The heart beats true

I love the way you spell ‘Carrryst’ PF. It really helps me get in character when I read out your posts in my head.

Imagine if this whole thing has just been an elaborate promotional campaign to sell BnF tickets?

I don’t think discussing a players personal neurological diagnosis is constructive. Nobody but them can know how it impacts their life.

Clayton’s been a distraction for years, and his last 2 seasons haven’t been worthy of his contract. The club can wear some responsibility for the scale of the contract, but I’m of the opinion 80% of the responsibility for this sits with the individual. Oliver still doesn’t seem to understand the expectations of the club (as witnessed at the Brownlow). He's been in the system for 9 years. He should get it by now. This might be the circuit breaker the playing group needs. It lets the other players see the club won’t let anyone stand in the way of team success. I hate that it’s played out how it has, but if Clayton left last season and we had watched him play this season for someone else like he played for us we would be thinking we dodged a massive bullet. Maybe this is the right call?

Why? What if the teams get better? Who knows what the future holds. Nobody saw ‘21 coming. Sometimes you’ve got to make moves to improve.

So many questions. Is it AFLPA protocol to write a cover letter to a trade request? What else is required? A reference from your former landlord, and a series of tasteful headshots? 🤔

I never mentioned anything about a 2 club transaction. But if you look at what they’ve committed to with Smith, and the picks they have, they’d have to give up something genuinely valuable to anyone to get enough capital to bring in Smith and Oliver. Also, I’m so over the narrative that other clubs are so wonderfully run. I know stories about Geelong, and its culture, that would make people’s toes curl. They benefit massively from the fact that no journo in Melbourne can be bothered to drive down there to dig dirt on such a short news cycle. It’s not as perfect as people think.

Geelong can’t get it done, unless they off load something of serious value. I don’t think they have much they can afford to let go.

Wildly ambiguous titles. I wonder if I could be the clubs new General Manager of Dog Reiki and Paranormal Choreography?

If you think the clubs a mess wait until you see my golf game.

Is the media being that harsh on us really? The Tracc story was a big story, as is the Clarry story. They are just doing their job, admittedly some of them with more integrity than others, but it’s not like it wouldn’t be a huge story if De Goey or Chad Warner wanted out, or was looking around. We aren’t doing well as a club in terms of our player management, and this is the ramifications. It’s disappointing, but to blame the media isn’t the solution. You could also argue that without them none of the issues would be publicly exposed - and therefore the problems would fester for longer.

This whole story just proves what everyone else could see every night. He got told he wasn’t getting a new contract last week, and so he had a sook about it and didn’t show up to work on Monday. So instead of taking the high road and showing up and thanking every body who he worked with publicly, he stayed at home and cried into his beer. I never understood how he held so many prominent positions, and the way he’s acted just proves that he wasn’t fit to hold them. If you don’t have any discernible talent the least you can do is show and be gracious. That he couldn’t do that tells me he doesn’t understand how utterly replaceable he is.

It’s become too problematic at the very top end. You can’t have the best junior player in the country going for the equivalent of 4 x third rounders to a club. They just need to make the system cost more to the club that’s going to get them - and everything I’ve read says the AFL is going to do it after this year.

I’m confused. Where has it been stated that Pert lives in Noosa? Is that true?

Sorry if this has been discussed previously, but what’s our access to him, if any?

Well the only logical conclusion from this is that our boys need to have a wild footy trip, and a poorly managed WhatsApp group.

Brisbane about to get a flag and 6 weeks later the best player in the draft. 🤔

Big scars for the Swans here. They won’t believe after this.

Anyone know why Bruce is backing commentating? I thought he retired 5 years back.

If you read the comments on the day this was posted (3 weeks ago), and the subsequent comments I made, my comment had less to do with the particular comment I was referring too, and more to do with the tone of the thread during this time (which I noted in my original comment). I talked about it with the poster who made the comment, apologised if I misinterpreted what they were saying, the poster was very gracious, and we all moved on very quickly. I do stand by my comment about not liking the tone of this thread during that period. There was a fair bit of unnecessary name calling going on, and I didn’t like it. Everyone here contributes a lot, but I had hoped that it could have been done with more empathy and less name calling (as I noted in subsequent comments). Regardless, I’m not sure what point you’re trying to make, 18 days later, but I agree with you. Not liking women’s football doesn’t make anyone misogynistic.

I’m in exactly the same situation. The club has been hopeless at forcing the MCG staff to protect the value of our seats, and so we’ve told them we need an upgrade (which we are happy to pay for) or we aren’t paying for reserved seats again. This year I went to all our home games except one, and 8 times I had to move people out of our seats. It was ridiculous. The Collingwood home game was like sitting in the Collingwood members, and the MCG staff did nothing.

In fairness to Cripps he’s the best thrower of the ball I’ve ever seen.

I feel like the All Australian should surpass the Brownlow as the AFL event. It’s a celebration of all types of players, and it’s more inclusive.

This will be good for Wade’s brand. Too soon?

Scott in the post match presser, according to The Age…. ’Two off-field staff contracted COVID, Scott revealed. Masks were worn in the Cats’ rooms. Word of flu had filtered through to the Brisbane camp. Holmes had a bout of gastro. Could his illness have led to fatigue, leaving him more vulnerable to a soft-tissue injury?’ This Is eerily similar to the prelim in ‘21. I’ll never respect him for doing this. They always have some excuse, that ignores that all clubs are dealing with things that aren’t going their way. It’s pathetic.