Little Goffy

Unless we are being discrete because we are aiming to bring in someone from one of the Grand Final teams. Obviously Leppitsch from Collingwood would be a premium (premier?) acquisition. Cameron Bruce, midfield and stoppages at Brisbane, would also seem likely to be on the radar. Separately, there might be a case to target Collingwood's head of performance, Jarrod Wade. Not only has he got the team playing out games superbly, but with NINE players aged 30 or over, he's had almost all of them play the full season. Sidebottom hurt a knee medial, Howe broke an arm, and Mason Cox had a recto-cranial impaction. So of nine players over 30, only Sidebottom's injury could even be partially considered conditioning related, and they've all been playing good, mobile football.

Brutal.

I had to be in transit for the final quarter so didn't get to watch it, but based on what I saw when I opened the laptop back up when I got home, it was a big and exciting final quarter. WHAT!?

Our tall forwards are just another level. Congrats to Kate Hore now leading both the all-time and season goalkicking tally, by the way! I don't think there's any forward line to compare it to in the men's league when it comes to sheer dominance based on dynamism, awareness and versatility. You could cobble one together from something like Allen, Fritsch, Mihocek and Papley. Just impossible to get your head around as a defender.

Fun watching Bannan with that bit of pressure on the boundary to create the out-on-the-full miskick. At first I was annoyed that she didn't start in hot pursuit immediately, but then she accelerated, and accelerated, and accelerated... I can see how that would put a player off!

As I understand it, Geelong haven't given away a goal in the first quarter at all this season. So, goodbye to that! Always very satisfying to get a retailiation goal after having the ball pressed into our defence for so long. To then follow up with a second immediately is mead-burp level satisfying.

I think Ben McKay is a good player and I would be happy if he joined our club, but pick 4 in free agency compensation is nonsense. He's an effective defender who can intercept and contest very well, but gives nothing on the counter-attack. Ben McKay Best and Fairest placings in a bottom-4 club are 6th in 2021 and 9th in 2020. That's it. Those are the only years he's played a full season, too. Essendon massively overpaying a contract for a player - and creating a net weakening of the Bomber's list - just to make sure that every other club is also penalised by the transaction? The artist Dodoro signing his work?

Che Guevara and Debussy to a disco beat? The world needs Pete Seeger EDM remixes.

The simple solution would seem to be to tell Collingwood to %^#$ their #$%^ with a $#%#. They traded a player on a contract and agreed to pay a portion of that contract, ongoing, as part of the trade. What's next? If we on-trade a draft pick do we have to return the original trade value to the source club? If Collingwood are even fantasising about being able to renege on their trade agreement it is a piercing insight into just how profound their hubris is and, I would argue, a probably cause for a salary cap cheating investigation of them.

OMG! I had no idea that was part of mad monday.

So, too late to rookie list him? I've always had Toumpas in the 'tragedy' column, not the 'failure' column. From the original phantom draft of 2012. 4. Melbourne - Jimmy Toumpas Height: 182cm Weight: 78kg DOB: 12/01/94 Club: Woodville-West Torrens Draft range: 2-5 The Demons snare Toumpas at pick four, despite the South Australian being touted a top-three prospect for most of the year. And they'll love him, too, with his class, poise and goalkicking skills excellent for a midfielder. He had an interrupted season with a niggling hip injury, which required surgery at the end of the year, but he'll be fine for the club's pre-season and for next year. Announced himself as a draft pick in this sort of range late last year, when he starred for SANFL side Woodville-West Torrens as they charged to the league premiership. Has excellent leadership qualities that were on show as captain of his state this season, and some already see him growing into an AFL captain. In the mix: GWS. There's still a good chance Toumpas will go to the Giants as one of the first three picks. In any case, there's no way he'll get past the Bulldogs at five or six.

If we let the latte-chardonnay sipping woke leftist trans communist gays take away our mad monday, what will be next!

The more obvious the injustice the more excessive and repetitive the lie must be reaffirmed.

Sounds like he already has 60,000 friends. Ooh, i just imagined the ultimate MelbourneFC promo. Every member attending X game gets a bottle of wine on the way in.

I've been trying to mentally sort the key forwards (who are even remotely possible acquisitions) into 'expensive gun' and 'quality role-player' types. Figured if I put it down in writing it would reduce my overall level of confusion. So, with an invite to people putting a line through them, adding a question mark, endorsing them, mocking them, or suggesting what they reckno the trade cost would be, here we go; Expensive guns; Aaron Naugton, Pick-any King, Jack Lukosius, Oscar Allen, Harry McKay Quality role-players or young potential in crowded forward lines; Jamarra Ugle-Hagan, Todd Marshall, Jake Riccardi, Darcy Fogarty, Logan McDonald, Hayden McLean, Riley Thilthorpe, Ben McKay (switching forward?) My personal preference from a value-for-trade/money perspective would go Riccardi, McLean, Thilthorpe and then the fantasy of getting Lukosius.

People on here often accuse me of writing excessively long posts about things. So... Crush. Kill. Destroy. Annihilate. Obliterate. Pulverize. Smash. Raze. Ruin. I want this current Demon team to become the Miyamoto Musashi of the Women's League. The unreachable legend. The example which generations to come will strive to emulate knowing that they can never truly do so. Not merely the greatest there is, but the greatest there could ever be. And also to beat Geelong on Thursday.

If only the AFL had a stable, transparent system for such things. AHHHH HA HA H AH AH AH AH HA HA HA HA HA HA GARG HARG HURG SNORK SNORK SNORK. Setting aside the specific needs or not of North Melbourne; The AFL was badly governed twenty years ago and its governance standards since then have declined at every moment of scrutiny and in every aspect of accountability. Government by executive decree is how you destroy any intergenerational organisation. Ibn Khaldun described it in terms of four conceptual generations of rulers. Those who built the new dynasty, Those who learned directly from the builders and carry on the disciplines of rulership, Those who faithfully follow established habits without really understanding why, and then... The destroyers; soft willed and only interested in indulgence and consumption, not creation, who will eventually be wiped out by hardened invaders from the deserts, starting the cycle anew on the ruins of the old. The AFL has slipped unmistakably into the fourth generation.

The story is actually about Thom Hawkers, the famous street food seller who Simon Goodwin met on an end of season trip to Thailand. Definitely worth a 2-year contract. What other club can offer unlimited pineapple fried rice and pad thai to prospective new players?

New studies have found that people who try to manifest wealth through positive visualisation are significantly more likely to declare bankruptcy. If we now get Brayden Preuss on a five-year deal I'm blaming you. If we're helping out Gold Coast with their salary cap problems, I'd be much keener on Lukosius (obviously) and also, pretty sure that is Max King in the opening picture.

I'll never forget the day I learnt my wife could levitate. And also that she probably loves Bailey Fritsch more than she loves me. Here's a strange detail - sometimes I've only re-watched the early part of the third quarter just to be reminded of the sensation that it was all slowly slipping away. That we were grinding the game down enough to slow the Dogs' scoring but showed no signs of being able to hit back, and it seemed inevitable that once in a while Bontempelli would still show up and cut another hole through our defence, making the situation ever-harder. It is as if I've been training myself to associate that feeling of tension on the edge of despair with 'massive victory good times.'

The instructions from above were 'be intimidated by the crowd'.

I still harbour a wild fantasy that we get a second pick in the top ten and end up with both Curtin and O'sullivan and spend the next decade in a paradise of tall defenders who can swing into other roles. I mean, I'm harbouring a lot of wild fantasies (draft related) at the moment because there are just so many variables to play out and we have our best draft/trade hand since 2014. This is going to be the ultimate 'butterfly effect' trade and draft season. You'd need a meteorologist to get a reasonable prediction.

Is there such a thing as GWSSS? They sure looked messy out there for the first 20 minutes but Collingwood failed to do the damage and now Western Sydney seem to have steadied a bit.

Not sure which is most annoying... the Daicos worship, the cheering for Maynard, or the 'Mason Cox has done that well' every time the ball spins ineffectually off him. Ah well, come on Hogan, kick seven and make 'em cry.

Good to see the old MCC stalwarts made it along, too.