Ghostwriter

Besides Vines, Bill Laurie is another player who’ll be sporting a shiner. He copped an errant Riv elbow to the eye. No biggie, it’s just that the bandaging looks so dramatic.

Luker was there (training with the main group) but his hair has grown and so has he. I almost didn’t recognise him. Charles was there. He said his achilles is almost 100% Toby Sinnema is likely one of the boys you didn’t recognise. Today was the first time he’s met many of the players. He said he’s stoked about how much they welcomed him.

“No doubt” ????? As a famous ranga fish n chip shop owner once said ploise explain Roy is Kozzie’s biological uncle. They’re super close as you say. But in terms of teammates it’s Ricky Mentha who will figure largely in Kozzie’s decision to stay with us, IMHO.

Not sure if it’s been mentioned already but Taj was wearing the no-contact hat because of some “minor concussion issues”

I congratulated Goody on his recent tying of the knot. Told him his gorgeous bride Kris looked stunning, the scenery was beautiful and his shirt was hands down the ugliest wedding apparel I’ve ever seen. He was shocked to hear my thoughts on his shirt. He said he loves it, it’s his favourite piece of clothing. I said I’ll pray for you. He said folks were asking him if he had a 10-pin bowling game to attend after the match. He thought that was funny. I said I’ll pray reeeaaallll hard for you. 🙃

Training really well. Super fit.

Fullarton in rehab coz he has a slight hammy, sustained on Monday.

Vines coming off with blood running down the side of his face. Looks like he’s been hit on the brow. All patched up and back out there

Soz. Fullarton

welfare check for P Fence Jeffo’s not here.

Disco one-on-one with Keith the physio. Stretching exercises only. Charles and Cream throwing footballs to one another from four feet away.

Kozzie hasn’t seen that revolting imaginary back page but he laughed when I told him about it and said it’s bs and to pay no attention to it. He and Ardu and Bellanie ain’t goin’ nowhere!

Huge black clouds rolling in right now. Thank goodness I forgot my umbrella 🙄 They’ll still train while it’s raining but I’ve seen a couple of lightning strikes. Postscript- the rains are here Marge.

Spot on. Kozzie and his partner Ardu are fully settled in Melb. End of story 👍🏽

Don’t forget this is an OPEN SESSION.

The latter

I just hope you’re well n truly over the stomach bug you had, or as you put it, the squirts 🤒 If not, I’ll wave to you from the opposite side of Gosch’s. 😷 PS: you’ve been a Demon all along 😊

When we first heard about the open session being scheduled for the 14th of February some DA were saying that because it’s Valentine’s Day they might not be available coz plans with their other half etc. I jokingly replied, ”I’ll definitely be available because the MFC is my one and only true love.” I expected to get these reaction emojis 😂🤣 but instead I got these ❤️ 💖 which goes to show I’m not the nuffiest in the DA. 😝🙁

The 22nd of January is part of the school holidays open session series. I know in the past there’s been no training at Gosch’s during the AO but the session on the 22nd at Gosch’s is locked in. We’ve already ordered what’s needed in terms of sausage sizzle stuff and BBQ hire and since that’s done through the Club, there’s no doubt it’s going ahead. Definitely bring the little man along 🤗

I’ve got a feeling the serious stuff starts now but they’d prefer to keep things under wraps as much as possible. The website usually only mentions sessions that are open. So far the only sessions that are officially open sessions are on Monday the 20th of January at Casey, Wednesday the 22nd of January at Gosch’s and Friday the 14th of February at Casey. That session at Casey on the 14th of February is puzzling because it’s part of the Family Day series yet it’s on a weekday after kids return to school. 🤷‍♀️

It’s confirmed training at Gosch’s next Wednesday and at this stage there’s nothing scheduled for tomorrow or Monday at Gosch’s.

I’ll ask my guy about tomorrow and Monday then I’ll post here. At this stage next Wednesday at 10am at Gosch’s is the only cert as far as I know.

From my sister from another mister… Strange training- only 8 on ground with one coach so far away I can’t see who they are and are only throwing the ball up and catching it. There seem to be enough cars there that would indicate they are all there. There’s no equipment out and the scoreboard is not lit up. None of the boys have numbers. They are definitely practising catching the ball though 😅 Ps I could do what they are doing. Can’t see if it’s Goodie with the 8/9 boys. The rest must be in the gym. Mmmmmmmm

BTW, what was Melky thinking? Shirt tucked into shorts, with no belt. And they’re ill-fitting; it’s like he’s wearing his older brother’s shorts. And the colours don’t work well together: school-shirt blue with pastel lemon. Looks like I’m gonna have to choose a new favourite player.

I wouldn’t read too much into it. Generally a player will invite about 10 teammates, (that’s been the way recently, anyways) and the same probably applies to coaches. I’m guessing some who were invited couldn’t attend for whatever reason (they were holidaying elsewhere, for example).