Lord Nev

Judging from Goody's presser today, would say Jones won't be selected and Bennell no guarantee to be selected. Also, apparently our forward line make up is a "week to week" proposition. Geez would hate to try and get some 'connection' and consistency in the part of the ground that's our biggest weakness....

Ok, good chat as always.

I take it that is what Smith did whenever he was given instructions from the coaches about leaping into the contest

I'm pretty sure it's in both of the Goodes' docos, which are both very much worth watching. Edit - found a part of the transcript: McGuire: "Get Adam Goodes down for it do you reckon?" Darcy: "No I wouldn't have thought so, absolutely not." McGuire: "You can see them doing that can't you?" Darcy: "Who?" McGuire: "Goodsey." Darcy: "What's that?" McGuire: "You know with the ape thing, the whole thing, I'm just saying the pumping him up and mucking around and all that sort of stuff."

Actually, to his credit, Luke Darcy did not laugh or encourage it at all, he actually pulled him up on it instantly.

I was actually thinking of the Schwarz incident/s, which wasn't a club nickname either as far as I know.

Ohhhh actually, I think I may know now, just clicked.

Casey fields has today been set up with a drive-thru testing site. Not sure yet on if it directly impacts the oval itself, but this surely impacts our ability to train there? Edit - Update: The testing site is a few hundred meters away from the oval. Still, seems sketchy.

Don't think I know this story, would be keen to hear mate. If you think it's not good to share here feel free to PM.

My take on it is that it's been clearly more aimed at Collingwood, but Buckley's lies about the whole situation have thrust him to the front of the subject. From memory, almost all the comments I've seen from Lumumba have been at Collingwood and the only time he's epcifically mentioned Buckley is when Buckley had denied the whole thing (and was then caught out later).

Roosy has backed up Lumumba's account now too. Says a lot that even after so many adding their own accounts that Collingwood would need to 'investigate' them and have consistently used language that questions Lumumba's story.

They really missed an opportunity of parading Langdon and Tomlinson around for the first time when also announcing the Red Bull sponsorship...

Petty may turn out to be decent depth, he turns 21 this year so he has time on his side, but gee wiz if we're throwing around Petty and Smith as "best 22" then we're not going very far in the near future.

From one of the reports about this: 'It’s also possible low levels of coronavirus in his previous tests, followed by a negative test, suggest McKenna was in the final stages of the virus." Not sure if this makes things better or worse tbh.

Haha probably! I like him, I just think we picked that team for a possibly wet day and our forward line against Geelong would be better off with two talls. Toss up between him and vandenBerg, but thought vB's grunt might be handy after our second half clearance struggles against the Blues.

Maybe Goody needs to tell TMac to stop 'bringing the ball to ground' and actually mark it? ?‍♂️ I still believe deep down that Weid and TMac is the combo we should be going for. TMac operates best when he has a mobile key forward with him who can roam up the ground and help spread the space IMO. Show Weid the same amount of patience as Goody has shown Brayshaw and TMac and it will help his confidence and trust issues, and at least then he can be judged fairly as a prospect for us going forward.

Not to mention draft order, match payments, sponsorship agreements and more.

I'm not sure you're accurately representing Goodwin's thoughts on McDonald: From 18/6: "The pressure's building and we're looking for our talls to really compete and start bringing the ball to ground and start having an influence on the game," Goodwin said. "That's the reality of the game – we need some forwards, and some key forwards, to start to influence games of footy." Source Edit - Added date for context.

Standard media practice these days it seems.

You realize that person caught it at a shopping centre and not the rally yeah? (In fact, you also realize none of those cases so far were people who caught it at the rally?)

IN: Brown OUT: Hannan

Oh ok, you're right, the AFL would never go for teams in hubs...

Couldn't see us moving back to a public park. Casey is at least a little enclosed. Could we see a 'hub-like' training situation where a few teams use one facility? ie - Melbourne, Saints and Bulldogs all share Whitten Oval, which I think is a bit less publicly available than Gosch's and RSEA.