1 red eye 1 blue eye

Like Lever last year I'd been quietly confident Gaff was most likely coming to us but my feelings changed with the king hit, it was out of character but also shocking vision and I thought wow what effect is that going to have on his psyche and confidence? Although I'd still love to have his football ability, you just can't take the fact back he did serious structural damage to a young player who happens to be the brother of one of our brightest stars. It was a clear yes for me before the incident and a cloudy yes after. With the way our Club is being built I don't think we'd be willing to pay Andrews pre incident price. Did anyone else notice how despondent he looked sitting in the coaches box v Coll then Simpson appeared and gave him a punch in the shoulder to gee him up a bit, he smiled in response but to me looked like he absolutely did not want to be there.

And I vividly remember him dominating the Eagles in that memorable win last year! With 2 finals games under his belt now what can we expect next week ?

Jeez that was awesome, 2nd week of delirium spent with mine and another Demon loving family in their WA Games room and now thanks to that impressive performance an opportunity to transfer our noise and hopefully be well heard between the boooooooooos here at Optus. We are pumped!

Wasn't sure how this game would go so extraordinarily well played Dees, ecstactically happy with this!

Fugazi... this is a cut throat comp let's treat commentary like this as such!

Wow, not unexpected but still heartbreaking news. Rest in peace Jarrod Lyle, and heartfelt sympathy to all those closest to him.

As with any squad member I've been looking forward to see him debut, disappointed that isn't going to happen but happy for him going forward. I have moved on from unhappy or just not right employment a few times in my life and the feeling has been euphoric and long lasting. Hopefully this is where Harley is at. Good luck.

Hawks v Swans race to the bottom?

It'd be so easy to give up on this code, the problem is, my team's about to explode!

I like that

especially intriguing when in his interviews he presents as being unsure how about how good he is

What sticks with me is someone posted on here, I think it was last year at Lunar Park? he'd had a chat with Hoges, and he'd said that in 4 years time we'd be unstoppable, that was buy in to me at the time and despite the current MFCSS I'm hanging on to that.

I'd comfortably add Hoges too

you've got me stumped there Ted what's an Industrial area?

Geez Hoges would've been basking in one stunning day if he was here for it. I dare say even Ethan would begrudgingly acknowledge it.

Welcome Clayton looking forward to explosions in the middle.

I think calling it stupid is a bit hyper there C&B, we used pick #4 to recruit a player needing surgery to both hips? If it was known about Jimmys hips prior the draft would that have had an affect on who you think should have been recruited? Edit: grammar

Where we had the weakest mid field by a country mile, I was more than a little excited by our pre draft talk of "explosions" in the centre should we draft Ollie to join Jack. We seriously needed Ollie in the middle. I think the chance that Jack and Ollie would not develop into an awesome duo was very low, but, we also needed classy ball users. Unfortunately Jimmy needed surgery so the recruiters decided to go with a longer term strategy which clearly, we didn't have the luxury of time to run with. We needed a big bodied injury free enthusiastic kid in the middle before an injured outside class player. If the Club knew that Jimmy needed surgery (surely??) then they took a massive gamble that looks foolish, and one that we were not in a position to make. I think our well earned patience was tested with this decision,

I would think the majority would have had the 2 mids as our absolute best case scenario, it was Petracca seemingly on his way to STK that muddied the waters.

A first year player who had a slow start but is now picking up the tempo of the game and has improved markedly as the year's gone on, I'm happy with where he's at.

If his head isn't in the right place it's bound to affect his game. Watched the WC v Coll game last night, how well is Josh Hill doing now he's back home!

Recruited from Mt Gravatt Qld

Just spoke to Lamb about this thread he said to tell youse all to flock off.

@Deeoldfart Does it mention in the book when Ben became interested in the metaphor "such is life"? It surprised me at the time he got inked, as it seemed contradictory to the positive perception I had of him. Seemed like a real downer to me like tattooing "Sh!t happens" or "life's a b!tch" on yourself. I'm a great believer in what/how you think is what you get. Our Jim really had a short life, but by god, look where "Whatever it takes" took him.