Why haven't we heard anything about JOC (James O'Connor) being injured if its true. He's been ducking playing the Force since we gave him the ass.
*if* true, I would imagine the first any of us would hear about it is when the teams are announced at the ground. Better not to give away any more terrible news if the Reds want people to turn up tonight.
Given the poor weather, the poor showing the Reds gave all last year, the impotent way we played last week, the fact the Force seem to bring out the worst in us anyway and now the red's star signing having issues with the law I guess there is a possibility of a lot of fans not turning out tonight.
The Reds have heavily promoted the match through a targeted campaign this week ("talk is cheap", "3 days to redemption" - yeah, no pressure, guys) making quite a deal of the debut of Thomson and O'Connor. It would probably be the end of a lot of people's ideas about going out to Lang park tonight to find out during the day that on top of all that other stuff, yet another of the red's draw cards is unavailable.
My wife is already making noises about wanting to get some Rustic Olive takeaway and watch the game from home tonight and we are season ticket holders.
I want to go, but I don't want to watch utter rubbish performances. That just sucks.