Jaded No More

Walsh and Cerra are good. Pitonett is a very decent ruckman. Their small forwards are nimble. Their list is significantly better than St Kildas. Yet one team plays like a team and the other has no idea what to do.

He is so excited for today 🙄

I would try and target the following in order of who I’d like most to who is probably the most realistic 1. Larkey 2. Naughton 3. McKay (Ben) 4. Himmelberg (but not for the reported $900k!) 5. Georgiadis

History tells us they won’t 😂

My dog has been standing at the window barking angrily at a single magpie in our front yard for 30 minutes. The magpie, while unmoved, has certainly been told in no uncertain terms by the dog, what a stupid ugly useless bird it is.

We need to put on a strong performance. If we lose by a small margin it’ll be very disappointing, but not the end of the world as we too are missing very important players. Namely our best player in Oliver. However if we get blown away and it’s not even a contest, similar to the Brisbane (pre lights out) or Essendon game, then I think even the ever optimistic @binman will have doubts over where this season can take us. My main concern today is having to listen to their toothless brainless moron supporters chanting Collingwood while I spent 1.5 hours getting home after the game.

A lot of teams are hanging for the bye. Lots of tired sloppy skills this weekend.

Make that 50. 50 frees in a single game. That’s 30 too many.

48 free kicks. Forty eight. What a slop AFL is becoming

Honestly how are Carlton this bad? They have enough good players to be better than this.

Rule of the week

My best friend is a Carlton members since birth. She’s due to give birth in September and was worried she’ll miss finals. Now she’s worried she’ll go into early labour watching the trash her team is serving each week.

I’ve gone down a black hole of watching dog rescue videos and I’m shedding tears like a Carlton supporter right now.

This is atrocious from Carlton Peter Wright is a star. Spewing we didn’t try to get him.

After careful consideration I’ve decided that what the AFL is missing is more umpires and more free kicks

Has reached his ideal playing height but not his ideal playing weight

Another atrocious umpiring display.

And he is incredibly tough. It’s not the worse idea. I’d like to see him get stronger through his core tho. You don’t want him to be easily moved off the ball in the contest.

I’ve said the same thing about every player to make a debut, regardless of who they are or aren’t related to. Debuting someone in the sub role is a [censored] move and it’s why clubs rarely do it. That he is the son of a club champion that we treated like trash just makes it even worse that we would debut him as the sub. JJ is a good sub option as he can play multiple positions.

Imagine if Gawn was as protected as these tall forwards are for either team. He’d kick at least 20 behinds a game

I’m back to say that tomorrow better not be this poorly over umpired… which we all know it will and Pies will get all the frees thanks to their fans making more noise.

I can only take so much of this football atrocity TikTok of cute dogs it is

It’s not about romanticism. It’s about a kid who has worked damn hard and deserves to be selected to play and have all the same bells and whistles that every other debutant gets. Playing one quarter as a sub will do nothing for him, nor will it tell us if he’s able to hold his own at this level. Most players can’t impact much as sub unless they’re very experienced or play a very specific role (eg Melksham). Why would you make a debutant fight for another game by making them sub and severely limiting their ability to impact the game? He will get a game sooner or later and it’ll be done properly. I also don’t think there’s any need to debut a kid in such a massive game. It’s a lot of unnecessary pressure.

Add to that the Perth factor and you might be right.

We won’t and should not debut a kid as the sub. Especially the son of a former champion. It’s just not right.