Brilliant distraction from Bevo, deliberately targeted at putting the heat onto himself and off the team which is 0-3 and staring down the barrel. Textbook stuff - calculated and prepared
Gee we fumbled a lot tonight, much more than normal. Young team, very inexperienced. Not disappointed, everyone tried.
Everyone forward of centre tonight was a train crash, no composure, more shanks than a middle eastern stew. It’s been a theme last few weeks and we simply can’t score anymore...
Fixture, and injuries, exposing a soft underbelly now. Lucky we banked the 4 wins…
Did anyone expect anything other than a 10-12 goal loss down in South Corio? Injuries a disaster but we were never winning the flag this year, we are 2 years away from that
I think this will play out that neither admits fault, the AFL finds on the balance of probabilities that the Umpire misheard the comment, "correctly reported it", and then Wines' corroboration of Butters' evidence will mean that no adverse finding can be made.
I also think that Nick Foot's role...
The Hawks were 1.6 years older on average with 23 more games per player. Over half the Dogs’ 23 had fewer than 50 career games.
This really showed structurally, they’re just ahead of us in their journey. We couldn’t defend our D50 stoppages and they scored what was effectively the winning...
The hawks defensive spread/sprint to the fat side is really hurting. As is our monotonous kick down the line to Impey, Ambrosio and Sicily. We have a lot of passengers as we are tactically not being smart and they’re in the middle or watching their opponent get the break
WESTERN BULLDOGS
Average games played: ~83.5
Average age: ~25.2 years
ESSENDON
Average games played: ~85.0
Average age: ~25.1 years
Both had 10 players sub 50 games
Check out our team on paper tonight. Incredibly young and inexperienced. Then we lost Richards pregame (replaced by a guy who’d played 3/4 already today), then English and Jones. And we still won without ever being pushed.
Drag your toys back into the cot
Coming in peace
Butts, Berry and McAndrew, massive upside. Berry went toe for toe and had the clutch touches, he’s so young too. McAndrew toiled and kept up with peak English in his 3rd game, and Butts taught a new dog old tricks and pwned him.
It’s a long season and you’ll be fine. Although...
So you know what he said that she was the only person that knew of the medical condition? So, apart from s*** shaming her, does that mean he hasn’t disclosed it to anyone that he may have had an intimate relationship with?
All in all, on reading the legal basis for his defence, the onus will be on Cate and her legal team to prove that a predominant purpose of his defamatory remarks was not malice. It will turn on how Luke is cross examined and whether he is determined to be trustworthy that malice (towards Cate)...
Luke Sayers' position is essentially that (a) his bipolar, split personality wife (he managed to stay married to for 30 odd years), (b) who gave him an STD (c) due to her "sexual history" (read **** shaming), (d) caused him to take a photo of himself to document a medical issue (but he didn't...