Little Goffy

I think I've been a bit lucky to only be home and watching after half time. Seen a bit of what everyone was talking about - the trash disposal, rushed decisions, and all that - but it also seems to be very marginally turning a bit our way. Maybe not in our favour, but at least not so one sided as the first half and the alarmingly bad first quarter.

See, now, I'm a more nuanced type. Qualitative not quantitative, y'know? What I need is something like those kids' puzzles where you have to match the animal from the left column to its home in the right column. bird, wombat, snail v shell, nest, burrow For example choose from Collingwood, Hawthorn, Essendon, Carlton, West Coast on the left column. Then add contempt, disgust, disdain, irritation, hostility in the right column.

He'll be nicknamed Bullwinkle soon if he isn't careful.

I've very curious to see how Langdon goes with the significant changes of personnel in related roles given all the movements of Brayshaw, Billings, Windsor and Hunter among others. So far this season he's been fine without rocking the stadium but something has felt good about it, and that was definitely a very good first quarter.

Quick pre-game 'nearest the pin"; howmany kicks will Sicily get/give?

For the second time in a month I've been given a soy latte. This one was merely unpleasant while the previous was also burnt and undrinkable on multiple levels. I plan to take it out psychicly on Hawthorn because they look like soy late squirts and their presence is just as unwelcome.

Nah. Gawn would have his own, much more successful, movie series. So would Brayshaw, actually. Hmm... Gus and Gawny the epic adventure series really could work. I think Shaun Burgoyne would be an standout candidate for an 'Aussie' branded Bond. Has that smooth presentation, tall lean build, a clearly Aussie (not merely Australian) accent, gives a little edge of Crocodile Bondee. He does like expensive watches, too.

Yep, I've seen/heard him explicitly thanked by the commentators for pieces of information. Lovely to hear 'Sir Swamp Thing' being announced.

Honestly that is a lot better than many would have feared. He looked in a very bad way when they showed a glimpse of him waiting to be loaded into the ambulance. Absolutely stone-faced. Feels like it has been a rubbish start to the season for injuries.

Not every club can hope to emulate the most potent 50 minutes of football in the history of the game. I love that it isn't even hyperbole to say that. Hah, I now genuinely have the Doom music in my head.

But taunting Brisbane fans that they've only beaten the bottom team would be a perfect two-flavoured ice cream.

Am I missing something; every 'future prospects' profile as well as Kalani's All-australian selection has him as a tall defender. So, presumably he won't be a ruck, but rather spend a 2-4 seasons as a defender before being moved forward to plug a hole and staying there, as per Demon tradition!

Is it possible to have a death-ride for pure joy? I've gone from dreaming that in the very final round we climb over them and take their spot in the top 4, to dreaming that we'll be ending their last-ditch effort to get into the 8. Ideally by a big margin so we can watch their spoiled sulky fans leaving the game early to end the season and we can have the 'G to ourselves for a glorious 20 minutes of singing.

TOP MARKS TO THE DEMON SUPPORTER On camera with 8 minutes of play to go (roughly the 19 minute mark) giving a berserk hand-slamming clap for the Saints.

I skipped the half-time break, I assume this is roughly what I missed? EDIT: Or maybe this version?

Yeah, that one's on me. Put him on the field in my supercoach side this week.

Yeah, that whole conversation based on spin notes was, at best, in poor taste.

Moment of clarity; A reason behind the level of schadenfreude attention going to Collingwood's early stumbles is not because we can't resist talking about them, but because the situation is opening the possibility that we soon might not have to talk about them. Lurking in the back of our minds must be that Collingwood have a very old list and even outside their B&F top 10 (which included only Daicos, Daicos and Quaynor under 27yrs) they have important veteran players who were crucial to their premiership - Howe, Hoskin-Elliot, Cameron, Cox, Sidebottom, Elliot and even poor old Dan McStay. I for one am excited by the possibility of an extended decline of the Collingwood football club.

We could solve the bye problem by merging North and Hawthorn and sending them to Tasmania. The bounty of father-son selections would be enough to keep Tassie competitive for decades without actually diminishing the draft pool for the rest of the competition, and keeping it all in the family would also be culturally appropriate to Tasmania.

Not a particularly creative set of names. And now I've gone on the internet looking up creative nicknames and will have nightmares tonight. Keep it simple. Keep. It. Simple.

Definitely the Academy working as intended there.

Full credit to him but it is kind of annoying that Bobby Hill's two best games are the difference between Collingwood's entire McRae era being a failure or not. I would be well pleased to see that arrogant parasite-on-a-throne club drain away to the gutter it crawled out of. There are already credible rumours of rifts within the club and when the paint starts to scratch off you can bet we'll get another look at all the unresolved racism, sexism and drug issues their clout enabled them to suppress without resolving. Holy [censored], I really do hate Collingwood.

Fortunately Gold Coast have just stocked up with Ethan Read and Jed Walter to go with their existing bundle of Mac Andrew, Ben King, Jack Lukosius, and Charlie Ballard. That's a lot of quality tall timber aged 18-24, never mind the veterans! Clearly Kalani will be much better served coming to the Demons where he will be an appreciated and valuable contributor to an early-career premiership.

Most of our current top players will be retired or close to it by 2028 (or whenever Tasmania actually enters the competition). At the moment our younger-end players seems to be a large swell of quality without many obvious super stars of the future. That could be a problem if we don't unearth any young guns in the next few drafts or Free Agent periods, but it also makes our future list quite resilient to losing individual players. We are likely to have a massive chunk of salary cap space available as soon as the end of this season and certainly over the next few years. I wonder... would recruiting top-end free agents between now and 2028 actually insulate us from Tassie impacts? It would seem anyone who changes club right before Tassie comes in would not be thinking so much of making another switch just a couple of seasons later. Perhaps that is the path to ensuring our wave of respectable, capable draftees are still supported by the star power which takes teams from competitive to dominant? It'll all be fine when we pick up Andrew Brayshaw, Luke Davies-Uniake, both De Konigs, Oscar Allen, and Jacob Weitering in a single free agency period! #megaraid A little side note; the linked article in the original post was for a Bloomberg report about Australia not meeting its 2030 climate targets. I can see how 'things which have been promised for decades but seem to always slip further away' could get that and a Tassie team mixed.

Spud's game. Presumably Angus will be there with Danielle. Maynard will be on field. Most of the time I'm not very interested in St Kilda but thursday night I'll be one-eyed.