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classique 'hallmark celebration'

ash may be one of few players who can go with him for both speed and fitness

rd 10: richmond v essendon seems like for friday night carlton play sunday 3.20pm in rd 10 so their game v sydney would make more sense for saturday night our game vs north screams as a 'bury it on saturday twilight / sunday early' clash; probably the latter as we'll be coming back from a late game on sunday twilight vs meth coke over in wa rd 11: think it'll be a case of tigers getting ANOTHER big friday night exposure game; this time away vs sydney melbourne v freo at the g is every change of being a saturday afternoon game you'd think, which could be a novelty in a year in which we SHOULD be a prime time regular, despite us strangling sides defensive and thus them not being high-scoring affairs and thus double unattractive for channel 7 who ideally want big teams playing high scoring games with lots of ad breaks

interesting, gw$ appear to be running two 'coolers' (the just-too-hip-for-me-baby terminology for taggers) these days, with lachie ash playing that role alongside matt de boer both are more than capable of winning their own ball and using it well; wouldn't surprise me at all to see the former assigned to langdon on a wing and the latter going inside on one of either petracca or oliver i've come around to a different line of thinking in terms of ins / outs - now think it'll only be sideshow bob back in for one of t mac or weed this is given the pretty tall forward line gw$ are running - hogan, himmelberg, and riccardi are all playing up front for them so far this year, but the latter two were completely anonymous (at least in terms of stats) against freo, so they might want to change it up for the game on saturday night they're really missing toby greene, daniel lloyd, and brent daniels from a forward pressure scenario, which might be why they've 'gone tall' so far in 2022, but none of them will be available this week

ah right you are thanks for the fix-up

No Cripps, no Carlton

Ryder bump very similar to the one May got pinged for in his preseason game for us - should cop a week

All the talk about him being worth $700k a year boggles through mind

while we paid fair value for may, it is amazing the players gc17 have given away for nix over the years - brodie at freo having a ripper start at his new club, 2m peter the big key forward for the peptides, and jarryd lyons a regular finals performer for the bears

that was pretty dirty by preuss

$60k for longmire

From my understanding not one of them live anywhere near western Sydney where they’re meant to be growing the game in Bankstown etc - when gw$ started up they were nearly all housed together in Canada bay, and unsurprisingly a lot live in nice inner west locales like Balmain, Rozelle etc they are a soulless franchise that are simply there to add value to the broadcast rights agreement In saying all that I am of course worried about facing them next week due to residual MFCSS 😈

funny that hogan plays against former clubs in consecutive weeks i didn't see the preuss hit - was watching the other game - but was it actually bad? high? deliberate? what level of impact?

she clearly wants to coach at afl level at the moment, our coaching dept is super settled i don't think there's a role for her at the moment unfortunately

desperately need the first goal this quarter, and early

it's about to be - at least 5 players (including philips) going to the pear next season they are SO STRONG in the contest then the way marinoff and hatchard are SO QUICK break to space - we can't keep up with em

north melbourne paid sydney swans $10,000 for the rights to wayne carey

you would think so; gives lauren pearce a big advantage in experience

crows supporting mate of mine has used it for years; i thought it originated from mislabelled merch, but accoring to this, stolen from a bigfooty from april, 2021, it's a supporter-led thing that ended up making a fair whack of cash for fight mnd: Basically 5 years ago some lady on Adelaide Crows Pride forum said 'Go the Crom' after the win or something. A few supporters tried to get it going on and off for the next 4 years. When we were crap last year it took off being regularly used on Facebook. Adelaide Crowject Podcast have sold beanies with Crom on them at $25 each. Proceeds have gone to MND. I think they've made at least 5 grand for the charity maybe more. With that increasing due to the high demand. aunty made a vid about it too: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=2500352820269500

tangentially related to non-mfc clubs more than games - absolutely appalling bit of "journalism" from slobbo in the little paper wherein michael long basically dumps on cyril rioli with zero visibility of what he went thru cos he has had NOTHING to do with cyril for years the story screams of jealousy that caro got a helluva scoop that's ramifications throughout the footballing industry and he went straight for a negative click-bait approach in response

i think one of the things that gets forgotten about weed is that he'd barely played and trained in the lead up to his draft, but the glimpses he'd shown at aps school football in particular were genuinely full of potential i would estimate he's probably not played 100 fully competitive games by dint of injury, including afl, vfl, and u/18s or school football, whereas some of his contemporaries were probably drafted with around that many underage, school, and / or vfl football games worth of experience

more toey about this than last year's aflm gf vs footscray - saw that as a total 50-50 whereas the crom are an absolute powerhouse in aflw CARN THE DEES

covid protocols

i presume @Cassiew meant 2010-19 inclusive? (and still rolling on not being bottom since 2009)

i actually don't think they are; they've shown that they win at home and they play well when the game is on their terms, but when it tightens up they can't quite get it done their fixture should help them to top 4, but i don't see them as a threat away from the gabba