Tony Tea

Gubby Allan has returned to Collingwood to head up the Pies' womens footy department. They must be confident of a green light.

The complaints were always going to get louder when the expansion clubs started winning.

Bollox to the petition. Let's just win there.

Good players often play well against us. Bad players usually play their one good game against us.

I don't know how much Goodwin has contributed to the Dees' current gameplan (Roos last week said Goody had increased his involvement across the board), but fingers crossed Goody is capable of finding a way through opponents' zone defences instead of loading their slingshots like we did yesterday. It's fair to say St Kilda's Clarko style embarrassed us. We looked utterly clueless as the Saints ran training drills out of our forward line. Don't put any money on us beating West Coast, Hawthorn, Footscray and Carlton.

My prediction pre-season was that Richmond would be this season's Melbourne 2007. Freo's collapse has caught most everyone by surprise, but there seem to be many similarities with the 2007 Dees. I wish it would happen to West Coast.

Because.

Bugg can carry on as much as he likes. As long as he walks the talk. However, he has an amazing amount of front for someone who makes regular mistakes.

Point of order: Barassi coached Carlton to 2 flags.

Dwayne is a bully. He punches down and sucks up. Shocking piece of work.

Poise.

Frosty has the "running off the bench, pinching a handball, and jailing a long goal" role sewn up.

Mythbusters needs to do an episode on Watts' first game (and that tackle).

Personally, I reckon the AFL didn't want any more drug drama when they were going after Essendon, so they did a cursory investigation on us and gave us a clean bill of health. I don't know how much we were tied up with Dank and his crew, but it always felt like the AFL were more than keen to sweep our whitewash under the carpet.

Not this week, according to Nathan Jones.

And, of course, once the AFL changes the interchange-blood rule rule, watch them make further injury exceptions, and then further non-injury exceptions, and then do something completely different which is actually the same as it was in 1967, only in black and white.

Yes, it is. But expect the AFL to change it on the fly after what happened to North/Petrie on Sunday.

North didn't get a goal from the blatant throw. That's assuming you mean the blatant Dal Santo throw, and not another blatant throw which probably occurred, but which I missed.

Because there were enough games where Hogan was one out, or where the ball was delivered to him better, which has not been the case as much this year.

Hogan struggles to lead because we have too few players who bust the lines and are able to put the ball down his throat. This is doubly complicated when the ball carriers are unable to get forward of the centre which means they are too far from goal and cannot reach the key forwards who in turn are unable to lead backwards into the space behind them. In effect, they have an attacking option taken out of their armoury. In short, our lack of speed is making it tough for Hogan.

Especially considering that after round 19 we were 9th.

And going by the round 22 ladder positions - North 1, Dogs 2, Dees 4, Crows 5 - we should have played the Dogs in our preliminary final and the Crows should have played North.

Essendon had loose players everywhere, including Parish who appears to know how to make space. We already know how Oliver copes in traffic - very well - so let's see how Parish goes when he inevitability cops the heat Oliver appears to relish.

Imagine getting out-coached by Worsfold.

Clearly it was not a mark to Fasolo. But clearly it was a free kick, and that's what the umpire paid.