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You’re joking….

Garbage. Stupid comment.

Like snow in summer.

As of right now, they’re right, but only cos they’re better than us.

They just want it more. And they know they can beat us. It’s that simple. How we can let that be the case, nobody will ever be able to convince me. They have literally nothing to play for. Nothing. This is just terrible football…..nothing excuses it.

A bit like Adelaide’s let down after their biggest game of the year. Oh, hang on…..

Our inability to defend their running short possession game through the middle is almost comical. They’ll lose the sniff in the second half I suspect, but it’s very frustrating, and offers a lesson in how to play us. When our all court defence is right on, it’s harder to execute, but the Crows (again a shadow of their best personnel) are making it look very easy at times. If I were Brad Scott, I’d be liking what I see.

So. They’re obviously trying to pick us apart with the short kicks and running hard through the middle. We know that’s what they’re doing, right?

The obvious question is, why don’t we bring our pressure game every opening quarter? The obvious statement is, Joel Smith has been our best so far.

The first 10 minutes for us in every game this year have been really telling. And today we’re just not on. Crows are basically dominating It’s gonna be a slog…..🤨

One thing’s for sure, no matter how we win today, the media pundits (they aren’t analysts) will spin it in some way as to underrate our Premiership chances………..and I love it.

This is when you win premierships. 😎

5 points down against the Dogs with 30 seconds left in the game. Jayden Hunt (just back into Grand Final side after his ankle) makes a crazy, flying intercept from a Caleb Daniel bullet to Aaron Naughton inside their forward 50 and he takes off……3 bounces, runs around Macrae, handballs over Libbers head to take it back himself, spots both Kozzy and Nathan Jones (on as medi-sub in the last 10 minutes) two out against Bontempelli just out of the goal square. Hunty roosts it…….Kozzy perches on the shoulders of Bont, takes his inevitable one-handed mark of the year, lands on his feet, and while the Bont is on his haunches, slips a handball to Jonesy, who takes 5 more strides and slams it into the 2nd tier of a max allowed capacity 40,000 at the ‘G. Dees premiers with 2 seconds left on the clock, and I’m there to see it! oops…….wrong thread.

Most importantly, did ch 7 make a judgement? If not Christian won’t even look at it. They left it at “momentum”. Which is bulltish if you look at the side view. Hawkins very obviously flung him down in the last movement, based on the side view. But you’re right, won’t be looked at.

So. Assuming we win tomorrow (I know, I know), if we lose next week and Port beat Doggies, we’re off to Adelaide. Fate in our hands and all that. Unless Dogs beat Port, which they will….maybe…..not….probably….aaaaah, who the [censored] knows. 🤯

We wish, kev. It’s all about the money.

Which is the beauty and the truth of existence. Our evolution, and it’s so exciting to see it play out transformatively in my lifetime, is that we’re changing to see it as a cause for celebration, not division. By definition, there is no ceiling to our evolution.

Tassie Momas? Tassie two-heads? Maybe not.

And isn’t the growth of them working brilliantly…. Wow. Which is subject to a thing we call evolution. Oddly enough, change happens, and human nature along with it. Any ideas that behaviour is fixed and uninfluencable (particularly for a species that has conscious self-awareness) serves the status quo perfectly of course, but it’s delusional.

Yep, and that’s of course a commercially driven decision, rather than a longer vision for the game. I’m not concerned about diluting the talent pool either, so I wouldn’t force a relocation, as much as you’re spot on about Covid offering cover for the idea. Improving the ‘pathway’ in Tassie would create its own solution to talent pool diminution, not to mention Australia’s growing population (COVID notwithstanding).

Definitely part of it, and indicative of a lack of investment in making the game better. So many of the changes are reactive.

He’s gotta be an eventual onballer, doesn’t he?

Quality journalism and commentary in footy has been sidelined, MR. The days of Greg Baum, Martin Flanagan, Rohan Connolly et al have been surpassed by clickbait AFL-sanctioned twaddle, which is precisely what feeds the MRO populist-driven inconsistency, not to mention a lack of scrutiny on the game’s even bigger failing - umpiring standards.

That they haven’t been ‘given’ a team already is kind of shameful. They are an Australian Football heartland whose grass roots have been allowed to whither. That commercial motivations have been put ahead of the game’s legacy is, for mine, unacceptable, and the AFL as an organisation is responsible. If the state itself can’t bankroll a team, then this multi-billion dollar behemoth should, simply out of a duty to the game’s future down there. That they’ve done so with GWS and GCS sets the all too obvious precedent, as do financial splashes like the multi millions spent on upgrading GMHBA. We have no game without we protect its roots, and Tassie footy is currently dying, year by year. I couldn’t care less whether it’s a relocation, or about spurious Hobart-Launceston divisions. The whole state would go nutty for their own team, and of course games would be shared between Launceston and Hobart. The AFL needs to be the game’s true benefactor that we want it to be, and get it done.

‘tis in New Zealand.