Power power
IT MAY not be a disease that all doctors know about but there is little doubt Luke Power is suffering. Gary Ablett too! Leather poisoning afflicted a couple of the greats at the weekend.
Cool Hand Luke just loves the BrisVegas sunshine as he showed the Crows with 40 disposals on Saturday night.
On the other side of the country, little Gazza was playing one of the finest games seen at Subiaco Oval. Probably be the best since his father's five-goal, 27 possession performance in his 150th match back in 1992.
And The Four Points can finally reveal to his boss at the time; yes I was sick the next day because I overdid the celebrations that Sunday night! Ooh that's cathartic; I had been holding on to the lie for so long.
Leather poisoning is not to be sneezed at – it is an insidious disease that can also cause a follow up case of the 'humbles". Both men suffered from that side effect as well on Saturday night. Ablett's "I did alright" comment was trumped by Power saying he reckoned he should have hit up Jonathon Brown a few more times.
Get well soon boys.
Unbelievable
Radio celebrity Jo Stanley's tale of walking into Peter Moore's thigh at a swimming pool takes us back to the time we slipped on a banana thrown out of a car near Malcolm Blight's old V8 ute out the back of Arden Street in 1978. You could almost smell the talent on that peel.
No wonder the man's a legend and could kick the ball 97m on a good day.
Anyhoo, back to Jo. Did you know she has transformed an Essendon supporting boyfriend into a Magpie-loving husband?
Yeh, I know, we should call NASA. If Jo can do that, she can obviously help the in the race to Mars.
Coleman race hots up
Blame it on the Fevalola (doo, doo, doo, doo). That's the new song coming out of Coleman Medal land as the Carlton spearhead moved to within four goals of raging favourite Buddy Franklin.
Now we know there is such a place as Coleman Medal land because our fathers told us that if we trained hard and learnt the screw kick (that's checkside kiddies) then we'd get an invite to the Brownlow and be feted by beautiful people in turquoise dresses and cummerbunds. You wouldn't lie to me about something like that, would you Dad?
Fev's chance to shine came with seven goals in a losing cause while Big Buddy again found the goals a mystery at the G on Saturday, booting 1.3 to go with 1.6 the week before in Adelaide.
You know what to do big man, just blame it on the Fevalola.
More interchange please
It has been a familiar refrain around the coaching traps but Collingwood coach Mick Malthouse added his voice to calls for more interchange players after his side's loss to the Western Bulldogs on Sunday night.
The Pies lost Ben Reid and Anthony Rocca during the match as they were overrun by the Doggies.
Mick stressed he wasn't whinging, but pointing out that it is very difficult to win these days with only two fit men on the bench.
And he only wants an extra man available if it’s a game-ending injury, such as Reid's broken foot.
Fair play Mick -- you can have your extra man if you tell the rest of the competition how you beat Geelong by 14 goals a couple of weeks ago.
Seriously!
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Suma faces the music
Poor old Suma tries to explain what happened on Saturday night against the rampaging Cats. We're guessing there's going to be a few 'lines drawn in the sand', a little bit of 'preferring not to dwell on the past', and lots of 'looking to next week'.
Round wrap
We'd love to see Jason Phelan and Jen Witham don the big clock and low-rise jeans as they give us the 'Round Rap' but we'll make do with a summary of this week's fixture of matches done in plain old footy speak.
Playmakers
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