Little Goffy

25 minutes ago, Rodney (Balls) Grinter said:

No worries mate and thanks for your clarification.

My wife and partner of nearly 20 years passed away from suicide around 5 years ago now, so your initial post was somewhat jarring, but I agree with the sentiment within the further context you explained.

As I think you appreciate depression can often be a deeply rooted beast.

I'm taking some time to quietly gaze out the window, watching a tree in the rain. Y'know.

@Rodney (Balls) Grinter I also know you to be a thoughtful poster and appreciate the sincere engagement.

This stuff burns on the same level as dismissive emergency room doctors who send people home with a couple of panadol.

10 hours ago, Rodney (Balls) Grinter said:

I see your other post Goffy and know you generally to be a well meaning, thoughtful person, but without further context, explanation or qualification, the above is a truly horrible statement.

It is a truly horrible mirror to hold up. Comments like 'you get to go to school' directed at kids who are having a horrific time at school are pure gaslighting and the only people they reassure are the parents and other people who want to imagine that nothing deeper is wrong and their kids just need to cheer up and have a better attitude.

Basically teaching a child that the problem is them.

I went to high school in the 'suicude 90s' and I have a long memory and do not always mourn silently.

On 19/02/2026 at 15:21, GS_1905 said:

i get what this bloke is on about. Especially with Gen Z's and Millenials (Im a v.late Gen X), but I'm still torn on whether these kids (and adults) lack resilience, bought upon by a sheltered upbringing. Im no shrink either so have to defer to the professionals somewhat, but what sticks out is that we seem to have more problems now with MH, crime etc than we did when i was younger.

As for his work with MFC, im surprised Gary let him off the hook. He was undoubtedly behind the Love Fest of MFC 2025 off-season camp, but either the horse had already bolted and he was left with an unfixable situation OR he isn't as capable as i was led to believe.

Crime is down significantly since the 90s and earlier. Very significantly.

Also, there's no real way to compare mental health issue prevalence because until recently mental health problems were something you suffered in silence, self medicated with alcohol, or inflicted upon your loved ones.

Lance Franklin had mental health issues and addressed them and is apparently continuing to thrive.

Gary Ablett Sr 'didn't' have mental health issues and masked these non issues by partying so hard a teenage girl OD'd in his apartment, and has since then been a borderline recluse.

30 years ago Dani Laidley would have just quietky cut her wrists in the bathtub.

Pretty much everything except capital gains tax optimised housing speculation, the run-down of public assets, deregulation and the shift to meth has been a real improvement these last 30yrs.

I think I may have developed a really personal vendetta against whoever invented foot stress injuries.

An awful injury that seems to always find awful timing.

26 minutes ago, Redleg said:

Nice post LG.

I do feel like I captured the essence of the thread. 😁

2 hours ago, DemonFrog said:

Red I still have too much trauma 😪 from the last time I tried to buy a Banana 🍌 based drink. I got rejected because they run out of Bananas 🍌, AGAIN! It is still too painful to talk about anything Banana 🍌 based from for awhile 😕 I blame 😔 the Big V's victory over us Sandgropers for this problem 😢

Persevere, always. Some day a kindness will invert your trauma to victory. Are you not a Demon, after all?

At uni I once had a craving for nachos (from a particular, locally legendary place in a particular way) so intense that when the cafe told me they couldn't do it because they ran out of sour cream, I went to the supermarket and got some for them.

They were so surprised and so pleased that I got my nachos for free that day.

They also did great banana smoothies. Clearly a cafe of worthy repute.

I live on a street named after a breed of chicken. Quite a charismatic chook, too, I must say.

Oh, did I already share that some glorious mad fool booked a dual vunj sleeper box on a German overnight train and turned the whole thing into a chicken coop complete with straw, egg trap nests, and half a dozen apparently quite happy chooks?

Then he disappeared, leaving the solution to this in the hands of German rail.

If I recall correctly, knee and shin protectors went through a peak during the jumping ruck phase before the anti Jeff White rule shifted ruck to more wrestling.

We might see them more now that the anti Max Gawn rules have been introduced to encourage more Jeff White style rucks.

I do also have vague recollections that for shin and knee protection to be strong enough to protect the wearer they had to be so hard they became a danger to opponents.

That collection of stats isn't even as sophisticated as Supercoach points.

Whatever happened to the Inside Football player ratings pages?

Daicos N.

57 disposals, 1452 metres gained, 17 score involvements. Rating: 5 "I just don't like the guy, okay."

But in all seriousness, that one line of justification for the score for each player, each game, built up a really interesting picture.

12 minutes ago, Ethan Tremblay said:

I can guarantee that Port will match any offer presented.

And risk getting on Kane Cornes' naughty list? 😵

I mean... Butters is a free agent. We could use the cash saved by trading Petracca to get him and the pick-equivalent gained by trading Petracca (and cash saved by trading Oliver) to grab Mr Bumphrey.

That'd be a result for the ages.

Sam Walsh would have been a nice player to gain via free agency on a pretty good contract, but >$1m is wild.

What a strange time for Carlton to be looking to set its list in stone. I guess they are still dominated by the 'just a little more and it'll click' view.

A couple of strange ones, a couple of omissions. He gives a rationale designed to be a decoy to the fact he's just lazy.

Ah well, mostly I'm just annoyed that someone is getting paid good money to half-4R53 it like this.

@WERRIDEE by all rights should be a millionaire in this media market. His teams are frequent and he gives them a full 4RS3 every time.

I feel like refreshing a thought I tossed in about 40 pages ago.

'The injury' was the first time in Petracca's life he had experience actual fear, he didn't cope with it, then he didn't cope with the fact he didn't cope with it, and in trying to find external reasons for that he completely transformed his relationships to fit a perceptions that it wasn't him who didn't cope.

On the one hand, it is a sincerely sympathetic story and just unfortunate that the damaged relationships were with 'us'.

On the other hand, it is triggering my 'oh, poor little rich boy with the ultra-supportive large extended family and talent for a thing society celebrates out of all proportion to its value, did you have a boo-boo and only had the support of some of the world's very best medical services and a realistically unlimited budget to access those services? awwww, awwww'.

But that isn't a part of me I like.

I'm trying to compartmentalise it to being just another reminder that most AFL-level footballers have had a supportive and resource-rich structure around them and their chosen path so far back they were still wetting the bed. I can resent that and still feel okay about myself.

Those two main highlights of Latrelle excited me more because he looked for and kicked to a target forward than for the speed and running. Being able to run and weave without it consuming all your mental bandwidth is pretty valuable even if you aren't super quick.

Running like a wild thing might just be his version of wait-and-see!

But does taking a bounce every five steps count as padding your stats? Was he at some point coached by one of the Shaw brothers?

The article during the week had Jefferson talking about how he has been working on his ability to get his mind right after a poor start to games, so here's to a big second half?

Just watched the highlight of the two Pickett goals. Must say, he is looking lean and powerful.

I'm finally getting a bit of the classic pre-season irrational optimism hit.

2 minutes ago, YesitwasaWin4theAges said:

Please clarify, who is Batman?

So it seems that Jack Steele and Max Heath are doing well considering we got them in exchange for an expired six-pack of yoghurt and an unreliable TV remote.

My deepest sympathies to St Kilda fans, but at this stage I don't think even Mr Miyagi in a three movie arc could teach Ross Lyon humility.

Not sure where to post this but has anyone, anywhere, ever seen anything to suggest that Essendon's Sam Durham is an 'emerging star'?

I guess it could be something to observe in the Essendon pre-season games?

Seems like a 'better than average' player and good all-round midfield contributor, but after four years basically uninjured and at 24yrs old, you'd expect more than that to be considered an 'emerging star'.

Or is it possible the AFL website is basically a proxy for the Bomber's hype machine as thye try to put a respectable gloss on needing to give a pretty good midfielder a high value six year contract?

1 minute ago, In Harmes Way said:

I wonder how my radiator would go with sparkling water in it?

It would become a carbonator.

Per the practice match thread, will DriversDepot be prioritising Penrite oil?

Holy gobsmack, that might actually be a useful way to apply AI.

Specific, concrete information, combined into a sequence based on linear parameters.

I hope they remember to map in all the low bridges. All to easy to imagine an AI chatbot seeing a bunch of articles on oversize trucks striking overpasses and concluding 'this is a place where oversize trucks go'.

Viney will be made cherry ripe for finals when his grit and hardness will be most valuable, and his occassionally iffy kicking and decision making will be mitigated by playing him exclusively in the guts to give our young lighter bodied mids some relief.

By then I will also have achieved consistency when spelling our coach's name.