Nasher

*sniff* smells like blood...

See, I don’t give a rats that Parish is a choirboy type. Sam Weideman is too, with the neat hair and soft features. I’ve seen 8 year olds that look tougher than Jayden Hunt, but the correlation with his football style is precisely zero, current form notwithstanding. It’s the not being good at football part that puts me off Parish. Or if I’m to give some benefit of the doubt, not yet as good as you would hope for the level of investment and underage promise. The baby boomer men’s obsession with the appearance of young footballers gives me the irrits big time.

Think the boys invoked the mercy rule and didn’t kick him while he was down there. If there was still heat in the contest, they might have. He’d have been in a pretty lonely place sitting there dwelling on it by himself anyway. It was an awful fumble and everyone saw it.

I tried to screen grab that but Bull Smith was in the way. Would have been a great “v2” of my previous avatar of a post game Brayshaw/Petracca hug from Gus’ first game. Gee that feels like a long time ago.

Wouldn’t normally be mine either, but this team feels different.

Watched “all the goals” before and the way the whole team swamped him after the goal at the end made my hair stand on end. The boys clearly love him and that last goal was just a fantastic exclamation point to bump his 9/10 game to a 10. So happy - both with him and for him. I was always confident he’d turn in to this player, but even I was starting to wonder if this confidence was misplaced. It’s definitely been worth the wait.

When we were up 31-0 in the first quarter.

Imagine if we’d drafted the disappointing Parish and were watching Clarry running around in a Bummers jumper. Those poor chaps must be seething ?

Spargo: yes Goody, actually I am feeling pretty tired. Please rest me - I know I probably won’t get my spot back since the side is in such good form, but I’m not enjoying belting sides on a weekly basis anyway. I wouldn’t want to be the only first year player in all of history to play 6 games in a row.

I reckon Spargo would say “I’ll rest when I’m dead” if you asked him. As jacey points out, anyone who hands over their spot in the side risks not getting it back. If Spargo is rested he’ll go kicking and screaming I think.

Coaching for Collingwood - same thing I guess.

I know a few of the Casey watchers were all over him, but the impression I got was that he was an undersized key forward with a better than average leap. I was expecting a poor man’s Jeremy Howe, which didn’t excite me much. Nobody told me he would be a gun wing. He covers heaps of the ground, plays a tough brand and is so clean with the ball. I can’t believe our luck. By the way I reckon it’s a huge endorsement for the Casey system. The fact that players like Fritsch and Smith chose Casey as their clubs of choice to get noticed by the AFL system, then both got selected by Melbourne, sends a loud message to all players wanting a shot: come play for Casey; if you’re good enough, you will be noticed and given the chance to develop. It becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Careful Steve, you are in happy clapper territory! It’s okay, @Wisebloodand I will let you stay for a bit.

No coincidence that the team averages victory by 100 points since we moved to the new server. This one appears to not have a habit of falling over whenever there’s a few hits at once either. Winning!

Viney had 35 disposals. If he is out of touch, god help the rest of the comp once he finds his touch.

I’m tipping a disappointing 70 point victory. And no change, obviously.

Funny Clint, was thinking about this exact exchange before. Gotta be happy with the percentage now!

Boy they sure shook him up ?

6. Brayshaw 5. Hogan. Bloody tough separating with Gussy, but clear top 2 IMO 4. Hibberd 3. Lever 2. Oliver 1. Viney

And just when it looked like the worm might come back for the first time in 18 quarters... Gus Brayshaw finds another gear. That was a perfect 10 for mine. Enjoyed every minute of that. I was confident of a win but to witness another belting was just a sight to behold. I’ve long since stopped giving a rats what the footy world thinks of us, but they’ll be paying attention now I think. How good is footy?

I even double checked to see that nobody had already posted it, which they hadn’t, but had by the time I typed it up. Dang.

No late changes.

Harris Andrews. His first name is Harris, and his last name is Andrews. It isn’t Something Harris-Andrews, so why do they always call him by his full name, instead of just Andrews like they would anyone else? It drives me nuts. Not quite as bad as Spud Frawley thinking we have a player on our list named Neil Bullen I guess.

Exactly. Me at the bounce: hope the Saints get up! Hate ‘em both but reckon the Tiges still need to be brought down a peg. Me five minutes in: oh yeah, it’s St Kilda.

Concussion isn’t a matter of softness.