Ghostwriter

@binman Kolt, Sharpie and Jai qualify for Casey finals. If Howes plays next week (vs Collingwood) he won’t qualify. This is according to Sharpie and confirmed by Chappy, except Chappy wasn’t sure about Howes.

Tahls ☹️ She’s in really good spirits. She said she’s happy to be only missing half the season, not the whole season. Now there’s a glass half-full person if ever I saw one.

Men’s and women’s teams both out on the park together. Training separately but geez it’s good to see them all out there. The boys are all in trakkies and puffas, the girls are in shorts and sleeveless guernseys. Just sayin’ 😉

Geez it’s great seeing Collingwood get beaten

Watching this season opener and at halftime they showed Darcy Moore and Patrick Cripps handing out mini footballs to fans in the crowd. Isn’t that good of them! I’m sure Max would do the same if the men’s and women’s weren’t scheduled on the same friggin’ day. 🤬

👏 Spot on.

By “the truth” I’m referring to how he doesn’t appear to be (as Binman said), someone who was blindsided. The truth is he was. He’s just good at appearing ok. He’s not ok. Not yet. He’s not angry. He’s shocked and really disappointed. How do I know? Because I’ve been told by everyone with whom I spoke on the first session back at Gosch’s post the sacking. And a couple of days before he was sacked he and I spoke at length about his vision. Trust me, he wasn’t a coach who knew he was in the crosshairs. I know there’ll be people on here who’ll laugh at this but the fact is Goody and I were friends. Not so hard to believe… he’s a mere human being, just like everyone else.

He was led to believe he’d be there to see out the H&A this year, moreover that he’d be coaching us next year. So people will say he’s naïve and maybe he is, but the fact remains… this came out of the blue, this was unexpected, not just by Goody but by everyone: players, assistant coaches, training staff, medical staff, property staff… everyone. And this is because Goody still had the unwavering belief that we’d be back in contention real soon. He truly believed this.

Yep he’s very adept at appearing like someone who wasn’t blindsided. If I didn’t know the truth, he probably would’ve fooled me as well

We’ve got a key forward, only he’s yet to debut. His name’s LUKER KENTFIELD 😁

100% blindsided. They all were.

… because he has to! He was sacked with no heads up… zero warning. Please don’t let the commendable way he’s handling himself publicly lead you to believe that he’s not hurt and bitterly disappointed, because he is. He’s “lining himself up for his next job” because he has to, NOT because he wants to.

FWIW, last Saturday at the captain’s run Judd said that his decision on his future has nothing to do with who our head coach is/was. He said nothing has changed with the sacking of Goody, he’s always planned (and still plans) on staying. Then on Tuesday he said “just some loose ends to tie up, but yeah, I’m not leaving.” Incidentally, I don’t ask him about his decision, he volunteers the info. Ok, so I may’ve given him the odd death threat or two, but that was in the past. I don’t even need to give him the sideways stink-eye..: he knows. 😁

C. Definitely C!!!

Luker’s already in the forward line… for Casey, on Sunday. Unfortunately we don’t have two Lukers.

Is this because Casey’s season doesn’t matter?

Jai won’t know himself! 😅

It’s hard to see in the photo but I remember it’s an Albury guernsey

Not body shaming… jumper shaming, or jumper SIZE shaming. He said himself his jumper is a couple of sizes too small (‘a couple’ being debatable). And don’t forget Deeves, it was you who once started a thread titled I Like Big Butts And I Cannot Lie. Hashtag pot/kettle 😁 PS apologies to all for the earworm 🤭

You can’t see it properly in the pic but Max’s guernsey is my fave. It’s chocolate brown with a matte sky blue deep yoke. Again, you can’t see it properly but my least fave is Jeffo’s. The neck of it looks like that of a girl’s tennis dress. He didn’t disagree with that description 😅

That’s his Coldstream guernsey

So I asked Luker to sign this jumper of mine in readiness for when he debuts (next season, but you never know)… Before he signed it he was waving the sharpie around with a very serious look on his face. I asked him what he was doing. He said, “I’m practicing first, I wanna make sure I do it properly.” He was actually fresh-airing his signature. Bless. 🥹

After training he put his arms out like someone who’s wearing a Demons jumper. I told him I can’t hug him in that revolting jumper so he said he’ll take it off. I weighed up a Geelong jumper hug vs a sweaty topless hug and went the sweaty topless hug route (I took one for the team). As I walked away he yelled out “GO CATS!” 🤬

They’d all gone back to AAMI when I read this. I had a chat with Chocco right at the end and he’d know about this since he’s at Casey matches.

From out your way I take it. 😄