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We're in it together CYB. It will be tough but as long as our boys give everything they have that's all we can ask.

It's sick the way Rutten is being treated. I can't for the life of me see why they have him coaching a training session when they could possibly have Clarko announced as coach today. He’s a good egg Ben, a real honest man by the sounds of it. I really hope this whole things ends well for him, I don’t care how it ends for the club but I hope Ben’s conscience and reputation are left somewhat intact at the end of all this.

Totally agree. I know a figure of around 700k a season was floated somewhere like FC recently but we could make this much more workable than the Grundy deal.

Hearing this too.

Big news for them, probably the one they needed to sign first. We'll start next year with at least 8 clubs after Harry. blues star curnow inks huge new deal

Ah yes the dreaded Summer World Cup. Not cool.

Takes me back to being an adolescent teen getting all my money together and going to HMV at the Jam Factory to buy Follow The Leader on CD. Great times! I couldn't figure out though why the first 13 tracks were just 5 seconds of no sound, I honestly thought it was broken until I read in the liner notes that this was deliberate for some reason. I did always wonder how many people took it back to the store without reading them.

Excellent post Kev and you’re absolutely right. Not everyone is going to like you in life, that is just a fact plain and simple. Digital platforms not only give a voice to negativity but also ignorance. It can play on your mind when someone hasn’t ‘liked’ your message or someone you usually speak with or comments on your posts suddenly stops. If you have unconditional friendships and relationships, please don’t take them for granted. Put in the time with them. Know that there will be people who won’t like you and learn the best way to deal with it. Much easier said than done and it’s something I find extremely difficult myself because I really like to at least be ‘ok’ with everyone and not raise too much conflict, especially on here. Not everyone is like this of course. Find the best way to be ok with yourself and don’t ever let other people on here or anywhere online make you feel inferior or as if you are a lesser person than you are. If you have good intentions and your heart is in this right place then there’s nothing more you can do.

They don't always get it right but we can agree they have the best chance out of all of us for getting it right mo64?

The show was great once but I genuinely feel like when Eddie came in he mucked up the format a bit. I do really like Matthew Lloyd though he's the only reason I'd watch from a footy perspective. I'm more into things like the AFL Exchange podcast for analysis lately.

Exactly, just means they have to fall sometime. That sometime is tonight.

Let's see what domino day brings us.

Damn that injury, would have been great to get some sample data pre finals.

It will be a bit difficult to deal with being in the top 4 since about Rd 2 and not making it. Get it done Dees!

Get your gameday pants on people!

There's A LOT of Richmond nuffies that think this!

More human than hu-man!

AFL Investigation please.

Feeling a bit similar, in fact I can't watch anything during the week now. Its too tiring.

Saved our backside that night

I hear ya Luci, I've certainly posted a lot less this week after some people showed their true colours. Was just a stern reminder that this is a message board after all and nothing more.

Of course! Brain blank.

Gee, 06 maybe?

Hopefully he can snag a few this week. Only needs one good game for the tide to turn I reckon.

I'm going to deep dive on this because I think I know what you're saying and I have some experience in this area. I'm also too old now to care about what people think. I'm a sufferer of anxiety and depression and that's my lot, hopefully I'll be able to help some others like yourself in some shape or form. Digital communication has been one of this biggest blessings around, I don't know how we would have got through lockdowns without it. However I have to say, I seriously struggle with most forms of social media. In my 20s I used facebook every moment of the day, until one day I just decided I wasn't going to look at it much anymore. The only things I use it for are for events, some news and to promote the podcast I run. Then you got the messenger apps and group chats. After a while of lockdown it was occuring to me that these things were really tiring, everything is geared up to give you a dopamine hit whether it's seeing the facebook notifications or reactions in chats. I easily get myself into a mindset that if I'm in a group chat and I've said something and no-one reacts they just 'leave you on read' then it really affects me. Some groups I'm in don't even answer questions you ask, I liken this to saying someone at a party and the other 5 friends you're with in the circle just don't say anything. I'm not saying the way I think about this is the right way but it is very tiring. The one thing I learned about heavily relying on those platforms for communication and spending A LOT of time on them is that after a while your mind goes into that world. Everything magnifies: every word people say, every reaction, even every non comment and just times when you check and nothing is there. That platform has become your outer world. Let's move to dear old Demonland, which I love and still believe it's the best place you'll find to talk about the Dees. However after winning a flag and having a very enjoyable season I am finding myself on here as much if not more than I've ever been. It's been good but I've been on so much lately that this world has become my outer world. I've been at the point where I talk on here more than I do to family or friends! Everything magnified and anything that happened in here was getting the bulk of my attention. Yet aside from a handful of people here most people are randoms who I've never met before. I had a harsh realisation of this just this week actually. Someone who I'd been speaking to quite a bit and I thought I was getting to know took something I said in one of the threads to them completely the wrong way and have stopped talking to me. It's a reminder that although you think you can form good connections over the internet that really you don't know each other and was the biggest lesson I've taken out of this week. That most people on DL, although probably very nice people, do not know me. If you feel the same way lately you might feel your world has been turned upside down a bit. You may take things that happen on a site like this so seriously but be very careful. Not to sound like a father but the screen doesn't love you, your actual friends and family who know you love you. Don't be afraid to do a digital detox. I've done it many times and did it this week as well. There's never any point being upset with what happens here or anywhere online, it's not abnormal but I'd much rather be using that stress on something actually important. Sorry that was long winded, hope I'm on the right track.