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The entire AFL playing list would run at 80% Scallywag, AFL Media more like 95%. When checking ANZAC spirit, a source of national pride, the characteristics are a perfect synonym for scallywag. Jon Ralph on the other hand comes across as an insidious Colonel Blimp.

With respect: Bowey - lost confidence somewhere and started floating his kicks, making his kicking easier to defend for opposition (I do think he will recover) I felt that after he got a few knocks he was a little like Hunt post that major concussion he had. Fritsch - much the same but he is much better defended by opposition - he needs help from the forward coach to make some space, he has looked good when used as a decoy. Gawn = Goat Langdon = 24 was better that 22+23 Lever = nothing has dropped May = absolutely stoic the way he has worked through injuries. McDonald = better season than the last 3 incl premiership year. We would have been massacred without him down back this year. Trac was top 4 in coaches votes when injured Petty = standards have not dropped but suffered under/returning from injury - confident about 25 Pickett =great improvement in discipline Rivers = continued growth Salem = thought he was getting better but off the boil again - really a shadow of 21 self. needs a big pre season, we are adifferent side when he is playing well. Spargo = lost year Sparrow = happy for someone to argue why I got this wrong but wasn't happy with his season at all, ball watching, minimal contested possessions despite being built like a truck, should watch Butters highlights, if he chooses to carry that much weight he should use it as a weapon. Viney = just friggin awesome, you can see the games he doesn't dominate are only because he's smashed up, elite still, couldn't be more proud.

I stopped using twitter 6m+ ago but for this I reopened my account, really got up my nose too.

I get your point, I have personal knowledge of the West Coast times, and it was like something from Wolf of Wall Street, alarms were being sounded and ignored (definitely because of success) not least by the fat controller Andrew Dillon (excuse Tom d Tank ref. I just broke my own instructions to my kids not to denigrate people on appearance)... hypocrite

It's not even immaturity, everyone talks, it's the reasons spys and journos have jobs, 80% of the internet in Australia (one of humanities' greatest achievements) is dedicated to social networks, (would have thought something else). Expecting footballers and anyone around them to be a Mauna or monk undertaking a vow of silence is unlikely to say the least. Leaking, Gossip etc is always going to be there. That people here buy into it so quickly as definitive information, is Exhibit A in listing MFCSS as a clinical disease in the ICD. The evidence that the MFC is not a bin fire is not as exciting as the gossip, just read a training report and look at the sum total of all our games good and bad in the last 5 years and I say the thing that stands out is the collective endeavour, not the failures.

Rapt for Daisy with the win, will never forget her telling Gill on 360 she's only playing for Melbourne. Hope she has a great season, could definitely see her coaching Men down the track as an assistant, and who knows maybe even as Head Coach, however fully acknowledge that it's unlikely. Would be a spectacular story.

As a peninsula kid, Ringwood was the end of the earth and traffic hell to get there, nothing against the place but boy o boy geographically inconvenient

You haven't said anything ? Give some reasons.

We survived our Dusty moment. There are 3 sports for AFL journalists: 1 Sack a Coach 2 Trade a player 3 Sack a President Via innuendo and deceit. Trac having issues was true I concede that (apologies to @Jaded who had a much better take than me) but the media filth pushed this as hard as they could.

Sorry to quote myself, but wanted to link it to this article in the Age which I think is a really good step forward. https://www.theage.com.au/sport/cricket/australia-drive-multimillion-dollar-fund-to-save-test-cricket-20240822-p5k4ef.html

I just find this so much more credible than anything else out there.

Hear hear. Sad that the off field stuff is distracting, he didn't look his happiest at the function. Liked Robbo's comment that others are too used to him being good. Every positive adjective is appropriate Legend, Elite, GOAT.

Massive congratulations - I desperately want him to get a 9th and another flag, he'll be a AFL legend after that. That's where I think he sits. ( I think he is already, just he'll need those stats to get through the bias against anything Melbourne).

Hamish Blake OAM, would make more sense, we are a comedy worthy of Black Adder. Has a gold logie and is not a lawyer (no offence).

Just No, with great respect to him as a Melbourne footballer and ex captain, and has shown the ability to learn across the journey, (his mea culpa on Racism was fantastic) but he doesn't have the EQ to lead the club. President is an OK job when things are good, but you need to have savant level EQ intelligence for when stuff is bad.

When did Neeld start working with the playing group again????

I would have thought Melbourne as his team is less polarising than some of the others. Look at the feedback Max gets in this space, he's widely respected. I think whoever is advising him that his brand would increase with another team isn't serious you get a bump of maybe 30,000 which is spare change in influencer stakes. One episode of Masterchef would beat that.

Feeling very Ted Lasso, the bit where Jamie gets dumped from a reality show and realizes his brand is worth nothing without the team.

Cameron was 3 firsts, he is a genuine match winner and had injury baggage. That is the benchmark for Trac. Goodbye BBB, ANB, Gus, hello Degoey??? WTF, That would the biggest kick in the nads since Scully left and more than Hogan/Jackson. Up there with Gerard and Ronald walking out on the club. Except we didn't take on board the biggest ratbag in the league, why don't we go and get Tarryn while we are at it.

Nah, Go Northern Fitzroy.

Paging @WalkingCivilWar, with this bottle sconning the goal umpire in the back of the head (a disgusting act), thrown from the Carlton Cheers squad, is there any sanction available against the cheers squad - like being moved to tier 3 or something? I normally argue fiercely against collective punishment but feel like being a hypocrite in this particular case.

Get ANB to sign the contract this week, he lays out the Dog with a carefully timed bump and serves out the suspension in SA win/win...

100% relationships matter to Kozzie, even over dollars to an extent. That our relationship with Kozzie is strong is yet another testament to our +ve culture.

I love that you're an Azimov fan. (Am still undecided on the 🍏 + version). But I really think a humorous scorecard approach to media BS a'la JVAM comment would be worth while. By my rough estimate the media is batting approx 6/28 at the moment over Goodwin's coaching tenure. Which at .214 is hardly MLB.

6 Viney 5 Langdon 4 Gawn 3 Turner 2 Salem 1 JVR - I’ll tell you why, his rucking showed me he’s a competitive beast. Fox footy talked about how he was leveled by Witts, what they didn’t acknowledge is 10 seconds after he was taken out by a Witts knee, he smashed Witt’s to the ground in a tackle. That was the story, not the knee, ,morons missed it. He gave it straight back to Witts at every contest.