Jaded No More

You’d hate to suck in 2025-2030

Anyone who doesn’t have Oliver in the top 5 players in the game is not actually watching football.

Thanks for your reply. I would also be interested to hear from anyone else on Demonland who is Tasmanian regarding the same question. Will you swap teams? Will you buy membership to one or both clubs?

It’s truly telling how little engagement this club has after so long in the competition. Anyways our first quarter > their third quarter Take this lightly and we will lose. Come out with the same mindset we did against Norf and it’ll be a 10 goal smashing.

If they have a green jumper which I suspect they will, then meh. We are Melbourne. First and foremost this is what we are. Melbourne.

I have a question for you. You’re a Melbourne supporter and I assume member of some type? Would you switch to support Tassie? Will they be your second team? Will you buy a membership? I am just really curious what will the Tasmanians who already have a strong bond to an existing club will do.

I am excited to hear his take on Freo too. He did tell me last week that Grundy is better than Jackson, which is somewhat a revolutionary opinion.

Yep, the days of an open forwardline and forwards taking multiple chest marks a game are gone. The only way you can achieve this is with absolute centre clearance dominance thanks to 6-6-6. But beyond that, good luck.

I think they mean set shots. Fritta has kicked a lot on the run this year, rather than from marks.... more than in previous years I think.

Why not? We would want to wear it once in Alice and once at the G, and I believe the Port games is actually over the Indigenous round, hence 3 games.

Fritsch at 16.4... I know he probably hasn't had 20 set shots yet due to injury, but boy oh boy can he kick. Even better, Chandler on 13.2! Trac still a way to go at 8.6. But he finished last year at 19.31, so a definite improvement!

The AFL needs to spend a lot more money at lower levels including with umpiring. It is beyond a joke that a competition where millions are spent each week on gambling, has part time umpires impacting results. I heard Dill mention yesterday about the bounce, and needing to maybe remove it from our game because we need more umpires. How about instead of trying to change the game, you change the system. You start umpiring academies, you pay them a full time wage, you have them train every day like the players do, and you get them to a consistent level. The AFL can't even properly sustain the VFL competition, let alone grass roots and junior footy.

And can he promise that we won't once again get pantsed by Cox and Mihocek?

Choco does it again! Give the man a 10 year contract.

It doesn't. The big carrot is the TV rights, which again with 19 teams changes nothing as there will still be the same number of games each week. I don't believe we have the talent or the crowd participation to get to 20 teams. When Richmond and Melbourne both get sub 30,000 fans to a home game, what is the likelihood that you will get 30,000 consistently to Tassie games or Canberra games? We keep expanding the competition, but the competition doesn't get better. Umpiring is shocking, TV coverage is terrible, MRP is a joke, and each year the talent gets thinner and thinner beyond the top end. We have teams with 100+ years of history be cellar dwellers for years, Freo is still yet to win a flag and they've been around for a long time, not to mention GC and GWS sucking the AFL dry while achieving absolutely nothing. 20 teams is not sustainable, unless you are investing proper money in grass roots footy and getting kids involved at a very young age to develop talent and participation. But the AFL is not spending money at that level, all they are doing is spending money at the top end.

Not the worse and sounds like Petty should be right. Fingers crossed Salem has no more setbacks and also fingers crossed Dunstan’s injury is minor.

I feel like a lot of these questions are only safe to ask behind a screen. In real life he’d probably punch all of us in the face for even hinting at retirement or asking him why he had a bad game once…. 😂

I would be keen to know who he thinks on our list could take his spot when he eventually retires. He probably won't want to answer it tho 🤪

I rewatched the replay yesterday and Clarry was destroying them. Not only was he everywhere, but he got his hands on the footy consistently which created the ball movement that got us those early goals. He was at the start of multiple chains that resulted in goals. He was the most influential player on the ground in that first quarter. As for my last comment, that was clearly tongue in cheek. I think anyone who wonder why Clarry hasn't won a Brownlow yet needs to understand that he has a lot of competition within his own team for votes. Both he and Trac are incredibly consistent and extremely good players, who will continue to take votes of one another. Of course I rather those two win flags than win Brownlows!

Doesn’t help that he’s playing for a dumpster fire of a team in the wrong position tho. Was not the case last year.

Unfortunately the tank is on at both West Coast and Hawthorn whereas Freo and Richmond have nothing to gain by finishing as low as possible. So I think pick 4 is the absolute best outcome we can hope for. West Coast, Hawks and Norf will fight to the death for that spoon. We play Hawks twice and Norf once more… so good luck to us if we think Freo finish bottom.

How lucky are we to have this man as our captain. The best captain in the AFL hands down. Not just a genuine superstar, but the most empathetic, down to earth, relatable and likable character in the game. You would just love to play with him and for him.

Someone call Grant Thomas to critique this please

I think you’ll find that getting Fritta with the pick we got from Watts has made it indeed a very happy ending.

I think in general because the game was done within 8 minutes and the other defenders had their forwards covered, he was able to play a lot more loosely and run off and impact forward of the centre more than usual. Had a great game as a result.