Jaded No More

Exactly right. Nearly all major knee injuries / operations often result in minor ongoing issues, especially for athletes. I am happy the club jumped on the swelling as soon as it became an issue. Better to nip it in the bud early and have him play the majority of the season / his career pain free.

Just our [censored] luck

Anyone with a digital membership able to access it online yet? I regret going digital this year. I only did it for the free tickets so I can bring my husband along. We planned to get him a membership, but Covid means it's an unjustifiable expense. I assume lots of people will be in the same boat.

To be fair if Biden nukes the [censored] out of China I don’t think the world would be worse off. He needs to make America a strong nation again rather than a running joke, so China can be brought down a few pegs. They are getting too big for their boots and it’s not a good look for democracy. Not to mention the [censored] trade sanctions that are impacting us here.

A wonderful day.

Such sad news. Sending all the best to his family.

I will give Donald credit for one thing... his administration has led to some of the greatest memes ever seen.

Yep, this is exactly what is wrong with our society. This assumptions that girls are forever 'asking for it', if they choose to wear tight clothes, go out to a bar or heaven forbid, give a guy their number. Women are not allowed to exist without some [censored] assuming they are up for it. FFS unless these women specifically said "hey Jon, can I get some nudes", they were not 'asking' for it and it was an aggressively sexually inappropriate thing to do. It might be shocking to men to find out that women may actually care to get to know a guy and not their [censored] first.

A+ for trolling. Donald would be proud.

A memo to all males: your penis is for function not form. Nobody cares to see it with the flash on but you.

Nobody is better at being impeached than Trump. Just ask him. Now lets hope the GOP has the balls to pass his impeachment in the senate and vote to have him barred from ever running again. The sooner this piece of [censored] is in jail and out of the public's eye, the better this world will be.

Yeah WA can play hardball and Freo and West Coast can spend the entire season in a Victorian hub and not play a single game up there. How sweet that would be! If a vaccine becomes available in late Feb /early March, it would not surprise me to see the AFL community get priority access to the vaccine. AFL is big money and nobody wants another interrupted season, not the AFL and not the states.

I really thought you couldn’t get more insane. I was wrong. Your dangerous disgusting piece of [censored] cult leader will be gone in two weeks, and the world will be a far better place for it. Let’s hope he ends up in jail where he belongs.

Totally agreed. Win the first couple of games and I reckon memberships will go up significantly, especially if crowds are allowed at the G but subject to social distancing/ square meter capacity rules.

I was so excited that we wouldn’t have to go to Geelong finally... and then I read round 23. Every. Damn. Year. Happy to keep both our home game blockbusters that we missed out on last year. Overall not bad and I’m glad to have an easier run in the first half of the season. Good for confidence and memberships.

What a crock... not even the real season and already shafted with a trip to WA. Typical.

I signed up for a digital membership, and I already regret it. Firstly I can already tell given the AFL is running the digital memberships that it is going to be a big dumpster fire, as apparently the membership and tickets are loaded together as the fixture gets released. Trusting the AFL to do anything digitally, especially in combination with the powerhouse that is Ticketmaster (remember the joys of trying to buy finals tickets on their server?) doesn't sound good. Had I known the digital membership was being run by the AFL I wouldn't have signed up for it. Secondly, they still mailed me a pack, which is pointless because I asked for a digital membership to save on paper, and the pack itself was completely empty except for a thank you pin for sticking with the club in 2020. WTF? If you are going to waste postage and trees and plastic, all the things I specifically didn't want, can you at least send me some stickers so I can drive around in my 4WD with my Melbourne sticker like a [censored]?! Uncool.

You’re right. The electoral college means nothing.

Just a few more hours... and then let's see what the narcissist and his brain-washed deluded followers have to say next. We all know they'll desperately try to cling onto power and spread fake news until their last day in office. What an embarrassment this guy and his administration is to American politics.

Correct, and to bring up the Bush v Gore situation is just silly, because that election did come down to one very tight race in a swing state, which when the votes were eventually hand counted after the fact, showed that Gore actually won. This election's results are so beyond doubt, but the Republicans who implored their supporters not to participate in mail-in ballots are now losing their mind that states which count mail-in ballots last (completely legally) swung in Biden's favour after the poll votes were counted. Yet I don't see them complaining about Trump shrinking his lead in Arizona or indeed winning Florida after Biden had a lead there. How convenient. It is one thing to align with Republican views, or even to support some of Trump's work. It is another to be sucked in to the literal horse**** that is coming out of his campaign with no evidence whatsoever. When Giuliani is your legal representation you know your defence is hella flimsy.

LOL he has photos of suitcases with votes? I wanna see them.

I am well aware of what per capita means. It takes nothing away from the fact that better leadership would have significantly reduced the number of deaths and in fact, infections in the US. Oh yeah and the US is 6th in the world for infections per capita. Or is that irrelevant? Also please can we not compare the Bush v Gore situation. An election that was decided by one state and with less than 1000 votes. Biden has such a sizeable lead, that all it does is make Trump look like a bigger sore loser. It's funny how the Republicans thought Hillary was completely outside of her right to challenge an election, again won by a smaller margin, where she won the popular vote (Trump lost it by a landslide), and yet it is completely ok for Trump to drag on this pathetic game of his and continue to throw the dummy instead of doing something useful with his remaining days in office. Speaks volumes about his lack of care for the job.

Hang on, are you suggesting the US Covid numbers are ok because pre capita they aren't cracking the top 10? Really? Their rate of infection is amongst the highest in the world, their daily death numbers are climbing and the holiday season and deep winter hasn't even hit yet! They are a first world country, their death rate should be much lower as should their infection rate. If Americans actually had a president in charge who took Covid seriously, instead of holding superspreading events, or a present who cared about healthcare, or even a president who wasn't such a self serving piece of horse [censored] that actually passed the stimulus packages he promised, then maybe, just maybe, the US wouldn't be doing so badly and quarter of a million people wouldn't be dead today. Their handling of the pandemic has been nothing short of embarrassing, but it is no wonder when their president is nothing short of embarrassing. Instead of fighting an election you know you lost, spend your energy fighting Covid you [censored]!

I hope that post round 6 we will at the very least know when we have home and when we have away games, even if the timeslot and venue are not 100% decided. Not just from a planning perspective for the club, but for supporters too. I plan holidays (which lets be honest, where the hell am I going in 2021 other than my backyard?) around the fixture to make sure I miss the least amount of home games possible. I am sure lots of people are in the same boat, not to mention those that want to travel interstate for matches.

When draftees are born in the 2000s and you own handbags older than that.