Ghostwriter

Ollie Dempsey = Temu Sam De Koning 🤭

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True. They’re talking like this is Victoria vs the Lions.

Please god let Geelong lose by under two goals but by no more than two goals. 11 pts would be ideal. Thanks in advance!

Same here (on both counts) ☘️

@Jaded No More I know how difficult it is for you to watch the Cats. I have a little trick I use that you should try: when you feel the gastric contents of your stomach making its way up your oesophagus, quickly look for Brad Close and remember that moment in round 23, 2021 aka Maxy after the siren. Make Brad “double fist” Close your Gaviscon. 😃

Ugh someone needs to take out Cameron. Make it look like an accident

If it was pretty much any other player I’d concede that this might be a thinly-veiled dig at Selwyn. But not when it’s Clarrie. Honestly, Clarrie doesn’t allude, he doesn’t imply, he doesn’t speak “between the lines.” He likely wouldn’t have even realised what could be read into his comment. And folks at the club would know this. Should anyone point it out to him he’d calmly say, “Nah, if I wanted to say that I would’ve said it” or similar. That much-reported incident where he had angry words with Selwyn at training was totally overblown IMHO. Clarrie doesn’t even remember it. There’s definitely no lingering grudge, there never was. They get on really well.

I agree, I thought Houston’s barb was funny. Clearly Rankine didn’t. I don’t think the Adelaide fans planned on booing Quaynor, it seemed spontaneous. They couldn’t see it objectively like we all do and their collective lizard brain was like, No Rankine coz Quaynor… Bad Quaynor… BOOOO!

In your penultimate paragraph you’ve ended a sentence with a full-stop instead of an exclamation mark! Just letting you know in case consistency matters to you! You’re welcome!!!!!!!! 😜

He was on crutches at the last match.

Houston reportedly said to Rankine “the last time I saw you, you were horizontal” referring to their previous clash during which Houston knocked Rankine out. Rankine lashed out at this comment and Quaynor backed up Houston at which time Rankine made the offending comment. If Adelaide fans were to boo anyone for a reason other than the homophobic slur issue, wouldn’t it be Houston? Or wouldn’t they split the booing between Houston and Quaynor? Yeah, they were definitely booing Quaynor for being (in their eyes) the reason Rankine was suspended.

Danika looked great, very impressive. Quick and light on her feet. Took on drills with enthusiasm and seemed to revel in being out there. At the end of the session her academy chaperone (for want of the proper term) was genuinely delighted with how she went. Lots of praise and she was super proud. She’s also a sweet kid and has an infectious smile.

I reckon Lily wore her poor boyfriend out. 😅

Ghosty thinks Meggs is too conservative. As Paxy Paxman said (quote) We’ll [censored] smash ‘em 😂

The general vibe was awesome. Everyone’s quietly confident of a solid win tomorrow, with the exception of one who’s not so quiet… I said all the “right” things to Paxy about tomorrow… a win’s not a given, every game is a challenge, you can’t take oppo for granted etc. Paxy cuts me off and says “Yeah nah we’ll [censored] smash ‘em.” 😂

It is. But it’s always serious. No S&Gs here, even though it’s a captain’s run. They train hard and they train long. The session was scheduled to run for an hour. When I left it had gone an extra half hour and they were still out there. I guess I make it sound like it’s a real hoot but that’s because I interact with them before and after the session and yeah, they’re so much fun. But once they hit the park… it’s serious and intense af.

Was introduced to Mr Hore, father of Kate. We had an in-depth discussion on hand-warmers and whether you should put them in your shoes. We agreed to disagree 😁

I met a new girl today, Danika McDonald, a 16yo from Alice Springs who trained with the team and will train with them for a couple of weeks. She’s an NGA product. She hopes to one day be on our list ❤️💙

Lampy is training separately as though rehabbing 🤷‍♀️

Each player has a family member/friend with them as a training partner. Banno’s mum Shaz is a crackup… so keen. A couple of dads getting shown up by their daughters 😅Lily Johnson’s boyfriend is her training partner.

Paxy acknowledged they were bloody lucky to get away with the win, that they were complacent and let things happen that they usually wouldn’t let happen. Blaithin, Goldy and Tahls are in great spirits considering. The smile on Gabby’s face is gold. She’s so happy to be playing.

Trigger alert: there’s a soccer ball here!!!

The girls are due out on the park any minute now. I just got here (thanks PTV, you suck) to find out the VFL captain’s run just wrapped up and I missed it 😭

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