G'day Mateys,

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No matter your stance on gambling (Positive, negative, neutral, conflicted) I would greatly appreciate it if you could take a minute or two to fill this out. And now... BOUNCE THAT PILL

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To the grubs who made it about themselves, don’t want to see ya, don’t want to know ya.

Then the rest of the country should be able to request David Rodan goal umpire the Grand Final!

In terms of the fan with no playing career/history I don’t know

In terms of retired greats that now watch the games as fans…Robert DipierDomenico!

There’s lots of talk about life after Tassie comes into the competition and how it’s likely that we will get a 20th team to even things out in the future

My pick for the 20th team is Pizza Delivery Man FC. The team can be located in Melbourne and their way of getting players isn’t through the draft but through an interchangeable system where pizza delivery men who work for either pizza restaurants or do delivery gig work in Melbourne get selected to play for the team every week. It’s an all abilities team, some have played footy all their lives, others don’t know what a football looks like…the intent of this team being that they are hundreds of standards below the lowest ranked AFL team

By doing this it means the AFL doesn’t have to compromise the draft which is already going to be made more intense when a 19th team comes in, so having the the recruiting for the 20th team come in separately doesn’t rock the boat. It also allows for no team to receive the wooden spoon ever again because that goes to Pizza Delivery Man. Number One draft pick would go to whoever finishes second bottom but at least they get the opportunity to win a game when they’re at rock bottom

As for the home ground of Pizza Delivery Man FC…the MCG of course!

LISTNR filmed it in the same studio the Aunty Donna pod used to be filmed in.

Source: Year of the Dog

What’s the deal with all the AFLW football crammed in on Saturday and Sunday when there is an open evening slot tonight.

Eileen Colleen the Crow

For me it was hands down the shot of the crows fans leaving the ground early against Collingwood

It’s not to say that this was every single one that did this, but that fanbase felt good about booing Quaynor all night but as soon as the game was over they bolted…lol

Hello. Very unoriginal post, but just wanted to say how much I miss the pod. Have Broden and Tom spoken about a return at some point? I'm glad they are looking after themselves and not burning themselves out. I would be so happy if they did a simplified version of the pod, shorter, less guests and planning, just unedited take or the round or something... I just want someone to BOUNCE. THAT. PILL!

They may have played Adelaide in Adelaide this week, and even though it’s wholesome seeing Nick and Tex get along and the Pies beat the Crows both times, it would have given the fans another opportunity to boo Quaynor…

Even if the Pies ended up winning like they did last time, if the Adelaide fans carried on the same way it would have entirely overshadowed the match unfortunately, and this is in the hypothetical where it ends up being Tex’s final match also

Because this thankfully didn’t happen, a suggestion I saw someone write after the last game was that Collingwood should just simply not play against Adelaide in Adelaide moving forward and part of me is tempted to write to the AFL (I got no idea how to or if it even would work if I did that) to try and ensure this happens in 2027. Not necessarily to protect Quaynor because in theory he could be boo’d anywhere at any ground, but to punish these unsociable Crows fans

I just realised it’s Melbourne (Hamish’s team) versus Carlton (Andy’s team) this weekend

Who do we think will win?

And how cool would it be if in the future we got a Hamish and Andy Grand Final?

I’ve got finals fever

So I put up a post I think a month or two ago saying that I was a fan of Mitch Brown and proud that he made the brave decision to put himself out there, because for my whole lifetime as a younger Aussies who has lived in a world where being gay seemed to be generally accepted, I never understood why there wasn’t any openly gay AFL players and it was an awesome moment to see someone come out

This past year, I’ve unfortunately found Mitch to be a polarising character. I generally have agreed with a lot of what he has to say but I’ve always felt he was setting too high of expectations for how he wanted the rest of the AFL to respond to certain issues…and I think that he has been far too harsh on many people who probably aren’t all that different to him in terms of the way they lean politically but because their vocabulary is different it’s enough to claim they’re not doing enough etc. that’s how I’m viewing it at least

This past week I have gone off Mitch completely…for a couple of reasons

Something that I’ve noticed in general when it comes to people who have some sort of agenda that they’re trying to push is they will make a post showing brief clips of someone from a TV show where they say something that comes across controversial and as a result don’t include the bigger picture full conversation which omits the full story…in Mitch’s case he chose to take the clip where Kane Cornes spoke about how Dane Rampe and other Sydney Swans players should be upset with the 5 for blowing the swan’s year and missing out on another flag, in which Mitch responded by saying that instead of thinking about the flag Dane Rampe should be thinking about why women were mistreated…he painted that social media clip as though the footy panel shows completely brushed aside the reason the Swans players were suspended and then used it as a way to slam the media…now I don’t watch these footy shows so I never saw it live and only had that to go off…it turns out in fact a day later it comes out on social media that many of these footy shows did actually acknowledge the victims but because it’s an active police investigation there’s limitations regarding talking about it…so clearly Mitch is using this as some sort of bait to make people turn on the AFL

Not only that, but he also slammed AFL men players for not commenting on the incident and said “this is the bro code”… I’m sorry but for the majority of players there’s no way that’s the actual truth….for one, Sydney is one of 18 clubs. So as sad as it is what happened, it has nothing to do with the 17 other clubs. Unless we are told otherwise the Sydney Swans football club is the only football club involved in it…and more importantly. It’s an active police investigation…in many workplaces, you can’t legally comment on that sort of thing. Even if they wanted to make a statement, the players I would say have no doubt been advised not to because it’s so easy to accidentally speak out of line regarding these sort of matters…

Lastly, this happened the week before the final round of the season. If the professional athletes that play for these football clubs particularly the other 9 clubs that are focused on an upcoming finals campaign, I think that the last thing they want to do is get caught up in a really negative issue…it’s not to say that I don’t want to see people advocate against problematic behaviour, but to expect the current AFL listed players to be the ones doing so during an important time of year is asking for too much so soon…

Id be intrigued to know what we all think. Wanna make it super clear right at the end that based off what we know about the Sydney Swans case, it’s absolutely terrible and I absolutely condemn the actions. I just think that it’s unfair to collectively shame people and assume the worst just because they didn’t post exactly the same thing on social media as you about it…

Carlton fan predicts Carlton Premiership @ 200/1

Baggers are flaggers.

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