The Jackson FIX

16% of the way through the season and people are selecting AA sides 🥴

What a time to be alive.

Understand the Rivers decision but why Cross in? He didn’t really stand out to my eye in the 2s match last week

I was standing right next to the bench for the first quarter (until moved on by security) and Melksham has coach written all over him, possibly already focusing on transitioning this season the way he was barking instructions back at the bench.

Bailey Laurie, possibly Jake the snake.

I’d be surprised (pleasantly) if we’re not experiencing some form of wobbles in some part of the round by the time he is due back, with his experience and hard edge happily welcomed

Does this really need its own thread?

The whining on this thread is extraordinary, even for Denonland! Crack a smile people, footy is back this weeke…. Oh &”$#% I forgot, <insert moan about Round Zero>

Steven May’s retirement lunch at Entrecôte goes off without a hitch. The next day though, in an apparently unrelated incident, Jake Melkshan gets hand surgery after being bitten by his dog.

It’s complicated.

Fritta missing makes it 7 out of 11 of our top possession-getters in our last proper-season AFL match will not be in our side in Rd 1.

The dogs are a couple of schmackos lighter after Michael Christian’s review. He suspended Jeremy Howe’s dogs for a similar act all those years ago. Typical.

There is a picture of them with family at the event on Dees socials?

I’m hearing this year he is going to name the R1 half back line

I know nothing about this guy. Who does he play like? How old? Etc

Think Ah Mu is on Vermont’s list? Also hearing May to East Ringwood so that could be a fun match up out in the east this yr.

Reckon there’d be more than a fair few carpark-loving VRC members that would be pretty upset about that. I give us more chance of making the MCG our base than I do this.

I think it is reasonable for people to feel disappointed that a promising key forward started to show some signs has a potentially significant injury

Too soon.

That’s your job, right?

It’s easy to isolate quietness of Kolt/Sharp/Bill or the wonkiness of CJ behind the ball and be critical but to me the sum of all parts is inportant. That system is generating quick rebound and options everywhere. Salem with good distribution behind the ball. Duke with the run in the middle and Riv looks to be finding quicker/smarter options forward than I can ever recall from him and we are just getting better looks on goal. Keeping in mind we have had Richmond and Norf so far who have each looked near-uncompetitive.

Lot of chatter in the US when it was announced an NFL games was coming to the MCG and they were stunned with the volume of car parking available at an elite sporting ground

The irony in all of this is there remains roughly 500 car parks at the MCG in this ‘save a tree’ scenario. Those 500 car parks facilitate roughly 250,000 car trips from the outer suburbs to the G over a 10 year period. My research tells me that keeping those 500 car parks is a 200x worse environmental outcome than removing roughly 50 established trees to facilitate the build.

Still shake my head that the east-Melbourne end of the MCG car park idea was scuppered. It made so much sense in so many ways.

The little guy is like the $10 gift in your Christmas stocking that you’re suddenly getting more enjoyment out of come February than the big-ticket-present bike you also received