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Footscray & St Kilda. That's hipster supporter paradise.

It’s gross. Full stop.

If Hunt turns out to be our Mitch Morton in our 2021 premiership side I’ll gladly take back every word ?

Don't need to watch and learn. I just happen to have a different option to the rest of you fan boys on this thread. Your username suggests that maybe you ain't the best judge of footballing talent

Hunt will never be more than a bit player

Do we really think McDonald would pass the vet check? TMac has gone from being a very good player (2018) to someone who can barely move (2019 onwards). That's not form, his body is cooked. Any trade hinges on his medical. My 0 years medical training/33 years football watching say injuries have ruined him. We may not be able to trade him out.

Top 5 best looking blokes in the AFL. Chase him based on that alone.

Hard as nails? We'll disagree on that. Hunt was not interested in playing the backline cause it meant being disciplined. Again - Hunt is an athlete and not a footballer.

Disagree. He's a repeat offender.

Hunt is an athlete and not a footballer. No defensive aspect to his game and doesn't relish a physical contest. He should've been cut last year.

A ruthless coach would've scrutinised every single second of the disaster 2018 prelim. If the players aren't ruthless they shouldn't be on the list.

Same. I deliberately avoided Front Bar last night because Buckenara = '97 Prelim and I don't want to hear it rehashed again. I'm still not over it!

THIS Improvement & development isn't linear. Oliver is a gun and over time he will become truly A Grade.

So the lesson from this is the Richmond players showed more fight over kebabs than we did our finals spot.

Daisy is an awesome special comments person too

What is great about these two is they have different strengths. They compliment each other. Clarry is VB, Trac is craft beer. To have a ripper party, you need both.

Night Games by Anna Krien is not a 'fun' footy book but it's an important read.

Jetta looked slow & lost Rankine at two crucial stoppages. It was depressing cause we all love Nev.

Get over it? How many times in his life do you think Neville has been expected to 'get over it'? Those micro-aggressions add up. The 'get over it attitude' makes it the problem of the target. It is not Neville Jetta, Eddie Betts or Adam Goodes job to 'get over' cheap shots from racists. It's our job to be a better football community.

Honest question - why was Yze filthy when he left?

Three things - 1. This whole scenario is the standard "whistle-blower-painted-as-troublemaker" story. It's easier to blame the one speaking out than take a proper look at ourselves. And it's even easier to do when it's someone like Lumumba who has a reputation for not not fitting the generic AFL player type. 2. It's classic white people trying to tell a POC what racism is. White people don't really get to decide what's racist because we're not in the position to experience it. If a POC is saying they're experiencing racism, believe them, they know what racisim is and they're not making it up. 3. AFL fans seems incapable of accepting that someone might be two things. Example - HL could be a massive w*nker but he's also making valid points about his experience of racism at an AFL club. Like Goodes before him, we might look back in time and realise H had very good points to make and we could've learned something from his experience.

The Lyon Mafia (Connelly, Stynes, Schwab etc) hand an enormous impact on the playing and the administration culture. Selfish, cliquey and insular. Deciding their own training schedules and generally acting like arrogant jerks. Didn't matter so much when Lyon was leading a talented list who were final contenders. But it came back to bite us again in the 2010s when they got involved in club admin. What kind of a club sacks a CEO only to re-hire him? A club that is under the influence of a clique. Lyon was arrogant enough to meddle but not commit, Connelly & Schwab a disgrace and though it's sacrilege to say it...Stynes under their sway and not willing to back the coach.

Karen Paxman is a gun. Great to see her achieve her fourth AA.

Last night was Oliver's worst effort ever but last season was solid. He's set extremely high standards for a very young player. Amazing how people are happy to accept seasons (and last night didn't say any different) of mediocrity from Trac yet we all seem to forget Oliver is 22. As for Brayshaw, I genuinely don't understand what has happened to him.

Sadly for us, St Kilda and North we'll be the ones on the chopping block.