rolling fog

Ended on a high @joeboy , one of your best. Agree with everything already said re: Weid. Only amendment I would make: Weid - potential now evident

Well said, LH. Complete shocker from a media management point of view. For an article which barely rated a mention over the weekend, it is now front and centre in a spat with, like it or not, one of the preeminent media and issues commentators in our game. Looks like Caro is going to take aim at an individual more than the club itself, likely Bartlett. But regardless, you've got to wonder who made this call and what they were thinking!

So this is what Hutchy is flogging on the Footy Class promos

Thanks for your service Bernard! Was an elite run-with player for a good while there, and will leave a massive hole in terms of culture, driving standards and a cool head when many around him are losing theres. He's going to be on Front Bar this Friday - reckon it will be tuning in for that

I hope #CP5 take's note of Gus' turnaround in work rate on and off field

I like your thinking, but there's no way I see that trade happening...

Put in a big summer and go again Gussy!! Hope this isn't lost on some of our developing players

Wowee - is Gus even there??? Haven't seen him...

Blues players acting like such tools

I've gone from seemingly one of the few Tyson defenders on DL, to now convinced it's time to offload him elsewhere while we can still get some reasonable value. Especially after yesterday's performance on top of the last month or so. The alternative is that he get's around McCartney to change his game over the pre-season (ala Harmes) or he languishes in the Casey twilight zone

Not always one to go in for the three word analysis thread, but I can't really fault today's one, Joeboy. It is a three word analysis of today's game vs. West Coast remember - not the season in totality

Pack the screw-ins

Playing group and majority of support staff will be on 18.15 departure. Scheduled to arrive Melbourne at 23.50

6. Harmes 5. AVB 4. Oliver 3. Hibberd 2. Brayshaw 1. Petracca

Tyson for Murphy and a pick was the strong mail around the place this arvo

What's Tyson got to do with this? We get that he's off the pace but he's not like-for-like with Lewis, Vince or even Hunt, who really stunk it up in the AFL side earlier this season by the way

Bartlet is on MMM Hot Breakfast right now discussing the proposed Yarra Park training complex and also the Pert appointment

A close friend of mine knows Pert through being in the CFC coterie and personally before that. Some of the stories about that period at the filth are interesting to say the least. I'd like to think that he now feels like h has a point to prove and has learned from errors in the past. I did not see this coming. The mail doing the rounds is that PJ was shut out of the process, to the extent that he'd sought to background some scribes around town of the discontent amongst some with how the process was unfolding. That could prove to be apocryphal. In any case, I'm willing to back in Bartlet's judgement until proven otherwise

CJ5 just named Jack as the no. 1 tough nut in the league on Footy Classified

Agreed. He's now gone past others on our list and has been a beneficiary of the general increase in standards across the board of performances over the past month

Ah yes! Welcome back to this thread. I've been looking for ward to this time of year to roll around for a while now, although after Froome's result last night I'm not sure what to think anymore... Now with all the one day classics done, it's time for the big GC's and we're in for a good couple of month's I think!

This might have already been covered in this thread, but was there any season launch type even this year? I've attended the last four years and kept an eye out this year but haven't seen anything (unless I missed it...)

Is AHG not re-signing an actual thing yet or just a bit of bluster at this stage? Visions of 2012 when The Reach Foundation was front of jumper sponsor with MFC unable to come to any agreements with potential suitors (albeit following the Energy Watch debacle). Schwab likened it to UNICEF on the front of Barcelona FC if I recall correctly.

Weekend away with the lovely in two weeks, rather than flying to Adelaide