Dr Don Duffy

Another email came out today headed: Correction: stream both our upcoming practice matches with a Digital Membership. This one actually had Richmond as the Ballarat opponent, without acknowledging that they had advertised the wrong opponent in the original email. However it does indicate that you will be able to see the North game on Kayo tomorrow.

Change of opponent for Ballarat practice match? Club email today offers Kayo option, and you can watch the preseason games against North on Friday, and on the 27th the Ballarat game against Western Bulldogs. Is this a quiet change of opponent, or a lack of attention to detail in the back office?

Well played, Cranky! Not forgetting the ever-important off-field hierarchy: Frank N. Fearless as CEO, and Franked Dividends doing the finance. And their home ground facility to be at Frankston.

Could be, and joining those of us who already are!😎

And more particularly that that fluffing was partly caused by Captain Max taking responsibility and running with Bailey Dale as he ran past for the Hannan handball. He couldn’t keep up but probably put enough pressure on to prevent Dale getting an easy receive, slotting a goal and putting his team 25 points up and on a roll. Might have broken us. I celebrate that 1%er, as important a pressure moment as we saw that day. Indeed….

Meanwhile, outside a well-known venue nearby as training was winding down at Gosch’s….

Xavier Bartlett Richo

The long and the short of it, the old and the new, the present and the future - in lockstep!

Many thanks!

Hey Ghosty, do you know when training resumes?

There’s always sunlight breaking through my rain clouds, Mr/Ms 55. And yours…?

I raise a glass of my finest Pinot in furious agreement, Mr Slarti! And my, what a wide-ranging and erudite thread. Did I inadvertently stumble onto a Mensa site?

I believe her grandfather was Laurie Mithen#11’s cousin, Tacky. But I might be wrong!

Really? That’s just being wilfully obtuse on your part.

OD, you are a doyen poster around here, so am wondering whether you have good info on which to base the above assessment, and that’s no disrespect to David who has been a contributor at lower levels for quite a while. (And fwiw, it’s Chippindall) This reminds me of the Green comment with his Guerra announcement in April that Guerra would “hit the ground running”. Guerra is more like hitting the ground strolling, and that seems to be the house style with the board/administration as a whole. Everybody seems to be just strolling to their roles without the urgency that we need with all the challenges we have on and off the field. I would love to go back to the fruits of our glory days in the 1940s and 1950s when we were winning flags for fun, but I want better than 1950s style lack of urgency in the administration of the club. I hope so, OD. He’ll be going against the tide of CEOs at other clubs in terms of coming from a football background. We have had quite a record of such appointments this century, and as such are quite the outlier. Those previous non-football background CEO tenures did not end well.