The heart beats true

He’s such a composed player. On exposed form you’d think him and McVee have played 150 games each. Some players just have it. He has it.

Essendon are somehow in 5th with the 14th worse percentage in the comp. LOL.

Excellent work WCW! Hope the Dees get the job done for Jade.

Imagine how hard it is for the Mccartin family to watch the footy? Absolutely not worth it.

Wow that was one of the softest free kicks to the Swans I’ve ever seen.

That was really illuminating. Dwayne is very animated in the box. He’s still insufferable, but he does clearly love the game.

That footage at the end is genuinely hilarious.

Pendlebury kicked the ball from the square straight to the boundary. Thats a free kick 99 times out of a 100. Horrible decision.

How was that not deliberate?

Curnow looks like he can’t be bothered.

Copy and paste this into the notes on your phone BDA. I post it every week.

I hope Carlton kick like this out of defence next week.

More stoppages. Less chaos. More contest to contest. Exactly how we beat them Kings Birthday last year. You can’t panic, and try and run and gun. That’s how they want it.

Howe still can’t kick.

Sidebottom has been a terrific player but he’s a shadow of the footballer he was.

Just another round of audible boos for Maynard. Never been addressed by HQ. Long may it continue.

Is it me, or is there a lot of games this year where you hate all the teams involved?

Not players, but supporters are free to give him hell. I actually think he’s lucky the first game is their home game. People will rightly boo, and they’ll just out cheer us. It’s a shame because I’d like the AFL to hear our frustration in a very unavoidable, hard to ignore way.

They all do it. I read today that there’s a class action lawsuit happening in the US against the Match Group - who make Tinder, Hinge, OKCupid and essentially all the dating apps. They’ve been selling personal information (including people’s hiv status and sexual preferences) to third parties, while also deliberately hiding likely dating matches from people, to keep them on the apps. We are living in the Wild West of digital tech. It’s horrendous.

Why did Port play Rozee? Very odd decision.

I can relate to a lot of what Hamish says here. My love for footy isn’t what it used to be. The AFL played its hand last year with Angus’ incident, and showed us they would always value money and popularity, over justice and equity. If you tear that social contract too deeply you can never earn back peoples belief. Now I just watch the footy and laugh at how much of it is like WWE. Commentators essentially deciding tribunal matters on the fly during games, the way the schedule is constructed, and then this weeks literal wrestling kayfabe with Sam Taylor calling Sydney out - obviously instructed by the AFL to create some faux tension for the media. The AFL has jumped the shark. It pushed its version of reality so far in its own direction that I can’t unsee it’s illusions now.

Ok, I watched the video and I love the jumper design so much now. Great story.

My preference is for Collingwood, Carlton and Geelong to disband.

Richmond are an interesting watch in that top of ladder poll. 3 flags from only 15 weeks total - and all those 15 weeks came in 2018, when they didn’t win the flag. You’ve just got to be fit and have done enough work to give yourself the best run at it. And don’t get me started on Geelong’s insane advantage of a home ground. If we played 8 home games at Casey I imagine we’d be top of the ladder a lot too.