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In your initial post directed at JoeBoy, you started well, citing actual stats in defence of Johnny Dee. If you hadn’t then felt the need to add, “but of course people like you just make stuff up as they go along, just to suit there narrative, this is one of pet hates”, you might have got a more civil response; there was no need for you to resort to what is, in essence, an insult.

To regulate is to control, so I’m guessing that it was telling the players to settle, and play controlled footy, without taking too many chances. It came out, from memory, maybe 5 minutes from the end of the quarter, so that would make sense.

I’m so jealous!

That still doesn’t explain his terrible kick in the first where he gave it straight to a Lions player who then kicked an easy goal. After his ‘collapse’, I was left wondering whether he had some other issue such as Vertigo or Arrhythmia.

That’s pretty much what the AFL team was doing and I must say I was concerned at the amount of freedom we were giving the opposition, meaning that they were able to move the ball to their forward line, practically unopposed. Despite beating the Lions, in my opinion, our midfield really needs to get its act together.

Welcome, and I wish you the best of luck sorting the wheat from the chaff!

I’m a shell of the man I used to be.

I was thinking maybe ‘Lenin’.

Yes, I know this is a pointless response, but I blame it on the high to which this win has transported me! Sitting on a corn flake Waiting for the van to come Corporation T-shirt, stupid bloody Tuesday Man you've been a naughty boy You let your face grow long

In the words of Saville’s brother Normie, “Que sera, sera!”.

What, no, “How much are they payin’ yah?!!??”

I’ll definitely give both the book and the movie a go, thanks Macca! Treatment is going along ok… had a CT scan yesterday so we can see how the traces in the lungs and liver are travelling, and to see if the main colorectal tumour has grown or shrunk… all the blood test results are looking pretty good, but they’re probably just half the picture, I suspect. It was great to be able to do our gig a couple of weeks ago, and my donations shout out managed to raise $1k for the Cancer Council of NSW, which was a good result.

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.