The Flux Report: Cut to the finals Round.

[AeonFlux]

Yes, we’ve seen enough. No need to waste time with the rest of the H&A season! Just cut straight to the finals.

Week 1: St Kilda vs he-whose-name-we-shall-not-speak’s purple atrocities at Linton Lodger Stadium.

We win.

Easily.





This week's committee:
Catherine. (Brought takeaway again. Vegan again. Yum.)
Damian Barrett. (Brought desert – humble pie. Yum yum. )
All the surviving members of the Hole in the Ted gang. (Except the bloke who had his hat pinched.)
Aaron.
Saxons. (RosKilda’s favourite poster. Favourite posters, in fact. )
Whispering Norwegian Teds. (Norway's favourite poster.)
tony 1874 (Teds’ mate from Big Booty).
Parquetrysainter. (He’s just like Teds).

Missing:
Lazar. (On holidays. Again.) Your presence and your ‘!’s were missed.
Simon. (Still troll hunting in Norway. Simon, come Back From the Norway.)
Rodger. <swoon>
Johnny.
Marto. (Keeps muttering something about Aaron.)
Loris. (Where are you? Was it that crack about WA cars and flux capacitors, Loris?)
Sainter K. (Where are you?)
Jaffa Boy. (Arguing with a straw man – still.)
Straw man. (Bemused by Jaffa Boy – still.)
Bluthy. (Ask Lazar. Ask your local Saudi embassy.)
Julian Assange. (Ask your local US embassy. )




Good stuff:
- Members!!!!!!!! !!!!!
- Kent. Repaid retaining his spot to have a crack at his old mob (as called for by the committee). Now mate, we’ve seen what you can do. Please sir, can we have some more? Teds has gone (way) out on a limb for you. No one would want Teds to be made to look silly, some more.
- Billings (aka to some, “I’d rather have pick 9”). Again.
- BAcres influential. Again.
- Paton getting his hands on the footy, and settling in.
- Gears. Where’s the love? Corker of a game. (Looks like next week someone else will have to play on Gears’ patsy, Eddie ‘I rarely touch it away from home’ Betts.)
- The mids’. Took a while to realize that Gone was winning most of the taps, but eventually the penny dropped, and we squared the ledger for clearances.
- More kicks than handballs – yet again.
- More frees for than against. (How’d that happen?)
- More goals than behinds. (How’d that happen?)
- The backline. Again. Onya Henry P!!!!!

Another awesome effort by our backline, had me thinking what we paid for them .. s
Here is our back seven for the day, six as named plus Paton on the rotation:

Webster (pick 42) Brown (delisted free agent) Savage (steak knives in McEvoy trade)
Wilkie (rookie) Battle (pick 39) Geary (rookie)

plus Paton (pick 46)

That is one cheap backline... but they were fantastic to a man again today
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- Paddy didn’t get concussed. (We think.........?)
- Hannerbery didn’t get concussed. (we know.........)
- Hannerbery still hasn’t been listed as the career-ending ‘2 weeks’. In fact, Whispering Norwegian Teds is prepared to cut 39 year old Hanners’ some slack for at least a year. (What’s $800K p.a. between friends, anyway? )
- Grubby Allan seems to have (finally) settled into his job role. He's keeping <the definitive article deleted by mods> Cho occupied, so that the adults can run training & match day tactics. This week’s chat between the 2.....






Great stuff:
Members outmarking three (bigger) Tankards. And little Lonie then letting Max Gone know all about it.




Stuff not to like so much:
- Still too much bombing. Hopefully Der-mutt can sort this out soon.
- Battle. Still wasted in defence.




Good bye:
Take your pick.
- Concussions. Still reportedly has a sore head from that 'knock to the buttocks'. Overall health.
We’d be crazy not to retire him, and pay him out.

Or,

- Mongrel Punt.

If anything is going to make St Kilda look considerably less threatening, it’s putting Paddy McCartin back into that line up. The quickness in which they were able to empty the forward line out to get numbers back behind the footy, and also get forward into space when they got the footy back was elite. The forward group did the GPS trackers a working over today. Strong doubts McCartin can provide that sort of pressure. https://themongrelpunt.com/afl/2019/04/ ... dees-9c5za

We’d be crazy not to retire him, and pay him out.




Why is this so? 1:


The improvement - indigenous.

The curse has been lifted. The Saints have risen!!!

You may well be right. We now have 4 indigenous players on our list. Gotta help. Think I'm a believer.

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Have to agree also. Our Saints have a proud record re indigenous players. Every since the 70’s we’ve had a very good name in this area. This decade, the ranks were very thin. This is now being addressed.





Why is this so? 2:


The improvement - choaching.
Hearing a few calls to give the choaching gig to Ratten. But how do we know that our improvement is due to Ratten though??? Could be Lade, for instance?

However, our best performing 'section' is still the undermanned defence.
And that's Henry Playfair. (As pointed out by Linton Lodger. )

But regardless, the improvement (to date) this year just shows that <the definite article deleted by mods> Cho must go!

The senior coach himself is doing as he’s told and clearly not interfering with the new plan.

richo could leave now and I feel the side would carry on just nicely.

Director of Choaching? Happy to save face for him. He seems a decent bloke. Such a move would also minimize possible disharmony/disruption/destabilization.

However, the off-field blokes that we should be looking to sign up asap for the longer term are...
- Slater,
- Donohue the beach wrestling coach,
- Playfair,
- Libratore (and whomever he wants from our recruiting team),
- Our new stats' anal-lysis bloke.

Also, see how he settles in, but suspect soon to be wanting to add Der-Mutt to that list.

And, bring Lenny and Banger home!!!!!!! !!!!! Love the romance. Gotta’ have romance!!!! !!!!!




Opposition player to bag:
The whole Melbourne Bitter Tankards’ football club!!!!!! !!!!!

This is why you never ever ever never ever tank! Not ever!!!!

Over a decade of tanking, and, the losing mentality is ingrained. It’s now in their DNA. (Do Not Achieve.) Talk about a mob of under performing, mentally soft, downhill-skiing, snow bunnies.

And then there’s the choach! Their choach! He was injecting the Melatonin vanity drug along with Tirdy when at Effendrug. But, Goodwhine was still playing suburban footy at the time. And under WADA rules, playing footy and artificial tans are a big no-no - just ask TheOtherThommo. (Terry Wallet aside, of course. ) So where is Goodwhine's ban??????

And whilst there are still some issues with our forward 50 entries, they are abso-banned wording-lutely nothing on those of the Tankards. Check these match ‘highlights’ from Saturday.

Gate to the groin? That’s gotta hurt, snow bunny.




Post of the week:

Should auld acquaintance be forgot
Keep your eye on the rebuild and spew!

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Correction of the week:

richo could leave now and I feel the side would carry on just nicely.

I just love how someone who has never met the guy, nor stepped inside the organisation to see what work they actually do, could be so arrogant to post such an imbecilic comment.
P.s, I think you are crap at your job. Just sayin.

Sorry, but this is an incorrect anal-lysis. Many (envious) ex-AFL players have been told that the body of work performed by the fireman and his hose, is both enormous, and exemplary in sating many a fire.
(Word is, also extinguished some building fires on the side. Just sayin. )





Changes for the Fruit Tingles back at Linton Lodger Stadium:
Assuming
- Longy is right,
- Louey P still isn’t,
- Jack S’s black dog is kept at bay, then,
No change.

Still a bit concerned re no help for the Marshall though.
Lazar, your one week holiday has come at a bad time. Maybe you should have appealed to the Tribunal?????

However, looking ahead, till we can find a mobile ruckman (via Louey making the grade, or we recruit one), then this is a good solution.

Long term there will be no problem Jake Carlisle will be Back and Max King a 202 Cm rolls Royce will be in our team.
Longer will be delisted and Pierce will be Back up. Acres can pinch hit like he has we don’t need a lumbering 2 nd Ruckman.

Badger’s ass (whatever that means? ):
Hind. You’re next cab off the rank mate.





Update:
Gears’ out, so Seb to captain the side. This at least is good. When captain, Seb seems to concentrate on where his kicks are directed.





Confused :
Who replaces Gears'?

Nick Hind to play next week...its a must.

Watched the whole Sandy game. Pretty sure he got 40 touches and completely dominated. He is super quick and has excellent foot skills. Barely missed a target all day. We might have found another player alongside Wilkie and Parker from the mature crop. Great recruitment. Think he might replace Dmac who went off in the 2nd and never returned due to concussion.

Or,

White for Geary. Only change.

Even parquetrysainter can’t believe that 180 degree effort – he was floored.

So he checked the dates. Must be ‘time of the month’ again(?)





Thoughts, Johnny?

Thoughts, Rodger <swoon>?

Thoughts, Saintsationalists?












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[tedtheodorelogan2018]

You are crazy mad...in a funny way...I think.

[takeaway]

Great read. You would make a Govt white paper interesting. Catherines have been a bit subdued lately, but a couple of losses will sort that out.

[Dis Believer]

Think White is more like for like than Hind is as a replacement for Gears......

[Dis Believer]

Oh, and I got my hat back......

[Premium89]

“Terry Wallet” and the fake tan!!
Almost spat my drink...

[asiu]

Oh, and I got my hat back......

“why wasn’t i told”

dorie evans
1972

[asiu]

rockslides preferred poster set made me giggle
then nicely rounded out with the Fruit Tingles

i’ll never see that mob the same ever again

hahaha @ fruit tingles

(making a comeback as well , so very on trend)

all hail Aeon

[Dis Believer]

Hail.....

[Sainternist]

Love the old Tim and Debbie clips from Australian - You're Standing in It. The actress who played Debbie is actually the mother of an old childhood friend of mine. Lovely lady. Her husband was also in the cast of that show and is a well known comedian from over the years. He's a terrific person, too.