Red But Mostly Blue

And just so you know where we stand with Kane Cornes, if that was even on your mind… he has sympathy for Xerri and would be disappointed for him if he missed weeks for the incident that KNOCKED Soaz out. Innocuous he says. And apparently Xerri had no time to move his arm out of the way, which neglects the fact that he put it there when Soaz approached. And anyway, Kane, our sympathies are with TOM SPARROW , I couldn’t give half a fig about Xerri or how many weeks he misses.

Clarko’s response to Spaz being knocked out: “It is pretty hard going from competing in the ruck with big Max to then trying to lay a tackle within a split second. It’s unfortunate for Tom, but injuries happen”. Then mentioned LDU knocked out last week, and said “It swings in roundabouts,” what!? What a grub. WHAT tackle?!!!! Swing his arm out, just one arm to the face. Thats a tackle? 4 weeks. Minimum.

Much better than our first outing this year. Great performance from Melk, Fritter, Trac and TMac was awesome - which only makes his omission even more glaring than it already was. But obviously soured by the hit on Spaz. Hope he is ok. Bye, Xerri. Whether he meant it or not, rules are rules. Catch ya. Might ‘only’ by the Roos but we did what we needed to do, kicked well and put ourselves in a position to win 12th position outright next week v the blues 🤣

Really begs the question as to why TMac has not been playing…

we’ve just hit 90%…

On brand 🤮

Shattered for Spaz

Kelli giggling about [censored] tubes and we have Spaz down????

Where has this goalkicking been??

Put lever on ice for the rest of the year. Back and forth with a Roos is a bit sad tbh. Shows where we’re at right now. At least more goals than points…

Our best team has Windsor playing in it. Hasn't had the best season. Was an interrupted preseason and not in the most suitable role. Get him in, fit over the preseason and he will have a blinder in 2026. Him, Langford and X as the kids will be great. Kolt will come good, just needs to get the feel for the game. Needs to play more games, no other way to do that.

It's a sad indictment on where we're at right now that there is some relief in some of NORTH MELBOURNE'S most important players not playing this weekend. Typically an exercise reserved for playing a top four team, when you're a rabble of course. That said, if we lose to them again I may need to commit myself at the Rancho Relaxo or something like that.

Was one of a few highlights over the weekend. And a really important one, because even though he isn't the issue (delivery, skills up the ground etc. are), he is a big piece of what we will need going forward. If we can have Roo regaining confidence and finding his feet (again) i50, it'll be a big boost in 2026. I think we still need to find another forward, but a couple of goals from him a game would be massive. Btw our current leading goalkickers btw are Kozzie (29) and Melk (20), which is particularly notable given they have only played 13 and 12 games, respectively. We are screaming out for a Larkey type (38 from 16), Hogan, obviously, sad face (40 from 12). Even Georgiades is 42 from 16! (we helped that along) Anyway, point is, Roo moving forward with us is much better than offloading him to a team who will (you know it) get him clicking. He is seriously talented, just need to find the right mix and invest the time. Or someone else will.

Boys had a crack today, but we just can’t seem to maintain pressure or quality, and we get burnt by teams who can.

Pretty decent in patches especially early until they piled on 8-1 goals or whatever. But that’s the same old story. It’s hard to know when we are going to turn up, and if we do, when, and how long we will turn off for Give the Melkman another five years, he is looking great.