Little Goffy

They've figured out that his natural kicking action works best at 120m.

I think we have found one 'positive' from the night. Please remember to self-isolate as much as possible, keep your fluids up and manage the symptoms. Do not return to your residential care home until you have been at least three days without symptoms.

Sydney has had the most humid [censored] summer I've ever experienced here. I doubt there's been five total days of the other 'brutal dry sun' type in the whole period from November to now. I've got one of those evaporative-fan cooler units sitting in a cupboard somewhere but there's just no point to it because the humidity is already so high all the 'cooler' can do is blow some additional moist air around. As for Max, it was really noticeable that he dropped off after McLean had been put on him for a solid spell in the 3rd while Grundy rested. McLean would have been the dream acquisition in the Grundy/Jordon trades to accompany Max and they used him with precise effect. He had just 4 kicks but every one of them was a shot on goal which tells you how little he was expected to get around the ground when stationed as a forward. Then fresh as daisies in the third, he goes onto Gawn and delivers maximum effort. Whether or not Gawn can keep up with the fresh opponent is irrelevant; that level of effort for a sustained period defeats the bodies natural short-term recovery and by the time it was done Grundy has two steps ahead of Gawn in every situation. By the stats McLean had a pretty basic fwd/ruck game; 5 disposals, 5 clangers (mostly from 4 frees against), 2 goals 2 behinds, ten hitouts. But it was one of the most important contributions on the field that night. As for why our players aren't stepping in about the roughing up of Gawn - we all know that it is the retaliator who gets pinged most of the time. Even moreso in this case where a strategy of niggling a target all game with constant minor incidents is acceptable under the rules, while any attempt to respond to a particular instance will be seen as an overreaction and likely penalised. It's the successful workplace harassment approach we all know so well.

Upsides; Well, Laurie, Chandler and Spargo have really made me appreciate the effectiveness of Melksham, and look forward to getting Pickett back and probably Woewodin, replacing two of these. I'd probable hold onto Spargo as the smartest and most energetic of tonight's three. McVee continues to grow. Howes looks like a serious player. Windsor is definitely promising. Salem looks like he's fit again. We're another week closer to Harry Petty's feet being okay (touch wood, ideally clogs) I'd say something positive about Jake Bowey being smart and hard, but I guess that depends on his shoulder.

6. Viney 5. Salem 4. Howes 3. Fritsch 2. Petracca 1. McVee

Besides, that is highly inefficient - results in only half the total volume of eligible offspring.

That it is time for dessert. Ooh, helpful thread. I should go buy something ready for dessert after the game.

I used to embarrass my much higher income brother because when he'd take me to some of Melbourne's elite restaurants I'd be asking for more bread every time a waiter was in sight. Premium bread with quality butter is my happy place. In these adventures, once upon a time I had some of the world's best bread with some of the world's best butter. You could tell. It was bliss.

Honestly, at a certain point even an AFL journalist has to earn some kind of credibility deficit.

So, really, on the basis of their shared "aggressive non-viral, transmittable parasitic cancer with lesions or lumps in and around the mouth," and their general demeanour, the natural rivals for the Tasmanian Devils would be...

Margarine is basically pure white until they add dye. Fun fact - Margarine is an extremely dense energy source and while it is difficult to light, once it gets going it burns powerfully with a LOT of black smoke. This lesson was learned the hard way in Sweden when a truck transporting a shipment of margarine crashed in a tunnel. The petrol caught fire and the flame was intense enough to get the margarine to light, at which point the entire tunnel had to be evacuated immediately. On the bright side, they drove two more trucks through; one full of salmon and the next with potato and herbs, and at the end everyone had a lovely dinner.

Oi Red, update on the bread box please. If it truly keeps the bread from growing new and interesting species I will swim the Pearl River to get one. Exemptions: During an afternoon nap at the beach house following a morning swim / when there's a event you don't want to go to and need to convince the other person to procrastinate / and interrupting Mario Kart. Pfft. I had a needle and an old rag. The needle was for both writing and for drawing blood from my fingertips. For the rest of my life the ends of my fingers all look like [censored].

I'd say both Sydney and the Dogs are a bit overrated going into the season - realistic possibility that neither will make finals. Overall at present we have First Round: Our own pick (18, obviously) Second Round: Sydney (call it 30) Third Round: St Kilda and Footscray (let's say around 45 and 50) Fourth Round: Our own pick. Jason Taylor is like a kid going into a 1980s mini-market looking for lollies with a $1 coin, a 50c piece and two 20c pieces and a five cent piece. He must now work out how to get the $2 grab bag.

To drink their own bathwater they would first need to have a bath.

Fortunately we brought in other people to recruit the rest of the team! 🤣

That seems backwards compared to the normal path, but we go in aaaallll directions around here. Don't mind the crankies, they just like yelling at each other about things going back as far as Barry Prendergast!

Hmm, you might be thinking of the Tom Lonergan kidney injury. Miller didn't quite get purchase jumping for a mark and ended up with his knee driving into the fast-backtracking Lonergan's lower back. Looked ugly and the kidney had to be removed, but there was no tribunal side to it.

I got the strangest picture in my head thinking about Windsor and Sparrow. Imagine one of those car refit shows (Pimp my Ride, etc to 1000 variations) and two teams are given an identical base car and told to transform it in whatever way they are inspired. One team decides to rip out the back seats and completely rebuild the engine for maximum torque to produce a ute with enough grunt to tow Scott Morrison's [censored] up a hill. The other team strips the heavy gear out, upgrades the suspension and fine tunes the gears, throws on a rear spoiler and presents to the judges a smooth-rding highway cruiser. Anyway, it was just a random thought. Probably just because they have very similar chin, jawline, cheekbones and hair.

I saw the AFL website ran the headline 'facing massive ban'... and then in the article it suggested 3 weeks. At some point all this spin is going to cause its own concussion problems.

Could it be... is this the time... to bring back the bugle? Maybe a cavalry charge call at the moment in the third quarter when he took the gully catch in the grand final ;)

https://cognitiveresearchjournal.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s41235-021-00301-5 Re: 'our culture is totally broken' / 'Goodwin is some kind of egomaniac crackpot' / our consecutive top 4 finished are a mark of failure' / etc etc I see the lines repeated constantly and it is very irritating. Surely by now Roost It and a couple of others can accept that the effect of "incrementally smaller increases in perceived truth for each additional repetition" has taken hold and they are wasting their own time almost as much as they are wasting everyone else's.

Surely the biggest one hit wonder failures would have to be; Hawthorn 2008 Sydney 2005 North Melbourne 1996 Essendon 1993 Personally, if Melbourne's story follows that of our 1948 'one-hit wonder'I'm patient enough to wait for the rebound!

After round 24 we'll finish at the MCG, having just crushed the faltering reigning premiers in front of the season's biggest crowd and taken their spot in the top 4 thanks to an eight game winning streak. Rnd17 on goes; Eagles, Bombers, Dockers, Giants, Bulldogs, Power, Suns, Magpies. The first half of this season will be tough but even a 50% win rate will be enough to let us launch into a relatively soft late draw. 2024 will be like 2000 if there was no Essendon.

Absolutely shameful that he's been relegated to 'Footy Feed: Dees shock call, Thomas sacked, new Swan impresses.' But I'm not too worried because his legacy will only grow because the love for him is deep.

King's Birthday will be a serious thing but I fully expect round 24 to be one to remember. By then we will have worked our way through a difficult season, and that final round game against Collingwood will very likely influence both club's position in the top 4. By all the pagan deities and ancestral spirits, we must purge that corrupting foulness.