At Least I Saw a Flag

6 minutes ago, Rab D Nesbitt said:

I’m actually a bit nervous about the game tonight. Don’t know why as I only had the two coffees today and they were both early. Let’s hope the nerves are unfounded and we build up an early buffer and then keep them at arms reach for the rest of the night. 🤞

Agree, it would be great to watch the match in a relaxed fashion, knowing a win was a certainty.

57 minutes ago, The Taciturn Demon said:

Am I unable to buy an MCC visitor ticket for my daughter because GA is sold out or because I need to wait for them to update details?

No way MCC visitors tickets will be sold out.

What could possibly go wrong?

10 hours ago, Little Goffy said:

I both love and hate that 'thumbs up from the stretcher' ritual.

I love the relief it must give the families and friends and fans of the player, but it also feels like such an intrusion into such an intimately horrible moment.

It also makes me glad I watch most games muted these days, because I swear if I heard a commentator give a blokey 'tough as they come' comment I will find out where they live and burn their house down and every adjacent house just to be sure.

That is such a funny comment ... #aswittyassomethingIdsay

34 minutes ago, dazzledavey36 said:

I was in the same basket of bringing Tmsc in bu the more I think about it, the more I think CJ will come in instead.

More agile but can also play tall with his leap and bounce out of half back.

Turner can take Lynch.

Turner's great. What a (mid season?) draft pick he turned out to be. 200+ game player.

2 hours ago, Waverley said:

Nah the tigers have nothing to beat us, Essendon have a few star players, that can do something special, we win but it won't be a huge margin, dees by 25 points, only because of the short turn around

What could possibly go wrong?

If Lynch plays, so should TMac.

Glad to see that the thug Nankervis isn't playing. He usually tries to assault Max.

X. Taylor ... needs to adapt to the faster pace of AFL. Probably good for him to get another run, this time against a weaker team.

Heath ... definite yes from me. Even though Richmond's ruck stocks are depleted.

Is McAdam still on our list? If so, has he been playing for Casey?

I wonder if the boys were somehow spurred on to produce such a wonderful performance by the need to redeem themselves from the 'shame' of the previous week. 🤔

I hate the filth so much.

1 hour ago, dazzledavey36 said:

So good they named a highway after him ... albeit the shortest highway in Australia.

Just watched the replay. (I was at the match.) That kick by Culley to Roo right at the end was really good... so composed.

I actually don't mind Healy as a commentator. Seems I'm the odd one out here.

I'm not sure that the players who are out injured are necessarily best 23 any more ... other than Bowey, and perhaps Rivers.

However future injuries will presumably facilitate their returns to the side at some stage ... I'm thinking Tmac, Viney, Salem. In each case, I think lack of pace is perhaps the main issue. I can relate to that ... even I've slowed down!!

Wow ... best match since 2021 GF!!

I'm really happy for myself ... and for GW and Demon Army who put in so much!!

6 hours ago, bing181 said:

A loss is a loss.

But for me this goes the heart of it. If you start putting caveats and conditions on the type of losses you'll accept, you're not actually prepared to accept losses.

With the utmost respect, I think that’s a bit of a binary trap. There’s a fundamental distinction between being 'prepared' for an unfavourable outcome and being indifferent to the qualitative manner in which it occurs. To suggest that any critique of a performance constitutes a 'caveat' on acceptance is to dismiss the very nature of elite sports.

Sport isn’t merely a spreadsheet of wins and losses; it’s a performance of intent and an execution of systems. One can be perfectly composed in the face of a defeat—accepting the four points are gone—while still identifying a performance that falls below the threshold of professional expectation. If we view every loss as identical, we lose the ability to distinguish between a team that is building toward something and a team that is experiencing a systemic collapse.

Requiring a baseline of effort and tactical discipline isn't about 'conditional' acceptance; it’s about maintaining a standard. To conflate the two is to ignore the indicators that actually determine a club's long-term trajectory.

2 hours ago, bing181 said:

Whether people actually expect losses or not is up to them.

What I'm reacting to is people saying - as many have since pre-season - that they expect losses, but then aren't prepared to put on their big-boy/girl pants when those losses come in.

I think peeps can accept losses ... I can.

But there are losses ... and there are losses. And this falls into the latter category.

Happy to elaborate if required.

Let me add one ... Garry 'genuine sh#t bloke' Lyon's 'commentary'.

Or to keep it simple, just Garry "genuine sh#t bloke' Lyon.

I asked before the match "What could go wrong?"

Having watched the match, I think the answer should have been "everything".

Hmm, I'm not sure the Demons will win this.

Not ideal

Apparently old mate (Lyon) was barracking for the filth during the commentary. Is that true? I only watched the last few minutes.

Gomer Pyle summed up my feelings toward the Heave Hos ... "thank you, thank you, thank you!".

I only watched the last few (joyous) minutes. Great to see the strutting peacock miss a shot for goal. Despite that, I presume he will still get 3 Brownlow votes?

2 hours ago, Fork 'em said:

Of all the teams I hate.
I hate Essendon the most.
Must win game.

Are you serious?? You hate them more than the filth??

That guy Wagner goes ok.

Freo .... ahead!!!

I hate the filth so much ... come on Freo!!