Little Goffy

My fault, I was sitting to close to the screen.

It seems to be a fashion this season to hammer people in the solar plexus for no reason. Kind of like how in advertising it is currently fashionable to try to be funny with 'Imagine if the other thing you did was as simple as spending money with us'. My point being, they both are tedious [censored] done by people who know they aren't ever going to be held to account for their shabbiness, and everything possible should be done to stamp both things out.

Would have to name them the Frost Giants. Anyway, those good crowds are influenced a bit by a general scarcity of top-level football. Supporters of fifteen* other clubs will get along to see a game even if they don't care much for the competing clubs on the day. *do you really think anyone in Canberra would support Gold Coast?

I'm pleased to see that hatred for Collingwood and Essendon passes the CCP censorship!

Credit to Wasilim Tagaloa (pardon the spelling - didn't catch it perfectly) for the national anthem tonight. Took me a moment to realise why it seemed different to most and then I realised; It was just a person with a well-trained clear bold voice singing the anthem. No silly trills or affectations, and a voice strong enough to carry that simplicity.

Saw that too, and especially liked it because it is part of a pattern. He likes people. Sometimes I get the feeling Clayton plays like the whole thing is a scratch match where everyone is a friend-of-a-friend, and he just enjoys being the best among friends. Also, Happy Birthday!

Lol, can confirm.

I've had enough of the Petty forward experiment. He is an outstanding tall defender and should be leading our next generation of tall defenders in the May/Lever succession plan. He's done some good things and had a couple of good games up forward, but is more likely to have nil impact than good impact when forward. Against Richmond he had more clangers than disposals. I've still got my fingers crossed for Fullarton but we really need to find a big competitive body with a 'nothing to lose' attitude in the mid-season draft.

I wonder if the D'oh is a subconscious reference to the Simpsons episode where Bart gets sent to military school? One of the last of the classic Simpson's era.

Demonland finally sees the day when someone shares a fetish creepier than even Uncle Bitter's contributions.

A touch under 19 hands and about 65 years in horse age. I have to share a quote I stumbled across while checking this; A horse reaching 20 years of age is considered “old”, but this depends very much on how long the horse has lived.

Similar scenario to Carlton's trade for Adam Cerra. We wouldn't want Davies-Uniacke if he was going to be the pivot of our midfield, but if we are adding him to complete a midfield mix then there's get real value. Cerra hasn't even lived up to the hype from the time he was traded (for pick 6) and he has still been a big part of Carlton's lift from a brittle list over-dependent on a handful of big names, to serious premiership contenders. Cripps, Walsh, Hewett (underrated), Cerra, ... Petracca, Oliver, Viney, Davies-Uniake. Free agent next year so I'd rather wait than pay the trade price, but if it we had to act now or see him go to St Kilda, I'd offer a respectable deal. Also young enough to keep the age profile of our list turning over just in case that gets a bit hairy when/if Tassie comes in.

Okay... so piecing it together... Greene clearly initiated his jump with intent to compete for the ball. He then stopped competing for the ball out of fear of collision. He chose to protect himself from that collision by ensuring that the initial contact was the least vulnerable part of his body impacting upon the most vulnerable part of his opponent. This action transferred the risk to his off-balance opponent and also greatly increased the risk to this opponent. It has been widely alleged that if he had not done this and instead chosen to make a soft contact without focusing his weight and momentum into a single point, both players would have been severely injured by fragments from a falling satellite, or something, I don't quite understand that part.

I love the detail that the ball actually bounces off Greene's shoulder. He has literally stopped going for the ball out of fear of impact, and then barrelled into the much more vulnerable opponent's head. He chose to bump instead of contest the ball. If that isn't a simple one for the MRO then they are in serious trouble.

Geebus, Zephyz, what is this, GnomelyFans?