Hiroshima mon amour...

Things haven't improved and you just sense the screw is turning, the spring tightening, ready to burst in a BIG way.
It wouldn't surprise to see both main brinks-men, Hird and Demetriou, removed and gooorn sooner rather than later. Hird sooner and the Fat Collector sometime after the dust settles. Maybe end of next season. Please.

Hey, we have to some new-dawn to look forward to, a ray of light to cheer us in the midst of this stench and putrefaction.

And so let's look away from the car-crash momentarily.


Is it just me? Probably. It usually is. But pretend this article isn't about my team because it's actually about something pretty close to conflict of interest and I've been banging on about this to anyone who'll listen (pretty much no-one) for over a year now.

What's wrong with this picture? No I don't mean the cropping, it's a critically loaded article on afl.com.au stating the the AFL shouldn't give the Dees a priority pick. Just more sneering stuff about the Demons, this time from the League towards one of its own stake-holders, now dressed up as an opinion piece direct from the League's own propaganda unit about what the League should do.

Does that seem wrong? Or at least odd? It's exactly the issue I've always had with the AFL being a major media contributor in reporting about, well, the AFL. Spin cycle outa-control.

For what it's worth, I don't entirely disagree with some of the sentiments in the piece, I don't want the Dees to get the Priority Pick either, and, in amongst the plain nastiness of the article, Barrett kind of touches on the reason why. Not his crap that that they don't 'deserve' one (it's for shit teams... what we're just the wrong flavour shit?) it's just that if they get one, they'll once again expect it will bring a messiah, rather than everyone having to work their own arses off to sort themselves out by themselves, for themselves.


A momentous day last sunday, I took the Demon-child to his first game.
Excited? Hell-yeah. 2 and a half and he already knows the words to a song he may never sing, already knows the number of his favourite player, despite the likelihood someone else will be sporting the '4' next year and Watts will be playing without the red to go with his blue.

Hugely excited. Mind you he did think the Dees played at Luna Park, a la Family Day, but rapidly readjusted his joy upon entering the hallowed Ground. "I'm at the G! I'm at the G!" Applauded and Go Dees'd loudly whenever anyone kicked a goal (by anyone, of course I mean Freo who were kicking the goals).

Pre-game, pre-reality. Before we didn't sing the song.

A fine day out. Do I feel guilty? Hell yeah. Supporting the Dees is character building. And, anyone who's been to the footy with me will know this is not always a good thing.


ENOUGH SELF-INDULGENCE, LET'S INDULGE IN YOU FOR  SMALL MOMENT:

Firstly Rob took out the jackpot last week. I think that's $60 to him, but will rewind the tape to be sure. Back to $20 again now.

Ladies and Gentlemen there are 2 ROUNDS LEFT. Do we have a winner already?
Andy 'Logger' Lloyd may or may not have much of a footy team left in a couple of weeks, but will he be rolling slow-motion, Underbelly-style in $1,000 of unmarked bills? Or can the fast-finishing Jim 'Richo' Richardson catch him on the line? Can Lee, the early-season leader get his head in front in a bobbing finish? Or will Cath surprise and usurp Leah as the first female Drunk Champion?

Why am I asking you? You don't know.

Logger also has the lowest margin score too of the 'likelies', except Leah, so anyone else will need to beat him by at least one at this stage.
And don't forget the lesser glory of just making the 8. It's feasible anyone as far down as 16 or 17 could make the finals, or even top 4 for that matter. Hell I'm sitting about 28th and I haven't given up yet.

THIS JUST IN: 

Guilt by association, I assure you.
Thank god I left the seedy side of town for this leafy neckathewoods.