In Harmes Way

That would wear out my mouse button.

Hopefully the umpires gift us a soft free kick right in front of goal for the blatant miss from the last game with Kossie being tripped. I’m still [censored] off about that one.

Dodged a bullet there

Norm Smith was a Collingwood supporter as a kid

I don't think I sent this to you, but I might have. Nah - I've been watching him properly all year.

Great idea. Should have done it earlier in the season (i.e. somewhere in the 0-5 bracket).

I can't believe he dropped to pick 6. We're seriously lucky.

Was he wearing a blue suit? I could have sworn I was sitting near him on level 1 in the MCC early in the first quarter. Didn't want to annoy him.

Must be all the soccer practice bearing fruit.

Depends how old you are Jaded.

I would have probably gone with winning a flag as my #1 Franky

I’m hoping Sunday works out like our game vs Freo that I wasn’t optimistic about beforehand but turned out to be a lovely day in the sun with a comprehensive performance.

Yep. I lament the loss of James Harmes, but am too lazy to come up with something else.

Great post Andy, nailed it

That's because the club's Chief Communications officer is too busy running the AFLW program.

I liked Max on MMM this morning. A WCE opponent asked him why it took so long to give him a debut, Max responded “why did you let him go?”

The club absolutely had to stand up to the online threats against Goodwin that went too far, which Green's letter did. IMHO this is the only reason he wrote the letter. Unfortunately the lion's share of supporters including myself were looking for the club to (also) make some sort of a statement on how the club will respond as a whole (incl. board) to a particularly devestating result in a season of ongoing disappointments that compounds on the 0-5 start we had to the year. The standards you walk past are the standards you're willing to accept. The letter merely acknowledging frustration and that the "Board and I are committed to doing everything required to have our AFL program performing at the level we all expect" doesn't really cut it.

Anyone comparing a particularly bad quarter of footy yesterday against 186 has rocks in their head.

What’s even more inexplicable for me is that we started the game with our best first qtr for the year before we had the worst 4th qtr of all time in the same game

I thought it might be like the royal family not flying together in case the plane crashes.

Missed that news - what did AJ do to himself Ghosty?

Whilst Bergman would make us a better team, I like the intent of this thread around a KPF, given we seem to win inside 50 count every bloody week but can't win a game. Having somebody who can clunk a mark and take his 30 seconds (and hopefully kick a goal, god knows we need a few of those) allows our forward line to setup when we inevitably kick a point. I think we have enough medium sized players across the park to win a game. Just need a big banana up front. Have done for the last 4 years.

It was 2019 when I finally realised the footy department will always talk up the list/game plan irrespective of what they're actually seeing because they don't want to see the membership numbers drop off. In 2019 it went past hopeful optimism to what I considered to be borderline dishonest. Now you've just got to try to listen for the verbal cues on where we're focussing on improving and tune out the repetition.

You clearly don't remember 2013

If I could climb into a delorean and go back 25 years to convince the MFC brains trust to hold onto the wizard for life on a long term deal, I’d jump at the chance. Glad I don’t have to this time around