Little Goffy

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.

Doesn't the club have a wine sponsor? Surely a prize is in order because this post has aged superbly. (Tool in question was Stringer)

Machiavelli tells a wonderful story of an Italian prince who conquered a new territory, essentially adding a city-state to his realm. To establish order and root out the corruption that was his pretext for an 'invited' conquest, he sent an absolute hardened b-stard to overzealously crush everyone who was even vaguely suspected. When the locals started arcing up about things going to far, the Prince used this agent as a scapegoat, and arranged to have him assassinated, body cut in half and dumped in the middle of the town square, thereby both 'satisfying and stupefying' the populace, because they got what they wanted but... Mio Dio! Quello è selvaggio! Now, that is how you stab someone in the back. Also an example of a surprising historical fact; you're much more likely to be stabbed in the back/assassinated/betrayed and so forth by someone more senior to you who fears your ambition, than by someone beneath you trying to climb. Of course, this is all in the old days before the invention of the banana smoothie brought peace to the world.

Can we get YoPro to sponsor that thread?

Ah, monseir Daisycutter, surely one more little compliment cannot hurt? We all know that this flattery is wafer thin.

Your gracious acceptance of the limitations of this social context has only reaffirmed your dignity and stature as a leader.

Looks to me like there are about a dozen players competing for the last few of uncertain spots in the team, almost all of them mid-sized types ranging from mature Hibberd, Harmes, Nibbler and Dunstan to younger Rivers, Jordon, Sparrow, Bowey and the so far untested kids like Woey and Laurie. Actually, there's an interesting hypothetical contest of some very similar players. Hibberd, Harmes, Dunstan, Melksham, Neal-Bullen, v Rivers, Jordon, Sparrow, Spargo, Bowey,

Much more impressive.

I fear people don't realise that the correct pronunciation of WalkingCivilWar is "Waenci'ghour".

I'll take "Things Lachie Hunter does." for $400, please! (actually, I guess that is what McQueen has already done)

I guess it is competition in the sense that there is a position to be won and bidding is open.

Not much exciting on offer. Would monitor Ben McKay for a possible switch to the forward line. He's an ideal age, is all-round good enough for AFL level and the key fact is he gets up and takes contested marks on a regular basis. Would also be a totally acceptable option if May or Petty weren't available in defence for any amount of time.

But, seriously, we already have Fremantle's first and second round picks for 2023, don't we? They've got some later exchanged picks from North but are basically out of the top-20 picks. Getting Liam Henry to the Demons is certainly worth considering. Not delivered much yet but the Freo goalkicking group includes Frederick, Walters & Schultz who combined for about 90 goals between them, as well as plenty of other lighter-bodied speedy types rotating through. Given that I'm convinced a dedicated fast small defender is something we should be looking for anyway, the suggestion that he could make the positional switch seems sound to me. He's also a pretty good run-and-bounce option to give us another way out of our half-back swamp.

Dribble?!

I believe that official 'AFL' premierships should only be recognised from the period beginning with the Australia's declaration of war in WW2 until the first deployment of Australian combat forces to the US war in Vietnam.

Without even checking it, we all know that May's putt went long to the left.

Ooh can we have some more? 😄 I think what this situation is really missing is Mick Malthouse's opinion.

Coincidentally, Tyson managed 11 Brownlow votes in his first season with us, while Dunstan got 11 in his final season with St Kilda. Just noticed that in his nine seasons Tyson only played every game once, while Dunstan has NEVER played a full season. Bizarrely, he played between 15 to 19 games in six season in a row. Never forget; for a brief moment Dom Tyson was a goal-kicking midfielder in a team which didn't even have a goal-kicking forward.

Of course he does!