The heart beats true

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.

What’s Geelong learnt in the last few weeks? How to beat up on bottom 8 teams and win at home? They’d have no idea how they hold up under pressure.

Any week that Fritta’s Mum and Dad are on the TV is a good week to be a Demons fan. @WalkingCivilWar tell Frittas mum she was brilliant in the post match. Loved seeing her and Maysy’s mum on the TV. They should all be very proud.

It’s been a long time since I’ve seen us have so many options running by. Everyone was moving in waves. It was so beautiful. 🥹

Tough night to be a Bride of Demonland. Heavy lies the head that wears the veil.

I didn’t like seeing that. It was a horrible look for the game, and really cast a shadow over the last quarter and post game. It’s prime time Friday night. This is going to be a story, and I think Zorko is either going to look shady, or the reality of it comes out and he looks worse. Im not sure why anyone thinks it’s going away. Am I missing something?

They call him the ‘Barometer’ and they aren’t wrong. 🥶

He will be remembered fondly for both that clutch goal against the Eagles, and his ability to give Demonlanders a way to sneak a euphemism into their username. Onya Kenty!

Take your veil off.