Jaded No More

My Essendon mate complaining about Dogs fans booing Stringer. I reminded him that his supporters boo Hibbo.

You spoke too soon.

Can’t stand that [censored]

Umpires as per usual giving the Dogs the game. What a disgrace.

Jesus the Dogs are soft. Lazy two way running. Absolutely disappointing in every way.

As deliberate as you can get. Still back chatting. Walks into him. Then continues to mouth off. The finger pointing at the start is even worse. Just total lack of respect. I have no idea how the AFL can justify not banning him and then demand we respect umpires at all levels. Stamp it out or it’ll keep happening.

I would go and quarantine but we won’t get exemption to even enter the state to quarantine. That’s the issue.

Cameron is very good. It’s less about small forwards and more about the number of goals we concede from ground balls. We are virtually impossible to penetrate in the air down back. But if the ball spills to ground we can get caught out. It’s mainly because May Petty and Lever aren’t great at ground level. Salem is also very very poor for a small. That leaves Hibbo who I think is good at ground level but is losing his speed and touch, and Hunt who is injured. Bowey is a baby so hard to tell. I worry a lot about Greene and Grey for this reason. Greene probably needs May on him. Petty can take Himmelberg and Lever on Hogan. Port do well to bring ball to ground. Dixon and Georgiadis are both good at that. This is where Grey can really hurt you and Rosie. Hunt being fit is key for us I think. Because Smith leaves us far too vulnerable in the air and at ground level. He gets totally lost in the play.

I don’t give Essendon much chance. Could be wrong but don’t see the Dogs losing 4 in a row nor losing to Essendon twice in a month. I reckon Dogs will do a job on them.

He would never get a game in our team. That he keeps getting a game at Brisbane shows their poor depth. Culturally he’s a cancer. I mean he’s also a crap player which doesn’t help. Absolutely. Greene is a grub and a thug and I hate him but he’s a sensational player. Top 5 in the AFL when he’s on song.

I don’t really understand how anyone could sack a coach who’s won 10 flags. Like literally I would be in favor of giving Goodwin a 15 year contract if he just wins us one! Just one!

If that was the case they would have taken him off with 5 mins to go and kept May on

100%. With 5 minutes left I was just counting down the clock telling players to not go in too hard. A last minute injury would have ruined the entire game. Smart move to protect our best and most important players. We know May has had soreness. We know Gawn and Clarry get smashed every week and Clarry copped a big hit during the game. It was the right thing to do!

Nailed it. ANB did such an important job on Rich and was very good himself with ball in hand.

I sent in a WA border exemption application this week. Under reason for request I selected medical. In notes I wrote “if I don’t get to see Melbourne win a flag I’ll die. This is a matter of life and death”. I will let you know if Mark gets back to me.

WA was generous enough to give us permission to bring over 75 people. Such kind souls. Anyways the club obviously prioritized players over extra support staff which I think is wonderful. Ben Gibson doing the water boy work is hilarious. Just shows how insane Covid has been that people are doing so many roles just to get the games done.

I need to know the percentage of teams with a 209cm captain to have won a flag please

We didn’t even play our best. Second quarter we looked deadly, but we can play better. Certainly not our best night in defense and yet…

I’m very relaxed in the knowledge that Brisbane tried being tough guys but got taught a lesson. Yet again.

Big big difference in that incident. Firstly that was in play and Neale was wanting to show the umpire that he was bleeding hence deserved a free. He didn’t walk up to the umpire at a break, point a finger at him, have a chat to him and then on purpose touch him. It’s not hard for Greene to avoid contact but he chose to make it and then continues to carry on like a pork chop. It’s a bad look for the game. It’s super disrespectful and there is no need for it. If players don’t respect the umpires at this level, you won’t get respect for umpires at any level. Gotta stamp that out!

He would be relishing a week off. Also if any umpire ever watched any contest he’s involved in, he’d get 10 frees a week. Brisbane are thugs. Bog ordinary players just out there smashing bodies instead of trying to win the footy.

There are a lot of punchable heads in the AFL. But this guy is not only a complete nuffy he’s also a bloody average footballer. At least Toby Greene is a gun.

Personally the Mark Neeld years were easier on my anxiety. I knew we would lose every week. There was no finals stress.

He has a plate with his fake tooth on it. I assume it’s hard to wear a mouth guard with a plate in. He said he wants to get the front missing tooth implanted in the off season. Might need 2 done now 😬

Love that Trac had a so-so game then kicks the 2 sealers. Beast mode activated.