The heart beats true

Fox Footy going with a story from the first 15 minutes. Might wanna tell em the score

Great goal Koz!!!!

Were you born in 2019 Jimmy? That’s the only way this can be true.

The scrapping onto Tracc and Gawn is pure Scott.

Smith has looked really agile.

In all seriousness if that was an opposition player it’d be 4 weeks. I don’t say that to be funny. I say it because it shows you what a raffle it is.

Ok, so this I don’t quite understand. not showing incident. Happy to when it’s a potential suspension

I wouldn’t sleep for a week. No coffee after midday for me, and I still can’t sleep before 1 after a night game.

Same.

This is the longest shortest day of the year ever!

The only thing certain about tonight is that 21,000 people will still make enough noise to create some very questionable umpiring decisions.

Wonder if they’ll target McVee like they did Bowser last year? Hope our boys are a wake up to it.

That’s no fun. Disagree with me damn it!

I disagree with the notion that a sporting environment isn’t inclusive because we don’t have an openly gay player. Why would they come out? It’s just unnecessary pressure. That doesn’t mean that there aren’t openly gay players at clubs that everyone at the club knows is gay. It’s just means it’s not in the paper. Conversely the NRL has had openly gay players since the 90’s - but that was the opposite of inclusivity as someone basically tried to extort Ian Roberts and the Newspapers were going to publish the story against his will. I do totally agree about the corporate sector falling over themselves for cultural stuff though. It’s all just an excuse for them to talk about themselves.

So to run a massive multimillion dollar entertainment brand you need to have been able to kick a football in the 90’s? The people who run record labels usually don’t come from being drummers in great bands. I find this an outdated argument. Bad decision making is bad decision making - personal history won’t change that. Thinking that ‘if only we could get David King or Luke Hodge involved it’ll all make sense’ is weird. Maybe Hirdy? He’ll solve it. Worked so well last time.

Your insight here is a really interesting read Coach. Just to be clear none of my frustration about our ‘bye’ has anything to do with training loads, or winning games. It’s to do with the fact that more than half our list have family interstate, and at best they could have visited them for 2.5 days. This is the second year that’s happened. It’s frustration about the quality of their lives. This is their only chance for 8 months to see them, and a lot of these players are very young.

I know you didn’t mean to, but you just made a really good case for Nibbler. His tackling against Collingwood was fantastic.

Sounds good. You wanna lend me the $2000 for airfares?

He marks the ball, and is a genuine threat in the air - especially in a contested situation. Neither Brown or TMac have been able do that in the last 18 months. I’m not advocating we get him now, I just wish we grabbed him for free 18 months ago. 35 goals last year.

I prefer Suns. I don’t need to hear Huddo yelling ‘Carlton pounding the bums’.

Suns look horrible

I said it last year but Levi Casboult would be perfect for our game style. Competes so well in the air.

Surely we have to balance what we are now, with continued success.

Do folks really think we are any chance to trade up for Reid? I don’t, and I also don’t think that should necessarily be the goal. One player has never been our strategy.

Saints woke up to Richmonds wet weather game plan, which amounts to ‘kick it off the ground’. Tigers need to get some cleaner ball to stay in it.