Little Goffy

Aw, thanks. Now I get to celebrate both an excellent, dynamic, character-filled win by the Demons, AND I get to prove my point that some people put indulging their vendettas ahead of the enjoying the club's successes.

Yep, I'm going to call that a full form turnaround from Rivers. Tense final ten minutes now.

oh Gawny, just cursed

Raising an eyebrow at Max Gawn steadily getting more and more involved as the game goes on. I suspect he loved having a half of football where he wasn't required to be in two places at once. Might be relatively fresh for the final quarter, which could be important.

Well, this is an unexpected moment to be reminded of my ex.

Uh oh. Please examine your reality tokens. The following sentence is allegedly a thing that really happened; "Demons score a last-minute goal after Harrison Petty soccers one off the ground"

Sorry Freo, you can't afford him.

Ah poop. Oliver having a very poor quarter after making a good effort of it in the first. Meanwhile, another quiet nod, this time for Rivers who hasn't been spectacular but has been working through the play and getting involved effectively, and might be turning his form slump around a bit.

Just during this apparently lull, a quick shout to Bowey who leads all comers for metres and for efficiency, with a solid contribution in just about every way, but, more importantly, radio commentary was noting that he's kept his opponents very quiet as well - just one disposal to a Bowey opponent in the first quarter, and that included Shai Bolton for 12 minutes.

Well, there we go, we've got our average score for the season midway through the second.

On this day in 2009 we broke through for our first win of the season. Hooray! It was also our only win before the mid-season bye. Hmm. Oh well, fire up anyway.

I guess there is always time for some dreaming of the future. Langford - faster, better-looking Riccutio Windsor - Shaun Burgoyne Lindsay - Kade Simpson Tholstrup - Paul Chapman So we still need maybe a Simon Black and a Lenny Hayes to fill it out, but should go alright.

No. No No No. He's becoming the Scott Morrison of AFL. Wants the job but doesn't want to do the work. Only listens to people telling him how great he is, and even those people are just trying to sell him something.

I heard that Pickett painted his eggs purple, Petracca demanded each member of his extended family receive an egg personally from the coach, and that Oliver had come through in the middle of the night smashing all the eggs on his forehead and then putting them back. Other than that, things went quite well. The kids were so good at finding the eggs that for next week's game we are going to paint Van Rooyen bright colours and have the kids replace our midfield.

I can't run marathons so this is how I do an 'awareness raising' campaign. Particularly in the case of Gawn, people need to realise that unjustifiable potting of one the club's greatest ever players is not something you want floating around in your pool.

The younger one is blonder. But that never lasts.

Or at least follow through properly on the snark with Maynard. For the good of football.

Wrong thread. Please use one of the other seventy dedicated to the topic of slagging the club.

From what I've seen... the younger isn't as instantly potent as the elder, and much less a contested type, but has had a couple of games already where he has really shown up in moving the ball aggressively and effectively.

Oh, I hate Collingwood. There was a brief period where I only hated the fans and club, but had a certain level of acceptance for the players overall, even if a couple were annoying. But that's gone. I gave them a chance. I set aside my prejudices and then saw them with clear eyes, and what I saw was foulness and dishonour. I bestow curses upon them. May they malinger and rot, may their every effort fall limp, may they be notable only in moments of shame, may every fleeting appearance of success be whisked away in the wind and their every moment of sweetness turn to ash in their mouth. In short, may they become St Kilda. Tip: Brisbane to win.

I mean, another way of looking at it is, which quarter isn't it?

People calling Oliver's on field performances 'a disgrace' and saying Gawn is past it and in his last year are just losing the plot. It's showing the tip of a truly noxious iceberg. Honestly, the level of bile of some people would put me off the game. Imagine trying to convince a friend or partner to come to another Demon's game after having to sit next to some of the foul-mouthed growling spittle-flicking ranting some people feel is their best contribution. Oliver is 20% off his best, which still makes him a high-end inside mid. Tom Mitchell won a Brownlow playing the way Oliver currently is. The problem of course is that Oliver's very best is among the very best in the AFL era, so the relative disappointment is massive. But the hate... people are sick. As for casting doubts on Gawn... no stat backs that up, no vision backs that up, no reality backs that up. Might as well say Robbie Flower was no good because he played in losses. This club's deepest weakness is the nasty, entitled state of mind of the bitter factions that ripple through the coteries, events and even the board. People willing to slag off players, coaches, other fans, anyone in a mission to take away control from the 'enemy'. People willing to tell players they shouldn't have to follow the authority of the senior coach. Seriously, I suspect there really are people who saw the 2021 premiership as a setback to their goals.

An interview with Phil Davis late in his career. Honestly, although this is a media thread, I wonder what his level of interest would be in getting involved at the club. I'm picturing a kind of mentorship to the leadership group, which would not even need to be a full time role but would have him in touch and relieving some of the tension for Gawn, and would be very important for developing what could be a potent next generation of leaders.

So sad. It would have been fun seeing an actual punch-on between Beveridge and the Petracca clan.

So, I'm confused is this Tom Sparrow or Trent Rivers?