Biz's PA rang me at the crack of dawn asking me to get down there and fill in for the bloke - she was trying to sober him up but wasn't having much luck. So I did.
Henry was a standout for me, they tried a hard tag for most of the game but he still snagged 3.1 by the end - took him a while to get into it though. I agree with Biz about Luke Jackson - at 198cms and 94 kilos he was very very good, especially on the wing early. Good workers in the middle, you could throw a blanket over Robertson, Clarke and Garcia. The kid that really grabbed my attention was Tyrone Thorne (wore #3 on the day) - puny kid with big boots (167cms and 60 kgs) who kicked two straight long bombs from inside/outside the 50 late in the game. Big kicker, straight as an arrow drop kicks that weren't bothered one bit with the gusty wind on the day.
For the Vic Metro kids....well, what a bunch of precocious big white fellas. I'm sure they would go home with lots of stories to tell their grammar school mates, but they were never in the game - they seemed scared of us. Ok, if you were a Vic list manager and you felt compelled to draft one of those lunkheads Polly, who would you pick? Um, ...Joshua Worrell from Sandringham, but only because he seemed to have some goal sense.
Part of the reason why I went down to Lathlain was to have a look at the OOFTITS new ETAF. Wow, what a cow shed - I tell you, that building isn't going to win any architectural awards - maybe a tin garage commendation, but that's it. I sat there staring at it thinking "Yeah, if I was a homeless black cockatoo I'd bugger off from there too". The DFO place near the airport looks way better than that dump - perfectly suitable for those losers.