Little Goffy

Do we even have multiple assistants left to not tip out?

I'm not sure who the commentator 'Bec' is but based on her voice and our goalkicking, she had a few drinks with our forward line pre-game.

grumlbe grumble When it comes to our women's team, I want to see crushings, not slugged out evenly matched fights. I want Jack Reacher from the series not the movies.

It did my head in looking back to investigate the theory that all these players won their first final. Poor Matty Whelan missed 2000 and 02 die to late season injury, then copped the 2004 elimination final robbery by Essendon and the awful cats elimination final in 2005. Finally got a win against the Saints in 2006, but was injured during the game and missed the semifinal. Matty Whelan is many good things; tough, smart, handsome, skilled and charismatic. But he is definitely not lucky!

As they say at quiz primary school; "Blurter blurter pants on squirter."

I would feel more comfortable if you said Demons '18.

I think you might be going a conspiracy theory too far there.

I've had to abandon about five theories that each covered about 80% of the group, so not contributing except the sound of my own brain fizzing out. I'd forgotten how much I missed/ dud not miss these! One day I'll get one, and it'll be something ridiculous Ike they all did an internship at a sponsor.

Ooooh but wait till Buckley's Tasmania starts crushing all before it. 'We missed the chance...' etc etc.

We're going to need a dedicated thread just for horror gifs and random Demon King comments. Is this the beginning of the end for the no-ts-no-bs thread? How much overt silliness can one footy forum retain?

I for one would like to thank the club for giving my brother the opportunity to send me 'evil clown face' gifs with no context.

If you added about 8cm to Fritsch he would have had Amiss' career. Instead he had to work on developing his game sense and hair for years in the VFL. Amiss clearly plateaued and even dropped off a bit this year but at 22, with the basics pretty good, I'd back him to incrementally improve his game as an opposition-infuriating 3rd tall. I'd we got him it would be for ten years and the last five would be his best. And he definitely would be playing a substantial role in our 2028 premiership. As for Ghostwriter's Essendon project, you can get double points towards football Elysium; scoring once for creating a Demon and again for removing a Bomber. You don't even have to promise him endless victories, just a club and community which sincerely experiences the high and lows instead of faking... everything... Just everything.

I mean, the obvious moral of the story is "Don't coach Essendon."

Very General Haig.

Dibs on Ghosty for my scrabble team. Those 'em' and 'en' scores are the 1%ers that get the win at the death after sitting in your hand since the start of the game. The proverbial David Swallows of scrabble.

I for one am glad that Bailey Smith has been able to find a club which is able to accommodate his unique personality. Yelling abuse at people, walking away, then coming back for another round after they've said nothing and you've got nothing to actually add, is never a red flag. Also, the move has solved a significant problem he was having with autocorrect while at the Dogs.

Probably a good fit for North, with the caveat of his perpetual injury recovery. They have a wave of all-purpose high productivity midfielders and need to fill out their list with AFL-grade role players. A fit Spargo is a useful contributor to calm and smart entries inside 50 and good positioning to reduce counter-attack options. North certainly have plenty of accumulators, and whatever Spargo might be, he is not an accumulator!

Always nice to get a visit from Cranky Franky.

Kade Chandler taking the mission of becoming the next Nibbler quite seriously, it would seem. Good on him. Underrated on field, too, just like uncle Nibs.

What is this Billings talk? Can't watch the stream. Please tell me that he didn't see his own highlights and thank you video appear on the big screen on B&F night as the way of finding out he was being cut?

Thanks for the scoring updates. Can't watch the stream due to the precision operation of keeping an 8-week-old asleep during an annoyingly warm Sydney September - still 20 degrees outside and our building gets full winter sun all day so is still radiating. I really will take any chance to mention Littler Goffy, hey? As for the count; Mildly surprised to see Salem that high, though he has been fully respectable for the season. Somewhat more surprised to see Sparrow. I can only assume Sparrow gets a job done which is unclear to the pundits but the coaches appreciate. The table overall highlights what a tough season it has been for our tall defenders. When was the last time there weren't multiple KPDs high in the count? Come to think of it, Gawn is the only player in the top 10 who is over 193cm!

Even Pickett and McDonald, two very good looking men, managed to outclass themselves. Curious fashion trend, the sheer fabric belly. I guess it goes with the current 'body fashion' of outright fitness rather than just contrived sculpting, which I can hope is a healthy direction.

The first King to wear the crown at a jaunty angle. Specifically, skewed left.

It's a hard moment, especially when the delistings include F-S players who we've had an emotional investment in since before they were drafted, or someone like Sestan who has a clear point of value but hasn't been able to build an overall AFL standard. But... on the delistings announced so far, we've lost entirely nothing from our AFL-grade playing strength in 2025 and really only a speculative 'optimistic' chance to our 2026 strength. My sometimes very wise but also Carlton-supporting brother described their persistent malaise as been rooted in an excess of hope. 'We hope this player will come good, we hope McKay will kick straight, we hope Weitering can solo-defeat the entire opposition tall forward line.' Each of these players we can only say we might 'hope' they will reach AFL standard.

Shaping as an absolutely wild off season for St Kilda. And not in their old setting people on fire or texting your ballsack way. Four player movements in already 'confirmed' and persistent talk about Sam Flanders, multiple exits 'strongly rumoured', a coach probably second to only Voss for pressure going into 2026 with a near-designated successor Corey Enright already at the club and in danger of being Yze'd out if they miss the window to promote him. I'm sure St Kilda are thinking in terms of Richmond's high risk pre-glory recruitment drive that went so well, but they could just as easily end up with the tragic 'scattergun' result of the Neeld-Schwab Demons.