Nasher

Spelt van but pronounced fon. I suppose. I have a mate whose last name is van Rijswijk, which is pronounced “fon Rays-vayk”. Took a bit of wrapping my head around, but I’m pretty happy with Dutch “ij” being a hard “ay” sound now, and a w sounding like an English v is common in a lot of languages.

That GWS game WAS one of the most fun games to watch though. Michael Evans kicked 3 goals in that last quarter. A star in the making! He got delisted the next year, with a year to run on his contract if I remember rightly.

What do you mean? This is literally the most critical bit of info since he was drafted! The van Ruin thing has been driving me spare, even Max says it! @Roger Mellieback me up here!

BUMP CONFIRMED on website interview; correct pronunciation: “van Royen”. Anyone heard calling him van Ruin from now on is going to HEAR ABOUT IT FROM ME!

Yeah, Bails and Neeldy would have had him on the straight and narrow in no time.

They’ve stopped tanking and have reverted to just being regulation garbage.

That’s precisely my view as well. The role he’s playing is valuable and important, and there’s no better option. But the dropped marks and missed goals make me feel sad. He’s not that far off. It’s the type of form that we often see turn around in an instant.

Hah, to be honest I had too. Just ended up zombie-ing in to the next game after ours finished.

Watching the wrong game! Pies Suns a ripper.

Doing a full match load of training on the day of the game seems like a weird thing to do. Might as well do a full match load of match.

Would love to see the Suns roll the Pies.

Big call!

In: Gawn, Jackson Out: M.Brown, Weideman. Both battled hard today though, thanks boys.

I’m starting to think Clayton Oliver could turn out to be a handy player.

I got offered free tickets for today. It’s lovely and warm in my living room. Mate who had the tickets literally couldn’t give them away.

Byron was build like a brick outhouse though. You wouldn’t normally expect a featherweight small forward to tackle to hurt. I love that he does!

That was in fact, post 1 of this thread! Just watched it again, that one is definitely a 10/10 in hurt factor. Just about makes me cry watching it.

I'm aware you've been piled on already, but just wanted to say I watched the game on TV and the crowd sounded great: vocal and definitely pro-Melbourne.

That play though. Viney’s bulldozer tackle, where he stays upright and impacts the immediate next contest. The small forwards all looking for each other in traffic, the vision and skill of Bedford to get it to the only person inside 50 in some space in Spargo, who has time, and nails it. Pure.

I thought Michael Hibberd was finished - oops.

If you said anything like “our season is over” in the last month, give yourself an immediate uppercut. Many welcome returns to form, but none more pleasing for me than Jake Lever. Absolutely outstanding.

Lol, when has anyone ever said players are being “pushed through the injury barrier”?

I had a “we’re officially stuffed” moment when Mitch Brown materialised in the back line. TMac he definitely ain’t. Actually, that’s true with him in the forward line too. Gee it would be nice to go a full game without Petty getting smashed. He’s our most important defender at the moment with May out and Lever down.

Declaring the season done is just stupid, so I won’t do that. That game totally sucked though. Break couldn’t come quickly enough. I ragequit after the last Mihocek goal.

Thank God for Angus Brayshaw.