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Rumour Bluemour Discussion XLI

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You can pretty much pencil in Charlie to be unavailable due to tile, basketball or surfing incident.
You can pretty much pencil in Andrew Dillon and Co being complete morons and have the Charlie vs Carlton grudge match scheduled in Sydney first up. Have it Round 2 or 3 at the MCG. At least then the fixture would actually be interesting.
 

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I know a lot can change in a year but didn't we request to not be part of opening round?

Regardless of who plays, I really dislike it. Let us start the season against Richmond with a big crowd at the G and be done with it
 
Easily the most soul destroying loss I've had to witness other than '93 GF.

What is this 93 GF?

I thought WCE went back to back in 92 and 94...
 

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If I had to pick my least preferred opponent and venue to play rnd 1, it would be Sydney at the SCG with he who shall not be named at FF.
She’ll be right mate. One H.Dean to take the big job in his debut game. Keep him goalless and earn a Rising Star nom straight up.

(It does say “Silly Season”)
 
If I had to pick my least preferred opponent and venue to play rnd 1, it would be Sydney at the SCG with he who shall not be named at FF.

If Curnow continues with his stand and wrestle mentality like he did most of this year he will get towelled up by Weitering. That's Weiters absolute bread and butter. However, if Charlie starts leading up at the ball and their mids deliver it well.. then yeah, we have no tall who can go with him for that initial burst speed off the mark.

I don't like playing in opening round. Really quite annoyed we have been bundled back into that if it's true, which I think it likely is.
 

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I should clarify.

With where we are at as a football team, I actually don’t mind having Sydney at the SCG in opening round. We need to start showing some fortitude, and most of our offseason moves have been about galvanising the squad. So let’s put it to the test.

My problem is the overall idea of opening round. It’s a contrived pantomime of football, designed by the current CEO to put eyeballs on tvs by manufacturing rivalries for the sake of a few clubs, at the expense of the majority of fans who don’t get to see their team play. And then it creates ongoing inequities with byes that take teams in and out of the draw for weeks following.

2026 potentially offers a new makey upper, with the chance that the AFL edges away from its supposed mission of games in the developing states to also include one game between St Kilda and Collingwood at the MCG. So while we will have four Victorian clubs on the move up north for some sort of make believe rivalry, the chosen club at Collingwood will stay local and play a club who they’ve pushed around for years and whose only major rivalry with them occurred before John, Paul, George, and Ringo had released Revolver.

Meanwhile, hands up for all of us around here who have spent decades hating the Swans? There might be a few. But overall, I don’t think there’s much there. The AFL sees us trade Charlie to Sydney. They see the draft picks coming back which will become better if Sydney falls apart in 2026 and 2027. They hear Hayward and Florent talk about how they were shafted on the way out. And the AFL rubs its hands together and goes, “ooohhh, there’s a rivalry.”

As Thom Yorke would say, it’s a fake plastic rivalry. And it’s all a part of a fake plastic opening round.
 
If the AFL really cared about some supposed 'rivalry' between Carlton and Sydney because of the CC move, then surely this game should be played at the MCG where most of those who would be 'upset' should be able to be in attendance. But, IMO, it's got nothing to do with any rivalry but some fake narrative the AFL can drum up to get eyes on TV this year. Come 2027 the whole thing will be forgotten, and some new fake 'rivalry' will emerge, and Hypothetically if someone like Ben King moved to Carlton, we'd have to travel to the 'People First' stadium on the GC.
 
If the AFL really cared about some supposed 'rivalry' between Carlton and Sydney because of the CC move, then surely this game should be played at the MCG where most of those who would be 'upset' should be able to be in attendance. But, IMO, it's got nothing to do with any rivalry but some fake narrative the AFL can drum up to get eyes on TV this year. Come 2027 the whole thing will be forgotten, and some new fake 'rivalry' will emerge, and Hypothetically if someone like Ben King moved to Carlton, we'd have to travel to the 'People First' stadium on the GC.
Opening round in 2028 will be between the Devils and whichever big name recruit’s former team they’ve managed to attract. Lock it in now.
 
If Curnow continues with his stand and wrestle mentality like he did most of this year he will get towelled up by Weitering. That's Weiters absolute bread and butter. However, if Charlie starts leading up at the ball and their mids deliver it well.. then yeah, we have no tall who can go with him for that initial burst speed off the mark.

I don't like playing in opening round. Really quite annoyed we have been bundled back into that if it's true, which I think it likely is.
You know he's going to put in special effort against us and will be on his bike the whole game.
 

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