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I thought this meant he was dating some hunk from the Freo men's football team and am sorely disappointed upon clicking the article
#do Freo have a player named Saint?#saint something#no idk#who's a new Freo hunk#trey is training with weagles so not him#ash Brazill is already married#who did Freo recruit? is jaegar still considered new?#jaegar is a hunk#is James aish considered new?#what about that number 7 that barely played last year?#he feels new#would be so fyfe to turn up on a tiktok video of some gay MasterChef contestant amirite#fyfe spotted in the audience of a taping of ready steady cook#khanh spotted in the crowd at a Freo game drinking white wine and gossiping about which player he finds most attractive#khanh using one of fyfe's villas to film his new cooking tiktok series#fyfe just pops in and says he's been cooking chorizo pasta lately and his body is feeling much better and he's a new person#'found this ripper recipe for chorizo pasta on footys r us dot blogspot dot com'
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You've probably answered this lots before, but: do you have a fairly clear hierarchy of favourites among the Royal Ballet principals? And your favourite role or two for each? :-) Also: of the recent retirees, who would you most like to see guesting?
Also a) thank you so much for obtaining the info that it'll be Nela and Ball for that "Winter's Tale" stream! Partner and I have got our tickets booked to see it at the Cineworld in Aberdeen. <3 It's the ballet that got me properly back into ballet, when I watched it during lockdown, and just: yay. :-)
And b) your blog has just been so lovely and helpful in growing my ballet knowledge! And your gifs are superb, and your Matthew Ball love is validating. :D
Also also: do you have any favourites among the Scottish Ballet dancers? I was lucky enough to see "Cinders" on tour, and I was so impressed with both Bruno Micchiardi (as Cinders) and Jessica Fyfe (as Princess Louise), but I am no expert.
I think someone asked me for a ranking of all the principals some time ago, but I can't even find the post anymore; I don't mind one bit answering this again! <3
If I have to talk strictly about my faves, it goes like this:
Nunez (eheh!): if have to narrow down her most iconic roles I have to give you at least three (please bear with me, I'm doing my best), which are O/O, Kitri and Aurora.
Takada: Titania and O/O. I'm just so very sorry that she's been more injured than not lately. I miss her.
Hayward: Juliet and any Ashton role I can think of (rhapsody, enigma variations, those bits of Titania we got, etc.). I also think she makes one of the best Claras out there.
Kaneko: O/O (saw her live in the BS pdd and the White Adagio with Vadim and it was life changing, bye). Also her Gypsy girl in the two pigeons is iconic. Special mention for her Aurora.
Lamb: Manon. Signature role. Was born to play it. I also really love her Mary Vetsera and her Aurora.
I'm a bit uncertain if I should include Anna Rose or not...sometimes I really love her, but overall I'd like her to be more consistent. But I'll say she was born to play Juliet.
Muntagirov: he's more versatile than people give him credit for, and really has the whole package, but I'd say his best roles are Siegfried and De Grieux.
Ball: he's such an outstanding actor that it's hard to choose, but I'm going with Romeo and Albrecht.
Bracewell: another wonderful Romeo right here, and I was blown away by his Hamlet in the Ashton insights.
Mcrae: Oberon and Rudolph for sure.
Sambè: sorry to repeat myself but we have another great Romeo right here. From what I've seen he makes also a great Colas.
As for retirees, the one that I really wish was still performing is Roberta Marquez, though maybe she isn't exactly a recent one. Out of the most recent ones I only miss Federico Bonelli because he always brought something special to his performances, although I have to say that the struggles and limitations that come with age were very visible in the last couple of years (his Siegfried variation in the SL cinema relay with Takada comes to mind).
As for the winter's tale I'm really happy to see someone who appreciates it as much as I do! I think it's a truly lovely ballet, one of the few modern classics that really stuck with me. You're very welcome for the info and I hope you'll have a great time at the theatre...unfortunately I found out that it won't be streamed in my country, so I'm going to miss out on it 😤
Thanks for all your lovely compliments they're more appreciated than I can say! 😭🩵🙏
Scottish Ballet is one of those companies that I wish had more footage available, because bits I do get to see are really impressive. I'm kind of familiar with Constance Devernay, Bethany kingsley-garner and Andrew Peasgood because I've seen them in the recordings of The Fairy's Kiss and The Snow Queen, and I seriously enjoyed those performances!
I wish there was a full recording of Cinders because both the trailer and the rehearsal look amazing! Jessica Fyfe is a really delicate and expressive dancer from the clips I've seen of her, and both her and Micchiardi impressed me in the rehearsal poste on YT, cause the intentions and mannerisms in their dancing were so clear: I immediately caught up on the reversal of Cinders gender and that she was the princess even though I hadn't read about the novelty introduced by this production beforehand, but everything was immediately clear thanks to their attention to detail.
The little I've seen from this company makes me wish for more!
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According to Telegraph, KC3 is looking for a way to amend the law about Counsellor of State, he wants only working royals to have that position 👀 we are about to say hello to slim down monarchy
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/royal-family/2022/09/17/king-charles-seeks-amend-law-who-can-act-official-stand-in/
The King wants the law amended so that counsellors of state are working members of the Royal family, the Telegraph understands.
The move would see the Duke of York, the Duke of Sussex and Princess Beatrice all relieved of their duties as official stand-ins for the sovereign, should he be indisposed.
Under the 1937 Regency Act, the spouse of a monarch and the four adults next in line to the throne can be deployed as counsellors of state on official business.
When Queen Elizabeth was still on the throne, those roles were filled by the Prince of Wales, the Duke of Cambridge, the Duke of Sussex and the Duke of York, while the Duke of Edinburgh had also acted as one before his death.
The change in the line of succession means that the new Queen Consort is now entitled to be a counsellor of state, as is Princess Beatrice as the next adult in line.
Buckingham Palace has long been under pressure to eject Prince Harry and Prince Andrew from their roles and install other working members of the family in their places.
It is believed that the King recognises the incongruity of having a trio of non-working Royals able to step into his shoes if he is abroad or incapacitated.
He is thought likely to take the relevant steps to have the law changed as soon as he can, raising the prospect that the Earl of Wessex and the Princess Royal could be elevated to the position.
Such a move may form part of a wider redefinition of working and non-working royals.
As such, if not determined solely by the line of succession as is currently the case, the Princess of Wales may also be included.
It is rare for counsellors of state to be called upon but not unprecedented.
In May, the then Prince Charles and Prince William attended the State Opening of Parliament on behalf of the late Queen, opening the new session after being deployed to deputise for her.
Two counsellors were required to be present in order to be constitutionally sound.
Any change in legislation would have to be enacted by the Houses of Parliament.
In the past, changes have been made to the Regency Act by MPs in response to a formal “message from the Queen”, asking parliamentarians to consider particular amendments.
In 1953, the monarch proposed including a provision ensuring that if a child of the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh acceded to the throne before turning 18, Prince Philip would become Regent.
The amendments were laid in Parliament as a new Regency Act, by Sir David Maxwell Fyfe, the then Home Secretary.
The move prompted John McGovern, a Labour MP, to complain that “members are taken to be robots to carry out the will of the monarchy whenever it is desired to make a change.” Approval was also sought from Commonwealth countries.
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Important news: My month-long break from posting had such a marvellous effect on my mental health that I'm switching over to a once-a-month posting schedule for both my blog and my story releases. Same amount of fic each month, just bunched together into one package.
(So, for example, under the old, weekly-update system, I would have serialized my latest novelette over the space of three weeks. Instead, subscription readers get the whole novelette at once.)
An exception to the once-a-month rule: December will have two updates. In early December, I'll issue a story for my subscription readers. At Midwinter, I'll post my annual holiday gift story for all my readers.
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The New Guard (The Three Lands: Empty Dagger Hand side story). Hope is hard when your world is crumbling. ¶ An interview for honorable work goes awry for Fyfe when danger descends upon the Land of Koretia. Now Koretia faces its worst crisis in decades. Amidst the mayhem, who is likely to care about the struggles of a despised ditch-digger? ¶ Novelette. Tags: historical fantasy (late antiquity, secondary world), poverty, soldiers, war, crime, spirituality, compassion. Read the beginning online. You don't need to have read other stories in the series to understand this story.
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I've managed to locate my missing journals and story notebooks from when I was young, so I've temporarily taken down A Documentary Memoir in order to revamp the series. I should have it back up in the new year.
Likewise, the next part of Empty Dagger Hand is on hold till then, since we have the holidays coming up.
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Hi! It's your swiftie halloween gifter! I can't wait to make something fun for you, I just have a few questions to get me started
What are your favourite Taylor Swift songs/albums?
What are some of your other favourite singers/bands or songs that you really like?
Do you have any fandoms or ships that you really like?
I hope you're having a good day! Can't wait to talk to you soon!
Hiii! ^v^// Thank you so much hehe I hope this is helpful then!
My favorite TS albums are 1989 and Reputation lol, but for specific songs my top 5 are Gorgeous, Welcome to New York, End Game, Lavender Haze, and Delicate (not in any particular order).
My other favorite bands are Florence and the Machine, Glass Animals, Fyfe, The Crane Wives, and Cosmo Sheldrake. (Glass Animals Dreamland album is nonstop bops the way 1989 is nonstop bops hehe)
I'm about as multi-fandom as they come, but the ones I've been lasered-in on lately are Resident Evil (2&4, 3, and 7&8 separately but also altogether lol), Genshin Impact, Gideon the Ninth, Gearbreakers, and Pacific Rim (constantly and always lmao). ((as for ships I'm also a multi-shipper lol love Leon/Ada and Leon/Luis from RE4, Jill/Carlos from RE3, Kaveh/Alhaitham, Itto/Kuki, and Yunjin/Kuki from Genshin, Harrow/Gideon and Palamedes&Gideon from GtN, Eris/Sona, Enyo&Sona, and Jenny/Zamaya from Gearbreakers!)) ^v^' Thank you for asking! I'm always happy to talk about my favorite media hehe
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url music meme
I was tagged by @melisusthewee | @inquisitoracorn | @1000generations | @oxygenforthewicked | @hoochieblues
Pick a song for each letter of your url and tag the same number of people as there are letters. super late on this one. @diirthara-ma | @rozzwil | @siennamain | @whataboutbugs | @victoriousscarf if you haven’t done this yet and would like to :)
Overall I’d like to recommend: The Oh Hellos, Machine Gun Kelly, alt J, and Death Cab for Cutie but I’m excluding them from these selections because I just have TOO MUCH of their music...
Tried to get a good mix of genres!
d - Desire, Years & Years
r - Real (Radio Edit), Years & Years
e - Even If It’s a Lie - Demo, Matt Maltese
a - arrow, half*alive
d - Die Young, Sylvan Esso
f - For You, Fyfe
u - Used, Jake Troth
t - t r a n s p a r e n t s o u l, WILLOW & Travis Barker
u - Undercover Martyn, Two Door Cinema Club
r - Redbone, Dontcry
e - Electric Pow Wow Drum, The Halluci Nation
s - SGL, Now Now
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The Little-Known Story of 16th- to 18th-Century Nordic Witch Trials
https://sciencespies.com/history/the-little-known-story-of-16th-to-18th-century-nordic-witch-trials/
The Little-Known Story of 16th- to 18th-Century Nordic Witch Trials
Fire, smoke and wood surround a young woman tied to a stake. As the flames creep closer, she strains against her bonds, fruitlessly hoping to escape her impending fate. Her skin sizzles, and her terrified screams pierce the air before fading into silence.
This scenario may sound like the beginning of a horror movie or a nightmare, but in late Renaissance and Enlightenment-era Europe, it was an all-too-familiar sight, with tens of thousands burned at the stake for witchcraft. Some were lucky enough to be strangled, hanged or beheaded prior to facing the flames, but many were left to endure the full horrors of the sentence.
Almost 240 years after Europe’s last execution on charges of witchcraft, an exhibition at Kunsthal Charlottenborg in Copenhagen, Denmark, seeks to shed light on 16th- through 18th-century witches and witchcraft trials in the Nordic region. Titled “Witch Hunt,” the show juxtaposes contemporary commissions with historical works by the likes of Albrecht Dürer and Claude Gillot.
“The participating artists explore discriminatory fear and hatred as it spreads from both the bottom up and the top down—between neighbors onto larger communities and from governments to other political institutions, questioning how such narratives are often written out of history,” says the gallery in a statement. “At a time of global unrest, as the politics of commemoration are in question, ‘Witch Hunt’ suggests the need to revisit seemingly distant histories and proposes new imaginaries for remembering and representation.”
Sandra Mujinga, Ghosting, 2019
(Courtesy of kuntsneren and Croy Nielsen, Wien / Kunsthal Charlottenborg)
Carmen Winant, The neighbor, the friend, the lover, 2020
(Courtesy of the artist and Stene Projects, Stockholm / Kunsthal Charlottenborg)
Glaude Gillot, Hekesabbat, c. 1698–1722
(Courtesy of Kunsthal Charlottenborg / Michael Fornitz collection)
As alluded to by the statement, representation is a key aspect of the witchcraft narrative. Between 70 and 80 percent of individuals accused of witchcraft in Europe were women, writes scholar Suzannah Lipscomb for History Extra; she adds, “[B]ecause women were believed to be morally and spiritually weaker than men, they were thought to be particularly vulnerable to diabolic persuasion.”
“Witch Hunt” recontextualizes this trend, scrutinizing the biased nature of witchcraft trials and drawing attention to oft-overlooked “incidents of indigenous violence” in Iceland, Norway, Denmark, Sweden and Finland, per Caroline Goldstein of artnet News.
Featuring such female artists as Louise Bourgeois, Carol Rama, Carmen Winant and Aviva Silverman, the exhibition contextualizes works of art on view by presenting scholarship and archival materials that detail the social, gendered and geopolitical aspects of Nordic witchcraft trials.
“From the impact of Danish colonialism to the multifaceted violences of misogyny, the exhibition proposes a present haunted by persecutions of the past—but one that is also occupied by new critical voices of opposition,” says Kunsthal Charlottenborg in the statement.
Some pieces in the show—such as Máret Ánne Sara’s Gielastuvvon (Snared)—appear to explicitly reference the vicious history of the trials. In the 2018 work, noose-like lassoes hang from the ceiling, offering viewers an eerie reminder of the fate that some witches faced. (In Salem, Massachusetts, for instance, accused witches were hanged rather than burned.) Others, like Albrecht Dürer’s 1497 De fire hekse (The Four Witches), are less immediately arresting but still illuminating.
Máret Ánne Sara, Gielastuvvon (Snared), 2018
(Photo by Libor Galia / Courtesy of the artist and Kunsthal Charlottenborg)
In Denmark specifically, around 1,000 individuals were executed as witches, wrote Jimmy Fyfe for the Copenhagen Post in 2016. Though the practice of witchcraft itself emerged as part of Danish culture as early as 1100, witch-hunting hysteria peaked during the 16th and 17th centuries, when the Protestant Reformation was in full force.
Denmark’s Christian IV introduced an ordinance “against witches and their accomplices” in 1617. According to a 2011 paper by Louise Nyholm Kallestrup, a historian at the University of Southern Denmark, the legislation “prohibited all forms of magic, benevolent as well as malevolent,” and emphasized the public’s “obligation to denounce witchcraft to the courts.”
During the eight years following the ordinance’s adoption, Denmark’s number of witchcraft trials increased, with accused individuals burned at the stake roughly every five days, per Agence France-Presse (AFP). Witch hunts only fell in popularity in the second half of the 17th century, when skepticism among the upper classes precipitated their decline.
Kunsthal Charlottenborg isn’t the only Danish cultural institution revisiting the region’s history of witchcraft. In June, Hex! Museum of Witch Hunt opened in the town of Ribe. As AFP reports, the museum—located in the house of a former witch hunter—features witchcraft-related objects ranging from brooms to amulets, dolls and torture devices.
“Interestingly, the ‘historic truths’ pertaining to the witch hunt era have since been blurred and reinterpreted by more popular notions of the topic,” museum historian Louise Hauberg Lindgaard tells AFP, “and we can definitely feel the desire to understand ‘what actually happened’ among our guests.”
“Witch Hunt” is on view at the Kunsthal Charlottenborg in Copenhagen from November 7 to January 17, 2021.
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On December 14th 1947 Will Fyfe the music hall maestro died.
Fyfe was an actor, music-hall entertainer, and pantomimist, one of the most popular character comedians of British stage and screen of the era. As a child Fyffe toured Scotland in his father’s stock company; he made his debut as Little Willie in East Lynne. A precocious actor, he played the aged Polonius in Shakespeare’s Hamlet when only 15, after which he toured with other companies.
Though his ability was considerable, he devoted himself to the music hall, going into revue with his sketches of Scottish characters—the Glasgow drunk, the village idiot, the sailor, the centenarian, the railway guard. Although he was born in St Andrews the Glasgow people took Will Fyfe to their hearts with his own song and still sung to this day at drunken parties all over the world "I Belong To Glasgow"
Fyffe, or so the story goes, met his greatest inspiration late one night at Central Station, Glasgow. This would be some time in the 1920s - the date is unclear - when Fyffe had established himself as a comic and singer who specialised in Scottish characters - often old men, engineers, shepherds, local worthies. He came from a theatrical family and had toured as a straight actor in Shakespeare. He wasn't as good a singer as his slightly older contemporary, Harry Lauder but his apprenticeship made him a far more subtle and wittier impersonator; Lauder could only impersonate a historical kind of "Scotsman", which was a weirdly clothed and exaggerated version of himself, whereas Fyffe was alive to the present in all its variety, so much more versatile.
I found the story of how his most famous song came about....
"A! night at Central Station he met a drunk. According to Albert Mackie's The Scotch Comedians, the drunk was "genial and demonstrative" and "laying off about Karl Marx and John Barleycorn with equal enthusiasm". Fyffe asked him: "Do you belong to Glasgow?" and he replied: "At the moment, at the moment, Glasgow belongs to me."
Cut from this scene to Will Fyffe scribbling in his gaslit theatrical lodgings and chucking scrunched-up balls of his paper into the fire, until at last the chorus emerges: "I belong to Glasgow, dear old Glasgow town / But something's the matter with Glasgow / For it's going round and round / I'm only a common old working chap as anyone here can see / But when I get a couple of drinks on a Saturday / Glasgow belongs to me."
To set up the chorus, however, he also needed verses. How did Fyffe's character come to be drunk? "I've been wi' a few o' ma cronies, one or two pals o' ma ain / We went in a hotel, where we did very well / Then we came out once again / Then we went into another, that is the reason I'm fu' / We had six deoch an' dorises, then sang a chorus / Just listen, I'll sing it to you . . ." What were the benefits of being drunk? In the second and only other verse, "There's nae harm in taking a drappie, it ends all your trouble and strife / It gives you the feeling that when you get home / You don't care a hang for the wife."
Lauder is said to have refused the song when offered it on the grounds that it glorified drink (though Fyffe offering Lauder a song he had written for himself makes this an unlikely story). In fact, "I Belong to Glasgow" is fondly satirical about drink and the brotherly sentiments that sprang awake from its effects regularly at 10 on a Saturday night.
The outsider's image of Glasgow for much of the last century was set by this hugely popular song and by an equally popular novel, first published in 1935, about razor gangs: Alexander McArthur and Kingsley Long's No Mean City. Glasgow declined from its position as the second city of the empire and the workshop of the world and took on the reputation, which it has never quite shed, for bad housing, poverty, violence, socialism - and drink.
Still, "I Belong to Glasgow" is a very good song. Outside London, no other city in Britain has an anthem celebrating citizenship (unless you include Aberdeen, as in "The Northern Lights of old . . . mean home, sweet home to me"). Today more drinking must get done in Glasgow than in Fyffe's time, even though the population has almost halved. Almost every fine old building in the city centre has been converted from a bank or shipping office into a bar.
I suppose if you could eavesdrop into some of the drunken chats outside these modern drinking dens you could pen many a song, or joke from what you hear, I don't belong to Glasgow, I do however love the city and it's people, the song shall forever be a part of it and sung on many a daunder hame I should think. It has been covered by many a singer, they include such greats as Danny Kaye, Eartha Kitt, Gracie Fields, Kirk Douglas and of course Billy Connolly.
Will Fyffe died after falling from a window in the Rusacks Hotel in St Andrews in December 1947. The fall has been attributed to dizziness caused by an operation on his ear, he was 62 years old.
http://scotiafile.blogspot.com/2016/04/will-fyffe-1885-1947.html
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#damn aish is one of the early birds#fyfe's one of the late ones#he was probably taking selfies with the fans#'fyfe hurry up the plane's leaving'#taberner last obviously#he'd be the type to be like strolling casually to the check in gate knowing that the plane will wait for him#cox and ryan would've entered together#mundy's such a nerd#he's the dad of the group#he's the one racing along through the airport at 3am even though the flight's at 2pm
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@jaedenswesley oh hey dude you tagged me now I have to do this thing
Rules: If you see this, write the top ten songs you’ve been listening to lately and tag ten people to do the same (Or hey, don’t tag 10 people, maybe you don’t know 10 people, maybe you don’t want to bother them. That’s fine, do what makes you the most comfortable).
1. Can’t Shake this Feeling - Grum
2. Closer - Fyfe
3. The End - Philanthrope feat. Fujitsu
4. Courtship Dating - Crystal Castles
5. Without You - Lapalux
6. Trust - Half Moon Run
7. Wishery - Pogo
8. Bye Bye - SAFIA
9. Soldiers - Rat & Co
10. Lay Down - Caravan Palace
I’m a big music person, I did the math and I average at least 2 new artists a month. My main Spotify playlist has over 6,000 songs on it and almost 400 solid hours of music. This is the cool mod speaking, by the way.
Who do I tag... That’s a tough one. Most of the people I WOULD tag have already been tagged, which really just complicates things. So in the nicest, least bothering way possible, I’m just gonna go ahead and @soupler @losvcr
Y’all can do it if you want to
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20 THOUGHTS: Bugger
FAR too many assumed we’d be having the biggest grand final in over 30 years this time last week
Half-time Friday night we all thought we’d got it wrong but alas regular programming prevailed and they then expected Saturday to be the breezier of the two prelims .
Yeah nah.
Now we have third playing sixth in a Grand Final no-one saw pre-season, mid-season, to start the finals or even last week when it was a one in four chance.
Expect the unexpected they say. And they are usually right on that.
1. Tigers just win, by five goals plus. As soon as that siren went Saturday, and thousands of male Collingwood supporters suddenly sprouted innies, thousands of Richmond fans grew really firmly in the trouser knowing it was only the expansion kids ahead of them next week now. Giants have won two games by under a kick in the dying minutes, once lucky, twice you’re kidding yourself, three times though, yeah nah.
2. Actually, lets knock out some Brownlow before getting back to the on field. Interesting year, probably the greatest field of live chances going in for some time. So much analysis available these days that someone out there will get it right but about a dozen others, whilst looking super schmick with their spreadsheets and formulas, will be way off. This column has no idea although liked Fyfe for a while. Gets 2 or 3 votes in each Dockers win. Nice platform.
3. Otherwise, three randoms to watch – Boak, Yeo and Treloar, could easily podium. And a real smokey from the clouds? James Worpel. One for the exotics.
4. Back to on field, let’s go back to Friday. Cats missed a Scott Selwood type in the midfield. Getting ahead was one thing, and they did that well to their credit. But when it got tough in the second half, when the Tigs were coming, they lacked grunt and determination like the Giants showed in the final term Saturday, to get the job done. And to be honest its plagued them since the bye too. Can look flashy, can score, but when it needs to get ugly for 15-20 mins, think back to the first half of the first final too, no dice. Kinda like when its past 2am on a Bucks night, usually phantom, usually pass out, usually Ryan Babel.
5. Alrighty, Saturday. Yikes. Wet weather clearly didn’t favour the Pies. No excuse but it mattered. Why? Well would you like to know who trained in a down pour midweek? The Giants, in their main session. Probably the best training session in that football history given the conditions that eventuated.
6. So – and thanks to Rohan Connolly for this, who I’m shamelessly stealing from – between 2008 and 2015 only one Qualifying Final winner of 18 lost a prelim final. The last four years where we’ve had a pre-Finals bye, it’s a 4-4 record. Look at the Pies, didn’t turn up until three quarter time, the Tigers at least turned up after half time. Plus last year, the Pies had no right in their matchup with the Tiges and jumped them something shocking in that first half. Might be something to it. Might not be wrong, but there’s something to it.
7. If you look at the Pies, Tigers and Giants, on balance this all looks about right. Richmond since 2017 probably deserve at least one flag and a go this weekend at a second. The Giants these last four years probably deserve a Grand Final appearance for their body of work. And Collingwood these last 18 months, a toss of the coin Grand Final result probably sits about right for them too.
8. Difference between Richmond and Collingwood? One covered their injuries a lot better and was better set up for the pointy end as a result. Injuries aren’t the reason the Pies lost Saturday or that they would have been underdogs to Richmond had they won, but it’s the reason Richmond has a better list and is likely to win a second flag in three. Case in point – Richmond’s reserves win the Grand Final a week before their Seniors probably win as well, the Collingwood reserves didn’t even make the VFL Finals.
9. Bucks getting questioned a bit in the media, ‘oh, that’s 22 years now without a flag, ho hum indeed’. Relax. On that basis we should give Bob Skilton a call, interrupt his midday movie to let him know despite his three Brownlows and everything else he means to South, his Hall of Fame Legend status is getting revoked coz he never won a flag. And that his spot will be taken by Tom Barrass instead, because he has actually won one. That Buckley hasn’t got a flag isn’t news, it might be factual but its not a story. The idea that obviously would clearly yearn for one is also factual, but not a story. Please be serious.
10. Matt De Boer was excellent on Saturday but then again the Collingwood mids weren’t requiring a tag to be kept quiet. Does he got to Dusty and try and ruffle him again like he successfully achieved last time in Sydney? Won’t matter, Martin goes forward and kicks four on him in that case. Whether Martin gets shut down in the midfield by De Boer or not won’t prevent a Tigers’ flag anyway, lets not bother about that discussion all week.
11. Norm Smith tip – no Tiger is in better nick than Shane Edwards, otherwise Bachar Houli for a little value with you preferred corporate bookmaker. But Titch onball will be as dangerous for Leon Cameron as nailing your Tinder date in Bali. You better put a clamp on that otherwise you’re in big trouble.
12. Marlion Pickett was BOG in the VFL GF yesterday. We know that the Tigs have held over Jack Ross and Kamdyn McIntosh in lieu of the incredibly-stiff Jack Graham being doubtful to get up for Saturday. But back on May 28th we said this lad, who was playing for South Fremantle four months ago “would be best 22 by year’s end”. We’ve left it late but whilst McIntosh might be the safer play, Dimma will go very close to debuting the Western-Australian in the hope his mercurial style might just be perfect for an occasion like Saturday. If he’s picked, remember where you heard it first. Or read it first, even.
13. Presume Kevin Sheedy is on standby to present the cup to Phil Davis and Leon Cameron should the Giants salute, the link to Richmond notwithstanding. The GWS best and fairest is the Kevin Sheedy medal, and unless you’re looking to Chad Cornes or Izzy Folau it has to be Sheeds. On the Tigers side, I think about Dale Weightman, otherwise Matty Knights or even Chris Newman if you want to go more recent.
14. So yes, Richmond has been the pick for a while and it remains the pick. They are beatable though. Last four games their opponents all had strong chances they didn’t take. Eagles down here, in the wet, stuffed it and lost by a kick. Brisbane the week after got spooked but did a lot right but too late. First final, Brissy again, they kick straight they’re in it up to their eyeballs and then Geelong was leading by 21 points at half time, kick straighter its over five goals and the Tigs are staring down a repeat of last year. They’re not invincible, but it was only ever going to be a hot Essendon or hot Collingwood who stood a chance this finals series. Yet the Bombers lasted as long in September as Saturday Night Rove and then the Pies made a mess of it like The Veronicas on a Qantas flight.
15. This column gets it right far more often than most and has banged on about the Clarkson-assistants theory for some time. This week’s Grand Final coaches, both ex-Hawthorn assistants. It will mean that after this weekend the last seven premierships will have been coached by Al Clarkson or one of his ex-assistants. Incredible. By this column, that is.
16. More people in Sydney watched the Giants on free to air Saturday afternoon than people in Melbourne watched the Storm on free to air that night. What do we make of that?
I love Victorian footy as much as the next Ted Whitten. This column still lapses occasionally and refers to Fitzroy instead of Brisbane, and it’s only been 20+ years. And whilst this column’s position on the Gold Coast experiment is well documented, the idea of a team in Western Sydney has always made sense to me. The population out there alone is more than Perth, Adelaide and Geelong combined.
So to see GWS successful, largely on their own merit now (Gold Coast with the same concessions stuffed it, and you didn’t see Toby Greene playing on Saturday did we), is a good thing for the comp. Leave Gold Coast and Tassie aside, mind you.
17. Speaking of Victorian footy, can we just kick the AFL reserves team out of the VFL into a legit reserves comp, and let Williamstown and Port Melbourne and Werribee actualy duke it out for a proper VFL title? Williamstown are long-storied VFA club who were looking for their 15th flag in 155 years of history. They lost to a team who sat out two of their players because they might be needed this coming weekend in a different comp. Don’t like it. Split the AFL reserves from the VFL. And the SANFL…
18. Great to see Glenelg, another historic club in this country, win its first flag in 33 years. And yes they were playing Port Adelaide, their biggest rival, but half the opposition Sunday were Port Adelaide’s reserves, not SANFL players, so it’s a similar story. Great for the Bays to get up, but let the SANFL Magpies be just that, and then Port and the Crows can have separate reserves teams playing reserves footy.
19. Speaking of Williamstown, feel for Willie Wheeler. Just a knockabout VFL footballer who had the win on his boot twice in the last term, so to lose by under a kick is devastating.
20. Still not bothered by trade chatter. It’s all glorified brainstorming and suggestion permeating from the Herald Sun lunch room. When something remotely close to an actual story emerges I’ll get interested. Until then I’ll pass on Ralphy and Sammy and Jay-Z getting far too eggplant about what boils down to guesswork or stuff they dreamt about the night before when their partner slept at her friend’s house once again.
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