Little Goffy

Definitely best of luck to him (with all the usual caveats). Felt he was bitterly unlucky with the way the tall defender roster played out. You'd think with Petty rolled forward his chances would have come, but even then, no. He may yet get a few more seasons out of his body given that his game has never been about pace or agility. Anyway, the space opens nicely for Sam De Koning to join his brother with us at the end of 2025. You know, alongside the Whitlock twins who will be their longer-term understudies.

Fine. I'll do it. 6 weeks, 3,000 pw, plus 2,000 expenses. Anthropologists come cheap but if you want your culture reviewed, why would you go to yet another lawyer for ten times as much?

Will Essendon win a final before Melbourne win a premiership?

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The Luke Jackson trade has effectively netted us Jefferson, Windsor and (checks crystal ball) Andrew Brayshaw. Touch wood about the kids, of course, but that salary cap space is golden pre-Tassie.

Softened by the recent decade under Hardwick and Peggy O'Neal, Richmond supporters may be in need of leadership figures to teach them to one again pour visceral hate upon senior club figures and restore their traditions of cyclical rout and ruin. Applicants should have own trailer and microwave.

If we want to toss around 800k at a tall we would want them to be a forward/ruck support. I'd take an 'adequate, reliable' forward-ruck over a 'sometimes great, inconsistent, injury plagued' forward-only. In fact, before I took Lynch I'd rather store the coin to go hard at the exceptional 2025 free agency prospects rather than burn it for a non-solution now. Marginal time preference utility in action!

Damn, that is a pretty dire selection. I'm sick of Sydney and their unreasonable draft concessions. Any chance Hawthorn can be disqualified and Fremantle get a crack at it? A premiership for Hogan would be nice. Fagan finally cracking it would be alright but is there a way he can get there without the rest of Brisbane also winning? As someone who finds coach-bashing to be an odious pastime, I'd manage an amused smirk if Hinkley won a premiership, too. I absolutely do not want Sydney, Geelong or Hawthorn to win it. Sick of the sight of them. Yeah, that's about all the feelings I can dredge up for this finals series.

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?