Little Goffy

Probably hasn't had a Brownlow vote in two weeks. Dump from leadership group.

As much as Weitering has been huge this season and was something beyond even that against the Bulldogs, Josh Bruce kicked 5 and Aaron Naughton kicked 2 and the Dogs scored 16 goals for the game. At the moment Carlton are a team built around too few, admittedly great, players. An optimistic Blues supporter would look at Richmond's situation just before they came good - a similar problem of having a strong core group but nothing like a full AFL-level 22 to work with. A pessimistic Carlton supporter would just console themselves with Collingwood looking like being on the brink of implosion. Carlton will struggle to contain Gawn/Jackson (they had a second gamer against them in the ruck for the Bulldogs), they will struggle to cope with our possible goal-kicking midfielders, and they aren't going to get the kind of lop-sided centre-clearance counts that kept Sydney in the game against us. Three things keep Carlton in this and keep me nervous - 1. The difference between a Patrick Cripps bad game and a Patrick Cripps good game. 2. Carlton must win to keep a realistic hope alive. 3. If we drop our pressure, it brings any given opponent into contention.

Do we have any actual idiots left at our club? Feels like every Demon who opens their mouth is at the very least earnest and respectable. Even the kids just sound young rather than young and dumb. It's just not a proper football club!

We should be appealing the fine, asking for a staging fine for Franklin. While we're at it, throw in a workplace health and safety lawsuit if no action is taken about that appalling off-the ball spear tackle with no purpose except aggression. Just to add to the dirty Swans list, did anyone else notice the delightful Mr Papley picking/scratching at the back of Harmes head where Harmes had previously been bleeding from? Charming stuff.

Threads like this are popping up on Demonland, on other supporter forums, and even on Bigfooty. Alas, [censored] marketing managers who have only ever dealt with 'products' and transcations instead of community institutions and relationships are very sure they know better and none of the deeper stuff fits on a spreadsheet anyway.

We need some kind of 'keeping a lid on it pledge' thread.

Just sharing because why not.

Is it possible that he waited a couple of weeks so it didn't crowd Jones' 300th celebrations? Because that would be pure class.

The paint on the laundry ceiling of my apartment is already peeling off in large flakes despite allegedly having been redone before we moved in. Clearly an inferior brand of non-Melbourne-sponsoring paint. You'd never get such failure from our esteemed friends at Haymes Paint!

The collection of things going unexpectedly right is beginning to make the hairs on the back of my neck quiver. Just need to do a couple of quick checks - Centre for Near Earth Object Studies I'll keep everyone updated.

Seems like every week is a new test of our legitimacy. Cope without two key forwards? Check. Out-compete the reigning premiers? Check. Get our act together against the presumptive wooden spooners? Check. Manage a new disruption to our forward line, midfield and defence at the same time? It's the disruptions like this and the inevitable stumbles of a long season that make the early winning streak so valuable. Of course, much better than covering a stumble is covering a stumble and still winning to go three games clear of the opponent in 4th place.

Sometimes they go on income.

I'm just glad he had enough time to prove he can play the role, earn respect and be confident of his place in the team upon return. But that's a small mercy. What a Hawthorn-flavoured sandwich.

Since Selwood, Dan Hannebery, Daniel Rich, Dyson Heppell, Daniel Talia, Callum Mills and Jayden Stephenson have all played finals in their Rising Star winning year. So a team with a Rising Star winner is more likely to be playing finals that year than not. Some place-getters might want to mention their early success too!

If that earns a suspension Dusty might as well not come back from New Zealand.

I'm getting set up for the game on Kayo and their 'past classic' on the suggested playlist is the 1996 North over Melbourne by 113. Boooooooo. Kill. Kill. Kill.

If people learned to try that before calling the helpdesk we would be living in a different world! To get back on the thread; has anyone tried turning Fremantle off and back on again?

With Ben Brown finally coming in I'm having a happy moment remembering how worried so many people were that our season would be over by now. Some people were even getting aggressive at anyone who stayed positive after the loss to the Dogs in the pre-season. Keep the run going, Demons - you could actually change personalities!

It's fine. Jones himself is probably much more interested in being as fresh as possible to give him a chance for the late season. Fairytales don't climax with an early winter win over the presumptive wooden spoon team. We also still have some kinks to work out and partnerships to fine tune if we're really going to challenge in September and Jones is the most 'known quantity' of known quantities.

Did I see it correctly that there were only 24,000 at the Collingwood-Gold Coast triumph today? Top deck of the MCG looked closed whenever it appeared on camera, so I'd believe it. But... where do they go?

Thinking of all the poor Collingwood fans really suffering through this... and for the first time ever I'm beginning to like the Suns!

I'm much more excited about our defensive combination than I am about whether any given one of them outperforms Rance. Of course, that can't be said without also nodding to the fact that Lever showed magnificent leadership keeping our defense confident and organised after May went down. Also worth noting that if not for the stats hole created by Tom Hawkins elbow, May's numbers would be just as good. Hold this Lever-May-Tomlinson set of tall defenders together and in form and they will go down in history alongside the likes of the Scarlett-Harley-Taylor trio. But that is ambition, not yet reality. Ambition definitely worth having, though.

Huh? Weird. Entirely unsuited to any need we have.

Goodwin's 46 losses and 43 wins put him just a couple of wins short of passing Northey and Ivor Warne-Smith. A little jump above that to get there, but it is all premiership coaches. Just adding an extra thought about successions; there is a neat link from Jones to playing in Neitz's 300th to Neitz playing with Jim Stynes at his peak and Stynes playing with Robert Flower. Is it ridiculous to then connect Flower playing with Stan Alves (the man with the unluckiest timing in football) who just briefly played with several of the greats of the greatest era, but it seems the chain breaks there because really, it should be Barassi. It should be Barassi.

Maybe Port Melbourne?