Dwayne Russell's Mole

@AFL There's a weird thing happening this year where most of the teams have just conceded that there are only 4 or so teams that can win it this year, and are focussing on other things. Bit bizarre

Collingwood will continue with its plan to rest Scott Pendlebury next week to ensure his record-breaking 433rd match will be played in Melbourne. Details: afl.com.au/news/1515518

@chris_willo @JonathanHorn23 That number skews significantly higher on the west coast purely because he's a Perth boy

Owner of Bar 20 wants to bring in the army

@YannickOda He's like a politician - he's saying what he thinks the public want to hear instead of anything sincere at all. Unclear if he actually likes football at all

#firstcrack used to be good. Now with Jay Clark, it’s just gossip. 9 matches and his first crack is Toby Greene to Geelong. Absolutely useless cunt.

@1116sen @BupaAustralia Why would anyone care about what Ang Christou said about Harry Dean on blues radio? What is this shit?

Ang likes what he sees from youngster Harry Dean 💪 #AFLBluesSaints | @BupaAustralia

@Andy_YoureAStar @Jousting_Sticks Eloquence sometimes belies intelligence. Whateley is incapable of having any unique insightful ideas and just wraps bland nuffiness in verbosity

@Jousting_Sticks Whateley is very well spoken. I’m not going to hate on that. We need more well spoken people in AFL media because there’s far too many who stumble over their words or who are just basically inaudible

Speak with pungent pauses and a hyper-enunciated cadence and you can trick yourself into thinking that what you’re saying isn’t completely bereft of anything beyond vibes

@Jousting_Sticks @JoeyFortune "bereft" is a classic Whateley Word. You'll have an army of dumb-smart guys calling you underappreciated soon

@PollyPorridge What an odd, objectively incorrect thing to say

I love Woke Captain as much as the next person, but surely it should be Tom McCartin over him.

@AflGlicko @BeauBremner But you are not the norm. They are not talking about you specifically when they are having "big melbourne club" chat they're talking about the AFL media

@BeauBremner McGovern and Barrass kept West Coast in so many games before 2023. Anyone with eyes saw this and given I'm sick enough to watch every game I don't have these biases.

If he played for a big Melbourne club chat. Perpetual victims out west.

@RalphyHeraldSun Ralphy what is the point of this tweet

Richmond orchestrated what most people would say was the perfectly timed list pivot. Sold off the right assets maximum draft return. Still kept plenty of senior players. But they have won two games & five games in the past two seasons. They have got within seven goals of only one opponent this year. Might win a couple of games at most this year. Injuries have been shocking this year but the modern day rebuild is absolutely punishing. But how else do you try to win flags?

@CalTwomey Cal why did you spend hours writing an article nobody is actually going to read

As if we weren’t doing this again… Ahead of Nick Daicos’ 100th game this week, here is the definitive ranking of the Collingwood superstar’s first 99 games. From No.99 up to No.1, see the list here of the best first 99 games of any player this century👇 afl.com.au/news/1487802/e…

@DylanMcEvoy He does stuff like this all the time too. Selfless role

The "Drop Amiss" flogs won't see it.

@DylanMcEvoy Elbowing Harley in the face should get you a credit tbh

So Pat Voss can elbow Harley in the face but he's not allowed to touch his hair?

@WillFaulknerFOX @FOXFOOTY Who do the bad judges at West Lakes expect to play?

Good judges at West Lakes expect Luke Nankervis to fill the void on a wing left by Callum Ah Chee in the wake of the star recruit’s hamstring injury. The 22-year-old has trained as a winger this pre-season and played seven games at AFL level last year @FOXFOOTY

@FOXFOOTY @RalphyHeraldSun It's also possible that, despite the media's infatuation with the BIG VIC CLUBS, their list isn't actually very good

“Never heard anything like it …” @RalphyHeraldSun breaks down the Essendon situation after a horror fortnight to start the season. Watch #AFLTonight: bit.ly/4bZF4nX

@lenphil29 @fromthe_topdeck We all know this is exactly the direction that this is heading. This league is like a car crash in slow motion

@fromthe_topdeck it would be an exceptionally dumb/great bit if they had a full round to kick off and still went with opening round and the following week round one

the funniest, dumbest fucken league man

@MWL152 @tobie_chapman My favourite part about that was how wildly unnecessary it was to even have him on the injury list at all

@tobie_chapman Feel like Geelong proved this incorrect last year

thank you damo very insightful

@maxlaughton @chris_willo @seanHPN It's one of the most stark examples of the AFL prioritising revenue over quality of product that we can see

@DwayneRussellM @chris_willo @seanHPN The simplest answer would be they don’t prioritise that over other factors when creating the fixture

If I’m reading the numbers right (on my phone), the betting favourite is 10-2 in Round 1 games between Did Play Opening Round and Didn’t Play Opening Round. You can make the stat suit your argument however you like, basically.

@maxlaughton @chris_willo @seanHPN But it's also ridiculous and embarrassing that we even need to have the conversation. If the AFL is going to insist on a ludicrously unpopular and nonsensical opening round, why don't those teams just play each other the next week?

@seanHPN Yep. And without checking the way the previous two years’ games played out, Carlton didn’t exactly run it out the other night like they were more fit than Richmond, so it feels a bit like finding something to suit a narrative

@FOXFOOTY Tell that to the media

Essendon’s start to 2026 was a tough one, to say the least, on Friday night, with coach Brad Scott knowing well there’s still a fair mountain to climb 🪜 MORE ➡️ bit.ly/4rwNhER

@mimibirch It rattled the nuffies in a way that only an innocuous tweet about a team with a fan base utterly devoid and incapable of banter truly can

this tweet clinched the b23 selection