Jaded No More

Can’t be much worse…

Did he used his bad hand to shake yours? TELL ME EVERYTHING!

Could be Covid if it’s a sudden disappearance and he didn’t make the trip up?

Anyone who has or knows someone who has a thyroid condition would know how tricky it is to get the medication dosage right. It requires heaps of tweaks and monitoring to get perfect. And just because he's had it before doesn't mean the same dosage would work again. My assumption is that he's been on some form of medication since he got diagnosed years ago, because a thyroid doesn't just heal itself over time, and that medication dosage is no longer being effective. That means tweaking the dosage and doing repeated blood tests to check that the levels are correct. It can takes a long time to get right or you can get lucky and get it right straight away. But given he's an athlete who puts his body under major stress every day, I don't think they'll risk it. It can be really serious if poorly mismanaged, and impact his life well beyond footy.

You do realise that players who live on the Mornington Peninsula for example spend more time getting to AAMI park than Casey? Players live all over the city. For some Casey is more easily accessible and for others it is not. Not every player wants to drive in peak hour into the city. We are all keen to get a top notch facility for our club as close to the MCG as possible, but the reality is that most of our players don't live next door to Richmond so most don't care about the drive to Casey. All they want is top quality facilities like every other club.

Definitely what the go is with Oliver and how long it's expected this hand is going to take to heal properly.

Brayshaw is another option, but he clearly doesn't have the disposal skills of Salem. Bowey is definitely the best option. Hopefully they sort this out quickly because Salem is a class player who is vital to our backline.

Just a beautiful human

100%. An organization as big as MFC would use a multi platform application that automatically posts to all its social media accounts from a single point of posting. No chance somebody is logging in manually to FB, Twitter, Insta and TikTok and making updates separately. If they are, it’s no wonder our social media is so bad. It literally takes 1 second to update these things, and it’s really not good enough that it wasn’t done in a timely manner. Surely someone on DL has some connections at the club and can pass along this stuff up for future rectification. It is not much to ask.

This really is very disappointing. I understand last minute changes, but it's not like they didn't know early enough to inform the players. If they can inform the players they can surely post a message on social media at the same time. There are literally a million 20 something year olds who are dominating social media right now. How hard would it be to hire someone to really get that side of the club up and running properly? Hell I am sure you could find some mad Dees fans who would even do it on the cheap or in return for some inside access to the club.

Listen if I need to move his grandma, dog breeder, best friend and cousin into my house to help Kosi sign with us long term, I am more than happy to kick the kids out and move them in Just make it happen Dees.

H&A pass mark: Top 4 finish Season pass mark: Prelim If we can stay relatively healthy, then I think we have every right to expect we make the Grand Final.

You would think so now that Jackson has left. I also don't think money is a factor for Kosi. Port would be pretty tight with their cap too you'd imagine.

This sounds too much like the Jackson situation all over again. Losing Kosi will be a really bitter pill to swallow.

Lever?

And still with the cap of shame. Anyone know if it’s the same hand he had surgery on?

I’m glad the club recognizes how unrealistic that 2021 finals series / season was and how impossible it is to replicate such a perfect dominance. It was a once in a lifetime performance we will never see again, and we need to stop trying to fall into the trap of wanting a repeat of it. lol @ Richo talking about the “websites” talking up JVR 😂

Welcome to September 2021

Surely someone knows something about Lever. Too important to miss a chunk of pre season.

Will also go down as the night I got incredibly drunk in a pub in Adelaide post game (using a fake ID) and a Port fan tried hitting on me and I told him to [censored] off. Good times.

Anyone with any inside info on what is going on with Lever?

I died several times.

Anyone with some inside info about Lever’s ankle? How severe is it? Also is Joel Smith ever not rehabbing something? I swear he is never not injured. Poor guy.

The press release is the only reason I am panicking. Why even mention it when the season is still far enough away that a regulation hammy will be well healed in time for round 1?

Gus has said himself that he was never blessed with a good rig and could never get that super toned look some of the other boys have, no matter how fit he was. Not everyone has the same body shape, and the beauty of AFL is that great players come in all shapes and sizes. If Gus is aerobically fit, whether he has a 6 pack or a 2 pack is absolutely irrelevant. Jack Watts always looked like a god out there, but it didn't make him the player we all wanted him to be. Gus has proven time and again that he can play multiple roles to a very high level, and was one of our best players in that third quarter in the grand final just 2 years ago with basically the same body shape. To doubt him now because he isn't sporting a Petracca physique is silly. Ed Langdon is not ripped either, but nobody is having a go at him. P.S.- if only all of us can be this 'unfit' 😅