Tony Tea

I'm at the limit to the number of paid subscriptions I'm prepared sign up for.

Dermott is probably a good bloke, but his footy analysis is too often poor and pretentious. Ask yourself how much weight his opinions would carry if he wasn't a famous (and very good) ex-player. He tries to sound impressive but too often uses big words he doesn't know the meaning of, and butchers other big words. Take apart his wise-old-man pronouncements and you find the essence of what he says is okay, but often garbled in layers of sloppy garnish. That said, we have to be wary of Cats 2007 and Tigers 2018. In both years they were clearly the best side, but were ambushed in the finals. There's a good chance we will be the best side next year, but I hope we don't expose our flank in the finals.

Even when it was flying high it had "hmmmmm" written all over it.

The fact we won a flag without him speaks for itself.

We are where we are today because of everything that has happened, both good and bad, in the last 10 or more years.

Don't need to. We have Clarrie and Trac.

I'm hoping we can double up, and there is every reason to believe we can play better in 2022, but I'm wary of the precedents set by the Cats in 2008 and the Tigers in 2018, who were both coming off a flag, and who were both the best sides in the home-and-away season, and who both got ambushed in the finals.

Harry Petty, too.

On the flip side, this is in today's Herald Sun.

Bucky admits he was wrong in today's paper.

What puzzles me about Bucky's article is that there was not the faintest hint that he had noticed we were clearly showing good signs last year.

Shot ourselves in both feet when we got murdered by North and lost over 10%.

The 1940 Olympics were going to be in Tokyo. Melbourne Premiers.

Good shepherd, but Dunkley was playing for the free with his tumble.

Correction: "I think it's pretty much him choosing money AND success."

I have Eagle and Docker supporter friends in Perth who have said to me that they have never seen a side play better than Melbourne has in the last two matches at Optus.

Dropped $180 in four clicks. Money well spent.

Hibbert might not be the fastest player on the list, but he knows how to shut down a threat.

I'm not opposed to ducking, except for Mathieson, who is a massive expletive.

Stop it, Hutchy.

I'm almost 60, and I've always used banner.

Because they think it will make them sound like an insider, or make them sound cool.

Absolutely worth another year. Has enough raw material value to see what will happen if he can have an injury free run.

They only play half their games at home.

Glad to see Hawthorn embrace The Curse of Alistair Clarkson, but less glad to know that he will go to Carlton or Collingwood.