Little Goffy

It's a bit awkward, there's only really meta-outrage so far.

Well, that's just a dopey little error. How could any executive or event manager of any public-facing organisation not think to check the venue's reputation. And it is the reputation that counts - while that club has made some 'hey we really like women, some of my best mistresses are women' efforts in recent years, it is symbolically not a good association to have. Unfortunately it also speaks as a little reminder of the snooty upper class conservative side of MFC's own heritage. I wonder how many of the board that sacked Norm Smith for not being a proper pukka sahib were members? It's not smart. It should be tidied up. But football clubs rely on personal connections and networking to drive donations and sponsors and extract favourtism from public offices. The Australian Club is a a club for rich [censored] to hang out at and decide what vanity project they want to use their power for... I mean, ah, discuss their philanthropic contribution to the community. "Sponsor m' footbool club, guv'nor?"

I added a thank you but now I've got My Sharona stuck in my head right before trying to go to sleep. To prevent this spreading any further I'm going to stay home, wear a mask, wear earmuffs, get vaccinated. Whatever it takes. Sharona 2021 would just be too much. (Parov Stelar youtube search saved the day) Also, many thanks for another quality report, Trooper Picket.

If he can hold onto his 'better habits' version and use space from stoppages a bit smarter to get more effective clearances, that puts him in the absolute top bracket of midfielders. Just need a bit more of what was in the 'video of the week' from the practice match! Either way, Oliver easily led the competition for clearances last year. He is surely in the same mix as Cripps, Macrae, Steele, Wines and Boak.

Some curiousities there. Three tip Petracca for the Brownlow while also tipping no Melbourne in finals. How often does the brownlow go to a player not in a top-8 team? Also interesting to see two tips of Goodwin out but even they can't agree on who replaces him. Oh, I know just the guy!

Oh for... yeah, not good enough. The moment we try to be cautious we bugger it up. We have a lot of players out there who are a lot better than this and I've lost confidence in Stinear.

Well, that was a better quarter. McNamara stood out. A proper little fighter there for sure. But the shots... the shots...

Awful.

Ouch. When Daisy gives away two panic turnovers in a row you know there's trouble.

They've got swagger, they've got synergy, they got a bit of sumthin' sumthin'.

I'm feeling a bit of pre-game hunt-kill-destroy rage but won't jinx it by making any predictions. I'll focus on the fact that both Goldrick and Hore make the game more fun to watch as well as being top quality inclusions.

It gets worse. Soon your constant bleating will have to be because you are the "JessMary of everything" - Vic and Tim are both masculine names. Anyway, back to the topic; It's interesting to me that different organisations can have such dramatically different apparent hierarchies. I've worked in government departments that had swollen out to having more than half of all staff be managers on 100k+ because absolutely everything that happened there was 'project thing thing' or 'stakeholder relations this and that'. Plus, with the outsourcing wave after the late 90s all the research and expert advice had to be done through a procurement manager who would negotiate the contracts with the manager from the consultancy (who had been an internal research manager until a month before) and then the actual research and investigation would be done by some uni students and interns. In the case of football clubs and their commercial relationships, I guess the need for having executive level status is because you are dealing with often very large companies with big corporate egos and in a position of strength to pick and choose. They're going to want to believe that they are dealing at the top even if the whole deal is as simple as 'for this much sponsorship, you get this placement of logos, this much direct marketing to members, and this many club media products proudly presented by you.' Funny to think that if not for the egos and tax-deductible lunches, the whole thing could be done like an online shopping cart. The political economist side of me is writhing with the reminder that automation of the workforce advances based on relative power of the people who lose their jobs, rather than the actual efficiency gained.

Could do with a bit of the other recent(ish) appearance of unobtainium, from The Core. Is almost completely indestructible and converts external pressure into focused energy.

Biff, just... really... get your hand off it.

Suddenly I feel like Goodwin's position is safe. Just to clarify the suggestion: As our ruck, we're going to play a 195cm key position defender and occasional forward who has only had four games in his career with more than 20 hitouts, has only played more than 10 games in a season once, and (while giving full credit to his recovery effort) has serious injury history in parts of the body that are particularly vulnerable when playing in ruck. So that a multiple-All-Australian ruckman with super fitness and field positioning awareness for around-the-ground marking that is frequently crucial to the play can be moved to full forward to make the most possible use of his iffy set shots.

When it's not your day, it's not your day, but youch, it was not our day.

Dogs have come out in the second on a mission to rough us up but it isn't doing them a lot of good. On the other hand, we're putting legitimate chase and pressure on. Lily Mithen will have a lovely collection of well earned bruises, too.

Anyone else feel like we never actually gain from the wind? Strange quirk; possibly a tactical coaching oversight? Wonder if Zanker's "ambitious" long shot on goal was a product of a general instruction to try to use the wind?

Bit of a croaky throat?

I've seen that a few times just this week. We shpuld keep an index of these 'star' players. One that stuck put for me was a Collingwood 'star' who I still couldn't recall after checking the name on footywire. I can't tell you exactly who it was because I've already forgotten them again. Staaaaaaaar.

My brother is a very serious Carlton supporter. 'nuff said. ?

2020 the year of the bomb. 2021 the year of the sniper. On the bright side, Melksham's is possibly our easiest role to cover with existing options, and if one or more of those replacements do well then he'll be forced to earn his way back into the team. Melksham in good form is elite in his position, but he clearly got a little bit complacent last year. You'd never wish an injury on anyone but if it sharpens his awareness of his own footballing mortality it could be a turning point for him.

A wog? But surely if you are using the term yourself, that means you don't mind it. I'm glad that's settled.

Gawn's hard work around the ground to get to dozens of contests every game that gets us out of a tight spot or opens up an opportunity is far too valuable to sacrifice for his merely 'good' forward work. Plus, he is actually a terrific ruckman. He creates more scoring shots from a ruck role than he would if his job was nothing else but forward! Having said that, I'm sure he'll be rotated forward a bit more than he might have been, just to keep things a little unpredictable up there.

It could be a nice, small rule change that opens up play just a little without causing any disruption at all. It has just the specific problem of over-riding coach's demands which will have been drilled into players from about 8 years old so it would be appropriate to have plenty of consultation, a good lead-in time for clubs to train the new habit, and a fairly generous interpretation in initial implementation. Zero from three. Good to see the Imperial office maintaining their batting average.