Earl Hood

I Remember Garland holding arm and signalling the bench to come off. He went up the race but came back on so I assumed it was just a bruise. Some bruise! We can't take a trick on the injury front, we seem to lose a player in every game

Crazy Horse Lumumba in the first half, unbelievable stuff early. Redeemed himself in the second half somewhat.

OK Kalli I had a look at the latest injury list and if you look at top 22 players out injured for the top teams, well I will stand by my "rubbish" statement. The Hawks, Freo, The Pies yes they have a few out, not many would be in the top 22 and a lot are in test mode, that is missed a week or so but ready to come back when necessary.

Lumumba who I often call The Prince was unbelievable today. He did some great contested stuff but really his play in the first two quarters had me screaming "don't give it to Crazy Horse" because you had no idea what he was going to do under pressure next. Bizarre stuff at times. I don't know what to make of him but I do worry when our experienced leaders have brain fades like his and Dunn's kick in turn over. I can live with kids making basic errors but when members of your leadership group are having brain fades where to next?

Hammy 3 to 4 weeks according to channel 7. Gee we manage an injury in every match unlike so many top sides that barely register a bruise week in week out.

McDonald got cleaned up by Cloke that is all. Not that he did much wrong but it was his worst game this season I think. Gee we could have used a few high marks down back that TMac usually does. They had Cloke kicking 7 straight and Oxley marking everything up in our forward line. Those two did us in.

Viscount I am pulling rank on you as an Earl! I have never been a Watts fan although I recognise the skills he has but doesn't use enough but today he had a real crack he worked well in traffic, tackled and ran into space and managed a crucial tackle that got us a free and he kicked the goal. Yes it wasn't a blinder but I would be more than happy if he did that every week. And why we as a team don't set up to get the ball into his hands more often for the forward 50 entry I don't understand. He can be infuriating but today he played his part.

Pedo has set up 2 goals!

And why is GWS showing up at 4 and 14? They get equivalent of 4 through their academy but 14 as well, is that coming through the continual draft anomaly from some mini draft compo? Does it ever end for these franchise clubs?

Great stuff. I am on board it looks like we are up for a win!

Great kid. I hope he comes back stronger. Now can anyone inform me on any other clubs that has had their first draft pick injured for the whole season for two years running, I am citing Hogan, then Petracca. I mean you need all the luck you can get when you are on the bottom but it seems we can never get a break.

Short answer is No GV. But gee Cooktown is as far out as it gets must have been an interesting posting. I understand all teachers in QLD have to move every 3 years or so. Is it the Endeavour River? It looks idyllic from a distance but then you think about the crocs.

DC I understand where you are coming from. The whole coffee thing is a overdone these days. There is a pretentiousness going on especially with the take away cardboard coffee cup fashion accessory that goes on the CBD every morning it is ridiculous and it all has to be kept in perspective. And this new filtered thing is beyond me. But Nescafé does not cut it for me. They have that at work but I don't bother I drink tea instead. I lived in Italy 25 years ago for a period so came to love their caffe culture and so moved back to inner Melbourne to replicate that If I buy a coffee it is just part of a ritual, I am either having a discussion at work or I am relaxing and reading the paper in the morning or after work on the way home. Now if I buy a coffee as part of this ritual and pay $4 these days I do expect it to be strong and correctly made. Gee I have had a lot of slop delivered over the years which is OK except they are asking me to pay for it.

I remember listening to that game while driving down the Great Ocean Road to Apollo Bay. Watching that video is the first time I have seen that game and it is an amazing tour de force of skills. Wow they go on and on about Rioli as the greatest small forward of the millennium. I don't think The Wiz suffers much in comparison when you look at that display

Bj it is at 282 Sydney Road Coburg and its name is actually the Wild Timor Coffeehouse. Detail has never been my strong suit.

And Fitzpatrick? Where is the matchup for him on the Pies forward line? We have been training him as a backman but if there is no match up then he goes forward? Setting the kid up for failure?

Some of us talked about passengers after last weeks game. You can't win carrying passengers yet we go in again with Watts and Howe. Let's hope they can rack up more than their normal 5 or 6 disposals along with their pressure acts where they jog around waiting to be second in to a contest. Both are lacking confidence or interest, not sure which at the moment.

Now come on DC the bar is not as low as Borewood surely. That said I am tending to drink coffee outside Fitzroy these days quite often. Brunetti's in Carlton after work and several places in Abbottsford on the weekend, Admiral Cheng Ho stands out for good coffee and the total hipster experience. And the bakery at the Convent is worth a visit

I am really excited about the NBN!

Well yes calorie neutral perhaps Maple. It still cost me $40 for two but some of the proceeds go to Timor Leste. This place has a great story, some Australian peace keepers who went to East Timor to secure the peace after the Indonesian withdrawal in the early 2000's were travelling up in the highlands and stumbled across locals in a valley full of centuries old coffee plantations being paid zilch or their crops. The Aussies decided to purchase a few hundred kilos of beans for a fair market price and sent them back home to start the East Timor Coffee House. Since then they have paid fair prices and put money back into the local community. Highly recommend a visit and the coffee is as good as it gets, better than anything in Fitzroy by the way.

Bj how many kilometres on this bike ride? BoxHill to Collingwood is enough but then out to Ashburton? Is this on bike trails? I did the Merri Creek bike trail to Coburg Lake then back down the Upfield line and home this morning myself. Stopped in at the East Timor Coffee House in Brunswick for breakfast on the way. Great coffee and food and undid all the exercise of course.

Strewth DC I take it Rochford had a nickname and don't tell me it was hyphen!

Cartagena RL? Great place the old city that is.

Yes the Buddyator has gone but I have been doing some user acceptance testing on the Dermietron and it is very real. I am in hospital tonight after I did some simulations today without the proper PPE and Take 4 risk assessments. I stupidly started the Dermietron, then punched in Dean Chiron and found myself in a realistic 3D visual of the old Waverley ground with the umpire about to do the first bounce. There were plenty of Demon and Hawthorn jumpers around but I don't remember much more than that. The ball was bounced, then I caught a glimpse of Dermie and his elbow just before the collision, just before I passed out I was told I had given away a free to Dermie. But that's Hawksworld, they always win!

On another issue Relating to the Hawks new training centre at Dingley, my wife who is a Hawk tragic is not happy with my vision for their new headquarters. Yes the Hawks Nest will have an admin centre, state of the art training facilities and about ten ovals to replicate the MCG, Etihad, the SCG, Subiaco, Adelaide Oval etc. but then there will be the RACV like supporters experience. A 10 storey hotel, an 18 hole golf course for use by the punters but only when the Dorks players aren't playing. Then there would be Hawksworld for the kids to visit where you can buy tickets for the Dippertron where you enter a 3D light and sound space not unlike the old ghost train experience but instead you have a Dipper coming at you at 100 km/hr with his elbow up with only a second to react. After that you buy tickets for the Dermietron and then the lethaltron. The Lethaltron has great visuals, you really feel like you are there on the ground playing fullback and then all of a sudden your lights go out. It is an amazing game I mean at no time do you ever see Lethal lining you up for a king hit. It just happens, bang, you are out cold and no one ever sees it. Great game. Oh the wife is not talking to me by the way.