The heart beats true

Enjoy the game. I’m not proud of it, but I’ve used the Jam Donuts at the G to motivate young family members to keep going to the footy until they’ve fallen in love with the Dees. It works for 49 year olds too. Whatever it takes.

That was Melbourne supporters - what’s it got to do with St Kilda that North have been poorly managed for 10 years, so a kid left? Do we expect Brisbane supporters to boo Jackson because he left for Freo? It’s weird.

The booing of Horne-Francis is seriously dumb.

I watched the replay of our last game this afternoon. The intensity was 400% on this game. It’s a good watch if you’re bored. We played with great heart.

Their draw is very, very soft.

Port’s skills tonight are very average, their team defence is amateurish, and they are still only a goal down. Im not sold on St Kilda.

But did you know he played basketball?

This is my favourite moment from the grand final celebrations. Hibbo had lost his brother in 2020, and I lost mine that year too. In that moment I felt like he was celebrating for everyone who didn’t make it. He just took the cup and was off! Makes me laugh, and brings a tear to my eye, every time I see it.

How dare you insinuate I’m old! I’ve only seen highlights of those 2 on Tik Tok. 😉

I’d pick Tasmania over Surfers Paradise or Bondi every time. Actually both of those places would be very close to the bottom of the list of anywhere in Australia to live.

The Sicily comments are quite interesting to me. Admittedly I’m not 21, and am in the demographic that knows a little too much about ‘small batch’ anything, but isn’t Tassie incredibly popular now, and rents are insane? Do we really think player retention will be an issue? Love to hear the local perspective.

Oddly the norm across the comp is eerily similar to regular life - don’t act like a smug, bitter tool.

That day is September 25 2021. Facts. I find it funny that supporters think professional athletes who literally spend all week reviewing and preparing for games would continue to make the same ‘mistake’ for 3 years.

I feel like we need to lower our expectations of forward line players, particularly given our game plan. Unlike other sides that go out of their way to isolate players forward of the ball we do the opposite - instead setting up for stoppage plays. It means some weeks some players will just, by the nature of the game plan, not have much impact. The forwards who are currently out of the side aren’t out of the side because of their inability to convert, they are out of the side because of their ability to compete. It’s a very role oriented game plan, even more so for our forwards. Koz is a star. When he gets on the end of them he usually makes the most of it. He can’t kick 4 every week, because we don’t set up needing him to do that.

Even though parts of this season were super patchy (stunt casting Lizzo and Jack Black!) I still love that show and think it’s the best Star Wars anything since 1980.

I vote for the ‘Totally not related to anything to do with any sort of day of remembrance, complete coincidence of a game, that could occur before any other public holiday that just happens to be towards the end of April (but is also in no way connected to Easter) Eve’. Rolls right off the tongue.

Where the hell was that Essendon team last week in Adelaide?

Why do the umpire just let Sidebottom dictate that he was taking :30 seconds then, when anyone whose seen any game of footy knows he can’t kick that distance?

Yeah that was me. But I bet the $30k I made on Essendon today.

Essendon look spent.

84,000 last night, 95,000 today. Does Melbourne have the best sporting culture of anywhere in the world? Thats incredibly impressive.

This is the kind of footy the AFL love. Low stoppage. Ball pinging around in every direction.

Weed has been great

He’s now going for a poor man’s Bjorn Borg. A kind of Sweden meets Broadmeadows vibe.

Our pregame is the story every year now. We’ve basically stolen the Anzac Day narrative in the media with a much better spectacle.