Jaded No More

The jinxing is killing me

Trac may not be the most polished media performer, but at least he’s great at his day job. What the [censored] is Robbo’s excuse?

His goal kicking is woeful. In general our goal kicking is not the best. Definitely one big area where we can improve across the board.

It was definitely 11am Tuesday when I checked yesterday. Interesting.

These stats are getting more useless and ridiculous by the minute.

Surely they'll need to make a call soon, as tickets go on sale at 10am tomorrow and it looks like members of that ground are already able to purchase tickets.

While I agree that Brown for Jones is the best net outcome in terms of quality/output, I can't see them dropping Jones straight after his 300th game. The optics are bad on this one, unless he is sore and they can say he is being ''managed".

The Kosi issue is such a non issue, I can't believe anyone is turning it into an issue. Replace Kosi with, I dunno, Dusty, and nobody even mentions it. Besides, you have no idea what was said. The all in melee suggests that some less than kind words were thrown at Kosi.

The media is 100% inconsequential to our performances, yesterday, today and tomorrow. I for one am happy we are still not being rated as highly as the Dogs, although we have beaten better side than they have. The less pressure is on us to perform by the clowns who call themselves footy experts, the better. We will eventually drop a game we should win, just like we have won a game not many expected us to win, and the criticism will come thick and fast. That is how fickle the footy media is. Just as they still rate Richmond a chance to win the flag, and are all certain they'll make the top 4. It takes a long time for these so called experts to change their tune for better or worse.

Players playing as a team not as highly talented individuals, and everyone buying into the defensive stuff and the two way running. So it’s not left to too few to carry the load, which is unsustainable.

Crowds are also down because the process of getting a ticket is a pain. Lots of older people would not know how to get a ticket. Hell Ticketek is a hot mess even for the most technologically savvy. Given we have to scan a QR code, I don’t get why people can’t come and get a ticket on the day. Leave a section just for that and so everyone sits in that area for the purpose of contact tracing And don’t get me started on the epic stupidity of not letting reserved seat members use their bloody seats. What’s easier to contact trace than that?! ?

He must play this week. This is a danger game. Make no mistake. The exact sort of game that a team sitting pretty at 6-0 would not take seriously and drop. Especially at that weird ground with the weird wind tunnels. A fresh and hungry Ben Brown could turn this. On a side note, when will the AFL stop shafting us and send us to play at these dumps? Tassie. Geelong. Just a joke.

Yep. Aged about as well as Grundy’s 7 year contract. Lol.

Rivers is good mates with Jones. I knew he would attend. Bloody rich of those turncoat defectors Howe and Frawley to turn up. Couple of wankers.

To be fair, as far as stereotypes go, we got it pretty good. Rich, educated, well travelled. It could be worse. Will you ever stop thinking of Pies fans as toothless criminals? Because that’s a far worse stereotype to not be able to shake.

I cannot stand that club and their supporters are all [censored]. Never met a North supporter who I didn’t want to punch in the face. Hard. I will never feel sorry for another club. We have been through more than anyone and nobody felt sorry for us. I hope we smash them by 20 goals and BB comes in and kicks 12. But I suspect it’ll be a closer game and after coming down from a massive win this week, it might just be a boil over.

The body and courage of a 30 year old. Beast.

[censored] lol at Richmond supporters saying we are insufferable. They are a bunch of abusive drunk bozos. I’ve been to games before where they were winning and I felt genuinely unsafe. Even on the train home last night, a few drunk Richmond fans were trying to start something. Low class bogans.

My husband grew up a Richmond supporter. Then lost interest. I’ve been slowly converting him for 5 years, but gees it’s been tough given where Richmond were at and where we were at. Last night he was celebrating like the rest of us. I finally did it! So cheers for the win Dees! ?

My favorite is the [censored] who said we are good team but also that we are clearly on drugs ??

If we carry on and smash Norf, the answer will be yes. For the first time in my Melbourne supporting life.

I really can’t see how they can keep Brown at Casey. He is a walk up starter, and just because he hasn’t played for us before, I think people forget what a good forward he is. Having a big presence up forward taking marks is just going to make us that much better. Yes Tmac is playing extremely well, but he can push further up the ground. Imagine Fritsch getting the third best defender because the opposition has to cover Brown, Tmac, a resting Jackson or Gawn and Fritsch. That is going to create a totally different dynamic. We know that at some point or another we need to get Brown into the team. We have a fairly “soft” game next week, against Brown’s old team at a ground he plays well at (probably). It makes sense to bring him in now and start working out the best forward structure around him. If we can kick a few more goals a game, who is going to complain?

I felt like we were just trying to ice the clock in the last half of the last quarter. Once Richmond missed a few in the start of the last and Kosi kicked that goal, it was all over and we just went defensive. Fair enough. We tackled like machines all game and were out on our feet. I know they were a man down in the end with Dusty out, but they had 3 extra days rest coming into this game. We were exhausted and played out of our skin for 3 quarters.

Stood up on the big stage. Absolute star in the making.

6- Salem (robbed of the medal) 5- Trac 4- Lever 3- Jackson 2- McDonald 1- Oliver