monoccular

The autocensor has gone right over the woke top - the word presumably censored, I will try a55, has been used to describe a donkey for thousands of years, including multiple mentions in biblical texts. According to a google search over 60 references to the beast. The woke are certainly making donkeys of themselves. I couldn't used the common abbreviation of Richard on several occasions even though it was capitalised and is widely used. Making themselves Richards over this one too. What next? Demon may be taken as satanic so maybe eventually we won't be able to use that either?

lackadaisical

Thanks D’land for that excellent and optimistic summary. One thing I did wonder about was the current and future status of Joel Smith. IMO regardless of his physical state, would he ever be able to regain the trust and confidence of his colleagues in the playing group, the off field staff and the supporter base? And what is the current situation regarding his suspension and investigation? Thanks

"and the Downlow medalist for 2025 is ----- joint winners Christian Petracca and Clayton Oliver" 🤔 Almost as long as a life sentence 🙄

Tragically, both our great Irish recruits met very premature deaths 😪 .

Agree, Moonshadow. Repaying for dad’s great service is absolutely NO reason to recruit anyone. F/S must be on merit. I seem to remember a ?Molloy in the 80s or early 90s who was a f/s and failed to deliver at all. Is that re-signed not resigned?

In some of the early rounds of 2024 it did look as if mids were delivering lower into the forward line (Windsor particularly), but this just stopped and reverted to norm. Maybe a new midfield coach would help?

Agree entirely that we shouldn’t use JVR as a ruckman (except for deep forward contests where the main ruck can drop a kick behind the play) but I don’t agree that his ruck work was barely passable; the fact that it was quite decent unfortunately made his a better choice for ruck back up.

Surely if the AFL mandate a retirement eg Gus, then there must be some generous relief of salary cap, even if the club still needs to pay out the full salary. The salary cap is "artificial", and invention of the governing body, so mandated retirements retaining cap payments just makes no sense. I have zero doubt that had Buddy Franklin had a career ending injury in the first year of his mega deal at $ydney they would have tweaked the rules.

And you say this on what authority?

A once in a generation player.

Expect, or hope??? Not to put too fine a point on this subject of controversy, I had always thought that the area was occupied by the Romans at the time (source: Life of Brian).

Most of us here I am sure would be overjoyed were he to earn / deserve 10-15 games in 2025. But not gifted to give him confidence Send him to Geraldton to train with Judd’s grandpa?? Of course “doing a Judd McVee” in terms of tank and running does depend on his body type as well as hard work and determination.

Surely Wayne Carey would be a shoe in as a cultural mentor at any club - or Stringer? 🤗🙄

Is that because 2 x 60 is >100? 🙄

Still trusting EssUndone??

Not particularly fond of GW$, but do we really dislike them enough to wish Stringer on them? After all they have just been revealed to have serious cultural issues already, and they want to add stringer?

Great players do not necessarily make great coaches. Hird, Buckley, Voss (at least version #1) say hi.

😮 Bowey certainly wasn't anywhere near his former self recovering from his fractured clavicle - hopefully he will be 100% by start of 2025. And yes depending on other personnel, he could perhaps be looked on as a HFF/ tagger / mid type, ANB replacement if he has the tank.

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An AFL academy - great idea. “Lesser clubs” can develop players who can then get picked up by franchise clubs, or “big clubs”.

James Podsialy (?spelling) I think may have been a midseason pickup (from VFL) and was an immediate success. Mind you he was an established VFL mature aged player. Some here wanted him delisted because he didn’t do much in his first half season, carrying injury. 🙄

Pity it wasn’t a Norm Smith instead of a Downlow.

Daniels "great ball use" lead directly to Gus' goal in the GF that put us ahead ... the rest is history.

him - who?