Timothy Reddan-A'Blew

'Cocoon'? The 2022 A(Antarean)FL premiership is where that demography can shine...

Seeing myself out, btw. Again.

Might that help, gs?

Like it BD. Here we go!

Kardinia Park; what number on Elm Street was that again?

...And make sure your second car has good space.

Harrison Jetty.

Neighbours? Bah! Like I said, S. Alighieri, 57 days. At least... And your follow-up banner qualifies you for an extension anyway!

Superb late-night, several-wines-in, five-weeks-later reading. Again and again, waves of ways of appreciating what has been gifted us.

Look, I just can't keep up with the 👍-ing and 😄-ing and occasional 🧡-ing and 🤔-ing I should be doing on this thread. So take them as read. But I do note the 2000-post milestone approaches. Better still, the 2021 milestone follows shortly thereafter! Take your marks...

I believe his Mum was very angry one Sunday morning late last month...

Not quite 'Saturday morning': Yesterday - too late to post then about it before the power went out and my internet access with it - I had, for the first time since '25/9', a flash of the pleasant feeling of Friday expectation of footy. Then I snapped back to October. Had it been real, we'd certainly have been on the teev. And I think it means I'm ready for 2022! Though I'm not letting go of 2021 just yet...

Earlier, somewhere in the mass of other threads and posts since '25/9', I did. Or rather, I described my thought, watching in real time on the night, that it had not travelled 15 but that I later realised, after the multiple replay binge, that during the change in camera angle Brayshaw added another 5 metres with his run and dive, from where he'd called. In that post I also posed that Bowey was intending to kick to the Brown/Daniel mismatch (equally demonstrating the smarts discussed here) to which someone suggested (probably quite rightly, and even better demonstrating the smarts) he was kicking to the space in front of it. Per the discussion above, I'm in the school of Brayshaw's raised - not pointing - arm, and whatever call went with it, having been for the handball. Maybe someone will ask them one day?!

Still up here (my even more modest pre-match display had babies at 3am on the morning of the26th...). I believe the circumstances demand they remain up for 57 days... At least.

There's no question.

As with the post-game thread, posters on this thread to date - too many to acknowledge individually - please accept this 👍from me. Pretty much every day I have a flash of clarity, that my 'belief' that there would be another premiership in the relatively few years remaining of my lifetime was a self-protective pretense, not supported in hindsight by any real evidence and shadowed by a niggle that the reality was that there would not be another. Every year there was a team, or more, better destined than us. But then follows the realisation that it did happen. It is a thing of wonder that something bad, lurking soooo long at one's core, is just no longer there.

I've got to agree, this fella's expression is wonderfully raw and expressive. Though(?) - and this has been sitting with me since first viewing, on the night - looking at his mannerisms, I'm thinking it comes from some degree of (and I apologise for the poor choice of words available to me) disability. Others, better experienced to consider this, may have a more informed and nuanced view? It is one of the images of the night for me.

Let himself down here: all he had for it was "What a kick", in the background...

😋,😋,😋 Then 😋,😋 Then 😋! 😋! 😋!

Check out the Gary Lyon pre-GF interview with Simon on the Club's website. Is he the right guy? Hell, yeah! (p.s. Don't mind the nature and delivery of 'Gaz's' questioning either - very respectful and intuitive of what SG has meant to what has unfolded...)

Check out Lauren Magee's day in quarantine on the club's website. Enjoy the insight, Lauren? Sure did! Dedication, good humour, and remarkable tolerance to lukewarm styrofoamed sustenance. Looking forward to you smashing it this season, Lauren (our women's Jake Bowey!)

My 👍 is soooo tired...

This was his second goal, I think?

I'm inclined to agree, Jontee (and others) but I realise I'm seeing it from the perspective of an old fart whose work life was generally one of obligation. It's entirely likely the boys are doing what youngsters, used to being very fit, would be doing anyway while 'on holiday' (at least when the tempting alternative of 'seeing the world' is off the agenda!)