Little Goffy

Cripps-Bont type mids are the noted feature of the top end of the 2024 draft. And there was much rejoicing! Talls kick in from about the mid-teens through to 30ish. Basically the perfect draft for our immediate and longer-term needs. Would enthusiastically endorse trading a future first or second.

11 wins. It wasn't.

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I'd puke. In fact, I'd travel to Melbourne just to specifically puke on the front door of AFL House.

You forgot the thaddle, thilly.

The Carlton-St Kilda game has some atmosphere and shenanigans for sure, but I love the background detail that if Port beat Freo then this game can have absolutely no effect on anything at all. Except we would drop to getting pick 5 instead of 6. Hmm...

Our next is closer in the future than out previous is in the past.

Awarded alongside the Nathan Buckley medal ;)

Reminds me of the stories from teachers where some foul mouthed little [censored] has exhausted all patience and is told in some mild but sharp manner to stop, and then the kid launches into a full 'you can't talk to me like that' and the parents take it to a full complaint. Still working on a cannon big enough to fire such people into the sun.

I'm going to make a hot tip here - Stafford will step away from AFL-level coaching and take some obscure down on its luck country team to 5 consecutive premierships while bringing new life and optimism to a whole community. Keep an eye out for a quirky ABC series to be made about it.

Not sure you have the trade value to offer. Gonna have to wait for free agency.

Steering towards idle speculations, I think at this moment Jason Taylor would pick Norm Smith on a needs basis to get our forward line organised. Even ahead of Neitz as a forward need because Smith would have that extra versatility to handle the flooded defenses and stopper tactics. Height adjusted for modern nutrition and pollution controls, of course, which would basically make Norm Smith a combined Van Rooyen/Fritsch superbeing.

It would almost be worth the subscription fee to Media Monitors just to have a rolling archive of articles based on nothing more than previous articles. I genuinely wouldn't mind the rabid news if there was any actual information in it. Does bring to mind the part of 'Foundation' (the book, not the entirely unrelated and best forgotten TV series) where the diplomat from the galactic empire makes a visit and half the council is absolutely convinced that Terminus has been given a security guarantee that will protect them, but then a specialist linguist analyses every single sentence said by the diplomat during the visit and finds that not a single actual statement was made on any topic at all. Like, even complimenting the dinner took the form of saying 'dinners of this type are often good'. Barret being the football media master of it, but now has many disciples.

Nobody should be permitted to use the term 'surreal' until they have watched 1998 animated film from Estonia, "Porgandite öö" - "The night of the carrots". It can be very tricky to find online in english, so here's the only link I've been able to dig up, apparently it was deemed worthy of sharing by a film festival page more than 20 years after release. https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=227493671910775 I'd be interested in hearing how far people got before their first 'WTF'. Did you make it to the title? We should all set aside 30 minutes and earn our ticket to use 'surreal' in a sentence.

To be fair, he did basically turn up to a birthday party and announce the likelihood of getting prostate cancer at that age. So, you know, booooooooooooooo.

Yep, official new version of the club song must be "It's the team of... What's mummy doing?" Any chance we can have it played while Gawn runs on for his 250th?

And how much would he have to pay back to get out of it?

GWS has a system of winning novelty prizes liked a rigged game show and taking the spares to Cash Converters. Gold Coast has had the greatest concessions of all and they are still somehow not getting things going. Sydney also - not top 4, probably not even top 8, without their massive dodgy draft perks.

186 alert.

Respecting veterans helps retain start, though. It would seem that Brown has managed to gather a moment of form in the 2s and at any time in the rest of the second half of this season he might have been included on pure merit at this time. Awkwardly it seems the rest of our tall forwards got their act together a bit against Gold Coast on the weekend, so it is hard to push him in without unfairly pushing someone out. I'd be happy to see him named, even as sub. The guy has been an excellent player, was important to our premiership, has kept his head up around the club despite setbacks, and provided a really healthy human attitude. On balance, combining sentiment and the fact he played well on the weekend, I say give him a game.

Still possible to finish 7th if the Bulldogs lose by a combined couple of hundred and we 186 Collingwood. Also still possible to finish 14th is Gold Coast and St Kilda step up. I'll be focusing on finishing the season in a competitive mode, and ideally being six goals up and growing with five minutes to go so we can start a sarcastic Collingwood chant as their soft supporters walk out, leaving us to enjoy the moment together.

Interesting thread quickly turned gross. But ploughing on; Features of this draft; Half a dozen legitimate gun midfielders at the pointy end. A remarkable ten or so highly rated talls, mostly defenders, in the 10 to 30 range. Noah Yze, the future star currently taking it easy to fox the other recruiters. I've joked before about a nice simple 'Smillie and the Whitlocks' but even if the names change the estimated draft picks would still be ideal. That would mean nudging our first pick up a little, acquiring an additional pick mid first round, and shuffling another pick to the start of the second round. Eg, 6, 14, 25. I'd happily move a future second round and package our existing 2nd/3rd rounds to make it happen. None of this requires tossing away club champions, either.

So, I'm finally clear of work. How'd it go?

Damn it that's cruel 15 minute break at work. Puck up my phone and utshalf time. What have I missed?

I'm going to get in early on the 'what's your excuse' thread with a ten-hour day on a secure site. I won't even be able to check the scores until I'm out the door. If people could tag me in the game thread posts to create an official Demonland match call which I can follow when I get home, that'd be great. Hmm, funnily enough, the last time I can recall having to work in a secure environment throughout a Demons game was the 2000 finals win over North. Touch wood, similar result today.