy their footy, but it could also just be my family ? Apologies if I offended. My parents live in the other WA now, in the US. Bloody awful not knowing when you can see them again.

I am seriously shocked that: 1. The AFL did the right thing instead of jumping in the WA scrooge McDuck swimming pool of coins 2. WA's arrogance will not be rewarded

Ech. Can't you go and support Essendon or something?

Please excuse totally self indulgent post. was meant to get married yesterday, but as we’ve seen 2020 is the ever changing year. Me and the missus went full, Gil-style agility and postponed it all in March. So instead we took ourselves off to the only forest in the Netherlands for some wet-weather camping (play at ground level, keep moving it forward) and I deliberately ignored the game, probably for the first time since 2009 or so. It was blissful... ...until the old man msged me and gave me the good news. Petracca a raging bull, May so solid you could build a political platform on putting him at a border, Clarrie down but lifted hugely in the last and, shock horror, Goodwin knows how to coach. In the year of constant change, I am so stoked we have changed from full-pelt ballistic chaos to structured tempo. For what it’s worth I think this game showed the player development that has come from Goodwin’s long term coaching. What has often looked frustratingly like stubbornness and inaction to us, I am hoping, has actually been Goody testing and demanding the players to respond themselves to the game being played. They did that. It was not pretty but it feels solid. Speaking of solid, can’t believe the rumour mill around Jack Viney going for a poo. It was certainly an over scrutinised play in the guts and I’m sure he was singing along the team song as he sat atop his throne. (Not the most analysed sporting poo in recent times though, was at Pune when Matty Renshaw had to run off with the runs in the middle of a year innings. Anyway, Go Dees

Not good for our chances but Doggies putting Cats away in first ten mins does make me feel mildly better about last week.

I would also like to see Goodwin be more creative during the game, but if the mids don't run hard enough and the forwards can't pressure to a high enough standard then that's not about game plan.

Looks like we are the Collingwood this week

Would take the opinion of a player inside the four walls over the prejudice of supporters who haven’t seen him play for more than a year. An amazing thing about life is that people can improve...but nah this bloke must still be a [censored].

Gee that's some retribution for the Robbie Grey goal to win a few weeks ago. Deadset replica

Nice one. MFC - In the eight

That's definitely high contact

Thought Preuss really grew into that game and by the 3rd had wrested control from Grundy. Jones had moments of showing his age and slowing-down but he still flies the flag of desperation like he always has. Stoked for him to keep getting a run. Wieds the standard 2 goals ? Loved it. Go Dees

I like it. Does that indicate Viney to spend more time in the forward line, taking Hannan's spot and giving Brayshaw more time in the middle? Roll Viney in occasionally to crash into Pendlebury's quad?

Deleted because... who can be bothered I guess

Nice response ? indeed the key is to just enjoy going fishing

Haha, mate ideas don’t come about unless we talk about stuff. Very weak response IMO. without derailing further, look at AFL. It is bigger business, flashier and more profit driven than ever. Do we enjoy it more than our forebears in the 50s or 80s did? I doubt it. What matters and what we love is footy, but we are sold the flashiness and spectacle and we lap it up without it really adding much more to our passion for our teams.

People will jump on straw men arguments against this (like ‘tell us how socialism will fix this’) but you are correct. This is nothing to do with political agenda but the kind of historically observable transition that happens in societies when our understandings and functions of labour, resources and economy change. This is exactly what is happening now. Change is the only guaranteed thing and to immediately reject alternative ideas is to worsen the shock of the change for yourself. Fetishisation of money is a great way to see it. And just like fetishes, not everybody has it. I’d wager that most of us want all of us to be able to live happy lives, and constantly striving for growth and profit has proven itself inept at achieving this.

Jeez that was an entertaining match. Best result

Tere!

Brayshaw best game in two years, Tracc awesome, goal kicking needs work. That was strange. Felt like we were playing Melbourne. Edit sp

Excellent, excellent thread. Cheers @binman, @Engorged Onion et al. Skuit I remember you pointing this out and, although it got lost in the mire of life, when Ajax had the greatest season a Dutch club has ever had a couple of years ago my reaction was ‘bloody hope Goody was looking at that.’

Gee Fagan’s Lions are so impressive. They play with speed and ferocity and know each other’s games inside out, it seems. Dogs starting to look all at sea, with crowds and umps against them