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Don’t understand the all in hype on GWS, Hawthorn and even Brisbane in terms of premierships.. Brisbane lost 9 games and drew 1. They didn’t win 10 games in 2024 and only peaked when it mattered. Joe Daniher went crazy helped them too. Hardly invincible. Hawthorn played on adrenaline and Battle and Barrass are B graders, MAYBE bordering on A grade. Are they that significant of inclusions that would warrant outright second favorite? GWS will start the season with question marks around their depth with Taylor (concussion) and Tom Green injured. Taylor is prone to consistent injury. Cadman is still yet to prove himself and Hogan would need to replicate his insane 2024 form. With a fit and smartly managed Gawn throughout the season on top of other top lines returning like Oliver and Petracca, May and Lever in addition to Rivers and JVR who are both expected to be significant, we can make top 4. A bottom 6 draw will be handy. I actually respect David King, but for him to completely rule Melbourne out of flag calculations is laughable. Make no mistake, we are right in this season.

Very fun partnership. Iga Swiatek was recently sponsored by Lego too and seemed to have a lot of fun during the more corporate photo days. Can’t wait to see what they have in store with the club! Not a big figure collector, but I did buy the Nintendo Entertainment System LEGO set day 1 because it was cool, but imagine an MCG set? Instant pre order

I’d rather sit through watching 5 days of test cricket twiddling my thumbs, whilst wearing a Collingwood jumper and Carlton cap than watch rugby league. 🤣😂

Hope the club plays hard ball. JUH, Pickett, Tim Kelly, Horne Francis… Really sick of these entitled prima donnas being home sick in a professional domestic league. You agree to sign a contract or get drafted, do the time and don’t engage in off field nonsense like telling people you are leaving or crying over missing mummy. I have friends, family who work overseas in varying continents- mainly Asia, Africa and NA. The only means of communication they have with family is (a) during specific holidays like Christmas and Easter; or (b) via FaceTime and even then, due to time differences, they sometimes go a LONG time without speaking to loved ones. Then you see these so called professionals crying about being 5-6 hours away from family at the most with how easy domestic flights and travel is. Absolute soft ctns.. 🤡🤦‍♂️

I’m starved of footy, so selfishly and from a fan point of view, practice matches serve as an entree after a long 6 month wait. With the next big tennis tournament Indian Wells starting in 2-3 weeks time and Tottenham being [censored] as always, I am bored, so I am forced to watching the Super Bowl Eggball as some sort of comfort while waiting for the real sport to soon start.. 🤣

Lmao, why do people always act like the victim? Cornes was big on us at the start of 2018, even tipped us to make the jump from 9th to top 4 and King has been our bigger media supporter from 2017-2020 until he rightfully started losing trust after diabolical 2019 and 2020 seasons. Had nothing but good to say about us in his SEN segments with Glenn Luff throughout 2018 especially.

Yeah, around the mark. We were judged by most as “must make the 8” This bookmark is saved on my homescreen. 😂 https://footyology.com.au/afl-2021-heres-your-teams-premiership-odds/

I’m honestly sick of this home sickness [censored]. I have friends and family who work overseas (Europe, Africa, Asia, NA) doing all kinds of work ranging from finance, healthcare, high level IT work, large scale infrastructure development etc which are examples of work that require specialized training and they make do with Zoom and face time calls. They only rarely ever visit home during the holiday period and specialized times. BUT, god forbid these AFL footballers growing homesick when domestic flights are 2, 3, 4, 5 hours away… don’t get me started on tennis players like John Millman, now retired toiling away in the top 100 mark 42 weeks per year just trying to make a living worldwide and hardly anytime to visit home. 🤦‍♂️ You sign a contract so you stay until it expires!

My favorites Casper Ruud and Elena Rybakina both gone. At least Alcaraz is still in the draw, and hopefully he knocks out [censored]. The beauty of being a huge tennis, Aussie Rules and Soccer fan. If the Dees flop I turn to the tennis season watching my favorite players, if they flop (Casper Ruud often does) I revert back to Melbourne. If Melbourne aren’t too flash I go watch Tottenham… 😂😂😂 Round 1 against GWS cannot come quick enough…

Everyone looks fit and healthy which is good! Hope it bodes well for 2025 because an American girl I started seeing is now right on board. First impressions matter, Dees! 💪

Easy draw, and get the sh*te teams like St Kilda and West Coast twice. North will be tougher with a more refined squad and depth of both talent and experience, but on paper, we SHOULD still win both the encounters. Oliver, Petracca, Lever, May, Viney, Gawn, Petty (down back again) all fit and well managed should ensure we right back in the mix of things and still important to our overall setup. Mix them in with an extra pre season with the likes of Rivers, McVee (Both can make the 44 of the Australian squad), Tholstrup, Windsor etc should provide a lot of optimism. I just have 110% belief that after yet another diabolical season, everyone will be hellbent on genuinely correcting past wrongs.

I have had enough watching that sh*t club Tottenham embarrass itself over and over again. 🤣😂 AFL round 1 v GWS cannot come quick enough! Let’s hope Melbourne can deliver.

My thoughts exactly. Good clubs simply just fade from the spotlight and work without fuss. People who were saying our issues were media beat up driven stories are seriously misguided. This is where I hope we would learn, take the lessons and grow as a club. May seem like a small thing, but it does add up. Also, on the flip side, I’d argue Longmire is one of the best. Yes, Sydney get a leg up in terms of academy, but let’s not forget the plethora of rookies they also handpicked. Cunningham pick 49 rookie draft, Jake Lloyd and Rampe were rookie pick ups in 2013, George Hewett, Hayden McLean and Allir Allir were also not rated and were all moulded into very good AFL footballers during the Longmire era. Ain’t even including other rookies like Papley, Amartey, Fox and Melican. Even rookies asides, Parker, Tom McCartin, Warner, Rowbottom and McInerny were late picks and passed on by other clubs. As a coach he has moulded a handful of rookies into outright superstars (Papley, Rampe- super underrated, Allir) or at worst very good players of the competition. Not many coaches would have this particular type of record of consistently delivering on no names and giving them a reputation.

Imo, social media is not the issue, in fact social media in my view has been a godsend to human society. Humans have always being pieces of $h!tes and social media only shone brighter light to the fact. People thinking society has gone downhill due to social media are extremely naive. As an example, in ‘92 on live TV, Sinead O’Connor (R.I.P) on SNL got cancelled on that particular platform for speaking out against the Catholic Church and their abuse of children. 2-3 decades later, she was proven right. 2 decades before the establishment of social media in society, cancel culture and fake outrage had been on show. Social media ultimately isn’t the issue. It merely allows humans to further display how much of a disgrace the human race have always been. Having pocket sized super computers allows someone to cancel another with a click of a button with or without proper credence or due diligence. It’s about regulating and working with said platforms, not trying to fight them as there is more good than bad.

To be honest, don’t really care we head back down to that $h!t hole in round 4. We play that ground decently well across the Goodwin era. Lost a couple due to our choke and not necessarily Geelong playing great. Easy draw and here’s hoping the !nbred are in contention for the finals again and we knock them out in the last round.