Bluey's Dad

It's made even worse by the constant tyre pumping he gets from his peers. "Oooh BT is on today!" "Listen to BT!" "Good call BT!" His head gets bigger and his calls get worse.

Wait that was LAST night? Damn I should have read the thread title. Oh well, will stream it tonight I guess.

lol I know right? Been getting to as many games as possible for the last 15 years, but now all of a sudden I'm just on the bandwagon.

I assume he finds it difficult to reconcile his inner belief that Essendon do not make mistakes with clear evidence to the contrary. It must be the opposition's fault. It's the only logical alternative. Can't possibly be any other explanation, as they all would cause him to look inwardly. Self-reflection and Essendon do not mix. Better to blame external factors.

Oh I dunno Wrecker, I could use some advice for dealing with my mum. I do indeed plan to take them both to a game next year. Unfortunately for now it will seem like torturous boredom to them, so I need to ease them into it. If I force the issue now it'll drive them away. My son's Auskick experience is still front of his little 6 year old mind. It was a thoroughly unenjoyable time and achieved the exact opposite of what I wanted. We've been a total of 5 times now and none has been as bad as the first, but he still doesn't have any fun.

I bow to your superior parenting skills. I look forward to the day when my children too may take delight in the tears of a Collingwood supporter. I am unfortunately playing on hard mode, as I am the only caregiver in my children's lives with an affinity for AFL. My wife has no interest, in-laws have no interest, my own mother actually has a staunch anti-AFL stance and actively discourages any discussions on the subject, and my father lives far enough away that he can't babysit very often.

nice one! I'd love to hear about how he thinks the backline setup is working at bounces - ie when we get players to run off half back at the bounce and create a wave through the centre. I've seen it work really well, but sometimes it seems to work against us when the opposition clear quickly and get the ball over our wave. Is it just a risk we take or is there a plan to mitigate the opposition clearance that we aren't implementing in those instances? Would be interested to hear his thoughts on our struggles with opposition tall forwards throughout the season - Ben Brown in particular as we have North this week. Having said that, Dixon was kept pretty quiet last week, so maybe this has been attended to. Also be sure to call him a 'cult figure'. Any AFL player with slightly different hair must be labelled a cult figure by law I believe.

Can we get WJ on again? I feel like the generation gap between he and Jayden would make for an interesting interview.

Was parenting. If it makes you feel better though, I managed to get my 4 year old daughter to watch almost 10 minutes with me - which is a new record for her. My 6 year old son is completely uninterested. It might have something to do with the 2m Max Gawn height measuring chart he was sent earlier this year as part of his membership package. I put it up in his room and it scared the [censored] out of him. Had to take it down. Ol Max now lives in his wardrobe, which I must now shut completely before bed each night. Also, on the uninterested side, I tried to get him on track by taking him to Auskick when the season started. It was pathetic. 200 odd kids and 4 coaches. A few witches hats and a bunch of balls, and I ended up running the drills for my son's group. I know nothing about teaching footy or kids. They didn't even explain what the drills were supposed to be until half way through the session. Then in the match simulation they popped him in the goal square, ball didn't go near him the entire 15 minute game. He was running around making aeroplane sounds with his hands stretched out. It's been a battle to get him to go ever since. Footy is now 'boring'. Thanks Auskick. Sorry, this post ended up a long way away from where it started.

"Choice" is an interesting term. I can only "chose" to watch all AFL games on my TV if I "chose" to pay Foxtel a stupid amount of money for shows I'll never watch. Or I can "chose" to pay a smaller fee to Telstra for that content, but it can only be shown on a maximum screen size of 7 inches. I cannot "chose" a legitimate alternate source for these stats if I want to see them. They have been purchased by one company, who have locked them up behind a paywall I can only access if I have "chosen" their other products. Fortunately, as Rafiki has pointed out, it's pretty simple for someone to just screenshot and upload the stats. I have no doubt every game day thread on this site, as well as bigfooty and others, will have these stats posted. I will therefore "chose" to access these stats the only way I can as a non-Telstra subscriber. Yo ho ho.

Unbelievable that my choice of phone carrier effects the amount of stats that I can get on a game. I moved all my phone accounts OFF Telstra a few years back because of high pricing and poor support. This sort of [censored] doesn't make me want to move back.

http://bananabunker.com/ Apparently it comes in different colours too. For the more adventurous banana storage connoisseur.

I saw this on the internets the other day and thought of this thread. It's old now, but may tickle someone's pickle given the subject matter: http://imgur.com/gallery/EW2SK

Indeed. One might even categorise his journalism as... scattergun.

I nickname my Geodudes 'Jack Viney'. Doesn't matter if they roll 'Rock Head' or 'Sturdy' as their ability, works both ways.

Yeah I noticed you backing off the political threads a while back. They are all the poorer for it.

You might have misread Biffen's post there mate. He's having a go at you.

This is why I don't post in the general forums any more.

It's not [censored] hard AFL. "Although James Hird is next in our established sequence of Norm Smith medal presenters, we believe that the nature and spirit of the award is incongruous with his recent actions as an AFL coach. We are therefore bringing forward the next Norm Smith award winner in line, Shaun Hart, to present the medal in the 2017 Grand Final. James Hird may be invited to present the award at a later date."

I don't know about you but I'm quite partial to the rhythmic flatulence of my own body.

People spent ages talking about how Hawthorn didn't deserve it. Free kick Hawthorn was a meme for a while. Pretty sure all those cups are more than enough comfort. Can't wait till we have some too.

Perhaps if the AFL were more willing to accept if an umpire makes a mistake they wouldn't come out on a Monday and make up new interpretations to justify an umpire's actions. It didn't happen in this specific instance, but I think it's part of the problem.

Wait wait wait. I am very confused. Didn't the AFL introduce the 2 minute NO SHOT CLOCK rule after Mason Wood milked it to win a game last year? So the AFL introduce a rule with little forethought, knee-jerk a change to it, and then knee-jerk the EXACT REVERSE Seriously this game is administered by monkeys.

I wonder if this Jones bloke was a forward at any point in his career. I wish the commentators would tell me.