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Trump, the Murdoch media (specifically the New York Post) and a whole lot of right-leaning social media, didn't "sweep it under the rug". They went all out for Hunter Biden. But just like the "rigged and fraudulent election", it's just another lie and conspiracy theory believed only by Trump and his supporters. It had nowhere to go. There's not one scintilla of evidence that any of it was true, not even the mythical laptop and the blind repairer. That's why the rest of the media ignored it. Hunter is a good man like his father and late brother, and the pathetic vendetta against him was deplorable. You are just repeating the lies. Everyone has underestimated Biden so far. I love the way Trump scored an own goal by saying "imagine losing to him". And everyone has underestimated Harris. She is very popular ... just look at the reception she got after the result. As usual, as a woman, she'll be held to a much higher standard than anyone else. She'll most likely be pilloried by the Republicans and Murdoch for things they'd ignore with a man. Biden has one big thing going for him ... the pandemic. He just has to reduce the numbers reasonably significantly, and then next year the Pfizer vaccine (at least) will come through. By his second or third year the pandemic will be almost gone. Trump can claim all he likes about it "disappearing", but it will be in Biden's and Harris' term that it does.

They voted Trump from a fear of "Socialism" and "Communism". It takes priority over Trump's racism.

Trump is like a football team that's a point up halfway through the last quarter, the fresher opposition is coming home with the wind, and they want to stop the match now so they win.

In the mid 1960s when he was playing VFL, Blair ran a Sunday footy game for local kids in Hedgeley Dene Gardens in East Malvern. Every second kid from around the area would turn up, to be divided into two teams and play. Blair would umpire. It was great fun until the Council banned footy in the park because the kids were chopping up the lawn too much. I remember one Blair's favourite local kids was Robert Lamb, who went on to play 58 games for Richmond and 7 for South Melbourne. Lamb is the only player in Richmond history to have kicked 8 or more goals in a game at Senior, Reserve and Under 19 levels.

So 3½ years then? ?

Boy, we're looking through a very hazy retrospectoscope with this one.

Jack Riewoldt is on the way out. His modus operandi now is to fly spectacularly through the air and then flop around on the ground looking for a free kick, which he gets occasionally and hence scores 1.6 goals a game. ?

Hard to equate the Brownlow with the club Best and Fairest. Players very rarely receive Brownlow votes when their side loses (I think Max Gawn receiving 2 was one of the few occasions this year). There were 8 games Melbourne lost where significant Brownlow votes weren't given to Melbourne players, but votes would have still been given to players in the Best and Fairest. Maybe Viney works harder regardless of whether Melbourne wins or loses, hence gets more BaF votes?

Shows what great value you can get from pick #32.

When someone retires after 239 games, most of them at Melbourne, the time for snubbing and holding grudges is over. I realise that's hard for some supporters, but it would look really bad and petty if the club itself didn't recognise a significant career.

Hopefully not to offer them pick 8. ?

I know this is just a "value" exercise, but Jake Lever comes from Romsey and wanted to come home from SA. There's no way he'd want to be trooping off to Freo or the Gold Coast.

Yep. Doesn't talk enough. ?

Port Richmond Bulldogs West Coast

Good luck with that. And the AFL and clubs still have a duty of care to their employees.

Since the best we can do is finish 8th, we wouldn't get a home final so it's a moot point.

Unfortunately, the reward for finishing 8th will likely be a hard road trip to Perth to play West Coast. ?

I know commentators have to talk games up, but what drives me nuts is Brian Taylor going into non-stop hyper-babble overdrive because he thinks somehow a team that has kicked 5 goals for the entire game can suddenly kick three goals in the last three minutes to win.

They're not the solutions to our problems. But maybe a fresh Bedford, Baker or Wagner is still better, for at least a match or two, than a tired or flagging Jones or Melksham.

The game has still changed to a certain degree. Shirtfronts were once admired (think Whelan on Hird). We all complained bitterly about the "original" Trengove sling tackle, because of the precedent it set. I think the AFL would like to do more, but every suggestion is greeted with the "we don't want the game to be like basketball" chorus, mainly from certain retired players of the game who are now media commentators. Sooner or later the AFL will be forced to do more any way, because they risk being faced with a raft of legal cases.

The AFL is doing the right thing by trying to limit concussions as much as possible. Supporters should think about long-term effects to Polly Farmer, Danny Frawley and current cases like Kade Kolodjashnij, Paddy McCartin etc. next time they complain about fines and suspensions for sling tackles, elbows to the head, shirtfronts and rough conduct. Or even worse, complaining about how the "biff" is going out of the game.

What a boring game of football Ess v StK was. Chip kick the ball 25 times around your back half, then kick it down field only to have it marked by your opposition. Rinse and repeat. Three goals each in a half of footy.

Saying you can't have Viney, Petracca, Brayshaw and Oliver in the same side is like saying Brisbane would done better if they got rid of one of Voss, Black, Lappin and Akermanis.

You're getting tiresome.

I think lack of pressure is also a problem with Brown. Probably why he's not getting a game.