Mazer Rackham

Huh. That's what you were saying this time 100 years ago.

Don't we all. But I'm told the modern thing is not to have one.

Meanwhile ... the Suns aren't that far off it. They play good footy in patches, and have all the pieces, but they lose matches by dropping their bundle at some point in a match, when the tide is going against them. They pick up their socks but by the time they do, they're too far behind. They then proceed to do that for enough matches in a row to drop off the pace and it's season over. A Scott, Clarkson, Hardwick, or Goodwin would have them in the 8 overnight.

The expert tipsters on that show always seemed to be able to predict which window. Maybe they chose the wrong vocation?

That's just Vlad delivering the punchline to the joke about his magic lamp.

Boy says to his father: "Dad! Look at this! Me an' Baz broke into Eddie McGuire's house and stole his TV!" Dad says: "Son, I'm very disappointed in ya." Boy says: "Why?" Dad says: "Coz ya fergot the remote!"

Bloke goes into the Lexus Centre to see what it's all about. Goes into the social club there and orders a beer. Standing next to him at the bar is Dane Swan! Bloke says: "Hey Swanny. Ya wanna hear a Collingwood joke?" Swan says, "Lissen mate. See the bloke next to me? That's Jordan de Goey. He don't mind a fight, just sayin'. An' see the bloke next ta him? That's Alan Didak, an' he likes hangin' 'round wiv bikies. Ya still wanna tell that joke?" Bloke says, "Nah, not if I'm gunna have to explain it three times."

Culture and playing lists come and go, but the lack of a first class training facility is for ever

I recall when our premiership window was touted to be 2012-2014. Glorious times. Ah, what memories.

Incendiary pioneering late rock-n-roller, and 3 time All-Australian / 4 time "Bluey" winner.

Correct. And the other coaches at the time said they'd rather two blokes crash into each other than both stand back and wait for the other to do something. But King Lindsay must have his private beach way.

Essendon are now ranked "elite" in the sacking category. Everyone thought they had peaked when they started sacking people the day after they were appointed. But now they're sacking them even before they're appointed. If they learn to deliver this level of efficiency on the field, look out!

Shouldn't it be a lot lower than that?

Where did I say they were complacent? So, not complacent then.

I reckon we played this season as if we had one hand on the cup and it was up to other teams to try to get it off us. But ... it wasn't last year's cup we were playing for. It was this year's, and no team had any hand on it. It was in a cupboard at AFL house and all teams started equal in the race to get it.

I regard all AFL premierships from 2022 on to be illegitimate and undeserved. (Except for the ones we win.)

I think we already know the answer to that. The integrity department is going to get a mighty workout.

Off the ground, head contact, concussion. Dozens of times we've seen guys suspended even when the football loving public thought it unwarranted, because "the head is sacrosanct". But no, Cripps was denied procedural fairness. After being permitted to appeal the MRP decision, front a tribunal hearing and then being permitted to appeal the tribunal decision. Unfair.

Whatever it takes. The AFL have degraded their already degraded award because of the absurd Cripps appeal. Let it be sung far and wide.

Hear hear! In fact it is not even best & fairest. It's fairest & best. Which is why a guy like Woewodin can win it. An anomaly that Robbie never did. And the Dipper thing was when the "fairest" aspect was mysteriously overlooked, seemingly for ever more.

Because the media sites are all so useless it's impossible to get the full leaderboard ... I could only get the top 11 from The Age. Cameron the only non-mid in it. The umps now have an out. Because it's become a "mid fielder's award" there is no incentive for them to assess non-mids, and now they can take the easy way out and only give to mids, because that's now the expectation. It's something of a miracle that Cameron got as many points as he did, which says someone about the season he's had. All adding to the degradation of the Brownlow as an award deserving of respect. The overturning of his suspension was of course a travesty. But not due to bias. It's a consequence of the AFL turning over their sporting tribunal to court room barristers and giving them free rein to w*nk on and on for literally hours. Procedural fairness my backside. By the time the barristers had finished polluting the simple proceedings of a sporting tribunal, the tribunal members were so befuddled, they didn't know their own names, let alone what day of the week it was. It's been apparent to fans for years, but it seems it took this debacle for the AFL to wake up to it.

The secret to winning flags is to be there or thereabouts year in year out, then wait for things to go your way. Exhibit A: Melbourne Storm.

Counterpoint: it's Collingwood, so let's not be fair.

Oh, damn.

Yeah, but it's Collingwood. All normal feelings/reactions to be suspended. GET ****ED COLLINGWOOD