The heart beats true

One swallow doesn’t make a spring. Geelong are entitled to back in their system from ‘22 again this year because (like us before them) it won them the flag the year before. Collingwood’s game plan gives you 2 things: A lot of look’s because they have to go fast down the middle, which leaves them very open on rebound, and One tempo. Geelong tried to match them at their game. Slow the ball down. Keep it off them. Teams aren’t going to let Daicos run around the back all year. He’s the guy that sets them up. I expect he’ll be roughed up and sat on a lot more. Let’s see how other coaches test them. I doubt many will want a shoot out.

Scott thought he could beat them in a shoot out. Next time they play you can bet they’ll play that horrible slow keeping’s off stuff instead.

I’ve heard the flu has gone right through Geelong this week.

How does Luke Hodge have a job? He literally describes what you’ve just seen. I know Luke. It’s called Television mate. I can see it.

I know it’s entertaining to watch, but would it kill either of these teams to play defence or switch tempo? Allowing a team to kick almost 75 points to half time doesn’t seem sustainable.

I forgot how watching the footy reminds me what absolute garbage free to air TV is in this country.

Having these 2 games start the season has really cemented my opinion that I dislike every other team.

The double choke!

If May is out we’ll play Max behind the ball and Brodie in the ruck. Lot of talk about the tall dogs but 3 of them are JUH, Darcy and Lobb. I’ll back Max over them in the air any day.

Agree Jimmy. I know we’ve been over this a lot last year but in general I found out crowd numbers super disappointing in 2022. There’s no excuse this year. Tickets are back to how people want them, and we’ve had 18 months to acclimatise to life with COVID. If people aren’t showing up now they just don’t want to go.

I believe in redemption as a concept, but often I struggle with its application.

My scarf, card and stickers turned up today. I like that the card has my seat printed on it. It’ll make me extra smug when I point it out to some ring in whose sitting in my seat.

Apologies if this was posted somewhere else and I missed it, but did Fritta play in the 2’s today? And did he get through ok? Will he be ready for round1? Cheers

The bombers just served up an absolute hot 💩

Good points. Would less revenue really hurt the game that much though? I feel like 16 year old Clayton Oliver would still pursue footy if he thought he’d make 500k a year, and not 700k a year. The players realistically don’t have a comparable sport, and they’d still be well looked after. The gambling money needs to go away in my view. An umpire was giving betting information to his mates. What more do we need to see before we realise it’s corrupted the game, as well as become a huge cultural problem?

So the issue is basically…

Subscribe to Kayo today. Cancel before finals - as all finals are on free to air. I do it every year. I refuse to give Rupert one more cent to lord over his over entitled children with.

If we are talking about respect - I don’t find it respectful for men to discuss what women do, consensually, with their bodies.

Ok, well in that case I didn’t feel disrespected, and I think the only unacceptable part of the conduct is that it was posted on Social Media. The act itself is clearly consensual.

I’m someone confused what I’m supposed to be offended about? The incident itself (I’m not), or the lack of reporting about it - which is proven untrue by the posting of a news story about it?

Not sure about Spargo’s headband. Looks like Phil Lesh from The Grateful Dead.

We are moving the ball a shorter distance from the backline to create more overlap run.

Collingwood’s away jumper is awful.

I recently had been trying to upgrade my membership and get some undercover reserved seat memberships, as my folks are getting older and we decided we’d like to have guaranteed seats, GF guarantee etc. I’ve been on wait lists for months about it. Last week I got a text message saying a player might be calling me as part of a membership drive. I didn’t think much of it. Later on I was taking my dad to a medical appointment and my mum and dad were in the car. I got a call from the club but the guy on the phone didn’t seem to know what I was asking about and couldn’t help with my seat request. So, a little bit annoyed, I said to get someone to call back who knew what I was looking for. Only after I hung up, frustrated that the club had called me again without an answer, did my mum point out that I was talking to Jake Bowey. Sorry Bowser. Got my reserved seats sorted this week. Mum says hi. 😬

Yep. On the front of The Age now. Collllliiinnnnnnggggwwwwwwooooooddd.