The heart beats true

Got my tickets, just hang in there. It takes 10 minutes but the tickets for our game are there and I got what I wanted - front row level 4. I’ll be the guy with a red face and no voice left by quarter time. Can’t miss me.

I love the way the AA squad gives Jack 2 weeks to get really angry about being over looked. Look out Swannies!

I personally have 3 memberships for this season. Given that I can buy so many tickets per membership If I get on at 10am I may be able to reverse the whole Ponsford stand. Honestly, it seems ludicrous to allow one member to buy 10 tickets.

On the Couch talking about how Essendon will have to reassure any coach who will enter into their process, as the assumption is that Hird will get the job since half the board want him. They are unbelievable. It would be funny if it wasn’t so sad.

Reckon Melksham, Spargo and Ben Brown are stiff (but only because I like to annoy people on Demonland).

#facts

The only option left isn’t going to do him any favours. Based on yesterday’s performance that board is headed up by Football’s Monty Burns. ’Release the hounds’.

Why doesn’t everyone played each other once, and then the last 5 weeks is a floating draw based on the first 17 games? Struggling to think of a late season game after round 18 that is a blockbuster (Anzac, Dreamtime etc). Maybe make the Derby’s and Showdowns a certainty in the last 5 rounds, and then just arrange it so good teams get each other more - or at least make it fair and divide the teams into top, middle and bottom 6 and make it so you play teams in your division 3 times, and a bottom division side only once in that period. Shouldn’t be brain surgery, and means we get really good teams playing more often later in the year.

Evidently coping with expectation appears to be easier for professional athletes than it does for amateur supporters. I think we’ve handled ourselves pretty well. I think the club was exploring ways of winning based on ‘differing’ levels of effort for a lot of the season. That in itself says a lot about how well we are travelling as a club, and the quality of players we have. The real season starts now.

It’s difficult to know what to make of the last few months in terms of our fitness yet I reckon. I really felt against the Dogs, Pies and even Carlton (bar the miracles of Melksham and Koz) that we looked out on our feet after half time. I could see the players really trying, but just not having that burst. Even on Friday night it’s hard to know what to make of the last half, as the game was over, and then the weird emotional vacuum of the Petty incident. I’m very hopeful we will see the benefits and effort of Selwyn in the next month, but I do think the club would have been sweating on him after the Pies game in particular. It’s a fine balance, and I’d imagine a really difficult job.

Time keeper is a Dees fan 🤫

I still reckon the Blues will win that on appeal.

Carlton are unbelievably bad. They just panicked

St Kilda skills are horrific.

St Kilda just need to keep scoring! Cmon!

Collingwood look completely out of legs.

Does that mean we won’t find out for 2 years that he was actually doing about 6 things?

Carlton look anxious like Melbourne in 2017

Carlton fans are the best booers in the competition, and there’s a lot of teams vying for top spot.

Scumbag football club. Hope he gets a job on 200k as an assistant next year and casually takes home 800k for the year doing half the work with 10% of the pressure.

Hibbo on the ground to celebrate his mate Mick Hurley. Nice one 👍

It’s so confusing. I think it’s AI written. How could that possibly be published?

If you want to see what the state of journalism is currently, try and make sense of this article: https://www.news.com.au/sport/afl/melbourne-thrashed-by-lions-2917-191-to-010-10-in-vfl-bloodbath/news-story/6e35c8458d4babcaee52ec1c17af19da

Nice to see you @binman. You look exactly how I imagined.

Essendon are genuinely trying to get Hird back. Sheedy on the news tonight talking it up. I just can’t even take them seriously.