Red and Bluebeard

You would probably have to explain that reference to most on here BB ...

The real question is whether they are bananaless ...

Mate, whatever has possessed you, shake it off! Shake it off! 😀

Shouldn't be a problem for us demons :-)

I am not sure that I follow this. I see that any footballer would rather miss 5 home and away games rather than any final. But this not about what the players want; it is about what is fair for a given offence. Put another way, when Kossie got rubbed out for three weeks in Round 1 of 2023, are you saying that he should have only got one or two weeks if he had done the same thing to a Collingwood player in the first final? It seems to me (an ignorant non-lawyer) that this is the first step on the road to the situation where Barry Hall doesn't get rubbed out for a Grand Final after thumping someone simply because "he would miss a Grand Final".

Great title for a country & western song ...

It would be even more fun if he coached us to a 'cake walk breaker' of five flags in a row from2026 to 2030! (okay, okay a Demon can dream, can't he? 😆)

And Leigh Matthews (the [censored]!) who won flags at his first and second clubs as coach ... (gee that was hard to type!)

Some good signs, but same old result in a close game! When will we win one of these? Also, great effort from Sam Darcy in the last minute, but no way was that a mark!

There is a saying that conspiracy is less likely than a stuff up. Looks like the MRO is more of the latter, given the blatant inconsistency between the May incident and this one.

Agreed. But the victim plays for Collingwood so the MRO will probably give him 8 weeks....

If Horse is rhe favourite, does that mean Buckley has Buckley's? 😁

The previous time we sacked a coach was Mark Neeld. I think we all thought that was the right decision at the time, and since then have had a premiership (admittedly 8 years after the sacking). So sometimes it works ...

Was it just me, or did others think the same when Goody said he would miss giving George Gawn a bag of lollies after we win? My thought was "You stingy bugger Goody!"

Unfortuantely there is plenty of precedent -- just not one that makes any sense. The precedent seems to be about whether you play for certain clubs, are a star player and on the media's "good bloke" list, and the stage of the season. Any resemblance between similar incidents and their outcomes is purely accidental ☹️

I noticed a few times yesterday that Gawn would let JVR or Petty take a ruck contest in the forward 50 while he stayed a kick behind the play. Is this something new? I must say I like the idea if it means preserving Max for a season or two longer. As he showed yesterday, he can kick a goal, but that is better left to specialist forwards IMHO.

The vomit one will do for this ... 😃

IMHO he should have got a lot more. Deliberately elbowing a defenceless opponent in the head when being held on the ground? And not even being involved in the tackle? A lot of potential for serious damage there. But unfortunately we have all come to expect nonsense from the AFL ...

Can we just call Gleeson "The Goose" from now on? ☹️ BB, you can get your geese on any time you like ... 😃

That is an insult to BS 😀

"We find that there was little, if any, chance, that the MFC player would get a fair hearing." It is hard to read this balderdash with a straight face ....

Xerri: 3 weeks. May: 3 weeks. What???? You have to be kidding me!

Disappointing but expected. Both deserve suspension for mine.

Agreed. Three weeks seems a little light given the act -- "careless" seems a generous grading to me.

Agreed about Tmac. The only vague justification I can summon is that there is more future in Lever than in Tmac. But on form, it is Tmac by the length of the straight...