Storm cooked

Storm just cannot win grand finals

That was a stone cold choke

McLaren is going to ruin Piastri, it’s clear he no longer has trust in his team to do right by him. If Norris overtakes him from here the hit to his reputation will be significant and he will be stuck in a team where he’s forever consigned to being second in the pecking order.

This is the race that won’t end, but I can’t look away #Bathurst1000

Reckon there might be a few more people on the top of the mountain next year #Bathurst1000

That might be the best race I’ve ever seen #Bathurst1000

I have already noticed a change in the last week in the way ex-players are talking about the Essendon Football Club (Zaharakis excepted), and today both Tim Watson and Matthew Lloyd are running Essendon’s lines on the Merrett trade. Welsh’s call to arms is having an impact.

Melbourne are very lucky Merrett and Curnow are taking all the media attention away from the shitshow that is going to be the Clayton Oliver deal

This is a deal you can rebuild a club around, not the shit useless picks we’re going to end up taking for Merrett

Fox’s coverage is terrible

Clubs are pushing back. Petracca and Curnow deals have set the market for contracted players.

Three first rounders and McKenzie probably would have got the deal done. What were Hawthorn thinking?

There will be a lot of other clubs privately thankful that Essendon held firm on Merrett. The lines on contracted player movement have been re-drawn.

The big mistake Petroro and Hawthorn made from a PR point of view was dropping the trade bomb too early, it gave Essendon time to have our internal blow up and galvanise and by the time it was trade period the heat had gone out of the story. We’d already weathered the worst of

It rains in Perth once a year and only ever when there’s cricket on

Controversial opinion: the Solomon appointment is embarrassing. Professionally-run, successful football clubs don’t appoint board members as coaches. It’s giving major suburban footy club vibes.

Shoutout to the Slavia Praha fan in the crowd reading À rebours #UCL