Nasher

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.

I thought Bull was excellent. The first two goals of the 3rd quarter were achieved because he killed the contest when outnumbered 2 to 1 at full forward. What a great day.

What even is this feeling?

Carlton play a tough contested brand of footy, but just have far too many crap players. No coaching or game plan can help when you’ve got the likes of Kerridge who rack up possessions on the wing, turn inboard and kick a scrubber along the ground in to the centre and turn a clear avenue to goal in to another contest. We’re in 3rd gear. Find 4th and we will annihilate them. And Plugger McDonald, you are a star.

Wonder when the last time we had all jumper numbers 1-10 in the team at the same time?

I’ve noticed the same thing. The expectation pre-match makes me feel sick, but I embrace it. It’s still better than that overarching sense of impending doom. I also found it really difficult watching to the end of the Hawks and Tiges games when we were playing poo. In the past I’d always watched to the end looking for some morsel of things to take out of the game, but when you know one or two minor acts aren’t going to cut for taking the edge off the smashing, that was really hard to take.

It means it might be sending your password from you to the server in plain text instead of being encrypted - it increases your risk of having your Demonland account hacked from minuscule to minusculy less minuscule. Up to you whether you want to live with that (I am) - I’m 99% sure it’s always been that way anyway.

This is number 6 that I can think of. This migration was nowhere near as painful for me as the previous one, which took several days. Hopefully the last for some time!

Thanks. We really shouldn’t overlook the efforts Andy ( @Demonland) puts in either - we’ve both been stuffing about with this since early this morning to get it going. It takes a team to do this stuff!