A typical Monday at Smother House is spent lamenting decisions which seemed entirely sensible at the time, only to have terrible repercussions later. Decisions like an impromptu Sunday session which, viewed in the cold hard light of Monday morning, did not serve us well for delivering a blog that is even of NAB Challenge standard by our 11am-ish deadline.
Which is why, at 1 minute to 12 and with a pounding headache, we feel some sympathy for the AFL and the VCA. It must have seemed completely logical to them to reserve a 100,000 seat stadium for a cricket match which might not even happen and even if it does will bring a maximum crowd of 500, leaving the 70 plus thousand people who might want to watch an Essendon Hawthorn grudge match to squeeze into the 55,000 seat Docklands superdome.
Of course, hindsight is 20-20, and with Victoria languishing at the bottom of the Sheffield Shield table, that decision seems somewhat erroneous. So, just like our parents and friends won't easily forgive our Sunday afternoon pub-crawl antics and ill-directed snapchats, the Essendon and Hawthorn fans who miss out on a seat at the Dome (while the MCG lies in wait for a cricket match that will never arrive) may not be entirely happy with your behaviour.
A word of warning, though the Panadol might erase the headache, it won't make you look any less foolish.
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Former Carlton ruckman Justin Madden has gone Zoolander and planned to open the Justin Madden Centre for tall people who can't run good and want to learn to do other stuff good as well. "Big fellas in my era – particularly those like myself who lacked athleticism, coordination and a physique – were specialist ruckmen from the start" he said of his Ruck Academy initiative.
Brisbane Lion Sam Mayes has inspired his teammates, signing on at the Gabba until the end of 2016 despite the crippling homesickness that saw most of their young talent depart at the end of last season. "I've found it a little bit easier because me and three other first year boys moved into a house together. We've got a pool out the back, so it's pretty easy to get the other boys to come around" he said, leaving Michael Voss to wonder if building a pool for Jared Polec, Patrick Karnezis, Billy Longer, Sam Docherty and Elliot Yeo could have saved his job.
In other signing news, Jack Gunston will remain at the Hawks until 2016 after deciding he doesn't like changing clubs - "To change from one club to another is something I don’t want to do again. It’s not the most enjoyable thing" .
Hawthorn, Richmond and Brisbane won the weekend's NAB Challenge matches in a competition that is becoming increasingly hard to care about, while Geelong has lost Nathan Vardy for the season after an ACL injury at training.
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