The heart beats true

This broadcast is great stuff from the club. It’s so good to see.

Jon Stewart’s take on the half time show was very, very entertaining.

45 Million Americans speak Spanish. Bad Bunny is Puerto Rican. All Puerto Rican’s are American. As someone who used to live in the US it always makes me laugh at the Australian perception of America. It’s an incredibly diverse place. They have a broken electoral college system, but don’t mistake it for total ignorance. When I think about the US I often think about Yeats’ poem The Second Coming… ‘The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity’. I think about that line a lot actually. It’s the root problem.

I hope he takes her name.

With all due respect the need for one comprehensive facility has nothing to do with supporters attending training, and everything to do with player and administration cohesion and retention. Name another AFL club that trains at 2 separate facilities every week, an hour apart from each other? This is the ONE issue I firmly believe the members can, and must, hold the administrators and board to account on. We can’t know the inner workings of relationships and game plans, but we can very clearly see that we haven’t had a home for a very long term. The first thing Goodwin said when asked about the club was ‘I won’t miss driving to Casey’. It’s pathetic that it hasn’t been sorted, particularly in light of the Premiership and the boost of income that brought to the club. It looks less likely everyday, and it’s the one issue our members are right to be furious about. I live in the inner West and see Bulldogs players every week out and about - because they live here, as it’s 10 minutes to training. Where do our players live? Our administration? Close to the freeway so they can go in 2 different directions for no reason other than the board hasn’t got its act together for generations? No other business I know would do this.

The only real solace in that season preview is at least we aren’t Essendon.

[censored].

The Brisbane Bears?

Was one of the three Judd McVee, because clearly he’ll say anything to anyone?

Love a bit of Fontaines. I particularly love their first album. Saw them at the Forum in ‘23. I skipped the last tour because I came home from the ‘23 show and said to my partner ‘I think I’ve reached an age where simply by liking a band I make them uncool for younger people’.

Nice work from Steven Smith. Makes a smart appointment, and then uses the announcement to remind us he was a better player than Cook. Well played.

Gutsy effort, and a really strong coaching performance to change the game after half time. Heath and Hore were both fantastic.

Agree. As bad as we started this year we would have beaten GWS in Rnd 1 had they not had a game of match fitness under their belt. We only got beaten in the last 30 seconds and it was obvious we were gassed.

That’s insane if true. Thursday night footy was the most unequal footy in a season defined by inequality. If the AFL don’t put good games on Thursday they are mad. However l honestly think that hating how bad Carlton are rates well. Their supporters can’t look away, and everyone else feels like they got a win, because they hate em.

Just watch. The 7th and 8th placed team will be unable to move up or down after Round 22, so they’ll just withdraw their 10 most important players for Round 23 in preparation for ‘Wildcard Weekend’ - wreaking utter havoc on betting markets and raising all sorts of questions about the game’s integrity. I love how the AFL forgets its own recent history. Why did we have a bye again? Oh…