Demonised

For a minute, I thought he was Broden Kelly getting his heart's desire.

Media headlines follow: 'Oliver with major foot injury, unhappy with treatment.'

'Taciturn' muscles its way forward, with 'phlegmatic' at its side.

As it has ever been, so it is today.

Looking in good nick.

Brodie Grundy?

For a brief, shining moment, we were, post-2021.

You know, it's almost as if the Moneyball method isn't as easy as the movie makes out. ...

Still, I'd like it to be more than once in a lifetime.

Sometimes I think that people underrate, or overlook, the last quarter of our GF triumph. The last part of the third quarter gets all the accolades but we shouldn't forget that the last quarter was a sensational, relentless display of breathtaking, classic football where we utterly dominated the opposition and didn't stop until AFTER the final siren.

From halfway through the third quarter until the end of the game was the best, purest most exciting football I have ever seen.

And Netflix makes what becomes a classic sports drama 'To Hell and Back, the Melbourne Demons Story'.

So we're now at the 'reconciliation' stage of the 'reconciliation-redemption' narrative arc. I'm looking forward to the next stage.

Oh, my.