Uncle Fester

Missed Saty... "I was chatting to [insert big name here] at training the other day, and what they told me proves you wrong." And Prodee: "You are wrong, and yes, I am very comfortable in my arrogance." Not to forget WYL "I've given this club $80 million dollars and they need to get harder! No more excuses! I blame Schwab!' Maybe those last 3 can be add on apps for the dedicated.

I honestly believe that we can beat any team anywhere on our day... but we are the oddest team in the AFL. No team will ever go in at half time 30pts up thinking they have it in the bag, because when we are on we can kick goals out of our arse, and do it quickly. But, conversely, no team will go into a the last break 30pts down thinking they are out of it. One moment we are driving down the freeway in top gear, smoking a cigar and with 3 bikini clad hotties, feeling good about the world, and the next minute we downshift to overtake someone, miss, shove it into first, put the pistons through the bonnet, and wave bye byes to the girls as we call the RAVC for a tow. I think most teams that we might play in the finals will look at us the same way - a little (or maybe a lot) scared we will be on, but also confident that if they can pressure us enough they can get an easy win. All that said, if not this year then next or the year after we will iron out the bad and maximise the good. That I really believe.

I don't know the Jack Watts story, and don't pretend that my musings are anything close to reality, but my reading of the whole thing was that he just didn't take that stuff seriously enough. And this isn't a bag on him. We all have different takes on life and what matters. Being a robot when you are in your 20's and in the prime of life is a big ask, but, if football is your passion then maybe those little things will make the difference between becoming a legend or a trivia question.

Hahahaha! I'm sure the neighbours think I beat up the missus each weekend. "Why? Why did I choose you? I could have chosen 17 others and I'm stuck with you. You can't even do the simple things right! No wonder I drink. All you do is break my heart and make me feel bad." Then after a win: "I love you. I really, really love you." On topic: I heard that in the after match wrap up and smiled. Not because I think it really matters unless they are getting shitfaced every weekend, but because it shows that the team wants to do the 1%'ers that will (hopefully) take them from a good team to a great team.

And I'll be an honourary Crows fan next week hoping they smack Port good and hard.

First you must learn to pull an oar, only then can you take the helm. How about we make the 8 first, eh?

Is it wrong to tell them that if it was played at the MCG they would have won? # Salty

Nibbler [censored] me off with that last goal. He had 15 seconds, and a clear run. Why didn't he run right to the goal square and boot a torp right into a Crows supporters face. Lazy, ANB. Very very lazy, and may cost us a finals spot.

Pffft! Won two flags on the back of pilfering teams in the 70's under new rules, and two on the back of Sydney giving away a young Carey. Other than that they've been a bigger joke than St Kilda. I hope that while they case every skirt in town Brown takes an offer from someone else.

There was. We learned that he may or may not be a good player, that he did or didn't win a B&F, and that WCE fans may or may not be shocked on hearing those (possible) facts.

Aha! We had icecream head in Darwin. Bloke that used to walk down the street with a 4ltr icecream container on his head offering to sell acid trips. Never took him up on the offer, but I get the feeling they were pretty good. We also had a very pretty girl that wore a raincoat, gumboots and washing up gloves, and walked around with two plastic bags full of old newspapers. She could have been a supermodel if she wasn't insane. I hope she is doing ok.

You can't just drop pillow head and walk away like that.

I'm Spartacus, and so is my wife

And you know this because it was in the media. You can't tell me with a straight face that if one journo got wind of Jesse being shopped we wouldn't have seen it the next day. WA media would have climbed all over it.

Fake news. I saw him smile last night. I got told that Eade was coming to coach us from someone that really should be in the know. A week later we hired Neeld. That's not to say that what they said was BS, just that maybe the water cooler talk was furphy stuff. I also find it a little hard to imagine that a Caro or a Barrett wouldn't have got wind and peed in their pants as they rushed to break the story.

Serious? You need to go back and have a look at his post draft interview with Tracc. He was the class clown there. A bit of competition for Gawny I thought at the time. But maybe he isn't enjoying things right now. He knows he's too good to be hanging out in the magoos, and has had a shocking run with the concussions. I'd be feeling a bit deflated too, but that will change the next time he is in the seniors and gets to sing the song.

It's not ill will. But he plays for the enemy. Last time his contract came up, and he was making noises about leaving I was in the camp of hoping he'd go, and hoping he'd stay, and was a bit meh when he signed on, but excited thinking that this was the boot he needed. Same as this summer. I hoped that we'd come to an arrangement that kept him here, but also knowing the MFC had had enough and we'd never see the best of him. So... maybe Port will get the return on our investment that we never got, and now he is a player for a team that stands between us and a flag. So I say crunch him. If he wants to turn it on for them after cruising for us then I hope when he plays us he spends 3 days recovering from (legal) tackle bruises.

I hope we gang tackle him a la Collingwood on QB. Screw him. He danced around like a girl for the better part of a decade, taking good coin and chipping in when he felt like it. Smash him into the ground 3 times in the first Q against them, and then watch Port play a man down for the rest of the game as he hides from the contest.

Even better reason to bugger off to an island - preferably one without extradition treaties.

My two are well on the way to costing me 100K each. Oh, you meant football. Probably less $wise, but emotionally...

I love the use of the plural in premierships. Arrogance and talent can be an exciting mix. Pledging his loyalty to Melbourne, Petracca expressed how important it was for him to remain a one-club player. “It means everything. The club put faith in me as an 18-year-old kid and drafted me, and all I want to do is repay that faith,” he said. “That’s by winning premierships and staying at the club for as long as I can."

Balls. They would have beaten Sydney in the 2005 SF but for the Nick Davis show. Maybe they were dodgy in 2007+, maybe not, but to say it was an overnight thing is to rewrite history.

i'm more worried about the plaid jacket

What's a flag?