Round 8: the other games

[dejavoodoo44]

Sounds like quite the finish to the Showdown.

[Hotpotato]

Tex and Dawson were massive outs and the Crows
looked cooked, so it was a miraculous win.

[dejavoodoo44]

There's now a minor controversy, after somebody photographed the whiteboard that contained the Brisbane assessment of the Essendon players strengths and weaknesses, and then released it via social media.

https://www.foxsports.com.au/afl/afl-2026-brisbane-lions-whiteboard-notes-about-essendon-leaked-online-st-kildas-max-king-injures-hamstring-in-vfl/news-story/73ccd784890b108c40077b5f078b8249

I find some of them quite amusing: a blank space for McKay's strengths and it looks like they decided that Prior's strength was his girlfriend.

[Thunder Shaker]

This is an interesting round so far with several close games. Draw, 12 points, 1 point, Richmond up by 4 at 3/4 time and North Melbourne leading Geelong by 1 in the third quarter.

Then there's Essendon being Essendon, losing by 64 points.

[imuninformedtwo]

There's now a minor controversy, after somebody photographed the whiteboard that contained the Brisbane assessment of the Essendon players strengths and weaknesses, and then released it via social media.

https://www.foxsports.com.au/afl/afl-2026-brisbane-lions-whiteboard-notes-about-essendon-leaked-online-st-kildas-max-king-injures-hamstring-in-vfl/news-story/73ccd784890b108c40077b5f078b8249

I find some of them quite amusing: a blank space for McKay's strengths and it looks like they decided that Prior's strength was his girlfriend.

Every club does this, but the McKay one had me in hysterics.

A real sliding doors moment for our club that one. Because he was dumb and greedy, and we weren’t prepared to go anywhere near Essendon’s offer, we dodged a bullet. Plus, my understanding is once he actually visited the club and left people deeply unimpressed, we all but withdrew our interest. Complete opposite to what happened with Grundy - once everyone met him, we went pulled out all stops.

[dejavoodoo44]

Every club does this, but the McKay one had me in hysterics.

A real sliding doors moment for our club that one. Because he was dumb and greedy, and we weren’t prepared to go anywhere near Essendon’s offer, we dodged a bullet. Plus, my understanding is once he actually visited the club and left people deeply unimpressed, we all but withdrew our interest. Complete opposite to what happened with Grundy - once everyone met him, we went pulled out all stops.

I haven't heard that much of Grundy speak, but he's supposed to be highly intelligent, with some esoteric intellectual pursuits. Which isn't exactly your stereotypical ruckman. Perhaps a bit like Reilly O'Brien, who has a masters in neuroscience, or something similar.

[dejavoodoo44]

I tuned into the ABC Radio coverage of the last couple of minutes of the West Coast v Richmond game and was quite pleased to discover, that West Coast were having a reunion for their 2006 premiership side. After that loss, a waste water analysis of what's coming out of that function room might be interesting.

I really hope Cox didn't attend.