No, at least not in that game. Ben was on the ground at full-time and can be seen celebrating (in the number 4 jumper, that he wouldn't give back to Plugger). When the coaching box rises, it looks like there's a player with their arm in a sling. It could be Seymour?
A great game to watch is the 2016 Prelim v Cats at MCG. Buddy, Heeney, Parker, Tippett and just about everybody played well. Pity we peaked a week early notwithstanding the umps hosed us in the GF. Also PF v Dockers in 2006. Hall,O' Loughlin, O'Keefe 14 goals between them.
Fosdike? One of our main runners did their ankle I thought
I remember listening to a podcast with Ted Richards a year or two ago, and he said that was the day they believed they could win the comp that year. He said they developed an incredible belief in each other. And you can see Adam is at the heart of that. A video to dig out to show future generations how good Goodsey was.
Great stuff.
Thanks Deja. I really enjoyed that.
PS: My sister emailed me while on vacation in Florida. She and my brother both have Covid. My brother in law is in hospital with pneumonia, but recovering well. She says Americans are so selfish. They're are still out partying like nothing's happening.
That must be a worry for you. I hope they have a speedy recovery. I suspect that the attitude of many Americans to coronavirus, is influenced by what's been coming out of the government and the media. Unfortunately, that messaging has been mixed: to put it very mildly.
There's an interesting recent book by Michael Lewis, called The Fifth Risk. As you're probably aware, Lewis is well known to many sports fans, for his books; Moneyball and The Blind Side, but he's also produced books that are more financially and politically based, like, The Big Short and Liar's Poker. In The Fifth Risk, he argues that a major risk to America, is the running down of government services, by administrations that seem to think that 'government is the problem'. In my opinion, that risk is now being realised.
Yes, it would be an interesting exercise, to go back and examine each premiership side, to try and determine when they genuinely started to believe that they could win the premiership. While I'm sure most players would go into a season, claiming that their side is a chance to win the comp, I doubt if that would a strongly held and predominant belief within a club, until the team had at least few games where everything just clicked.
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