Spirit of the Demon

6 Max Gawn 5 Kade Chandler 4 Jack Viney 3 Trent Rivers 2 Ed Langdon 1 Tom McDonald

6 Hanks 5 McNamara 4 Hore 3 Pearce 2 Gay 1 Paxman

Met a mate at the races who knows the Jefferson family well. Family has been running the Jefferson Ford car sales business for about 40 years. They are big supporters of Collegians in the VAFA where the father was a top player. Matthew has been a leading junior footballer both at school (Wesley College) and with Ashburton in the Yarra Valley Junior Football League (he was in their interleague side with Elijah Tsatas and Ollie Sestan) and various representative sides from Oakleigh Chargers to Vic Metro in the National Championships. Reckons he needs 12 months in the AFL system and he’ll be a gun.

The comperes and producers are responsible for what goes out to air and it needed nothing more that for one of the comperes to say that John’s comments were neither acceptable or funny. And being in control throughout means they can comment after the segment as well. I understand that people have complained to the station and no action to date has been taken. The offending audio was still on their site this morning. Something should be done by the station and by the comperes sooner rather than later..

I have a feeling that our two rookie picks are going to do real well.

I don't quite understand why we have three picks left. We only have two vacancies on our list of which Kade Chandler's upgrade will take up pick 73. Pick 38 will be used tonight and that should be it.

Has Setterfield of Carlton been delisted?

Nice big article in today's Herald Sun on Mac Andrew. Read it in a cafe - no link.

What the highlighted part means is that even if we made it into the finals in 2020 and even if we beat the Saints in the elimination final, our semi final opponents would have been either Richmond or Geelong and they were both far too hot for us at that stage of the proceedings. We’ll never know for sure but I don’t feel we were quite ready.

Take nothing for granted! Looking at some recent post premiership disappointments, there was Hawthorn who surprised Geelong in 2008 to take the flag with a young side. Everyone raved about how good they were going to be but they crashed in 2009 and finished ninth with 9 wins 13 losses and a percentage of 92.5. The Bulldogs crashed their way through the 2016 finals and started 2017 well enough before messing up the second half of their season and finishing 10th with 11½ wins 10½ losses and a percentage of 97.1. Before that the 1993 Baby Bombers crashed to 10th in 1994 after everyone predicted a long dynasty ahead of them. They all struggled after breaking through to win flags with youthful teams that were expected to kick on. I think in every case, they celebrated too long and too hard and took it for granted that they would do it again the next year but lost their hunger.

Yes, lots of us sat through crap performances, yet missed out on being there in person on our day of redemption on September 25, 2021. Trusting that this will be the driver to see the club through to another one in 12 months time at the G.

Admins please note that I’m not encouraging anyone to bet, just providing the first 2022 premiership market as an item of public interest - $5.00 Melbourne $7.00 Western Bulldogs $8.00 Brisbane $9.00 Geelong, Port Adelaide $11.00 Richmond, Sydney $15.00 West Coast $17.00 GWS Giants $21.00 St Kilda $26.00 Fremantle, Essendon $34.00 Carlton $67.00 Adelaide, Collingwood $81.00 Hawthorn, Gold Coast $101.00 North Melbourne

We didn’t draft Dogga purely on potential alone. By the time we drafted him, he had represented WA at the Under 18 Championships for two seasons in a row (2018 & 2019) and had won under-18 All Australian selection as ruckman for the winning state in 2019. He also played for the East Fremantle Sharks Colts in those years. Before that he was in the WA Under 16s. Everyone regarded him as the prime young ruckman of the future and he weighed substantially more than 70kgs. Cheese and Chalk.

I had to sleep on this but could hardly do even that. 6. Max Gawn 5. Christian Petracca 4. Clayton Oliver 3. Jack Viney 2. Christian Salem 1. Kysiah Pickett

Before he does that, he might want to have a quiet chat with Isaac Smith.

Local footy umpires satisfied message sent in Toby Greene case

Huh …

… not to mention that it’s not a good look for football!!!!

Nothing in it.

Troy Simmonds got a nice whack in the windpipe too.

After seeing what a depleted GWS can do, it might not be such a big deal but the loss of Tex and injuries to Smith and Hamill tonight puts the Crows under the pump big time.

History will tell that the debut games of Jackson and Rivers were significant for Melbourne. Harley Bennell’s, less so.

According to this bloke on Twitter, one of the best for Vic Country in the Colgate game was Kobi George who is also a Melbourne NGA. Quite interesting that our NGAs are attracting attention at the moment.

6. Clayton Oliver 5. Tom McDonald 4. Christian Petracca 3. James Harmes 2. Christian Salem 1. James Jordan

My informants tell me he’s a bit one sided - on the left.