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Tomlinson looked like he was low on confidence in his knee and his ability last week. ACLs can take 18 months to get back to your best if you ever do. Poor bloke. Massive sliding doors moment last year in Tassie.

Why would anyone want to watch the Tigers tho?

Max Gawn thinks that [censored] talk. He has been up on his high horse across a bunch of different forums about the team and how they talk to each other and belittling Smith as having done nothing with his footy is absolutely poor. And worth confronting. Just not violently.

I tell my team; if you have 8 reasons not to do something, you don’t have one good reason not to do something. At 63, you have a generational opportunity to see an amazing team and support them to greatness. It will only last as long as our stars stay uninjured, re-signed, and (ahem) out of trouble. Enjoy it and get along - you’ll have a good time.

Trust your eyes too.

At least Mitch Brown stayed in front of his bloke which is a standard Weideman hasn’t set for himself. Have some respect.

Drip. Drip. Drip. Well done Melbourne PR/Comms…

This is what happens when you drip feed info out with the facade of being holistic and thorough. You can’t fake it, the veneer wears off eventually. It was a scuffle. Whatever that is. It was banter. It was obviously more than that. It was May ‘having a drink’ under protocols. It was May at the boxing probably drinking all arvo… It was all sorted. The restaurant didn’t think so. What actually happened? I will tell you something different every effing day.

Well, I don’t know what you’re talking about? Everything is fine in the land of No Apologies! No one is upset or sorry for anything! What a magical place this is… there are fights everywhere, everyone is calling each other terrible epithets and calling into question their value both verbally and digitally. But no one should be upset according to my warped reality so no one IS upset… (birds fluttering, organ playing 🎵)

Yeah, it’s called progress. Who knew people wanted apologies for things that done them wrong. Of course you go and demean people and get in fights and break other peoples [censored] and send nasty texts that get into the public all the time and NEEEVVVVEEERRR have to apologise. Coz that’s what a good and proper society does, yessir!

We were Melbourne by the time we rocked up to play Sydney on the weekend, well some rocked up, so unfortunately your joke missed it by that much.

12k Lions fans will be there I reckon. Old Fitzroy fans excited about their team and their chances to win a flag. Oh to be following a team like that amirite?

Like it or not - this is a story. One of our stars evidently had too much to drink and revealed the disconnect in the group between those that won the flag and those ‘also rans’ that didn’t. Until we recover from this and host a Prelim at the G this year - no one can talk about our great culture. No more podcast diatribes, no more President lunches groaning on about how great we are. Just sort it out and prove you have sorted it out.

Imagine where we would be in that table if our supporter group came to games like we envisioned they would for such a team?

Especially when the grandparents were revealed to be texting things unsupportive of the parents and the kids…

Yeah, but we don’t want to get into a back and forth...

Getting rid of those that need help is not the sign of a good culture or society. This mindset just ignores problems to avoid the hard work of tackling them. Its also not going to happen.

This is embarrassing. They need to get all info out now, and any vision, anything else. Get it all out now. Infection in 3 days… PR 101 - you can’t stop it getting out, so get it out yourself and quickly.

Melksham didn’t play against Sydney.

While I don’t think a club is defined by whether it can best Collingwood while being in a form slump - the next 3 months will define a small number of players, this group as a whole, and the club itself.

Too soon.

Not defending Melksham. I’m explaining why that is more than ‘banter’ and why it wouldn’t be tolerated in our culture.

What awful banter. I had to drop a mate for a GF and it burns still, nearly a decade later. Also, the team has built their culture around positive respect for each other, and not bringing each other down through ‘banter’. Gawn goes into it here. https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/the-imperfects/id1476501557?i=1000563169151

He did give an excuse re: the weather. Caroline rightly smacked that excuse down.