Engorged Onion

It wouldn't go amiss eh @MrFreeze?* *I'm here all week...try the veal.

oh! 'The Prodigal Son'? 🤷‍♀️😇

All of that is true AND we're only equal first on the ladder! It's a disgrace! 😎 The philosophy of Goodwin is to replicate, replicate replicate, and that'd be from an evidence based perspective, not just a whim. Predictability helps the team long term for a range of reasons... I can talk you through it, if you're open to hearing?

Interesting considered language re: Tomlinson...

Huge news, and will have huge ramifications going forward. https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl/zantuck-wins-court-bid-can-sue-richmond-for-alleged-negligence-20220719-p5b2ps.html And this, coming out can't be a conincidence, can it? https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl/afl-issues-warning-to-clubs-players-on-high-tackles-20220719-p5b2p4.html correlation/causation etc etc

How does this marry up for those having a chirp at Luke Jackson? Any commentary around the following? "his game day performance will drop" "no real incentive, just going through the motions now with this club" "he didn't smile, he can't be invested in the players"

Warrnambool?

It's almost as if some Melbourne supporters have watched other very good teams over the years and react with 'Gee, the always find a way to win in a tough match, that's what makes them such a good team' style admiration, and then when watching Melbourne, toddle off to the kitchen find a torch, a knife and some wetwipes and perform a DIY lobotomy.

Solid win without Petty, with Lever injured and obviously without Oliver, considering Port can still make finals. The season is a grind at times and this game exemplified it.

I think it's a generational thing - and I certainly have zero idea of how old you are. 0 hour contracts, constant employment uncertainty, existential concerns around climate, existential concerns around war, existential concerns around future living conditions. The generation that have just become adults (and coming into adulthood) feels far more connected and overtly valuing family and friends than work/employment. That's the social soup, that 25yo's and under have been brought up in. Very different to me for example who is early 40's.

Mmmm, I'm pondering a serious question Mr Redleg. Do you think the players and the FD would feel disrupted, if someone mid-season (like the NRL) said they're out of the club? I'm not sure I do... I get that there is angst from supporters. I get the supporters 'need' the feeling that players want to bleed for 'their' jumper. I just think that attitude is stuck in a different time...and can't wait until supporters are cool with the modern AFL athlete who is just an employee of an organisation. 😎

Chooka who's 24, in my local league snagged 14.9 last weekend. I'm not sure his missus would be keen to head up to the big smoke though. When the midfielders "Smithy" and "Pubes" respectively, deliver the ball inside 50 to him on a silver platter, Chooka's often heard yelling across the dewey field, 'Great connection lads' or 'This is a functional forward line Goodwin, you muppett!' Anyway I'm off to send my curated Youtube highlights to [email protected] - hope Tim gets it.

SO what I take out of all of this. Angus Brayshaw ,whose parents and partner live in Melbourne wants to 'return home' because his younger brother plays in Fremantle and he has Grandparents there. However... Andrew Brayshaw, whose grandparents live in WA and parents and brother live in Melbourne and has an older brother who plays in/for Melbourne, want's to stay in Perth . Andrew sounds like a right jerk if he doesn't want to be near his parents or brother(s), let alone play with his older brother 🤷‍♀️ And Jackson is the unicorn to unlocking the Brothers Brayshaw from playing together....

A fine thread as any to place this observation.....I'm always intrigued as to why the more 'glass half empty' posters seem to have fewer 'reputation' points than posts...

only a melbourne supporter knows the feeling? 😇

And yet, there is so much love between the players, irrespective of whether they are staying, leaving or undecided. Welcome to the free market supporters - the players are 😎 with it!

Spoiling for a fight @Cranky Franky? I'll land a couple of jabs as a response. 🥊 1) This is a forward line that won a premiership 17 games ago 2) Optics are one thing, and the stats are, we are scoring more per game than last year.

Final option? Bayley still has a ball in his hand and honing the skills of not giving it off?

it's on like donkey kong ❤️💙

The release of a specific image, is presumably an orchestrated move to signal something positive about Jackson eh?

Steveo, I'm far more interested in his body language on game day. Some pundits on here feel as though that's the only place to really tell if he is invested and interested in staying!!

I'd agree... mostly for Tomlinson. Essentially he would be familiar with the 2nd tall up forward role, and has around 2-3 months to prepare for it. I'm not sure that has happened of course. He'd be looking elsewhere if he doesn't get a gig soon surely?

#isgoodwintherightguy?

So if this info is accessible and therefore known by opposition teams, then its fascinating to see how opposition FD's set up structures when they play the Dees... I'd give my left [censored]* for easily accessible data like this. *ha, I used a word not dissimilar to tentacle, and I was still censored... dial it down a bit @Demonland 🤙

hope that was deliberate 🤣 because he operates like a bit of a chad.