The bye rounds are nearly over. The stains on the couch are getting worse. My Supercoach team is f***** and at night wake up sweating and screaming. It's that dream again, I'm trapped in The War Room with David King. He's a god damn lunatic. He's throwing the little icons around his touchscreen monitor thing and cackling hysterically at his own god awful jokes. It echoes through my brain. The other night he had a cardboard cut out of Eddie, and Mark Maclure was banging on the door of the studio. Really wretched stuff.
And it's only half way through the year. There's still six months to go. I think I need to take a bye round - sometimes watching this sport can be damn near as exhausting as playing it. Writing about it, to an audience of no-one, that takes some sheer grit.
And we can't even start ignoring games. Under normal circumstances, a games like Richmond v GWS or Carlton v Adelaide wouldn't even attract the most addicted member of the football commentariat. But these are not normal circumstances, Richmond and Carlton are both so bad that we'll need 15 or 16 reporters at each game just in case something really heavy goes down. A 10 goal win to GWS, or a 10 goal loss for Calrton might just be the trigger for the media's favourite bloodsport: will they sack the coach?
All this and it's only round 10. Send sleeping pills and your finest counselors care of Smother House.
In the news....
Nathan Grima will miss the much anticipated Geelong-North Melbourne game on Friday night with a foot twang. "He's too sort and we certainly don't want to take any risks with him" said coach Brad Scott.
Racism has reared its ugly head again, with an Essendon fan having their membership cancelled for abusing Adam Goodes and an as yet unidentified Bulldogs fan being hunted for vilifying Neville Jetta.
And finally, Steve Johnson and Chris Dawes have both accepted one match bans, meaning the tribunal won't sit tonight.
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