In Harmes Way

I hope our board gets a copy of this report somehow and measures our own overall performance against the identified failings.

I thought the girls looked a bit lethargic early on with the travel, but that 2nd and 3rd quarter was sensational and could be the difference between us making the finals or not. This was exactly the type of game we should have won in seasons 1-2 but we would drop & then missed finals narrowly. Great to hear the song again, and I teared up a bit with the three debutants in the middle of the circle. Love that they sing the song on the ground.

As long as he’s right for finals...

Thanks for braving the elements and for the writeup deespicable! Very much appreciated on what I'm sure was a day where it would be hard to see silky skills on display and your eyeballs would have needed windscreen wipers. On your point above, I reckon the coaches would have a couple of probable A Team candidates on the B Team to keep them hungry....

Agree with all of the above. 12 days minimum may see players miss two games esp. around Anzac day/eve games. It's such a hard injury to quantify that I'm not sure you can police it any other way. I agree with having a break the week after prelim on this basis, it would be soul destroying to have one or more of our best players miss a grand final because of this imposed break.

Good lord

Great training report from Stinga and most importantly reminded me of my first man crush. Gees Tingay was good. time to find a highlights reel.

There are a lot of good suggestions above as to who should be in the leadership group based on their performances last year. This, despite the fact there was only a Captain, Vice Captain in formal roles. On this basis, I don't see the need to "recognise" a larger leadership group as clearly the names listed above see themselves as leaders anyway (and I'm sure the feedback they receive inside the club affirms their actions).

He's a 19 yo kid who has had one very different season as an introduction to an AFL career. He's still learning habits that will shape his professionalism to elite. Personally I'm much more worried about Aaron Nietschke's knees than Kossie, who has a massive ceiling and I'm sure will be an absolute gun in a year or two if he learns and adopts good habits.

I understand this thread is a future source of reference for the hindsight police, but I’m not writing off players before the season has even begun. Especially the younger ones that should be encouraged.

I’d agree with you TPF as the quality of his intercept marking in defence was exceptional before he moved to the fwd line - however I still have nightmares about his subsequent field kicking from defence so I’m on the fence.

And in Uncle Bitters case, the love of Shiraz is the evil of all roots

Looking at that picture, if Farmer is a tiny 169cm, then so is Kossie.

I thought the test had finished by lunch day 2.

According to Fox sports, Melbourne seem the most likely team of the 2020 bottom-10 to return to the top four this year Although they did peg Carlton at #2, so we're not drinking our own bath water just yet. https://www.foxsports.com.au/afl/afl-predictions-2021-finals-tips-bottom-10-to-top-four-melbourne-carlton-sydney-swans-to-jump/news-story/420d9413abfad3579a1b0d515e7a380e

All I want for Xmas is a flag. Not too much to ask. Merry Xmas everybody

I thought this as well BBP, and I hope we can actually have a decent crowd to help the club coffers. Otherwise I'd hope the club is talking to the AFL + Rich/Coll to see if this draw can be offset to have one home game out of the two blockbusters per year.

Ronald McDonald second from the right.

If Checker Hughes was still around, he'd probably be trying to rename the Gin too.

Hopefully BBB gets a big number and uses that as a minimum target for goals for him to kick in 2021.

Thanks for this Pickett Trying to work out Bailey Laurie's number from pic 14 - definitely starts with a 1.... Anybody with better eyes than mine?

He was much better from further out than he was from inside 25m. I always hoped he'd go back 35m a la BBB when he took a mark close to goal and kick it from 50.

Watch Ben Brown kick 75 goals next year and carry us to a grannie with Choco taking the credit for improving our kicking. Chuffed with everybody else about this signing by the way. ...and not nearly enough love for the dire straits gag which is just about the best thing I’ve read on this site. Absolute gold.

Gees that playing surface out at Casey looks immaculate.