The heart beats true

Goodwin in todays Post Game press conference… ’I’ve said all along we aren’t trying to turn Brodie into a forward, we just want him to have more impact when he is forward’. He also said they really liked his game at Casey yesterday. I have a feeling he’ll be back very soon.

Sorry, what?

The typical response on here. Never mind that Adelaide was playing for their season. Never mind that a few weeks ago the best team in the comp had the same result at the same ground. Never mind our best player, and best forward, are still out. I thought the Crows were great. Gave it everything, and I thought we won the game back and did some good things to slow the game down when it mattered.

He wishes he had that much hair.

Get to the ground if you can. Tracc told us it makes all the difference.

I think his Skillet is a Le Creuset. They are expensive, but so good.

Hawkins?

This is a horrible game of footy. All the highlights of a VFL practice match.

I like the way Jonathan Brown is just openly barracking for Brisbane. Doesn’t even pretend.

Today

All the Challenge kids with Essendon as they ran out was amazing. The kids looked so happy. It was fantastic.

Well in that case I love it.

No, but you do change it to accommodate the biggest financial investor in the game, and help protect their interests - eyeballs. It’s happening. Might not be next year, but I’d bet that by 2026 it’s happened.

I think they just stuffed up the photoshop file. Step away from the ledge.

The real question is ‘where does his mum want him to play?’ Too soon?

That’s a great point about the top 6. I say bring it in this year, right now. On the condition that Geelong finish 7th.

Hahahaha! Never mind me. Just stepping all over your punchlines.

I saw that and thought ‘Well you would say that Nathan, since you orchestrated the list management that forced them to implode’. It’s not actually that cut throat a business. The media like to present it as such because it helps their narrative. If everyone involved wants it to work, and is currently doing everything they can to make it work, then it’s simply a work in process - 12 games in. I can’t help but think all of this is just driving clicks for a Collingwood narrative about how they made ‘the right call’. Let’s just see come September. The big blokes thrive in finals contests, and I like our hand a lot more than theirs.

That week pre finals is a currently a stinker forced on us by Ross Lyon. Play some footy I say. The clubs 7-10th get more exposure to pressure, and it has no impact on the teams who deserve to really be there - in fact you could argue it makes their lives easier, and rewards them more.

I think he used to, but then he changed to Brisbane after Fitzroy died, because he likes a resurrection story.

AFL would be ecstatic with that. There’d be 250k fans across those games easily.

Incredible speed from stoppage in that first highlight. Looks like he came home from the carnival and realised he was a class above. I wouldn’t be worried about the go home factor with the Tassie boys. It’s the same reality as SA and WA players. Some do go home, but we have to back our system in to keep them here and happy. A lot of the work done with the top end talent is ensuring they have the competitive mindset. Competitive players don’t want to play in losing teams. I think it’s much harder to get talent out of an existing, winning system than it is to get it in to a new one.

I noticed this too with BT. It occurred to me that what we perceive as bias has more to do with commentators wanting a close, compelling game. We have been in front in almost all our games for 3 years, and gone in as favourites in 90% of them. I think maybe he’s just barracking for a competition (but I don’t love this way of thinking as it humanises commentators, and I much prefer just to outright dislike them).

Cats are the only animals to domesticate themselves. Subsequently they are always looking for a better option. They are the Tom Scully of the animal kingdom.

Given what we all had to endure from Tom Morris last year I’m still shocked anyone wants him on their payroll.