Titus.
Our President brings us this update from Titus.
Collingwood (55) v Gold Coast (79)
I’m sure Pies fans, while upset at losing this and sitting 17 on the ladder, are just so happy at winning the jumper battle against Port they barely care.
It’s all about priorities.
Let’s get this straight, the Pies managed to pull together a roster, with a salary bill so high they had to offload very good players to stay under the cap, and still only managed to build a side that’s 1-6.
That doesn’t seem like good list management.
The Pies have long struggled without a forward line, but they seem to be going about removing their midfield and defence too.
The thing is, every Pies fan could see this coming, but the people they pay to run their club could not. In fact, their sort-of-ex president, still argues anyone that questions the trade period is some sort of idiot.
For the Gold Coast, this is exactly the sort of performance you’d want to see from the talent on their list.
An astounding amount of their players hadn’t even played on the MCG before, but on Saturday they seemed like the home team.
Obviously, what separated the Suns and the Pies, is that no one is interested in stealing the Suns jumper.
St Kilda (128) v Hawthorn (59)
Call off the search, we’ve found the Saints.
After going missing for six weeks, St Kilda supporters were relieved to discover their team is still alive.
A big thank you should go to the Hawthorn Football Club for helping to find the Saints. Despite being undermanned, and not that good, the Hawks really helped the Saints find some form.
Hawthorn fans watched on perplexed as their team didn’t even score for the first quarter. That caused a lot of confusion, with Hawks fans assuming the opening term was the warmup.
Their players seemed to have made the same mistake.
There’s no doubt the return of Paddy Ryder helped the Saints, Bradley Hill answered his critics, and Zak Jones had 37 disposals and two goals.
The only downside for the Saints is they can’t play Hawthorn every week.
North Melbourne (73) v Melbourne (103)
One weird outcome of the Demons winning a lot this season is a new phenomenon called ‘Deesplaining.’
This is when a non-Demons supporter says to me, whenever I express any happiness about this season, ‘you know it can still go downhill for you guys.’
Really? Football can hurt you? When it appears to be travelling well something so bad can happen that it breaks your soul?
Tell me more.
I didn’t realise that; being a Melbourne supporter who has only known joy and sunny skies all my life.
Of course, things can go downhill, Adam Tomlinson knee injury is another example that footy is a cruel business.
But I’m going to enjoy things when they are going well because I know what bad times are, that’s the secret to life and footy, enjoy things when they go well because if you don’t, you’ll hate the good times and the bad times.
Even this game, where the Dees were very off in the first half, had its positives, in that, being a long-term Dees supporter, I know we once would have lost this.
Instead, despite being fairly average, we won by 30 points. That’s amazing. I’ve never known a Dees team to play terribly and win by 30 points.
In recent years, we would have lost this game nine times out of ten.
What it does show, is that you don’t need to be off by much to look bad in this league. North, instead of looking like the winless side they are, showed they are finding ways to improve.
They’ll get something out of this game, and they’ll have good times again, and someone will bob up then and say, ‘you know it can still go downhill for you guys.’
