The heart beats true

SWYL - I’ve never heard the term ‘Cloud Fairies’ before. Sounds like a brilliant band. Thanks, you made me laugh. As for religions I can only speak on behalf of my experiences at Catholic school. My parish priest as a child was Gerald Ridsdale, my Year 8 coordinator was Robert Best. That’s number 1 and 2 in the most convicted sexual child abusers in the state. The church continues to pay their legal fees even though they’ve both been in jail for 25 years. I know victims, and as a teenager I was groomed by another Brother I’ve reported multiple times to the taskforce (and never had any reply). Everyone is entitled to their beliefs, but they can’t simply turn away from the truth of the pain that their organisations have created. That’s likes only following your team when they win the flag. I only have 1 religion now. The Demons. Weirdly it doesn’t stop me praying to someone I dont think exists for a key position forward.

Gees that’s an ordinary comment, but go ahead, fire him up all you can.

I feel for Jayden. He’s been on the edge of our team for the best part of 5 years. That’s a hard place to be. Over the last couple of years when he made mistakes you could see him beating himself up about it. I hope he can play with the freedom that makes him so great to watch when he’s up and about.

Let me dream A F

When he said about the coaches being creative with what’s on our list for our forward line I interpreted that as 2 words. Harrison. Petty.

Does any other club spend so much energy trying to appear to play hard ball through the media? What’s the point? He wants to go. Let him go and get a good deal done that suits you. It’s weird.

Horrible, horrible time to be a North supporter. However I’d feel much worse for them if they didn’t boo so often when we played them, and learnt the holding the ball rule.

It’s called list demographics. Geelong won the flag with 13 players over 30! They simple have to bring in talent. Richmond aren’t far behind in age. We are at a different stage with our list.

But the fact everyone knows this is my point. So many things happen at footy clubs that nobody ever hears. North put it on the record, and exposed him publicly - while also spending a lot of the year not managing him properly and playing him when it only benefited the club. They misread the player and the situation, and nobody is left there to be held accountable. That’s why I don’t blame him for getting out. People will waffle on about money and him being a spoiled brat, but if your employer publicly hung you out to dry while also continually proving to be incapable most would be out the door ASAP.

Or he could be a generational talent, and a bunch of disgruntled men, who have all been sacked since, horribly misjudged the situation - and the club will now not get anywhere near his value back. Welcome to the big league of managing humans, with all their emotions, that are also incredibly valuable assets. They got it wrong.

They dropped him for the biggest game he was going to play for the year - at home in front of family and friends. You have to know when to protect your young players, and they did the opposite. He’s 19.

The recent return home of top level talent might make clubs more inclined to take the value from the local clubs when it’s presented in the future.

North treated him poorly. I honestly don’t blame him. He’s been there less than a year and he’s looking at not knowing who his coach is. They know he’s going so they are going to try and get max value this year.

Thanks. I feel like a McFlurry now.

I always thought the C in Chris was for something else.

There’s an awful lot of people who seem to love to criticise everything the club does. We don’t turn over the list! No one wants to come to us! Why are we allowing this player to leave! Why are we recruiting that guy! Have a little faith. Our winning percentage over the last few years is insanely good, and we have an excellent track record of recruiting and trading well. I honestly don’t know how some of you survived as Melbourne supporters. This is the best team, and club culture, I’ve seen in my lifetime.

That’s a very good point. Shows you where the value really is.

Ok, so I need to set aside 10k for consulting fees for the dates on the time machine. Good note. 👍

You have a fake million dollars, what do you spend it on? Mitch Georgiadis? No. Instead i’d spend the fake million on a time machine, go back to 1986, move the Hawkins family to Alice Springs, wait for Tom’s arrival in 1988, keep him away from everyone, and pick him up for nothing through our academy. Bang! 15 years of a gun forward. If you’re going to get theoretical why not get weirdly, deeply theoretical?

Lorraine at the bottom expects 16 wins plus 2 finals wins. Just for context Lorraine - 16 wins would have you top 2, so add the 2 finals wins and you’ll be in the grand final! Oh Lorraine. May your heart be broken by May.

Another Scott on the TV every weekend. Sometimes life is cruel.

I really hope the Collingwood supporters look at this as letting go of Grundy for De Goey. Then Brodie can become a multiple premiership player at Melbourne, and Jordy will do something dumb in February and waste their cash.

You don’t know that we didn’t try. He said he only wanted to go to Brisbane, or stay at Hawthorn. Not much we can do about that. Just because we missed out on one player also doesn’t mean we are putting all our eggs in one basket. Quit throwing the toys out of the cot. Long way to go - in fact trade week hasn’t even started yet.

I agree. Jon Ralph is ugly.

You forgot to add that this is going to be the ‘busiest trade period ever’ - followed by a week of nothing happening that culminates in North swapping 2 third round picks for a Gold Coast future 2nd.