If (as is devoutly to be wished) they get done over by the Blues in their Saturday breakfast encounter, I'm expecting to hear Sumich claim the Slime lost because his charges' routines were thrown out by their lack of travel.

How is it that the Eagles' exciting rising stars have had all three of their pre-season games at home, while Freo have had two out of three away (and likely three out of four if I'm reading the mealy-mouthed equivocation of Adrian Anderson right)?

Meanwhile, the inconvenient truths coming out of last weekend have literally rendered 6PR's sports panel speechless. In a desperate attempt at footy climate change denial, they've reverted to those aimless musings that are supposed to pass the time when there's no actual football being played. Hours spent going through lists of players who can only kick left foot, or who have changed positions during their careers (in both cases mainly consisting of the hideous Langdon's misty-eyed and often homoerotic reminiscences of the fabulous and goofy characters in "our" great team of the last century).

At least, by virtually ignoring the games played last weekend, they are spared having to humiliate themselves like Peter Sumich.