The heart beats true

The only logical conclusion is to give it to whoever agrees to shave their head every week. That way all the bandwagon jumpers who hop back on after the Premiership won’t find it all too confusing. ’Good job Nathan ol’ chap’

I think the only question remaining for the media to ask is… ’Will this go down as the most boring trade period ever?’ Except it’ll be all Murdoch clickbaity and read more like… ’You won’t believe what this AFL star trade period bombshell’ (because they don’t even bother to spellcheck their headlines anymore) - followed by a story featuring Matt Rendell saying it was a ‘surprisingly’ dull trade period.

Wingard and Omeara are B graders. Can be good in the right mix, but are not in the top 100 in the league. Mitchell is an extractor with a great work ethic but needs to be surrounded by pace, or else any midfield would be far too slow. None of them are young enough to be of value to invest in. You can try and shop them around, but the market is clearly soft, and even softer for these particular players. You’d only take them if you got them for nothing - which is guaranteed to annoy the faithful. So they’ll stay and feel very let down. It’s a no win, all lose situation - unless your a vindictive supporter from another club. 🥳

This is brilliant. I wouldn’t change a thing about that edit. We looked in all sorts mid way through the 3rd. Goodwin ‘Believe in the fitness you’ve got’. Unbelievable.

Footy clubs are like life - they are great, and then terrible, and then great, and then terrible. Look at Richmond. Perennial losers until they weren’t. When you spend time in the wilderness it only teaches you one thing - don’t be here again. I’m enjoying the highs so much because I know the lows. That’s the lesson, and the lesson is the reward.

Good to see Touk Miller get some love too. He can come to Melbourne whenever he wants.

I’d say he’s right. The Brownlow is often won by a midfielder who had a good year in a side where teammates don’t take too many away from them. Wines is a great player, but does he swing games the way the other 5 can? Ditto Sam Walsh.

Eagles chasing Powell-Pepper to add to Petrevski-Seton. It’s the Double hyphen, Double Sam draft double.

Also, that reel really proves that we have been the best side all year. The scores are always close, or in our favour. Our biggest deficit in a game came in a game we won (44 points Geelong Rnd 23). I also think our second biggest deficit for the year was against Brisbane (24 points), which we also won. Anyone know if that’s correct? The losses were tighter and sealed at the end against Collingwood, Bulldogs and GWS. That is an insanely good season of football. I don’t think we knew it while it was happening, because we couldn’t believe it yet.

That was epic. What a season. Now would not be a good time for me to wander on over to the ‘Arrogant fan’ thread.

Trade week. I’ve never seen so many media pundits write so much about so many unexciting fringe players. Callum Coleman Jones swaps places with Robbie Tarrant! What next? I won’t be able to sleep.

Love it!

I find it interesting that he lists Bedford as a potential A/B, but Chandler as a ‘needs more time’. I feel like he’s making this up as he goes. I doubt very much he knows much about either. All of that is relatively excusable, except for the fact that this is his actual job. If I was this bad at my work I’d get fired (and I work for myself).

I hope Luke gets a good run at it. I don’t think he’s been happy for a while at the Saints, and he probably watched Ben Brown in the finals and thought ‘I’ll have a bit of that’. Cost us nothing, covers a hole in the list perfectly. Well done all.

Arrogance isn’t rooted in fact. It’s not arrogant to believe we are the greatest football team of any era. Watch the last minute of the third quarter and try disprove it. 😉 I think we can be as arrogant as we want as long as it’s done in good humour. Footy fans are genuinely good natured and love a laugh. I’d imagine most would encourage us to carry on like pork chops while we can. We’ve earned it, and they know it.

Such a great point, and it’s all been made even more important with the lack of footy for developing players over the last 2 years. We play a system at all levels, and the better it’s mimicked at Casey the better it is for everyone.

Good idea for all. I’m assuming his playing payments come from a separate pool, which means he earns more and it doesn’t hurt their soft cap for more than a part time role - yet will spend a good amount of time in the job. He’s got a bright future Nev. So happy for him.

Number 1 is a casual 7 years passed his best. Number 2 won’t be there for the first 5-6 weeks of 2022 if there’s any justice. Number 3 only shows up when he wants, and if there’s not a stray teenager on offer. So yeah, not a great list.

I am entirely convinced that Melbourne loaded heavy after the bye, and the Bulldogs loaded heavy running into the finals. Both were the better teams all year. Geelong have skewed data because of their home ground. No season is perfect, but ours was as close to perfect a finals series as you’ll get. It was remarkable. The only game we looked in for a battle in we won by 74 points.

I’m watching the Prelim on Fox now too. With 10 minutes to play in the 3rd the commentary is ‘what an amazing 16 minutes by Melbourne’. And to think it got better. Ridiculous. We have been blessed to see this team.

He loved the win, but will love it even more when all the ridiculous premiership merchandise we got him and his brother turns up. 10 year olds like cheeseboards right? 🤣

Ok, I thought of a great/terrible one for all the Coolio fans in the house…. ‘As I walk through the Clarry of the shadow of death’ Ill stop now, I promise.

I really like it when people do bad puns featuring players names. Pick a player, make a pun. Eg. Hung, Gawn and Quartered Technicolour Gawn The darkest hour is right before the Gawn The Thrill is Gawn The dumber the better please.

After North offered him that contract they treated Ben very, very poorly. That’s worth a lot more than you can know - until you are free of that situation. I make about half of what I was making a few years ago. I love what I do now. I’m happier, more focussed, and feel like I offer more than I did in my previous job.There’s no amount of money that could get me to go back to my previous job, because I was treated poorly. Besides, my hips don’t have the flexibility to get back on the pole now anyways.

Love this!