The heart beats true

I actually really like the idea that the GF replay kicks off the season. That feels right. The real problem is the Thursday night stinker. It’s been a garbage game for years. It also means those 2 teams get TV games for the first 3 weeks of the year - which sucks all the air out of the start of the season for the impartial fan. If Richmond hadn’t won 3 flags the AFL would have canned it. Time for it to be buried in the weekend and for Thursday night to by GF replay. Reward the competitive teams.

I love these kind of nonsense ‘predictions’. Even if the Eagles want LJ he’s a former number 3 pick whose only gone up in value - meaning we’d want the equivalent of a number 1 pick and another top 10 to contemplate a trade. So they’d essentially have to finish on the bottom to facilitate it and then give up something else - which isn’t how you rebuild a list if that’s what’s he’s trying to propose. My Early Prediction: this isn’t happening.

The geniuses at the GCS have already delisted him to give them more wiggle room in the remainder of the draft.

Between listening to JT and Goody it’s obvious the club looks for certain character traits in its players. Fully expecting an announcement video for a new receptionist that begins with ‘we really like what Sharon brings with her competitiveness, desire for the contest and willingness to compete. She has excellent character, and leadership’.

I’m looking at it as a glass half full. In Victoria 92% (and climbing) are doing the right thing and getting vaccinated. That’s an incredible effort. The media need to focus on the outliers because they help keep peoples attention, but the numbers tell the truth. People are free to disagree, but it’s to their own detriment. We should let them disagree, while focussing on the positives. If some of this stuff gets less oxygen then it runs out of steam. It’s like complaining about losing to Collingwood in the year you’ve won the flag. Does it suck? Yes. Will it be remembered, or make any difference to how history interprets the year, and the overall effort? No.

Just saw it was because people couldn’t keep politics out of a footy forum. Pity, I really enjoyed @binman description of contemporary cultural dialogue. It was one of the most eloquent things I’ve ever read on here. Anyways, back to gloating about the flag please.

Yeah, what happened? Is it gone for legal reasons?

This kid could go down as the best player in his draft. I think we should start calling him Jamara Ugle-Bowey, just to really annoy the Dogs fans.

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 I just read that ‘story’ about the supposed nightclub incident. Imagined that this was your job? ‘well I heard that someone said something over a balcony and then all hell broke loss (but nothing happened)’. I’d be embarrassed if I was Campbell Brown. Surely you can do something else with your time. There’s a job shortage. Take advantage.

I think this guy has a lot to offer. He looked very capable for us when fit. I hope he gets a chance as I doubt he’ll not take it.

I think the industry needs to separate personality from commentary. Employ personalities to do the entertaining, and employ specialist commentators to call the game. Channel 7 is confused as to what to do with down time in our game - but they shouldn’t be as they’ve got that part right (special commentary). The part that doesn’t work as well is the calling of the game. Sadly they continue to worry about ‘expanding the game’ and feel they need to focus on general entertainment and converting people to AFL. I don’t think anyone comes for BT. They come for the high marking and the goals. A great commentator only make those highlights better - because they focus on gameplay and skill.

He looks good for his age I reckon. Let’s hope the AFL industry is ageist and he doesn’t get poached.

Is that right? Wow, that’s nuts.

Honestly, do you think when you look back at this moment in the future you’ll think ‘it’s such a shame no one can see the bottom 3rd of my face. That’s the real story here’? Enjoy it for what it is. It’s a Premiership cup, with our name on it!

We was robbed! Should have won by 120. When will this club finally put an opponent away? Percentage could mean a lot this year! Sorry, I’m struggling to adjust to being the Premiers. Maybe when my Premiership Cheeseboard arrives it’ll finally sink in?

It seems completely just and appropriate that after a 9 month wait for live football the season should kick off with a Thursday night blockbuster featuring…. 12th vs 13th 🤷‍♂️ Why is this a thing? It also predetermines that those 2 clubs get prime time slots for weeks after that due to break requirements. It’s beyond boring.

The training away from the club thing is to do with the AFLPA contracts and the stipulation that they have a mandated time away from their employer. So, contractually speaking, what you’re actually looking at in the video is ‘The Artist Formally Known as Petracca’.

A lot of predictions from the playing group that he was a certainty to be best on in the celebrations. Quite likely he’s still drunk, and not legally fit to sign contract. Can’t blame him. Been throw it the last couple of years.

Obviously the draft is being dragged out to maximise sponsor dollars. Just checked with the AFL and final list lodgement is November 29th. Might struggle to hit the deadline. 😴

Big statements are literally the worst thing that’s ever happened in the history of the world. Sorry, couldn’t help myself.

This is a great point. In a lot of ways the current system is much harder on clubs at the bottom. If they don’t take Daicos and he becomes a star somewhere else there will be blood, but if they do that’s literally all they get. Our system of clustered players is going to become the preference because we won the flag. It’s hard to argue against it, even going back to Lewis, Franklin and Roughead. 2019 we got oddly lucky. Went backwards massively and got a huge reward.

I think the AFL has got the academy system all wrong. Under these new rules there’s a disincentive for clubs to invest in junior players who look to be stars (likely to go top 20). Surely that’s not how the system should work. Why don’t they put the emphasis on the clubs to BETTER invest in the talent by asking at age 17 they limit each Academy draft pool down to 5. Then those 5 are the only ones they can match bids on (before they’ve played their last year of junior footy). Most clubs don’t have one kid, so it’s not a massive issue, but when you’ve got talent you can invest more into them - and if you get the pick wrong well then it’s no different to the draft. The kids get better access to the clubs which helps their development, and the decision is all on the clubs.

Yeah sorry, didn’t phrase that correctly. Should have said that the lockdown isn’t having the same result as last time. 👍

I see this a lot in my community too OD. I happen to live on the 4th floor of an apartment building in Elsternwick and at night I can see people moving around and coming in and out of houses (well after lockdown). In the last month it’s become almost laughable the way people are breaking the rules. I also think the rising case numbers prove that a lot of people aren’t following the rules, because their will has been broken by the oppressive nature of the lockdowns. It’s a really interesting social experiment. I feel like if the numbers were going down the perceived benefit would inspire people to do the right thing. It’s counterintuitive that the lockdown isn’t working and more people are doing the wrong thing, but here we are.