Nasher

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.

I laughed. Then I cried.

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I just think of it as a ranking from 1-40 (or whatever) and Tyson, through form and the availability of Viney fell from 22nd to 23rd. The fact that he was in the senior side in the first place means they thought him a better option than all the other players at Casey. Being dropped from the side doesn’t necessarily change that.

I expect no change, Garlett and Pedersen to both travel, and Tyson to play for Casey.

It just means he’s moved to 23rd in the pecking order doesn’t it? I don’t think it goes that the players who played at Casey are automatically more meritorious for selection than the non-playing emergency. “Merit” is more broad than form in a single week.

I often wonder what happens behind the scenes with these multi-sport talents - especially the basketballers, when they’ve chosen the other sport, then suddenly rock up at Cat B rookies in the AFL. Given that there’s daylight between the career prestige and cash between the NBA and the AFL, you would owe it to yourself to have a crack at the former first and fall back to the latter when it was obvious it was not going to happen.

I can’t believe you went to the trouble of writing out a full “possible team” that is just last week’s team. Actually, I sort of can.

We respond to posts as they get reported using the “report post” feature or as we stumble across them. We don’t read every single post - that’s doubly true during very busy periods like the trade period. Sometimes if I’m busy, 10 pages will be added to threads in between me viewing. If you see untoward things happening in threads, use the “report post” feature to bring it to a moderators attention.

It’s amazing how long it’s taken a lot of footballers to realise that in general, people on the internet are flogs. It’s just a fact of life. Present company only partially included

What’s with the introduction of the ‘L’ word? It’s not about whether he stays or goes, it’s just how much and for how long. He’s said he wants to stay (and why wouldn’t he?), and the club clearly needs him. Just standard negotiations. I’ve never been less fearful of losing players than I am now.

No way. As I said in the post match, Smith did a number of contest killers that resulted in goals that should have been easy Carlton marks. Looked right at home for me. Pedersen is unlucky after his VFL performance, but there are no vacancies in the team for him.

Because I enjoy the suffering of others so much, having a browse of the Carlton BF board. Came across a “we don’t deserve a priority pick because we got ourselves here”. I had painful flashbacks. Yes bloke, all teams who end up really crappy do so because they made some bad choices along the way. I’m yet to see a club go “we did everything right, but we’re still last on the ladder. We thoroughly deserve this priority pick!” I’m *so* glad I no longer have to engage in that absurd level of conversation. Being on the winning side of a hiding is every bit as enjoyable as I thought it would be.

6. Melksham 5. Lever 4. Plugger 3. Jones 2. Gawn 1. Brayshaw

We’re happy you don’t have any as well.

2-3, 89% and a Sack Goodwin thread. Edit: sorry, an “is Goodwin the man for the job” thread. Same thing.

Was that Plugger’s first set shot behind for the year?

No change, Bernie no case to answer.