Little Goffy

Poor Sam. Talk about doing it the hard way. But he'll be cherry ripe for finals which we all know is when he plays his best footy. Sigh. This and BB setback surely sets Tom to the forward line for the near future. Jackson will definitely be getting games in the circumstances and I can see Gawn being used forward more often to at least demand a defender on him. Meanwhile, M Brown surely will be called upon to be the Pederson successor he was obviously recruited to be. Could be a very interesting stimulus for the coaches, forcing them to innovate with options like Petty and of course Rosman's big athletic contribution may be called on just to keep getting to contest after contest and hope the squadron of smart speedy little guys can work magic from the fall of the ball. It does also add a wink and nudge in favour of the 'mysteriously' overlooked Kaine Baldwin. Even if he just spends a season on minimum pay being scrutinized while giving Casey an additional tall option. Because we don't want the 2s playing without any talls at all! It sucks that it happened but we could learn a lot about a few players while we wait for BB and then Weid to return.

I'm going to go early with a little crystal ball tip. About six months from now there will be a reality/documentary series of Eddie visiting all kinds of marginalised people and having very sincere conversations with them and showing how much he cares and listens. There will be some kind of catchy title about change and redemption, and then Eddie will be officially rehabilitated. Possibly even reinstated as the great defender of the little people that he always imagined himself to be. Also very likely to be part of Crown's attempt to regain its gaming licence. (haa haa haa, it's been a big week for $rseholes.)

They've been going into bat for him over and over and over already. There's only so far you can go on the plaudits for being the person sitting in the chair that decides who gets the goodies. Have Collingwood really been that much more generous than any other club, or have they just done a lot more publicity about it?

Just one little slip-up and everyone piled on. ? Edit: please turn on your sarcasm filter, everyone. I thought the boggly-eyed-tongue-out face would be the giveaway!

For those who can't view the presser live, I've found a copy online.

I'll set the bar high for this press conference; "They are not yet come back. But I have spoke With one that saw him die; who did report That very frankly he confessed his treasons, Implor'd your Highness' pardon, and set forth A deep repentance. Nothing in his life Became him like the leaving it."

Yep. Eddie has stepped down effective immediately. Edit: And Hardtack gets in with the scoop by a whisker

That's intriguing. Good job digging it up. That would be from some time from 2006 (Jack Anthony's first season) to 2008 (Scott Burns retires). By coincidence, I've just finished reading a short book that was a kind of 'live memoir' written during the 1989-90 wave of liberation from the communist regimes of Central Europe. A point that was observed many times was the sense of 'universal complicity' created by the totalitarian system; everyone felt that they were both victim and perpetrator because of the necessity of participation in the system. "I am Cain AND Abel," was a famous banner. In a complex way that also has been pointed to as a key reason that those 'revolutions' were almost entirely bloodless (setting aside poor old Romania). The sense of guilt was universal and the need for mutual forgiveness was also universal. It's unfortunate that the kaleidoscope of suppressions in Australia is so fragmented and multi-directional that it is not really possible to all come together in Wenceslas Square and collectively reject it. It's just so easy for everyone to imagine themselves to be exceptionally the victims or to be particular targets. Overthrowing Communism would be so much simpler to think through than dealing with this mess.

Thing is, that percentage is largely because nobody has thought to kick a goal against them. When be unleash a seven goal blitz in the third quarter this weekend, they won't look so great.

That leaves us with 'people are the worst people.' Which I guess is not a bad starting point for accepting each other.

That gets tricky. On the one hand, Lumumba really might have thought little of the nickname and run with it while he felt secure at the club. Only once he was on the proverbial outer did it sting and perhaps only then did he realise he was himself enabling systemic racism by using his position of security to imagine himself 'immune. Later, the cognitive dissonance of that is now fuelling his anger in unhealthy ways. OR Simon Buckley, arriving five years after Lumumba, was witnessing exactly the situation that Lumumba described as so hurtful; by 2010 it was established that at Collingwood there was no point trying to object to the nickname so he had little option other than to try to make as light of it as possible, all the while feeling like he was betraying himself by going along with it and effectively being forced to become a part of the systemic racism problem in order to not be branded 'trouble' and 'against the team'. Both are possible, but my money would be on option B. Absolutely, seriously, you can be offended by the nickname you use yourself. It's would actually be the deepest injury when you feel you have no choice but to accept that that is now your nickname. That would also be the tangible embodiment of systemic racism or any other systemic denigration. Most of us, I think, would only have to think back to school days to come up with dozens of examples of people who had to get by with pretty crappy nicknames they didn't like but didn't get a choice on. That reminds me; I've been in a call-centre workplace where the shift manager had managed to give nicknames including 'tranny-lover', 'the fat Greek', and 'muzzie girl', and since this awful woman had total power over shifts and employment and would make a very loud fuss about 'just being a joke' right in the middle of the call centre if anyone so much as raised an eyebrow. (Suffice to say I didn't last long at this place, but to be fair there was a variety of reasons) It is entirely possible that everything Buckley is saying he witnessed is true, but, again, it is precisely the power of systemic racism that puts the curtain up so Buckley isn't aware of what's going on behind, and, in turn, is sincerely annoyed at Lumumba. And there it is - systemic racism has successfully put a wall up between Lumumba and Buckley where Buckley (and this is without any accusation that Simon is racist) sees Lumumba as a hypocrite looking for attention.

Well, at least, access to your posts.

This has turned into an absolutely decisive show of relative class while we also let Richmond have very little easy progress. It would have been a truly horrifying margin without the pretty embarrassing umpire assistance.

Daniel Bradshaw vs Demons from 2005 on; 9, 8, 6, 4, 4. He was a good forward, for sure, but that's ridiculous for footy in the late 2000s.

Joke umpiring for sure in that first half. Bit of unsteady play cost us, too. Feel like Goldrick was emblematic of our play that quarter - some great movement, good pressure, but there were fumbles that cost us good attacks or gave Richmond too much of a chance. Having said that, I feel like a few of our better players haven't been sighted a lot so far. Also... holding the ball or 'holding' calls... high tackle or pinged... yeah, awful umpiring that easily balanced the breeze.

Frederick is like our women's team version of Bradshaw. Ah well.

Kane Corncerned. It's his schtick, it's no big deal. We don't notice what must be a dozen times a week he makes the same kind of comment about other clubs and nobody much is going to notice his comments about us. If he were a business, he would be turnover volume oriented rather than strong margins oriented.

The trouble with Champion Data's "Eliteness" system is that they overdo the targeting of the stats they use for each position and as a result make some eyebrow raising conclusions. It is always "Elite in this set of statistics which we select as being the relevant ones for this particular position." It's the elite ratings process that Groucho Marx would come up with; "I'm the best 38-year old, mustached, 5 foot 6 inch, cross-eyed, one leg shorter than the other right fielder in baseball history."

Brown has played 22 games a season for 5 consecutive seasons until 2020. His injury history includes nothing chronic or serious. Let's see what the doctor's say on thursday.

Since we're making comparisons with Lynch, I assume everyonerecalls that in his final season with Gold Coast - https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-10-02/tom-lynch-confirms-he-wants-to-play-at-richmond-in-2019/10328624 "The Suns full-forward played the opening six rounds of the season before a knee injury sidelined him until round 11. His return only lasted a month before he reaggravated the injury and later opted for season-ending surgery."

Crucial point. A lot of people hear the term and imagine something wilfully hostile or an official policy of discrimination, but as you say, systemic racism is much more about the subtle side of things. Most of all it is about the environments that allow racism to carry on without any push-back and where there is a higher price to pay for raising an issue than causing it. For example... if someone raises an issue of racism and the next thing that happens is every possible real or imagined flaw in their character or failure in their past is raised. A systemically racist environment creates the circumstances where people who would otherwise be bystanders, or even people who feel personally committed against racism, can end up doing the dirty work for racists. Consider ol' Eddie (social justice champion, just ask him) and the King Kong comments. Goodes says, "Comparisons to monkeys and slurs about being a monkey are actually quite hurtful because I and my people have suffered terribly on the basis of being seen as somehow separate and lesser humans, and monkey slurs have been a tangible part of that." Eddie says, "Hur hur hur, you should be cast as King Kong, bit of a cary-on, it's all a jolly good laugh, isn't it." "Oh, also, I'm not racist, that wasn't racist, I'm just really tired, you know." "I have contacted the Sydney Swans to explain the situation to Adam Goodes personally."

Definitely a dud trade. Is there a way we can untangle it and get Preuss back?

Presumably this is early enough for Hawthorn to replace him on the list? Or is there a salary cap payout issue where he has to stay on for the year? The important thing is that Hawthorn are still relying on a pretty old best-22 and they have a very thin talent pool with not much to show for the last four or five drafts. Only genuine long-term Hawthorn failure is good enough for me.

Quite bizarre to step up for a press conference you are only having because something you were keeping hidden is now out, and to be acting as if this is all an orchestrated announcement by the club about how they are now going to lead the competition in change. What he's doing amounts to claiming that "The whole AFL culture is like this but it is actually only Collingwood that has confronted it and we should be applauded for our courage and now seen as leaders in this area." Wait... that's not 'what it amounts to', that's almost a word for word of what he's saying. Slimy #$%$#%. I'm tired of the Eddie love that somehow survives. He's been bad for football in every way.

It's funny for as long as everyone is sure they don't really mean it. For example, you can insult Waleed Aly all you like as long as it is about Richmond supporter stereotypes!