Tony Tea

I read it that Hutchy thought he was revealing something.

The Sounding Board podcast.

The Sounding Board today Hutchy and Barrett seemed confident Collingwood made their salary dump because they have Petracca "on the hook" for next year's free agency period.

Footy is lies.

To me "trade bargains" and "trade bust" are deals in which you aggressively chase a swap in which one player turns out to be a dud and the other a stud, and you end up with the cream from the bargain, or egg on your face from the bust. Injury should not be included in the calculations; Mitch Clark was starring when he was injured. Nor should go home factor; we desperately wanted to keep Scott Thompson because he was our key player in 2004 until he was injured. Garlett fell into our lap, Watts/Fritsch is so-so, I'd argue that out of the six swaps listed only Farmer/Gilbert fits into my terms of reference. But really, the article is just another excuse for the Herald Sun to once again barrack for their view of the Kelly/Tyson/Salem deal. They immediately said it was a blunder, and now refuse to accept that Melbourne actually did pretty well out of the deal. Kelly is a very good player, but appears to have stagnated and has been known to go missing crunch games, while we got a lot of good footy out of Tyson and Salem gets better every year. In fact, Salem's last two years have been better than Kelly's last two years, injuries notwithstanding. If trends continues Salem will go past Kelly. Anyhoo, I wrote much more than I intended. All I really wanted to say is that it is a lazy article on auto-publish.

Injuries and lack of games cooked Hannan. Is this a term of which I am ignorant?

The fact that you can win the Brownlow because you had one really good year should be reflected on by the AA selectors who employ legacy picks to reflect a player's body of work, not their performance in a particular year. Robbo... cough, cough... Brad Johnson.

Eek? Eke!

I'm looking forward to 2021 going down in history as the first flag of our premiership Deenasty.

Lynch is a key forward, so it's fair to assume he cops heaps of treatment from his weekly tormenter. If he hands out the occasional sly one it's no big deal for me.

I almost considered making a worthwhile comment.

This has been my worry for several years now. We are never going to win a flag if every time we start to build a list we lose a key player.

What, since when did Charles Dickens start commenting on Demonland?

Jack Viney reminds me of Brett Kirk - can't kick, can't handball, can't mark, bl00dy champion.

If Oliver left I'd give footy away.

Watch the selectors tie themselves in knots inventing ways to keep Oliver out of the 22.

DisMay at May dis.

Idiots.

No.

Had his cards marked when he dropped that last seconds mark against us last year.

"Brownlow Medal favourite" - there's your get-out clause right there.

Caro glibly makes a raft of assertions about the club. Fair enough, it's what she does. But I was left wondering why I had not heard about any one of them. Admittedly I'm not plugged in to the main vein, but after seven years I figure I would have heard at least a skerrick.

Michael Voss?

This is probably the wrong time to confess that I like James Brayshaw.

There's a reason he keeps getting picked.