Jaded No More

Once again our comms team asleep at the wheel

Old mate having a meltdown about Chin’s vibes charkas and auras as we speak Well done Chin ❤️❤️

Gawn Bowey Kosi Salem Chin Are my top 5 Langford best first year player by a significant margin Disco or Rivers for coaches award (can’t remember the name of it exactly) Laurie the Troy Broadbridge award

How good of the AFL to [censored] us with Mac Andrew I hate this competition

Props to Scott for getting the tag right. Limiting McLuggage has totally stifled Brisbane’s ball movement.

Neale is cooked

Strong grounds for divorce and adoption

Live footage of me and this season

Putting me in this position should be illegal

A Geelong Collingwood grand final is a worse outcome than the earth being destroyed by an asteroid

You’ll hate Essendon and Carlton more if they ever get good. Which we all hope is something that will never happen.

This umpiring is hot garbage Hitting Zorko should be allowed

Yes seriously 99% of Victorians will tell you their most hated teams are, in fact, Victorian. We don’t care about interstate teams. AFL is a Victorian competition. Interstate clubs are just gate crashes nobody invited.

I’m gonna be honest, this is a real vom fest. Between Zorko, and Geelong, and the 3 glasses of wine I’ve had with dinner, it’s not looking good 😬

I can understand the second one, because like how stupid can you be. For stupidity alone you deserve the free against. But to pay a 150m penalty for that flop from Rayner in a final is a disgrace. Stay out of the game umpires. Nobody and I mean nobody asked for you to get involved.

Rayner has an immensely punchable face

Appalling umpiring. But also LOL Geelong lost all momentum in 5 seconds.

May their pillows be forever warm

Geelong magically resurrected him from the dead. I swear that club makes me so angry with their endless ability to succeed at everything.

I’ve been voodoo dolling the [censored] out of that club for generations. They refuse to die tho

You must have forgotten what Roos inherited. We were North / West Coast level bad. How is Clarkson going at North? We played finals 1 year after he left, which was something we hadn't done in over a decade prior. He changed the trajectory of this club, and set the foundations for Goody. When he took over, did you think we'd win a flag in your lifetime? I sure as hell didn't. We are in a completely different place now with our list, but I still believe that what we need most is a cultural/ attitude/ mental reset. More than we need a new game plan or a list overhaul.

Success fixes a lot of problems, most especially commercial ones. So number one priority is to get a coach that will bring us success. That doesn't mean flags every year, it means being competitive, and in the race every year. Think Geelong. Of course what will it take to make us a consistently successful, and therefore commercially viable and relevant team, is the million dollar question. Do we need a mental reset, a game plan reset, a list reset, all three? And who of the candidates is the best placed to bring about all those changes in the least amount of time? IMHO Buckley is most likely to command respect and therefore implement a mental reset quickly, and probably also draw players/coaches from other clubs to come to the club. That is a massive factor and cannot be underestimated. Do I think Buckley is most likely to get a really good game plan going? No. But maybe that's less important than the other factors. At the end of the day sacking a coach, and appointing a coach is risky business. There is never any guarantees in life, but unlike the last handful of coaches appointed by the club, we find ourselves in a far healthier position with our list, and so this makes the appointment maybe more important in terms of getting the right person for the now. I still think that this competition is as wide open as it has ever been, and small tweaks can go a long way towards success when you have the bulk of your list spots covered with quality. We also have a good mix of experience and youth. A new coach can very well do a McRae. Doesn't mean they will of course, but it's not that far fetched.

To be clear I am not against booing. I totally support Crows fans booing Houston for example. I just can't stand booing for the sake of booing, or worse booing for the wrong reasons. Like the hate Goodes received was appalling to me. And last night booing the victim of a homophobic slur by their own player was putrid. BTW he wasn't the one who reported it, officials overheard the players talk about it post game. So why the booing? Adelaide didn't even do the right thing and self report, so screw them (except Nibbler!).