Vipercrunch

Loving Lever's mullet

Really hoping the medicos can sort Salem's issues out. It's easy to forgot just how good he was in the 2021 finals series.

I'd like for them to be asked rather than just assume what they'd say.

Given his frank discussions after the 2021 GF about experiencing burnout at times during his coaching career, good chance the club and himself are keeping his media and public roles to an absolute minimum during the off-season allowing him to focus on the players and coaching.

I wonder how many ex-addicts or family members of addicts or people who work in drug re-hab want to abandon the war on drugs.

It was an unusually frank and honest admission. Goes against what the club was saying that all the players barely rested after the premiership and came back cherry ripe. Perhaps he was the only one? Who knows, but it could be career suicide for any of our fringe players to do it going forward.

That would be nice, and given this is the unofficial practice mactch, it would be a big surprise. Last year the unoffical one was streamed on the AFL and clubs websites and only the official practice game was on Fox.

https://megaphone.link/NTETP6007515146 Link to SEN interview with Kye

Interview coming up on SEN in the next few minutes.

Good chance this is somewhere else in this thread (I looked but couldn't find), but heres a link to Momentum which I think is perhaps the best of the short docos. https://www.afl.com.au/ondemand/stories/719234/momentum-melbourne-fc?episode=1#full-film

The next few months are going to be tough if you get upset by that.

David King was apparently there this morning and will be on SEN “soon” to share his observations.

Finish Top 4 after the H&A and be playing our best footy in September. Whatever went wrong after round 10 last season can't be repeated or heads should roll. That should see us playing in the GF.

I think I just heard Dwayne Russell on SEN say all "official" practice games like this one will be on Foxtel/Kayo. I expect any unoffical games we play against other AFL clubs will be streamed on the AFL site.

Do we have a substantiated explanation as to why Brayshaw spent most, if not all, of pre-Christmas training on an exercise bike or rowing machine?

I would love some indication from someone at the game about the affect of the wind, especailly after half time. The commentatiors barley mentioned it, but you could see the trees in the background really moving around, could often hear it in the effects mic and at three quarter time, the players hair was all over the place. It seemed to have become very influential, but it was hard to tell which if any end it favoured. Great game to watch. We'll go in as underdogs again for the GF, but who knows what happens if we play our best footy. Shame the AFL has made such a mess of the ground situation. The AFLW competetion desrves so much better.

The additional 1st and 2nd round picks next year are also a great result for us. We'll all be hoping for them to drop down the ladder which will give us a great draft hand to either bring in more young talent or poach someone from another club.

I’m sure some will never accept it, but it’s crystal clear that the coaches really value what role players like ANB (8th tonight) bring to the club. It’s not all about the commonly talked about stats.

You can't seriously believe that? Yes, disturbing and serious allegations have come to light, and like when they do in all aspects of life, the accused, while not yet proven guilty, face some consequences. Teachers and policemen get stood down if serious accusations are made. People get arrested and spend time behind bars well before a case gets heard in a court. If these accusations are proven to be false, no person or club will be "ruined". Yes, some nuffies will bring it up down the track, but mud won't stick with anyone that matters. A lot of alarmist nonsense is getting thrown around right now.

Has any journo or person of note in the AFL industry come out and said based on what we know right now, person "x" should lose their job or be punished? I haven't heard anyone say any such thing. Every comment has always come with the provision that if what has been accused is found to be true then severe punishments should follow. No one is jumping the gun and wanting punishments be handed out right now.

Some big names for Sydney have been horrible so far. Heeney, Blakey, Papley, Warner, Mills. A lot of scope to improve, but I can’t see it happening.

Heeney hasn’t had a great finals at all.

Very poor by Sydney to let Hawk get one goal like that, never mind 2.

Uninspiring start so far

Solid first half. Highlight for me has been some of Banno’s handballs. Not something I had expected from someone’s whose obvious strength is outside run. First class, especially in the drizzle.