Jaded No More

Are these two weeks always this boring, or am I just never going to care about anything except flags anymore?

We will get to 90% fully vaccinated in the 12+ population by the end of the year in Victoria. We are almost at 90% for 16+, and the 12-15 year olds are getting vaccinated faster than any other age group, and they are working on approval for Pfizer for 5 year olds and over. I assume that games will continue to be ticketed to an extent. If you have a membership you'll need to link it to your vax certificate to get into the ground. If you don't, you'll need to provide it when buying a ticket online or at the gate. There is no chance that we will continue to pause the state for 10% of people who are too stupid and selfish. Let them get sick and let them die of Covid. It is unfair to our incredible health care workers, but life has to go on for the sake of everyone's mental, financial and emotional health. Our case numbers are insanely high, but actually our hospitalisation numbers are well down on last year, where at our peak we had less than half the case numbers. Vaccines work, and they will enable us all to move on to a better future. I just hope that the absolute morons who think it is "their body their choice", don't come crying when their bodies are too sick to make the choice of breathing independently.

I agree. However he finished second for goals in the competition this year if you include finals. Not bad for a medium forward. He’s definitely the best medium forward in the competition. But he is not a top 20 player. I would have him at around the 40 mark.

Tex Walker shouldn’t even still be on AFL list.

Essendon don’t have the defense to go all the way IMO. GWS have all the talent in the world. Something is not right with that club tho.

Sydney are my dark horse. GWS would have been to but no Toby for 5 rounds will hurt them.

Really? Hope they enjoyed getting thrashed in a game that meant something. God I despise that club. Hope they struggle for the rest of eternity.

I would love to read the match day and post game threads from this game. I imagine I wasn’t very nice 😂

My husband just said to me “maybe we should watch the grand final again”. God I married well.

Good god that was beautiful

I recommend this video https://fb.watch/8vsOxjJGPv/

How many of us thought we should have delisted ANB last year when nobody wanted him? For once I think we can all agree that we have people at our club who actually know what they are doing, and until proven otherwise, we should trust them to make the decisions regarding list management. They haven't put a foot wrong in 5 years for goodness sake, even when the whole of Demonland melted down over Watts and Hogan leaving and 'overpaying' for May and Lever. I'll jut leave this here

Sounds like nobody is worried about Jackson leaving and that we are working on an extension with his manager. I don't believe him when he says we've had no discussions about Jackson with Freo. I think we have. The discussions went something like this: Bell: "Can we talk about Jackson?" Lamb: *Hangs up phone*

All 4 items I ordered just say “awaiting fulfillment”. Nothing has been sent yet. I’m not in a rush tho.

Does he get them done every off season? But really I haven’t seen any of our players post anything on their socials other than enjoying their off season. May is still away playing golf. The WA boys are off doing gym work and enjoying the sunsets. Jacko did mention on the Gus and Gawny podcast that he needs to have wisdom teeth removed so the boy is in for a lot of dental work.

GWS have a terrible culture. Selfish players playing for money they mostly don’t deserve. There is no team there is only individuals. Couple that with a horribly uninspiring coach and no history or supporter passion and you get a club full to the brim with talent that goes nowhere. Clubs would kill for their list.

Yep I’ve got stuff I ordered over a month ago that’s still sitting as “delayed” with Australia Post. Absolutely useless.

And one could argue that the Dogs were no where near as dominant in 2016 as we were in 2021. Their flag was quite an aberration.

Of course if given the choice between equally good players you’d try to go for the younger option. But that isn’t always possible and especially inside mid roles, are not that easy to replace with kids. You need big bodies who can wear the bumps over and over again, especially in the Viney defensive mid role. You’re there to be a battering ram. I don’t want to put a 19 year old in that role for half a whole season or even half a season, let alone rely on them come finals. Sparrow and Bowey excelled because they were surrounded by quality mature players this year. Same with Jackson. If they played without Trac or Oliver or May or Gawn by their side, would they struggle? Undoubtedly. We exposed young players too early in the past because we had no other option, we now have options.

Has anyone even received a shipment notification? My stuff hasn’t even been posted.

I take real offense regarding Trengove. He was a great player who was destroyed by poor handling of his injury and being made captain of a rubbish club with horrible culture at age 21 Trengove picked by Melbourne in 2021 goes on to become a 200 game champion.

No take backsies