Little Goffy

Speaking of annoying comebacks. 'Damo', the nosey vicar of Australian football, is back with his vacuous sliding doors. And here's something; I actually find this comment 'offensive', in the sense that it simply not okay to do this to a young person. "Tipping Horne-Francis to go All-Australian." A nineteen year old kid starting out at his second club already after leaving the first in ignominious circumstances for which excessive pressure and scrutiny are commonly sited as a factor. Meanwhile, the poor kid is yet to play a single outstanding game personally. What a regulation POS. that really got on my nerves. Hmm, can we start a 'idiotic media hot-takes' thread? Or would it take up too much Demonland data storage?

Some random lower-mid-level AFL media dude. Infamous for two things; - Pestering Luke Beveridge for weeks about an issue with a player until Bevo made a goose of himself unloading on him during a press conference. - A little collection of recordings of drearily stereotypical 'banter', ranging from rating the f-ability of work colleagues and speculating about their lesbian skill levels, through to announcing that he is a proper white man and whoever he was talking to should stop treating him like he's a (racial slur) or a (homophobic slur) or a (racial slur again). Mentally picture a drunk guy hanging onto the side of a merry-go-round and going 'whoa hey heyyyyy' every time it comes around past a hot girl.

I thought it would be the Demon trumpeter. Or maybe [trigger warning] Brock Mclean.

It is interesting to me that there is a near-consensus on Richmond making the 8, and plenty of talk around that the Tigers could push to flag contention again thanks to Hopper and Taranto coming in. Does anyone else just 'not feel it'? I can see all the rational arguments - their midfield was a weakness and having the extra bodies in there will let Martin play more forward time which means they'll get more out of both their talls and smalls up forward...etc But for some reason I just feel like Richmond are in the levitating potato category - the only thing special about them is that they aren't falling down.

They award it on arrival to selected travelers.

Special mention to my mother-in-law and aunt-in-law, who took the 'International' part to the extreme by spending the day flying back to Vietnam. International Women's Day is also a much bigger deal in Vietnam than here, so I'm glad they also get four extra hours of the day there to celebrate!

That is the sensible play. Panic is when you try to make a dash for the front door even though you can still hear the intruders inside your house, and the police are on the way already.

BREAKING; Kane Cornes reveals James Brayshaw might consider changing his favourite grand final to 2002 Bris v Coll in exchange for Andy Maher not nominating Ben Cousins' Richmond debut as his favourite hamstring injury. Discussions ongoing but Maher holding firm.

Well, now what do we do if we need an approaching asteroid knocked off its course?

Exhibit A, Jack Viney played 21 games in 2019. No sneezing on O'Meara; he's likely to be a very useful midfielder for Freo. BUT I would have thought what they needed was the support of mature bodies who can grind out the minutes to prevent overloading some of the outstanding but still young players. Inside mid options seem to be O'Meara, Brodie, Serong and Brayshaw with Fyfe occasionally. Ask a Carlton supporter how it feels to have a few superb midfielders but not enough meat and potatoes keeping the machinery grinding. They'll tell you one thing; "Oh, I swear, we've solved that problem now." :D Of course, I am only speaking of this season. Next year, just as soon as we don't have all their draft picks, they will have had just enough pre-seasons in them to really dominate.

He's no Ian Ridley but that's a pretty good run. I never picked him as being unusually wise but you have to give him credit for getting off the Titanic at Cherbourg.

I can't express the depths of my hatred for that organisation without being banned.

The link you posted is to nothing but a commentary about the "double standard with relation to Jordan De Goey." Don't gaslight.

Come on, ET, your opening post was nothing but; "I’m well aware double standards don’t exist within the media and general public, so I’m eagerly awaiting the impending storm: " Basically you're claiming there's an equivalence between a drunk dude pulling down girls tops in bars, and some friends posting a silly marginally suggestive photo as a joke. I mean, seriously; THIS IS YOUR PROFILE PICTURE

I guess it depends on what offends you. If your red line is that women shouldn't be sexually suggestive in a joke with friends, then I guess this image would trouble you. If your red line is unexpectedly stripping women in public while in a drunken stupor, then De Goey probably comes out worse. Each to their own, I suppose.

According to the commentator, St Kilda just don't what to do about Tom Petty blocking up our defence. Good times.

Jess Webster, yep. Seems to have just the right tone for the occasion. Pleased to be there, keeping the conversation going during slow patches without sending it off the rails, lifting the energy a bit for good passages of play but not going over the top. I guess the short summary is she seems like someone it'd be good to watch the football with. Would need to take a LOT of unidentified white powder before becoming unhinged enough to commentate a friday night game, though.

Gee, May thought that one through well. Didn't rush when many would have, just paced it to be in the right spot.

Hunter an early contender for the Brownlow.

Spargo been hitting the Pantene in the off season, okay. But... has Brayshaw gone for the clippers? I was so startled I'm not sure of what I saw.

Know any good delivery services for that?

I took a look at the Hawthorn game and in 20 seconds saw a Hawk defender a mile out of position and then body-tackle Jeremy Cameron while Cameron took a mark anyway, and then a Hawk under not much pressure kicked to a wide open runner on the wing who failed to control the ball and watched it dribble out. Result is all Cats but not in a way that says much about their prospects, just that Hawthorn don't have it together. Acceptable.

There should be some kind of game you can play where over the season you can try to anticipate which players are going to go up or down in value, and trade them in and out. As for Chandler himself, I don't see how he cracks the firsts teams with any regularity this season, or holds a place with us into 2024. Touch wood, but our midfield is practically impossible to crack into, and our mix of small and medium forward options gives him a lot of competition. Even the flow on if Pickett successfully plays significantly more midfield time wouldn't help Chandler. Probably means we not only use Sparrow and Nibbler more exclusively as pressure forwards, but also try out Viney for more minutes as a hunter-killer and Petracca as a Petraccing-ball up there as well. On the bright side, we have so many options of Chandler's type, that if he does play AFL level it'll be because he had earned it.

It's a typo. The author thought the name was Jacob Van Rooyen Un Likely, anglicised from the little Flemish village of Rooyen on the river Likalee. If he does debut round one, can 'unlikely' be his nickname? Van Likely?

Can't say I'm a fan of the 'if it makes the papers you get punished' system for football. Can't say I'm a fan of half the finance executives in Australia wheezing schneef with impunity while police are busy [censored] teenage girls at music festivals. I'm in an awkward spot - I do not support anything like a free-for-all on drugs because addiction is real, many recreational drugs are hideously toxic, and there is no way to cleanly separate the existing networks of supply and exploitation from any attempt a new, less harmful drug culture. It is such a difficult policy area - any progress has to somehow be made with great precision while also walking near-blind with the lack of information about how any given change will affect the situation. I take some heart that in the last 20 years or so we've made huge progress towards actually being able to discuss the topic rationally, though this is still an area where the "Mark Lathams vs Lidia Thorpes" festival of loud morons takes center stage.