Timothy Reddan-A'Blew

From the AFL's 'Inside Trading' panel: "West Coast, Richmond, North Melbourne, Melbourne, Port Adelaide, St Kilda, Carlton and Sydney have all completed their exit interviews with players across recent days. – Riley Beveridge" Anyone got any gossip?

...and, according to the commentary, the last kick of his career! Barry Round, eh? A storied and admired ruckman and character to match our Max over their respective journeys?

Not the omen we'd be looking for! 1990 VFA Grand Final

Spargo made it 👏 Culley 👏👏 Over all 👏👏👏 Looking forward to being there. Proper game of footy!

Thanks for the OP, BBO, and 👍s to all your respondents. I've seen all the 'modern' candidates, from 'Twinkletoes' Barassi (my Mum's nickname for him😊) as a 31-backed kid, through 'Tulip', as a carefree young adult footy player myself, and Neita (and Schwarta) as a parent rusting three kids of my own, with their help, onto the Dees and who took their fancy (hi, Stinga!), to now having the space of retirement to savour Max (and all our peri-Premiership players). So, I can try to compare them, but I recognise I come to doing so (and some others around them - let alone those before them, who I can't) from the pretty different perspectives I've had over 6 decades. Where I get to with Max is that his is a near-uniquely long, high quality, steadily accumulated body of 'getting the job done', accompanied by a personality that also makes him a singular leader and a singular presence. At his height, he's supposed to win marking, ruck and physical contests, so I'm cautious to single him out on purely football criteria. You could with the others, Robbie in particular. So, I'm gonna construct an Rowing-Eights-sized podium and put Max, Robbie, RDB, Neita and a you-choose-them four others together on its top level. Here endeth, etc...

Keep the faith, dp: thus aligned, surely such studies can't be fruitless?!

Looking past Collingwood, no North in the H&A (or whatever an 18-team, 12-round comp should be called: H&Abit - Half and Abit?) Going early, but shaping up that we meet on that Last Saturday In November.

Gist?

The Kropinyeri IR guernsey promo must have been done before Saturday...🥺 ACL no.2. I'm channelling Max-ness for her. Also, a coaching role, bringing the surviving budding mids up to her standards and impact (they're not far behind, mind, if Saturday's an indication!)

😆 On the other hand, on the off chance yours was a serious thought, they position 2 instead of 3 on the half-forward and half-back lines. I posted elsewhere that Paxy and Lize rock-paper-scissored coming out of the pre-start huddle, surmising this was to choose wings?

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...and now it's fully formed on you? As @Clintosaurus said (I paraphrase), COLLINGWOOD

...and JT 'nearly' got him to * cough * Collingwood!

4.4. Rats!

Paxy and Lize Mac do a rock-paper-scissors coming out of the huddle at the start. Selecting wings?

Team. (I can't do the individual stuff 😄)

Back line strong, tight, intent, fast.

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Hore vision and kick sublime up close.

We've dodged a few bullets.

TH 3 Nearly 3 quarters for 5 more and the record? (Mozz, get thee hence!)

It's picked up v. slightly, and yes we do.

A 'zephyr' here at the moment. A southerly change may hit later?

I hear it now bypasses GOOnDiWINdi. Something about a new direction...