Very Jaded

A lot of teams are hanging for the bye. Lots of tired sloppy skills this weekend.

Make that 50. 50 frees in a single game. That’s 30 too many.

48 free kicks. Forty eight. What a slop AFL is becoming

Honestly how are Carlton this bad? They have enough good players to be better than this.

Rule of the week

My best friend is a Carlton members since birth. She’s due to give birth in September and was worried she’ll miss finals. Now she’s worried she’ll go into early labour watching the trash her team is serving each week.

I’ve gone down a black hole of watching dog rescue videos and I’m shedding tears like a Carlton supporter right now.

This is atrocious from Carlton Peter Wright is a star. Spewing we didn’t try to get him.

After careful consideration I’ve decided that what the AFL is missing is more umpires and more free kicks

Has reached his ideal playing height but not his ideal playing weight

Another atrocious umpiring display.

And he is incredibly tough. It’s not the worse idea. I’d like to see him get stronger through his core tho. You don’t want him to be easily moved off the ball in the contest.

I’ve said the same thing about every player to make a debut, regardless of who they are or aren’t related to. Debuting someone in the sub role is a [censored] move and it’s why clubs rarely do it. That he is the son of a club champion that we treated like trash just makes it even worse that we would debut him as the sub. JJ is a good sub option as he can play multiple positions.

Imagine if Gawn was as protected as these tall forwards are for either team. He’d kick at least 20 behinds a game

I’m back to say that tomorrow better not be this poorly over umpired… which we all know it will and Pies will get all the frees thanks to their fans making more noise.

I can only take so much of this football atrocity TikTok of cute dogs it is

It’s not about romanticism. It’s about a kid who has worked damn hard and deserves to be selected to play and have all the same bells and whistles that every other debutant gets. Playing one quarter as a sub will do nothing for him, nor will it tell us if he’s able to hold his own at this level. Most players can’t impact much as sub unless they’re very experienced or play a very specific role (eg Melksham). Why would you make a debutant fight for another game by making them sub and severely limiting their ability to impact the game? He will get a game sooner or later and it’ll be done properly. I also don’t think there’s any need to debut a kid in such a massive game. It’s a lot of unnecessary pressure.

Add to that the Perth factor and you might be right.

We won’t and should not debut a kid as the sub. Especially the son of a former champion. It’s just not right.

Lipinski is a damn good in. FFS couldn’t be miss one more week? 🙄

It wasn’t worth the wait 😂

The AFL is really hell bent on ruining the competition in the name of optics.

He’s 18. He is a kid. I think he has a lot of raw talent and skills to work with. He needs a good pre season to put the weight on and get his fitness up. He will not debut before he’s 20-21 IMO and that’s ok.

A tip for the ladies: make sure you go to the bathroom as soon as the halftime siren goes because you know what those lines are like when it’s a big game, and you’d hate to miss the Mexican wave 😂

He’s not playing in either. Knee is stuffed again.