The heart beats true

Terang was the big smoke growing up. I remember we had to go to Terang from Mortlake to see a Vet - when my mum ran over our dog (by accident). Is the Hampden league struggling these days? It used to be incredibly strong.

I work with numbers (but I also drive Uber)

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha! 1 point.

Why is Phil Davis dressed like a high school science teacher?

Gees Warner looks good for a pick 39. He holds his space really well and uses his pace.

That’s how I know about it! Annoyed the living [censored] out of me.

The commentary don’t understand the rules. The 50 is because the mark is in line with the square. It’s a dumb rule, but it’s the rule.

Does Hodgey know he’s allowed to talk about the entire side, and not just Buddy?

I know. I hate the simplistic hand wringing over this. They are professional sports coaches who train for years to recognise patterns and structures in game. They watched the whole thing unfold up close in person. They knew what it was, because they saw it happening.

That Sydney forward entry was pure Melbourne. Long to the pocket to where the ruckman is, but the marking forward takes the grab.

Hodge saying May played a ‘decent’ game on Franklin. Oh, you mean when he got 10 votes from the coaches in a losing side? Hodge offers nothing.

Jackson wasn’t ever about money. He stopped negotiating with us, which tells you he wasn’t trying to drive up his price.

It says a lot about the standard of football commentary when someone appears too intelligent to do it.

And quite a few of our most expensive players are on long terms deals, so I would imagine we have the flexibility to negotiate inside those contracts as long as we honour the entirety of the value. There is an almost infinite amount of possibilities to what we could be doing.

Tower Hill is an amazing part of the world. Koroit has always been able to field a footy team that’s much stronger than it should. The farm land around there has produced a lot of great players.

Where are you based 640? I grew up in Mortlake, then lived in Warrnambool in the early to mid 90’s playing all my junior footy at South Warrnambool. Go the Roosters!

I just typed the wittiest one liner (which is why this has been edited), but the word idiots without the ‘s’ is somehow censored on this forum (not a joke), and i’m such an ideological purist that I thought it better to tell that story than to adjust my joke.

Yeah, apologies. I think it goes without saying that we all wish her well, but when I excluded her from my comment I understand how it can be read, which wasn’t my intention. 👍

Yeah, there list breakdown is good, if not obviously older. I should have been more articulate and said that as an outside/runner it’s a tough gig and the list of recruits designed to fill the role who don’t get a game is full. 👍

Tanner Bruhn should have a quick chat to Menegola, Dahlhaus, Higgins or Jordan Clark. Surely players aren’t thick enough to keep going there when they’ve recruited blokes and not played them, or don’t play their young talent.

They aren’t going harder, they have more to give. Our boys tried their hearts out this year, but they didn’t have the petrol tickets.

Another dud Preliminary final.

Geelong are super fresh, and we’ve been flat for 3 months. The upside is that they didn’t do this to us.

Is it wrong to be barracking for concussion protocols?

Yeah I agree with this. I think we left too much up to too few for too long. I also think we got our training loads wrong because the entire side looked flat at 3/4 time for the last 2 months of the year. Max’s interview during the week alluded to the fatigue of the 2 seasons. No one was fresh when it mattered. We also played finals for 2 months before the big stuff began, and I think that just ground us down.