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I genuinely feel for Hopper. He's a competitor who tries his guts out. But he was sold an absolute lemon by Hardwick. Hardwick realised and pissed off 6 months into his 7 year deal and now his body is letting him down and he's the focus of a lot of criticism that deservedly should be aimed at...

Yep. Massive sliding doors moment. Could've had Holmes who would be pushing AA right now as a 21 year old. Even then they could've picked Van Rooyen with the pick we gave them. He's a guy you can build a forward line around and Richmond are desperately lacking young key position players...

The funny thing about that North Melbourne side is how bizarre their draw was. They were 10-1. They had one really tough game away to the team in 2nd (Sydney) and lost. They narrowly beat the team in 4th (Dogs) and the team in 8th (Adelaide in Melbourne). Apart from that they had beaten teams...

He looks comfortable with ball in hand but is very suspect defensively and struggles on transition. Not really a need either cause if everything goes right with him he becomes a Zach Guthrie type. Given the dearth of young talent at Richmond I can't imagine them giving him up for a second...

I literally said "if a miracle happens" referring to our chances of winning the flag. How much less confident of the outcome do you want me to be?

Giving Kosi a crack as a genuine key forward I guess made sense even though nothing I've seen from him suggests he'll make it. But I'd love to know why they went Naismith over Ryan when you'd think they're similar players and Ryan might be part of your future while Naismith won't be.

You can understand it though. They're missing key players and were uncompetitive against West Coast's midfield. They need some experience around the ball and need to play their best team to be any chance tonight. Hopper in for McAuliffe is a no brainer. McAuliffe just isn't ready to compete...

Well my main takeaway from all this is it just reinforcing my view that Eddie McGuire is one of humanity's all-time great morons.

It's sort of impressive that Essendon are 4-2, the 2 losses have been away to top 6ish teams and yet they've still managed to squeeze in a media driven "Bombers in crisis" week.

I mean Brad Scott's obviously correct here. The Wright and Greene incidents are nearly identical. Anyone think if Cunningham was fine and Boyd concussed the suspensions would be the same?

I just find it funny when supporters convince themselves the coaching staff, who analyse the games of every player in minute detail, have made a shocking selection mistake based on statistics you can find in 2 seconds. Like when Constable was dropped while averaging over 21 touches a game. As...

It really is a great year. Nobody thought we were any chance of being competitive this year. And if we fall away we get to send off some champions of the club while we have great memories of 2022 and know the future is incredibly bright. And if a miracle happens it'll be one of the great...

It was pretty funny seeing him going on about sub 50 gamers as though they're all gun kids previously. But including a 31 year old in the tally is magnificent.

It's a beautiful double down by Richmond. Not done with the 24 (Miller) and 25 year old (Young and Lefau) "kids". They've picked that developing future star, 31 year old Sam Naismith. He'll have a much bigger impact on the teams future than those washed up veterans like Tanner Bruhn and Ollie...

Lol yeah the 20 and 87 days age difference is the big difference here😂😂😂