The heart beats true

Honestly who the hell is doing the draw at the AFL? The 2 most interesting games for the weekend (1st vs 5th, and 3rd vs 7th) have been brilliantly scheduled to play AT THE SAME TIME on Saturday night. Meanwhile it’s the 10th placed, very mediocre, Bulldogs getting another Friday night game. It’s weird.

This is a tough game for us. We are going to have to try some things around the ball and work on our forward connection on a fairly exposed deck at Alice. Be interesting to see how the boys respond.

Everyone chill. We turned Jesse Hogan into Steven May and nobody saw it coming until the last few days. When Jesse was deciding what to do Demonland was an hysterical mess. We don’t yet know what players are out there, but we will get something good if LJ goes. We’d be at the top of the list for 80% of the competition.

Be grateful if Clarry doesn't play if that's the case. Pink and Purple are not his tones.

His trade value isn’t going to get us what we need - an experienced player whose better than he is. So I’d say he sticks around. The value of bigger name players who might leave is where our forward line plan has to be. Our midfield and defence is settled. If LJ or Brayshaw leave we trade in the best forward we can get, and Sam is their back up (yet again).

I also heard a rumour from a bus driver once - but when the bus went below 50 the bomb didn’t explode, so me, Keanu and Sandra just got off at our stop.

Does he need an assistant?

David Noble has a lot of credits across the AFL community. He will move on and find a better role. As for North, whose going to put their hand up to do this job now? Inexperienced coach wasn’t supported, and now an experienced guy is gone less than 2 years later. AFL will have their fingerprints all over what happens next you’d think - unless of course they are happy to see Victorian clubs gone. Interesting times.

I read that and instantly thought that Salem was trolling Demonland.

You’re measuring him against a metric that isn’t how I measure his value, or what he was brought into the side to do. Anyways let’s agree to disagree, but with us both understanding that actually I’m right 🤣

Conversely I don’t get why you want to smack the bloke every week.

Another way to read this is: 45 contests - 8 out marked + 1 mark = 36 balls brought to ground. Our forward line coach would love that number. You don’t have to watch us play for more than 15 minutes to realise we want forward 50 stoppages. Brown does his job. He was terrific early against Geelong when we had the ball moving the way we wanted. Not sure you can blame him for much when the ball isn’t down there often.

That it’s humid and everyone drives a Ute?

Wow. The Eagles. Why bother showing up.

No you don’t. Brisbane had 9 players out from last week due to injury and Covid protocols. Why are Melbourne supporters so keen to kick their own? It’s bizarre. That win against Brisbane was amazing.

There’s only one way to settle it. An unnecessary poll.

He’s had an interrupted few months. Do we need a new thread for every negative thought everyone has? I really don’t like Pineapple on pizza. Should I start a thread?

I just have this feeling Essendon will fall in a hole, but I’m holding out hope Daniher or Hipwood will do one of their trade mark dumb things and cough the game up.

This makes me feel better. That bloke knows nothing about the modern game.

Listening to Dangerfield commentate is a really good reminder of all the reasons I don’t like him.

My instant reaction was ‘why would Alex Neal-Bullen want to play at Collingwood?’

On the percentage ladder they are 12th. Tells you everything about how lucky they’ve been in a season where 2 of the teams have essentially been byes.

If you take your arm off the ball to draw the tacklers arm high it should be considered prior and holding the ball. It’s ruining the game. Supporters absolutely loathe it.

Collingwood win another close game that they shouldn’t have. It’s driving me insane.

This is why I phone it in for every job I ever do. No fluctuations in form means everyone’s always guessing.