Rivers of Belief my friend

It’s always a worry when your defenders are the highest rated players

That Weitering handball was like a canon

Fritsch gets his hand bitten by his own dogs and has to undergo emergency surgery and misses round 1.

Yep. I was an MCC member for 35 years, and gave it away 10 years ago for an MFC membership. Absolutely no regrets. I felt that the MCC had become mostly about status, not the best value of experience.

Thanks! Just watched it. Pickett kicks to Pickett, who takes a bounce, handballs to Pickett, one two with Pickett, now goes for a stretch of his legs, one bounce, two, three, and a fourth; kicks to Pickett in the goal square, drops the mark but taps in back to Pickett who soccers a goal!

I have connections with the Steele family - they are a very supportive, caring and well grounded family. performance + injury aside, this is another great team culture move.

I’m with you. But unfortunately Goody / leadership let the culture fester. From a distance, it seems like there were highly touted, big contract premiership players and the new kids were second class citizens.

Wow thanks. I’ll have a look this weekend, then chat with my stepmother and come back with a summary of what I find. Much appreciated…

Hi everyone, I was wondering if anyone had heard of Eddie (Ted) Esposito. My stepmother - his daughter - recently gave me two premiership medals he won with Eaglehawk back in the 1930s. He also played 60 games for the Dees from 1929-31, and was a bit of a cult figure. He was a midfielder / wingman. He was named in the Eaglehawk Team of the Century in 2005. His father also played for Eaglehawk and I have a premiership medal from 1894 that he won. Anyway, long story short, I was thinking of giving the medals to Eaglehawk FC, but I saw that the Australian Football Museum also had some memorabilia from the Espositos, so might contact them too. Anyone heard of him? Appreciate any info from the passionate and knowledgeable Demonlanders here.

…and I have to rename myself! …ok, done. (nee Spargonicus)

Langford is next multi levels

Hey what’s happened to Hunt?

Came here to say this: our fumbling is constant.

My pick for comment of the year. Thanks. Droll, depressing but also, just plain funny.

Is ‘how to fix my WiFi issue’ a metaphor?

Is ‘my WiFi’ a metaphor?

100% agree that it’s mostly between the ears. As I’ve said, compare the Magpies to us on the field. Or between us now and during our ‘unbeatable’ patch a little while ago. We’ve got the talent. The first three quarters proved that. We looked a million dollars. While they may have been fatigued, that was a total mental capitulation. Culture and belief are a million tiny things. Collingwood have it. On a positive note, I haven’t given up that we can get it back, but will need strong and consistent leadership.

Culture goes deep in organisations. Good culture is very hard to build and maintain, and it’s fragile. It’s a million tiny things. I still track the decline to the May/Melksham incident. That doesn’t happen in a team that cares about each other. As much as we all hate Collingwood, look how they rally around each other.

Completely stopped. We are so unfit.

Just no energy and awareness. So many games we just don’t show up at the beginning too. Some psych issues at the club for sure.

Thanks mate. I might take mine with a handful of Maldon sea salt flakes, a couple of Salada biscuits (all four squares), some Himalayan rock salt - ground, a few anchovies straight from the tin, and 3 slices of Capricciosa - extra olives.

Ahhh…coupla days! Booueatiful!

Total gun. Such a good decision maker, great positions and game awareness.

Totally agree re goal review. That was just amateur hour. Everyone could see McVee touched it and were screaming at the TV to go back a few frames from that other angle. Crazy how bad that is. It’s like 1980s tech, with someone with no common sense reviewing the footage.

I agree. After a conversation, and that all checks out, I’d be up for Trac as captain next year. Could be very good if he’s all in.