No. 31

Nothing wrong with having affection for both the Dees and the Blues but this Hawks business is just distasteful 😁

Aren't they going to reuse elements and materials from the old Jack Dyer stand in the new stand? If it is well designed and executed with taste it could be a win for new modern facilities with a nod to its history as well. Lets see what it looks like when finished.

Pretty sure I read in the past he was a Demons supporter growing up and went to games regularly as a kid.

Only caught the 3rd & 4th quarters (still on euro time) and it was an entertaining game and the Dees can take lots of positives out of it. Any new prospective coach woulld be watching and thinking "I have something to work with here ...".

TDK has been [censored] ever since the Saints dangled that obscene contract in front of him.

Pleasantly positive start by the Blues. CFC have a pretty good record in the West against both clubs in the last few years, mind you ... lets see what the second quarter brings ..

Against my better judgement I will tune into Freo v Carlton shortly 😁

I only caught the last quarter of the West Coast game (still on holidays abroad and the time zone was not viewer friendly). This Jai lad looked really handy. Admittedly against weak opposition and he has a point to prove to them. Get some more games into him and a strong preseason and the Dees may have unearthed a handy addition 👍👍

Season 2025 is a bust on field for me but the off season broom being swept through two old Melbourne clubs will be interesting ... big brooms needed 😁

Who knows? 😕 Goodwin has the 2021 Flag which might buy him one more year (even if I think it shouldn't).

Yep, it will be a race.

I caught most of the game online on the AFL app whilst holidaying in Europe. I saw two mediocre teams bereft of confidence and trust in their coaches & system. A few poor ump calls went the Blues way but what swung it Carlton's way was that some of the younger players like Cowan, Moir and Matt Carroll not only stood up but played a major role in getting a win to steady the sinking ship that is CFC. Both clubs need to axe most of their coaches /FD to be brutally honest!

I am staying a bit further north near Zadar. If you come to Zadar I will shout you a beer 😊 Loser of Dees v Blues shouts the next two 😁

Siem Reap, nice enjoy 😎 I will be watching in a seaside village in Croatia with a walnut liquer and a strong black coffee. May the best team win today 😊

Venice, very nice. Veneto is the ancestral home of the Silvagni Clan 😎 Waving to you from the other, more scenic eastern coast of the Adriatic, my son has donned his Auskick Blues shirt to watch the game with me. Writing to you from Dalmatian Coast in Croatia, ancestral of home for Carlton 80s Premiership players like Val Perovic and John Dorotich and also Allan Jakovich, two time leading goal kicker for the Dees in the early 90s. After some hassles renewing the AFL app, looks like its working now 🤞 May the best team win today 😊

I have largely tuned out of footy for 2025 and am on holidays abroad. Against my better judgement think I will update my Watch AFL account and try to catch this with patchy wi-fi (I'm a sucker for punishment 😁). Both clubs have badly botched their seasons. The Dees are trying to reinvent themselves on the run, the Blues are in freefall and probably haven't bottomed out yet. Dees by 3 goals. Interesting to see what the crowd turnout will be. How many Melbourne supporters are at the snow and how many Carlton fans sre sunning on the Mediterranean? 😁

Pies without even a solitary goal at HT ... suddenly I have a bit of interest in football this season again 😁

I don't gamble. Just doesn't interest me. I can't stand pokies, I think i would rather pull out my toenails out than an evening playing pokies. Gambling does create some real negative social outcomes but it is legal, it is taxed, adults can make their own free choices whether to partake or not and I csn't see why a football club cannot 'invest' in this sector to diversify their income sources.

I would say that the Dees and the Blues are in very similar situations with both clubs facing a fork in the road moment at the end of this season. If the right moves are made, being back in contention in a couple of seasons is certainly possible and achievable. Full blown rebuilds are not required. But some calls need to be made now.

2 draft/trade periods, 2025 and 2026 for a reset under a new coaching team, head of football and CEO (CEO already onboard).

On the train back from the MCG. Against my better judgement I still went to this game 😁 Result was not unexpected, at least this means the Voss era is coming to a close soon. I feel for him, was a superstar footballer but just isn't senior coach material (not to absolve some of the players mind you) and he should have been given better support. It simply hasn't worked out. I still believe that in the right hands with some intelligent list management moves the Blues can be a contender in a fairly short time frame, but remains to be seen if enough levers can be pulled to get closer to that goal ...

100% Its all about getting access to Gosch's Paddock. Without it, Collingwood and Richmond will have a substandard training facility by current AFL standards. Dees should be using Gosch's Paddock until the opening ribbon on Caulfield is ready to be cut.

Geelong and C'Wood have shown you don't have to draft your way to reset (or rebuild) a list and some canny mature age recruiting can change things in a relatively short time frame. Key is to have savvy people in recruiting & coaching. Think that is an issue for both the Blues and the Dees and it may be a scramble to chase some of the same names.

I watched Carlton on Thursday night do their best to get their coach sacked ... the Dees today on the Gold Coast "hold my beer and watch ..." ... my overseas holiday can't come fast enough, footy sucks this year 🙃😁

Correct spelling, rules out a Collingwood supporter subversion.