Buddy deal was done 12 months prior to him leaving Hawthorn.....Judd deal was also done very early, I wonder if TDK has done something similar and we are just seeing a bit of free agent theatre until seasons end.
I have had the feeling for a while that his decision is made. What's the benefit of waiting until the end of the year? It's harder on him with all the speculation than to announce it now (ie re-signing). He knows the offer, he knows his role at Carlton, he knows his team mates and the club intimately, It is for these reasons that I think he will leave. It was interesting to read Motlop's interview in the HS (indigenous jumper and Sir Doug Nicholls Round launch). He talked about wanting to be a one Club player and wants to stay at Carlton. He said how he lives with Jack Carroll who has given him an insight into StK, it infers that has reinforced his desire to stay at Carlton. For Tom I guess the 1.7M reasons would trump a crap coach, crap environment and crap culture.
I reckon the Aints can't commit to 1.7 for TDK until they know what Wanganeen Milera is doing. And we won't put our final $ on the table until it's clear the 1.7 is real.
The other unknown is the post-footy 'offerings' that might be floating about - subject to him finishing his career in Navy Blue, of course......
Solid effort, but gee it was a hard watch. We could have put it all to bed but missed two sitters in the last (Elijah, Durds) that would have made things far more comfortable.
What I wouldn't give for a team who can not only win the contested ball, but can then hit kicks and handballs.
We are too sloppy to worry the top sides. I watched the Pies against Freo, and their disposal is elite - precise and definite.
Our crew lob up more Hail Marys than the new pope, and miss more targets than a blind sniper.
Trump wants to reopen Alcatraz to house the worst of the worst crims, according to Former speaker Nancy Pelosi it wont be happening due to the massive cost to refit and run the former Prison island which is now a tourist attraction and part of the National Park system.
It would be cheaper and more efficient to convert Mar-a-Lago into a prison. It already has criminals living there.
I reckon it's hard to judge how someone will go in the 1's based on VFL form - when you are playing in a VFL-level team with VFL-level teamwork and game plans, it might be that the better players try to bite off more than they can chew.
I certainly think we need more back-half dash, because EVERY SINGLE TIME we let the ball get out the back, the opposition get an easy goal. We have no cover whatsoever. Watching poor old Weiters trying to chase down a half-forward rabbit is becoming far too common.
Rankine plays more midfield and Saad wont play there. Keays dines out on us, pencil him in for 4 goals now irrespective of who plays on him. Thilthorpe is there best and biggest fwd hence Weiters. They were saying on Fox Gov seems to do better agains the taller quicker more mobile fwds, dont know whether you'd call Fogarty to Walker quick and mobile. I 100% trust Haynes (now) to do a defensive job on either. Young is too flaky to play on Thilthorpe IMO.
Thilthorpe has a hand injury which might negate his marking and help a player like Young who has the height to match him.
First marking contest, the spoiler should be aiming directly for that finger.....
Been getting some very unsavoury material in my letterbox & and it isn't from any party. Looks like some branch of some right wing fascists....and they clearly don't like Albanese. Lot of disinformation and BS flying around - more so than usual.
There's a mob called Advance Australia, a rich boys' lobby group, who specialise in spreading disinformation in support of a very conservative agenda.
There was an article about them in the Good Weekend Age last week. Worth reading.
We are getting more like the States, where people learn most of their political information from 20 second ads on TV and social media memes. Both sides are doing it.
Unfortunately for Matt (and I was really sorry to see him go), he wanted to play midfield, but he was a slightly-less-good clone of Cerra, Hewett and Cripps, and had no x-factor like Elijah. If you have a midfield that collectively moves as fast as treacle, you may win the contest, but you get chopped up when the ball is on the move.
Jagga Smith was going to change that mix (ffs!), we'll have to wait until 2026 to see how it works. Meantime, they have thrown Motlop in for the odd centre bounce, and the initial results appear promising.
Do not underestimate the power of belief, which brings confidence, which brings improved performance.
I remember all too well sitting at the 'G in Round 14, 2023, We were 13th on the ladder with 4 wins, and playing the Suns. At quarter time, we were 10 points behind and looking as sick as ever.
Then, someone somewhere flicked a switch. We kicked 9 in the second quarter and had a nice 'flat-track' win.
Then we pumped the Hawks, which was also a flat-track win in 2023, having kicked the first 8 goals of the game..
We all know what happened from there, with an ounce of luck we could have pinched the flag.
The last two weeks were against lowly opposition, but the manner of the wins was the more important feature. Foot on the throat, and kept it there.
It is a big game next week, but I have always felt we match up pretty well with the Cats.
