Mel Bourne

Dude is not going to fix his kicking within a week, nor the remaining ones. He needs a pre-season and a good tutor. His golden patch of shots-on-goal this time last year was 20% technique, 80% Vibe-Gods. The technique was always poor.

How’s this… Basically my entire family barrack for Collingwood. Both parents, and three of my five siblings. I’m the youngest of six, and the next up from me is my sister. She’s the only girl in the family and wanted to set herself apart from the boys, so she chose the Demons, then got the word into me when I was a kid. One of my other brothers supports a different team though... Geelong. Every time the Pies beat us I can feel all the ties that bind unravel. I see my lovely parents suddenly as toothless and my brothers all look like Joffa. Thankfully it doesn’t last too long.

I love our captain, but the less I have to watch him line up for set shots on goal, the longer my marriage will last.

He’s far from a household name, but maybe my favourite living satirist. Hard to get past “I’m Alan Partridge” as my favourite thing he’s done.

Wonder what Saty would make of all this.

Both shows created by the same person (Armando Iannuci). You might enjoy it.

Anybody here watch “Veep”?

Well, that’s just a matter of taste. I personally find them a little on the objectionable side. (sorry, I’ll just get my coat…)

@Demonstone Your response-time to a grammar infringement is quicker than the actual police.

If it’s 12 nights post concussion then he’s good to go. But not sure if it is.

I feel subconsciously attacked. 😆 I think it’s pretty natural to be interested in outcomes such as these. And I’ll go a step further and say I hope Cripps doesn’t play because it’s merely to our advantage. I don’t see what’s wrong in hoping for any kind of advantage, however they may present themselves.

There’s no way he’ll get off without suspension. Ah Chee was concussed, and if there’s one thing the AFL doesn’t want to be seen being flippant about anymore it’s concussion. Ah Chee will miss a match next week, but Cripps gets to play? Absolutely no way.

There was no problem bringing the ball to ground (I love this term for “dropping marks”) on Friday, and rarely were Pickett or Spargo to be found.

Would love to drop Kozzie, but it seems he’s rusted on. It’s getting to the stage for me where his gold-star cameos just don’t stack up against the amount of times he goes missing. And will Goodwin stick by ABN for next week? Probably, but bugger me, he’ll be lucky. Sparrow likely to get a rest. Gawn needs to spend the summer practicing set shots. He has the yips now, and they’ll be hanging around during the finals, no doubt. Love his safe hands, but we need players running past him to take the shots on goal from now on. Fritsch needs to be the target, not the one outstretched hand of BBB. But Fritsch needs to friggin’ PRESENT. He is useless to everybody when he lurks at the back of a pack. Let’s get JVR on the ground next week.

The amount of times our forwards (and Max) would fly in clusters towards the hail-mary deliveries coming at them, only to apply pressure on each other and inevitably bring the ball to ground to….nobody, was maddening. Our small forwards went missing tonight.

Which has reached the point where interviews with players/coaches are pointless exercises in nothing-speak. If it does genuinely motivate Collingwood players (50% of whom would be unaware what the term “One Trick Pony” even means), then it also would motivate the Demons just as much to back it up. But I don’t think it means anywhere near as much to either team’s players as it does to the peanut gallery.

Read my previous post, and the reactions of Collingwood fans. They don’t give a toss, and some are even all for it. Honestly the pearl-clutching going on from some here is a bit much. What’s even more bizarre is the suggestion it will have any impact on the match whatsoever. The idea that this will “fire up” the opposition? I mean, it might fire up the Campbell’s Creek Magpies but in a league as drilled, honed and already-fired-up as the AFL, such a polite bit of banter won’t touch the sides.

Don’t judge me, but I follow the /AFL sub on Reddit pretty regularly. I’ve found it’s a great way to gauge the general mood of other clubs, and it seems to be a lot less Boofhead-oriented than Big Footy and the like. Ed’s story is blowing up right now over there, and it’s interesting to note that a lot of people - including many Collingwood supporters - are saying how much they love the banter.

Well, let’s just hope that Ed isn’t eating words-on-toast for breakfast this Saturday.

I’d agree with all of that except the last sentence. It’s not a Boomer Vs Millennial thing, it’s simply Ideology Vs Ideology. Plenty of Boomers hold the views of one side or the other. Perhaps it’s not quite as divided in the Millennial camp, but to suggest all of them have a shared set of beliefs and ethics is a stretch. Plus what about us Gen X-ers?!

Indeed it is. Another word in that sentence is “sentence”.

Yeah, I’m not shocked by the poll’s results for those reasons exactly. But seeing it laid bare like that, it’s very clear that tomorrow night is our chance to shake one of our last remaining hoodoos, and considerably skew the psychological landscape of these finals. A loss will be more damaging than usual.

Just saw stumbled across this poll. We need to smash Collingwood tomorrow night. Not scrape in. Not win “convincingly” or even “comfortably”. We need to SMASH them. Even with a GF under our belt, I feel we still have seriously unfinished business with respect to the Pies (no actual respect intended). Their supporters simply don’t rate us, and they have their reasons. This needs to change tomorrow night. Let’s go, Demons.

Ha! Fair point. Bad example!

I see. So what is the term for a word such as “woke”? Where a word is commonly-understood to be “incorrect”, but forges on regardless to become part of the lexicon? Is that just another malapropism? Seems like such a thing deserves it’s own term.