Jonathan Carfi

@FOXFOOTY @RalphyHeraldSun So $225k a year? Would spend less than that on the staff Christmas party

Essendon has parted with $3.6m across the last 16 years paying out head coaches. @RalphyHeraldSun reveals to #OnTheCouch tonight, if the club wants to cut ties with Brad Scott at any point this year, it will cost them an eye-watering sum. DETAILS 👉 bit.ly/4sAUuVH

@JakeDav08180745 @PrinceISname I think this point is exactly why we won’t move forward until he does coach again - until he’s given the chance to fail, the ghost of “what if” will linger in certain circles and no incoming coach will have clear air. Longmire, Hinkley etc would be mad to take the job atm

@PrinceISname Here’s a hypothetical scenario. Say he is picked to be coach again at some point and the same problems remain like lack of effort and consistency? We can’t keep going on circles

I’ve got a question for the pro Hird camp. Explain to me why you think he’s the answer to Essendon’s problems? To me it seems like the players will pick and choose when to perform. If Scott isn’t the coach long term, then bring in somebody younger who understands the modern game

@ScooterMcNeice Plenty of successful teams have not been filled with star players. If the system consistently goes out the window at the first sign of pressure, maybe it’s not a very good system? I think similar story with Carlton / Voss

There will be a lot of Brad Scott posts. He ultimately is responsible. But this EFC member is also looking squarely at players as the system they had been working on went out the window in game 1 & a midfield which is full of experienced players was soundly beaten in all areas.

@HJB3996 @purplepingers I’m sure you can invent grounds for the purpose of submitting to VCAT. Would it have stood up? Absolutely not, but I didn’t want to wait 5 months to find out - I withdrew it, argued with them for a bit and then got it back a couple of weeks later

@Jcarfi @purplepingers Wow. Don’t they have to have some kind of grounds?

A reminder to always claim your bond as soon as you drop the keys off (no matter how much they beg you not to) x

@TronCarterNLU Inspiring stuff from Don

We need a Don Rea speech. Cmon, give the people what they want!

@tombomb09 @CraiG_Mc @sab_rossitto I’m certainly not saying it’s what should happen. I just think something isn’t adding up for me about the whole thing Who’s backing who, the leaks don’t make sense, even the cadence in which the articles are coming out

@Jcarfi @CraiG_Mc @sab_rossitto I reckon that ship has sailed. From a marketing perspective Hird would massively appease 50% and massively annoy 50%. It’s not what we need and Vozzo knows that. In saying that, it’s a pretty loud advertisement that the changes of the last three years aren’t working for players.

If the reports on 9news that the club could be about to extend Brad, I don’t mind it. If the club (coming from a long way back) thinks it is on the right path with him as the man, then why not. Takes away any pressure & possibly of outside noise from the usual suspects. #GoDons

@CraiG_Mc @sab_rossitto @tombomb09 There is a tiny minuscule cynical part of me that has started wondering if this is all a bit of a false flag… a way to restore the old guard Little, Hird etc. trade doesn’t get brokered, Merrett says I can only return if there is change etc.

@sab_rossitto @tombomb09 I love hirdy and I genuinely hope your right and im wrong about hirdy 🙏

@NoLayingUp Right decision in the end, but I imagine Keegan has spent so much energy and focus on the will he/ won’t he decisions, that LD has spent on actually preparing for the Ryder Cup that he may as well have just picked himself

COMMON SENSE HAS WON

@KVanValkenburg With all that being said - you’re also discounting the fact that the USA has a population 6-8x most European nations

@KVanValkenburg @KVanValkenburg honestly I don’t have a dog in this fight, I’m Aussie - I found it amusing that Jamie’s point was that the USA isn’t strong in team sports they didn’t invent and then you listed 5 sports, 4 of which were invented in North America

I'm gonna break some hard news to you here. They play basketball in a lot more countries than they play cricket, and btw, a Canadian invented it. Also, if we didn't remove the best 15,000 athletes from our pool before getting to soccer, we'd be great at soccer too.

@NoLayingUp @KVanValkenburg @KVanValkenburg did you clap back at Jamie Weir for saying Americans are only good at team sports invented by Americans and then list a bunch of sports invented in North America?

An internal slack debate has broken contain on the latest episode of the No Laying Up pod, available now in your podcast feeds. @KVanValkenburg has had several people offer to carry his bag for part of the 100 Hole Hike at East Potomac. Is it fair game to have a caddie for the 100 Hole Hike or is carrying your bag a part of the challenge?

@KVanValkenburg @NoLayingUp One of the best yet, but need to be held accountable for that Cam Smith erasure

For this month episode of @NoLayingUp Narrative Projects, we wanted to bring you the story of Calvin Peete's fascinating life, and go deeper than just the story of his broken arm and accurate driving. Peete was a migrant worker, a pool hall hustler, a diamond salesman, a showman.

This must have been what it was like to watch Tiger at the ‘97 Masters

@JonathanJWalsh Haha you’ve copped a particularly bad couple of days for that

@Jcarfi The rain coming in sideways is doing me in. I can cope with the cold.

Will never complain about Melbourne weather ever again.

@MattP1Gallagher To be fair, most sports fine players who swear in press conferences

Huge news... Charles Leclerc fined 10,000 euros (5,000 suspended) for swearing in Mexico City Post-race Press Conference 🤣

@LeighMino27 @FootyRhino @WestCoastEagles @HawthornFC You tell em champ

@FootyRhino @WestCoastEagles @HawthornFC BUDGE… WE NEED YOU TO BUDGE @HawthornFC

One hour on the clock - genuine chance the Tom Barrass deal doesn’t happen. @WestCoastEagles and @HawthornFC both refusing to budge. Clock ticking.

@NoLayingUp Please continue tweeting

How this last hour is going for the Internationals

@TronCarterNLU Sending the Canadians back out is laughable - being carried on their home deck

Rumors that Min Woo is releasing a new menu this afternoon. Seasonal ingredients and bold flavors. 👨‍🍳