Jaded No More

Not sure a player who has won multiple finals off his own boot can be described as a downhill skier.

I kinda like seeing the Tigers drop back down to earth, but must Geelong continue to just not go away? I cannot stand that club. When will they just die of old age already?!

I hear this Franklin fella is an up and comer. They reckon he can kick a few.

Yeah look I feel for Sparrow. But maybe they want the experience of Harmes against a fairly robust experienced midfield. Perhaps he will do a job on Kennedy. Baker must be the medical sub. Melksham must do something the coaches really rate. I don’t see it. But we are 7-0 so I can’t say they don’t know what they’re doing.

Harmes ahead of Sparrow is not rewarding current form, but hoping Harmes can capture his form from 3 years ago. I would be disappointed if that is the call they make. Especially as Sparrow is a much more like for like replacement for Viney. Baker medical sub to avoid dropping him after 1 game?

They better let us attend. How are we in Melbourne a risk? FFS Covid is the biggest [censored]. Must be a Pies fan.

Anyone know if Buddy got thru training today?

The reason is because Tmac has been trash for 3 years and we needed a big mature body to help out Weideman. Make no mistake, the club planned to have Ben Brown and Weideman as our two key position forwards in 2021. Injuries and the unexpected form of Tmac have thrown those plans into disarray.

Dean Bailey was such a scapegoat for our disastrous board at the time. RIP. On the flip side, Mark Neeld ?

I only had issues for the Richmond game. My annoyance was paying for awesome seats I’ve picked but not being able to use them and getting allocated all sorts of rubbish I don’t pay for.

I like how the inane ticketek system has been replaced by a short 18 step process to be undertaken 2 days prior to a game while upside wearing green pants between the hours of 2:46 and 3:14pm. Love how the AFL is keeping it simple ?

It’s pretty silly. No attendance at a game played in Sydney would make sense, as there is a risk of someone in the crowd having and spreading Covid (see WA). They can ban anyone who was in NSW from attending as they did with the Geelong v West Coast game a few weeks back, but if there is no community spread in Victoria why would we not be able to attend?

And that is the crux of the issue. It is also why we must play Petty at FB and not McDonald. Because May isn’t a spring chicken either. It’s unfortunate that Weideman is out of contract as it puts us in a tricky position I would keep him ahead of McDonald who I think is having a great season, but who is not the future.

If we finish top 4 and make a prelim we will crack 50,000 next year

The good news keep on coming today. Thank god sanity has prevailed and we no longer have to deal with Ticketek to get a ticket to sit 3 rows behind our normal seat

Tell me you don't want to play for Collingwood without telling me you don't want to play for Collingwood

DONE DEAL! Just got the email from the club

If we are smart, we trade McDonald out to clear out some cap space and keep Weideman. But I am not sure that will work out the way we want. Weideman would have lots of currency.

Or perhaps he is him ??

He does have a solid family connection to Collingwood. Still tho, yuck!

The Oliver signing was significant as well, given we heard he wasn’t a happy camper last year. To lose him would be as damaging to our flag hopes as losing Trac would.

There’s a part of me that fully expects us to miss the 8, have Jackson leave to go home and we get found out for doping... I can’t help it.

I’m a big hater of long term deals. But sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do. I just hope we are being cautious with the money so we don’t force ourselves into having to dump players ala Collingwood, or worse not be able to sign some other star players down the track. Our track record with list management recently has been great tho, so I trust us not to stuff this one up. Trac is a star and 7 years is not a big risk. He will still be a good serviceable player at 33.

In: Fritta ??