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And his father played for us as well. Likely grew up a Dees supporter.

The Sicily tackle is complicated by the other Hawthorn player falling over Sicily and McLuggage mid tackle. Looks to me it may have had an effect on how the tackle ended up.

Smith’s career has been ruined by injuries. Plays 2 or 3 games then out for months with injuries. Never had a chance to establish himself as a regular.

To be fair their midfield has been a bit light recently.

What kind of bird is a Spargo, maybe a type of seagull?

I heard that Cox sucker punched one of our players.

Kozzi should be made sub next game to hopefully make him think about his approach to the game from the bench. Replace him with Jordan who got more ball in one quarter than Kozzi did the whole match. Too good to drop at this stage but needs some time out.

Too many Yank sportsmen are sore losers by nature. When they lose it’s because they haven’t cheated hard enough.

Not the player since his contract renewal.

Ginnivan out McInness in. Jordan our sub.

I feel good vibes today. I believe any residue draining away of bathwater has been completed and players will respond accordingly.

West Coast are generally a 10 goal better side playing at Optus.

If we get in a close game in Adelaide the umpiring becomes stacked against us at the finish as happened in 2018 against Port and in 2021 against Crows.

Port Adelaide’s now new umpire favourites.

I recall reading that Leigh Matthews admitting he never got into a fight outside of football in his life. We must remember that players with certain abilities were encouraged to be thugs by coaches and the games culture. Thuggery has through footballs history until recently has been a core tactic of the game. A throwback to aggressive zero sum what ever it takes to win Anglocentric colonial/settler culture. It is what it is and now only legal implications not player welfare keep egregious brutality in check.

Malthouse learnt his craft under Allan Jeans at St Kilda. Arguably the most thuggish team at the time.

Yep he did play for Kew. At the time Kelvin Matthews, Leigh Matthews brother who also played for Hawthorn came to our school and invited all the best school footballers to go down to train at Hawthorn. 5 of them eventually made it into the Hawthorn squad. Dipper was invited also because of his size and strength. At school football games he could run hard in a straight line and bowl opponents over but that was all to his game. He could barely kick the ball.

Jeans was senior sergeant at East St Kilda Police Station. The toughest most notorious police station in Victoria during the 1960-70’s. Dipper once said he was a very scary coach.

Yep I did.

Dipper was a true gentleman off the field. Went to school with him. A monster guy even then but carried himself with dignity and grace. Protected the small kids and school bullies and toughs feared him. Allan Jeans turned him into a football thug. Actually Allan Jeans should be on the thug list as well.

I love Roo’s set shot kicking action. Lots of Dunstall and Lockett vibes about it. Well studied and precise. Looks like 40 metres out is about his limit but so it was for those two.

Since the JVR incident we have lost a player every week due to suspension where before and for a couple of seasons we rarely had a player suspended. Coincidence?

Should be de gawn.

I hope the two games against North and WC soften up Collingwood like what happened with us at same time last season.