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Jaded should be fine then....

I thought you wanted this to be over Jaded? There is only one path. As many Australians as possible getting vaccinated as soon as they can. Like now. If everyone takes your approach and waits two months we'll never get out of this.

And just now it has been announced, after the meeting of the national cabinet, by slowmo that 'anyone' (but I am assuming that means adult over 18 age) can go to their gp and get an Az shot. Get to it younguns. And everyone else.

Pure gold. I loved that expression on that fellas face. Cracked me up. Watching on TV, I was a bit flummoxed as his reaction didn't seem proportionate to anything I saw from tracc. I wondered if there was some other trigger that I missed. But no, on the replay its just tracc turning and cupping his hand to his hear. And the fella was in shock. Hilarious.

Only other people's......

I just saw that - i amended my post accordingly

Maybe in their early years. Definitely not this year. They have been super hard at it all season. Of the teams out of the top 4 probably the best contest team this year, and i include the tigers and swans in that assessment. Their issue is they have been decimated with injury this season.

Oh, then i football. Spargo has been fantastic this year. Kicked some clutch goals too - the one on the weekend was really important. One thing that i reckon some might not fully take into account when assessing how well kozzie, Spargo and Nibbler (and Fritter to a lesser degree) have played is that often when they get the ball they are gassed as a result of how much running they do. Watch how often all three are way up the ground, often deep inside the opposition's 50. And when we win the ball they are often a link in the transition chain and also have to sprint back to get back inside our 50 And compare them to a player like Cameron for the Lions who spends most of his time inside his 50 and when he does leave that area rarely pushes further up than half way.

You can watch almost all of it - for some reason all the replays starts 5 minutes in and ends few minutes before the final siren. But well worth watching. Great to get the opportunity to see the players in the VFL team and our players pushing for a call up. Random thoughts on the game: Casey employ a very similar model, which i guess is captain obvious, but interesting to watch nonetheless One example is the way we look to move it forward around the boundary A related point is the roles players play mirror the structure of the AFL - eg daw rucked for much of the day (with chop outs from Weed), Bowey in the Salem role, White in the Fritter role, baker in the langers role etc etc Weid worked hard - played the role Tmac does in the seniors, so perhaps his best bet is to come in for tmac. He dropped a couple of marks where he had done all the work and had his opponent cold, which seems often be an issue for him. Must be a technique thing ( in cricket we would say hard hands) because he has good hands on the lead Brown still does not look all that agile, which I suspect is what is keeping him out of the team. But 5 goals is 5 goals and you have to love how accurate his kicking is. His fourth was a thing of beauty. Had to kick from about 40 metres, on a slight angle, with wind also being a factor. Such is his confidence with his technique that he was able to deliberately start it to the right of the goal post and let the wind bring it back. perfect I also thought brown was ok pressure wise, creating at least one goal with a tackle Melksham's pressure was also pretty good i have to say, which is a great sign. Hit a beautiful 50 metre left foot kick to a forward's advantage, which is exactly why he is big chance of getting back into the side I love Neville Jetta - easily one of my all time favorite players. Works so hard in every game he plays and a brilliant role model for the young players (postscript; just watched all the VFL goals video and saw that jetts kicked the last of the game - something missed on the replay becuase it finished before the end of the game! - nice gola nev - boys really got around him too) Jones was simply brilliant. Played smart, played with intensity, played like a true leader and played like an intent on winning his spot back. Pretty good goal too I really like Captain Jack Sparrow, and thought he was terrific against the bombers, but i suspect Jones will bump him into the medical sub role this week given Goodies comments about picking blokes in form Bedford has some real toe Bowey and Laurie are both natural footballers and both are excellent kicks, Bowey particularly so, which warms my heart Rosman has some real x factor and get up and go too - loved his super smart kick into a small pocket of space to set up one of brown's goals Vanders looked to be moving really freely and used the ball really well in the main. Is a wild card for finals for sure given how strong in the contest he is and the importance goody puts on winning the hard ball - not mention our focus this year of only having one player go to the contest and/or tackle.

I football. At least i I think i do.

....and one if not for an appalling free paid against us near the end, might well have kicked away to a five goal win, which would have happened anyway if not for inaccurate kicking given we had 18 more scoring shots!

Gold standard contract tracers: Mary (name changed as i have no idea what her name is) how many guests did you have at your daughter's birthday party? Mary: Oh, i don't know 25 to 30 Gold standard contract tracers: you will need to be more specific than that Mary: Ok, about 30 Gold standard contract tracers: Better. Can you provide a list of all the names and contact details of your guests please Mary: Sure Gold standard contract tracers: now please Mary: Oh, ok. (after 20 minutes) - here we go Gold standard contract tracers: you sure you haven't missed anyone? No other family members? Good, good. Look we've take up enough of your time. If there is anyone else you remember, like your Dad (chuckles) do let us know. Mary: Oh, ok. I have covid so I'm a bit under the weather and brain fuzzy. I assume you will show the list to the other guests and double check i haven't missed anyone Gold standard contract tracers: now, now Mary, you do your job and we'll do ours. Got to go Mary, just got a message about needing to let a flight attendant know they are close contact and need to isolate. You don't happen to know her do you? No, all good. I thought i could ask you to call her. No worries, i'll give her a buzz after lunch at some point. Or ask someone else too.

To be fair to bomber's fans i would have been ropable wit the Harmes non call too. Should have been paid. And from memory, if tippa had kicked a goal from the resulting free (which was no certainty by the way as he can't kick over a jam tin and the mark would have ben about 40 out) they would have been only 5 points down. But the other 'controversial' frees we got they are whinging about were all there. The free to Jordon in the square might have been marginal as Stringer did it pretty well actually. But he still got him high and but they almost always pay any front on contact such as that one. And the first of the double 50s was there, despite the carping from Darcy, as the player took an eternity to get to the mark and in doing so held up the dees player from releasing it - which is exactly what the 50 rule was brought in for. The end one was for abuse so 100% no issue with it being paid. And besides, as a number of posters have pointed out, Smith was running in the protected zone for 30 metres so could have been pinged for that too. And the late free against Tmac was potentially result changer. We had all the momentum. He assumed the free was going to him for holding the ball, as it should have. There is no way that was in the back. And it it cost us a likely goal as we had the ball inside 50 and no defenders. It also stopped our momentum as IIRC a goal then would have put the margin out to 24 points and game over. They scored the next and game on.

All I want for XMAS is seat in the bottom part of the top of the Ponsford stand. I am seriously going to go crazy if i have to watch any more live games with Daaarcy or Bwiaaan calling them.

Never a fan of the other rivers? Please, he was a gun and a fantastic servant of the club. Ahead of the game too as he was one of the first intercepting defenders.

Spot on. There was another missed free that did my head in. In a marking contest Max clearly got smashed in the head. Again. No free. What made it worse was that it was right after he had been pinged for holding in a rock contest. Something that happens, as a bemused Max pointed out to the umpire, in nearly every stoppage ruck contest. Perhaps we should send our resident troll to bomberblitz to post out how hard we were done by from the umpires

Fixed

Maybe I should wait to books flights and a hotel room for the port game.

These threads would be less convoluted if everyone accepted the very strong likelihood that the following players will not be dropped this season: - ANB - fritter - kozzie - Jackson - spargo

Says it all. Had to laugh, peta credlin is now an opinion writer for the hun and yesterday, on tbe day nsw goes to lockdown, writes an article about the return of Joyce provides an opportunity for tbe coalition to move further to the right

It might have been noted previously, but the game is live from 12 on channel 7.

Agree on both points. On the latter point, I wonder if it might be more evidence of them having put in extra trains loads over the last 3 weeks?

They had 5 I think. Not much connection there

That may be the case but as I couldn't get a ticket I had to watch it on TV. And when they replayed it you could hear the umpire tell Smith it (the second 50) was for abuse

I wondered exactly the same thing. And I suspect this is actually very likely to be the case. It is what teams in flag contention do if they can. There is no other point in tbe season where it is possible to put significant training loads into the players. I reckon they dialled up the loads after the lions game and right up to this game. And from this point it is all about maintenance and being cherry ripe for finals.