Footy’s back, and wasn’t it a wonderful weekend of footy!  I was lucky enough to be able to have watched five games in full – footy bliss.  I also watched highlights of the other matches, and “On The Couch” and “Footy Classifieds”, so I feel I’m in a position of authority to put together my AFL team of the week for round one – the best players from across the AFL –  in every position, across every line, as based on their performance in round 1.

Here it is:
B: Alan Toovey (Coll), Simon Prestigiacomo (Coll), Tarkyn Lockyer (Coll)
HB: Harry O’Brien(Coll), Nick Maxwell (Coll), Heath Shaw (Coll)
C: Luke Ball (Coll), Dane Swan (Coll), Ben Johnson (Coll)
HF: Josh Fraser (Coll), John Anthony (Coll), Alan Didak (Coll)
F: Paul Medhurst (Coll), Travis Cloke (Coll), Leon Davis (Coll)
Foll: Darren Jolly (Coll), Scott Pendlebury (Coll), Dale Thomas (Coll)
I/C: Shane O’Bree (Coll), Sharrod Wellingham (Coll), Steele Sidebottom (Coll), Leigh Brown (Coll)
Emerg: Kane Cornes (Port), Michael Barlow (Freo), Luke Hodge (Haw), Jared Brennan (Bris)

Goodbye Anthony Rocca РA wonderful servant, a leader, a warrior for the Collingwood Football Club.  All the best, big fella.

“There is an international register of Magpie clubs.”

…so wrote John Harms in The Age, in this great piece:¬†The Creature is back, this time in a global conspiracy.