Little Richard

I do agree with most of that, but Tomlinson is a quality player - people forget how well he was playing last year before he went down. I think it's just a matter of him rediscovering that form. If that does happen and Lever doesn't improve, we could end up with May, Petter and Tommo playing together. FWIW I think Smith was playing well before he went down too.

Lever seems to lose the plot when May is out of the team. Not that he was having a blinder early in the year anyway.

My key takeaways after taking the night to ruminate... Our structures around the ball seem to have disintegrated... is it fitness? Our tall forward depth is shallow as a small pond Ben Brown cannot hold a mark to save himself Too many dump kicks resulting in turnovers... reminded me of 2019/2020 Trac and Gawn need a rest, bad Jordon, Gus and Viney can hold their heads high... Oliver too, obviously Bedford must come in, maybe Van Rooyen too. It can turn around quickly.

I liked what I saw from Turner early, made a couple of errors but did some really nice things and attacked the ball hard. Such a pity he copped that head knock.

Any danger of: - Kicking to a red and blue jumper. or - Ben ‘trampoline hands’ Brown holding a mark?

Absolutely possible. This kind of thing is absolutely rife throughout the league, speaking from a number of first-hand encounters.

Obviously a huge game. We need to galvanise and beat what is a genuinely threatening Collingwood side. Looking like it's going to be a great crowd... just hoping it's not a sea of black and white.

I'm no doctor but that seems like far too soon for an infection to have spread enough to need surgery.

This whole thing pisses me off so much, it's just so cringeworthy.

Feel for Joel Smith - he'd be a walk up right now.

That's weird, I wouldn't have guessed it watching most of our games this year.

Frederick and Schultz were very impressive I thought, their forward pressure was very Melbournesque.

One thought I had today was that these guys have nothing on Cam Pedersen in terms of physicality. Long live Pedo.

Here I was thinking that all of the above comments were made by either one of their two supporters.

It's legitimately only sinking in for me now that we won a flag and are not only good, but yards ahead of any other team. We have to all enjoy it while it lasts 😈

I don't think they're a bad outfit at all and have some real quality in the middle and up forward but jeez, their back six are light on. Potential for Fritsch and Brown to bag up.

The biggest factor in keeping him at the MFC is clearly Gus and Gawny. What the hell would he do without the podcast!?

I'm sure I tried a pint of Old Speckled Hen over there and came to the same conclusion... from memory it was pretty damn cheap!

It was tongue in cheek because I was expecting a response like that, but I do love a Vic!

Sadly a rubbish beer. However, if it were VB...

Was the last one when we played on that rock hard patch of grass across the road from Olympic Park? That was a shocker! The game at Glenferrie years ago was good fun though.

I had to read that sentence a couple of times too. Looks like Daz changed his mind three times while he was writing haha.

Very savvy move from the recruiting department. Professional!

Not surprised he got snapped up so quick - good on Nev. The CFC are lucky to have him. On the other hand, it's going to be tough seeing him in the black and white next year.

Sorry to hear that mate, do you mind if I ask what kind of scam it was that got you?