Jaded No More

Is it even a final if I haven’t had 10 mental breakdowns?!

Who else feels like throwing up?

What did his partner do, other than carry the child for 9 months then ruin her body to get it out? Pffft Joel is clearly the hero here for turning up to the birth, and then playing footy.

Congratulations to Joel and his partner. What great news and I’ll even excuse him missing training!

Uni by correspondence from jail? I'm all in on the stereotype. Hope you all have your cheese platters ready for tomorrow!

A Collingwood supporting one? Must be really struggling for business. Not many teeth amongst his target audience.

Tmac staring down a possible second premiership medal. At his age and with the state of his body, he would be silly not to relish this chance and leave nothing out there. He has absolutely nobody pushing for his role either, unless Ben Brown can get a knee replacement done in a week. So no fear of messing up and losing his spot.

Are you trying to kill me?

Gees what a good report. I've never been less confident of kicking a winning score!

Could be a sniffle, a family emergency, food poisoning. I believe his partner is pregnant, maybe she's in labour? Am I worried? No. I am not worried. I never worry

Didn't need to watch that to know he won't play.

Apparently the AFL couldn't organise anyone to attend the hearing so it got pushed out to this week. Imagine this level of contempt being shown to a big name player from a big club!!!

Paging @Dannyz - any Smith news?

Any word on why?? Would be a great sub. Disappointing if he's once again injured at the wrong time.

Reasonably well? What does that mean?

Any photos of the invisible moonboot?

I should have wagged work. I am not productive at all. Tomorrow will be worse, but I have meetings I need to be switched on for. At least they are in the morning, so I can take an early mark and sneak out. My boss is going to line up for MCC walk ups, so I'm safe.

Fair enough. I am not against this, just curious.

A beautiful special human being. So happy for him to have won a flag with us in 2021.

Genuinely curious why those young Casey players are still training and not having an early start to their pre-season to freshen up? It's not like any of them will play in finals.

Here I was thinking we will pull a late rabbit and debut Farris White to take on Cox

We have shown repeatedly that we can easily close a 2-3 goal gap, and the Pies don't really have the defensive game plan to shut a 3 goal lead down for long periods to win. Unless it is pouring with rain late in the game, a 2-3 goal lead to the Pies won't phase us. Whereas we can sit on a 3 goal lead for 25 minutes and just make them sweat.

You think we play Smith, Tmac and Fritsch all together this week? It can work as Smith is good defensively and at ground level, whereas Tmac and Fritsch are not. I am not sold on Smith, unless we give him a role on Moore Team selection tonight will be fascinating. We are all analysing it, an in the end it'll be Tmac for Melksham.

Luckily Fritsch is back, who is also a very smart player who knows where to lead and can nail shots on goal from the pocket. Likewise Tmac, who may be slow as the day is long, but he knows how to make and find space and he knows how to kick goals. Smith is just chaos.

Tmac won’t take the ruck work in the middle or around the ground. He will likely help out with ruck work inside 50.