The heart beats true

The disconnect between the way football is currently played versus how it’s reported on, and the amount of time reported on it, is becoming more extreme each year. It’s either painfully dumbed down, or so shouty and antagonistic that it’s objective is to become its own story. I always imagined that as your team became more successful you enjoyed and devoured more of the footy media to soak it all in. Sadly it’s been the other way for me. I find it dull and devoid of insight.

Welcome. Stick around! Everyday here is a long, slow, painful redefinition of the term ‘supporter’.

Is there a way to automate this comment so it’s automatically the second post on every thread? Will save a lot of time.

Counting down the moments until some lazy journo reads this, turns it into a ‘Kozzy contract drama’ headline, and Demonland explodes in fury. We are like an animal that eats itself. I believe the Egyptians referred to it as an ‘ouroboros’ (but the good news is there’s a painful pedant here who’ll point out if that’s correct or not).

That was right I front of me and it was so confusing. Also, Melk kicked a ripping goal as a result that was disallowed. It would have given him another goal, and it was a crying shame because his game was incredible and he deserved 5 goals. I really think he won us that game.

I never understood, after finishing top 4 last year, how Geelong got a mid table draw, made easier because they play on a beach towel sized ground surrounded by 30,000 of country Victoria’s least intelligent people.

No stress @Demonstone I’m overly sensitive because I’m still waiting for the weekends result to get overturned on appeal. 👍

Yes, it only tells half the story because it’s only half the season - which is why it says clearly FROM ROUND 12. This place is filled with grumpy pedants at the moment, that want to argue with you about the things you didn’t say. Weird vibes.

This will make you feel better. It’s from tonight’s On The Couch: Matches vs Top 8 teams since Round 12: Melbourne - 7 Freo - 5 Carlton - 5 Richmond - 4 Brisbane - 4 Sydney - 3 Geelong - 3 Collingwood - 3 We also played the Dogs in that time. We’ve had a hard run and come through it. Also, Jeremy’s Cameron’s done his hammy, and Essendon are a shambles. Lift the veil and look around. We are going ok.

I liked that Ralph said Melbourne have already told him he is required to the end of the year regardless of what he’s doing next year. It seems like a mature, well rounded way to handle it. He’s done a lot of work and he deserves to see it through.

The man who said the LGBT flag was ‘divisive’? It’s colours Neil. I’m sure you’ll cope.

This is a great video. The ABC commentary is the best because they called the action, not the emotion of one set of supporters. Was also nice to see that Blues supporter lose her mind 4 times in a row. I actually feel for her - we’ve all been that fan as Dees supporters.

Lever knew exactly what he was doing. There’s no way that our strongest player and our quickest player are at centre half forward out numbering their opponent 3-1. We NEVER set up like that. That, I believe, was what they trained for after last week. Don’t bang it long from the wing, go corridor and deep from there.

Essendon’s board have all the emotional resilience of a Demonland Gameday thread.

Source?

Totally agree. Long down the line to Max is killing me! I feel like our game plan asks a hell of a lot of 4-5 players, and if they are down by 5% collectively it makes it very hard for us to win. In that way I feel very similarly about the last half of this year as I did during the frustration of 17-18, when we won all the stats and put in so much effort and got diminishing returns.

Max said after the game they trained for what they learnt the week before. I’m not sure if they sent Goodwin home for that part of training, but I imagine he may have had some part in it.

His aim is to keep us in games for as long as possible. He DEFINITELY changed things up in the last 2 minutes. Lever gets the ball on the wing and hacks it to the centre of the ground where 3 Melbourne players are against 1 Carlton player. The entire team knew what to do, and did it. Im frustrated by our in game plan sometimes, but the last minute on Saturday was heavily adapted and Goodwin orchestrated it.

He got dragged to the ground 3 times off the ball in the last quarter way off the play. They really went after him.

Watched the last 2 minutes again. The standard of commentary is absolute and utter garbage. Koz kicks one of the most clutch goals of the season, and all McLachlan can do is waffle on about the team being beaten and how disappointing it is for them. What about celebrating the skill and effort on display to do what looked impossible?

What is so bizarre about this behaviour is that literally ALL the AFL clubs have strong indigenous histories, the game is based on an indigenous sport, and when the white fellas came they built their cricket ovals (subsequently footy ovals) on locations with long histories as indigenous meeting places. Its like loving pizza, but hating anything Italian.

Where does ‘cheer squad noise’ and ‘supporter pessimism’ rate in these metrics?

I hope someone new comes into the footy market in the next broadcast contract. Kayo is the worst app I’ve ever used. A big international player will surely wipe the floor with the garbage tech we have to put up with. From what I’ve read everyone is pushing for their own commentary on all games. That at least gives us an option to avoid BT.

Any idea why Chandler and Bedford didn’t play?

I reckon he’s playing at about 80%. His hand is still impeding him a bit. He’s such a good player to watch as a supporter. He just gives absolutely everything.