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I’ve heard that the film is a little disappointing. I’ll still watch it once it hits the streaming platforms though. I’ll grab the book in the meantime, so thanks for the reminder.

Fair point.

In all fairness, I’m not sure that 2 or even 3 goals for Ringwood East would translate to much in the AFL.

I can’t say I disagree, but in many cases it is because our mids are not imposing themselves on the contest.

My issue was that we were slow, disinterested, displayed appalling skills, our mids were practically non existent, our defenders looked discombobulated, our forwards were…um…did we field a forward line? While Max has had much better games, how is it possible that someone so dominant in the ruck (28 disposals and 34 hit-outs to their total of 22), how is it that he could get so little assistance? Overall, it was a terrible performance. And please, please let’s not bring the umpires into this… yes they were bad, but they missed a lot of frees in both directions. They had no impact on the end result.

What a snooze fest!! A draw would be the only fair outcome.

But did you try it and did it work? 😊

This works for the Sydney Morning Herald, but I don’t know if it is good for all sites… for iPhone, scroll to bottom and choose Apps, select Safari and scroll to the bottom and choose Advanced, then turn off Java Script.

It means absolutely nothing. If you’re going to look at any form, why not look at what has happened over the last three years, where we have met 5 times and won 3 times… and even that is not a reliable barometer. This year we have a new team with a new attitude and a new coach who appears to have them up and about! I doubt very much that the players go back home each night and drag out the stats for the past few decades… just trust the process and stop concerning yourself with immeasurables.

I’m a tad concerned about him…if this really is a knee issue, then why is he not appearing on the injured player list? I suspect that there is more to this, and so I hope the club is doing all in its power to get him back up and playing. I know it’s pure speculation, but until they make a formal announcement, what else do we have?

Not the first time I’ve been told that… and probably not the last, either 🤣

From personal experience, I can tell you that that’s a big NO! It was a Zoom call, and I had forgotten to put my clothes on, so I suppose that might not have helped my chances.

I’d come to the conclusion that he has a dislike of the MFC, years ago at a game in Canberra. However, having said that, despite all of the hue and cry of a number of posters on the game day thread, I do not believe that the umpires had it in for us, and in fact, I saw as many dodgy decisions and missed calls in our favour as I did against us. If you think you can do better, why not apply to wherever you need to apply to, and, assuming you’re young and fit and not an old aged curmudgeon like myself, get in there and become the first mistake free, non partisan umpire in the history of the game 😉

You’ll need to throw in more than a towel, if that happens! I’d keep an ice bucket handy if I were you.

I’d love a player to use ‘The Harder They Come’… such a good song to sing along with.

I think that’s because King was able to almost instantaneously react to whatever changes Hardwick made to his game-plan…something that it seemed Goodwin had a little trouble doing (I might be wrong, but to me he tended to wait until the break when all the players were together, to implement his changes). King is going to make life tough for more than a few coaches this year, particularly as the playing group get better at implementing his requirements.

Yep, as useful as a chocolate teapot, as the old saying goes.

When Rooster posts, you can almost smell the old cog burn.

Well, we managed to reverse our fortunes against Carlton this week (in spades), so I’m hoping we will continue that trend come gather round.

Off having an@l probes? Quick, get Scully and Mulder on the job (so to speak)!

It’s funny, our apartment block’s general handyguy is a Carlton supporter and when I spoke to him on Monday, he told me that at half time he told his friends who were all happy for him, that they were going to lose… it’s all a matter of perspective OD 🤣

Considering he had a 32 possie (I think it was) first up game at Casey, I wouldn’t be in the least bit surprised if he came in for Jiath if he’s unavailable this week.

Tell him I’ve lost enough hair for the both of us… that is, I have absolutely none left at all 🤣

No win against Freo where we came back from over 50 points down? Can’t recall the year, but early 2000’s I think it was.