The heart beats true

Everyone knows nobody skies in April - we’re all too busy shutting down our Sorrento homes for the winter. I just wish these nobody muck throwers would make like the ATO - and stay out of my business.

2 teams I can not stand because they do what they do so consistently: Geelong playing like millionaires at home, and The Eagles lacking soul away from home. Its been the same for 30 years.

Oscar Baker and Joel Smith are the 2 that stand out to me. Interesting.

Tom McDonald was fantastic that quarter

We are in for a fight here. A good opportunity to find out if we are made of the right stuff.

Given all the noise about this I expect to read tomorrow that Dodoro won’t accept anything but 7 first rounders and 1000 bags of gold - only to watch Merrett walk for a packet of chips and a Mars Bar. I believe it’s called being ‘Danihered’.

For those of you who wondered what Jake Lever adds - have a good look at that last quarter. ?

About to find out if we have another gear.

Fritsch has made 3 mistakes that all cost us goals. Get those right and we’d be at least 3 in front. It’s hard to know how difficult it is to mark the ball, but we just dropped 3-4 marks that would have put us in a much better place.

I’m confused. Ed left out the plan for systemic racism in the new club, but maybe that’ll be in the next blueprint? T’was a proud day.

I watched him live on AFL360 and 2 things occurred to me: 1. Pettacca seems happy. 2. Mark Robinson is the least intelligent person to ever be on Television in Australia. It’s impossible for him to get through a sentence without saying 2 words incorrectly. He’s oafish, rude and unbearable. I can’t stand that show, and haven’t watched it in years because of him. We have some very smart, articulate people in the football community, and it’s mind boggling that he somehow ends up getting so much work. He offers nothing.

And isn’t fantastic that they get to participate in a VFL practice match almost a month after the AFL seasons starts? The VFL is a joke. The AFL’s involvement has killed the stand alone VFL clubs, the season is so poorly out of sync with the AFL that it only allows 50% of the development time the Reserves used to, and the facilities and ground conditions don’t prepare developing players for their AFL careers. COVID has taken the focus off the VFL’s troubles, but it needs to change, and quickly. It’s sub standard, and serves literally no one well - including the clubs, players and supporters.

May vs Hawkins is going to be a belter.

I think we are much better this year. The balance of players is better at the foot of the ball. We’ve got some X factor in Kozzie and Trac, some in and under with Oliver and Viney, some outside pace with Hunt and Langdon, and Salem behind the ball with impeccable foot skills. It doesn’t have to be 100% manic anymore. It feels much more composed and controlled. I also think our back line has given us the confidence to maintain our shape around the ball more, even if we lose a few contests in a row. There’s more trust.

That was a deadset free kick

We know what they are planning to do to win, flood back. Now we need to continue to think it through and get the ball into the hands of Salem to pick through the flood.

I don’t understand the unrealistic attempt rule if that wasn’t a free kick against Bobby Hill.

Sparrows pick up then was elite

I thought we got out coached that quarter, so it will be interesting to see the response. They don’t want to kick it long as we have Lever, May and Gawn behind the play.

They have one forward and he’s killing us. Sadly, we have no forwards.

This - 1000%. I don’t understand what’s been gained for any consumer of the game?

So very brave of Rod to tell his story. My Year 8 coordinator at High School is serving 40 odd years for molesting over 50 boys. Our local priest in our very small town will die in jail for abusing over 65 kids. As a kid I knew something wasn’t right, I just didn’t know the scale and audacity of it. Don’t raise your kids to be compliant. Raise them to be aware, and to have the confidence to know they can tell you anything. Watch them like a hawk. If something doesn’t seem right, it might not be. And to those families, and individuals, impacted by these crimes thank you for telling your stories. The courage it takes is truly heroic. You’ve helped make our society a much safer, and more just, place.

Alan Johnson was a gun.