Redleg

I know all that and obviously appreciate the important things in life, but as you say and I am not even sure why, a week later, but I am still really p-ssed off with the players and coaches.They let the fans and themselves down and wasted a golden opportunity to have some finals experience, give everyone some reward for the rotten years, enhance sponsorship, membership, fixture and recruit opportunities, but they just blew it big time. That still really annoys me.

Can't wait for the training the house down crap to start again.

Don't know why I let this team upset me so much. 11 years of crap and finals there for the taking and we dish up that pathetic first quarter and only a slightly better rest of the game, against a depleted young side playing for nothing other than some pride. Then again we probably have none. I should have stuck to banana smoothies and forgot about the footy.

Bombers will re sign him.

That's true, my gripe is he played us and other clubs, when he was already signed with Carlton mid year. You can take that to the bank.

Never to us. It would have been hard to get him that year, as he had already committed to Dick Pratt, before he pretended he was still deciding which club to go to and wasted our time looking at our facilities and discussing his move. Not my favourite footballer.

I am interested in the term "done deal". To me it means the player has selected us and the clubs have agreed on the price. I would say it is a million to one on that definition to be a "done deal". IMO at best, the player has selected us and advised us of that. That is not a "done deal". Feel free to enlighten me.

MRP a joke. Umpiring by crowd noise and not vision. Fixturing done on the basis of dollars and totally unrelated to fairness of a sporting competition. Rising Star award ignoring Jayden Hunt in 2017 and this week giving an award to a kid with 3 possessions and 3 goals obtained in a thrashing of the opposition. A record year of football stats for a 2nd year player, placing him in the top few players in the game, yet ignored in a 40 man AA squad. Rules changed at whim. You know rjay, it is okay for you to suggest that the AA selectors should watch the games, but I actually doubt that they would know how to turn on a Television or find their way to a football ground.

Now you are an AFL club and are offered one of Jonas, Roberton, Ross and Clarrie, you select........?

Better than my weekend.

From the AFL site: His raw numbers stacked up: he led the League in handballs (21.9), was second in contested possessions (15.6), fifth in total disposals (659) and eighth in average disposals (30), 10th in clearances (6.6) and 11th in tackles (6.9). Oliver's handball rate helped, but his disposal efficiency of 77.1 per cent also ranked second among the top-10 ball-winners and fourth in the top 20. Demons co-captain Nathan Jones was among those surprised at Oliver's omission. "It's obviously an opinion of the selectors, but from our perspective he's been a terrific addition to our team," Jones said. "He's taken a huge leap for a young player … and he's probably pretty stiff to miss out this year, but I'm tipping he won't be too far away." Oliver perhaps needed to kick more than four goals and average more than 199.4 metres gained – the new buzz statistic in the AFL world. The pacesetters rack up 500-plus metres, while Hawk Tom Mitchell, for comparison's sake, amassed 313.4. Oliver's like-for-like competition was probably Matt Crouch, Rory Sloane, Joel Selwood, Dylan Shiel, Mitchell and Josh Kennedy. Kennedy played 19 games, Selwood 18, and Oliver is with the rest all on 22. Only Kennedy averaged more clearances than Oliver. Only Mitchell and Crouch averaged more disposals. None of that group won more contested possessions. Only Sloane out-tackled him. Digging deeper, they all bettered Oliver's three inside 50s per match and, damningly, crushed him in average metres gained. The reasoning, valid or not, for Oliver's snub is suddenly clearer. His critics – and we're not talking about Damien Martyn – consistently stated he would be more impactful if he kicked more. The All Australian selectors clearly agree.

Hope so.

Haven't seen DL this fired up, but understandably so. I am so p-ssed off I actually don't want to watch any finals even including the GF. I just couldn't care less. Have even stopped watching 360 and AFL tonight.

Wow, 2nd best contested possession player in the AFL, one of the leading clearance players and more handballs than anyone in AFL history, 4th best tackler and 5th in disposals, all in his 2nd year and he cant crack the AA squad of 40. Players like Jonas, Roberton, Ross etc must be superstars of the game then.

And we are. Consistently disappointing supporters.

Our club and its players continue to disappoint. That is the one constant.

Can I send my account to you care of the Romsey Post Office?

Well, there we are, beat Pies and play first finals since 2006.

Yes, I will write to the club and suggest it.

Fairly simple aim this week, win and play finals.

Good post.

Well the rumours are starting, I suppose we are getting to that time of year. If you examine carefully the way Goodwin spoke about Watts in the after match this week, your rumour could have legs. I heard today that Kent and Frost are the players to Carlton, with the rest being the same as yours. Who knows?

Well we need to win and hope for the miracle suns win tonight, to round out the weekend .

Would have thought a fair bit of water has to go under the bridge first: He has to leave Adelaide. He has to select us as his new club. We have to do a deal with the Crows.

A big win over the lions, with big losses by Dogs and Eagles, would make it a good AFL weekend. Bombers dropping the unloseable game against Suns would top it off nicely.