Feeling toey. Feeling very toey. Not as much as Kamdyn McIntosh I’ll bet. The Round 1 game with Carlton is the right way to start the season but it does make my knees knock together.
I love the look of this 22 Richmond have named, and very happy to see Nathan Gordon in there. I have high hopes for him this year.
I am now a billionaire, having cleaned up on the very tasty odds being offered for the double of Newy heart surgery/Astbury stingray attack. The third leg of the bet (into the trillions) was that they’d both play round 1 anyway, and I must have got terribly close.
I have been absorbing everyone else’s predictions and honestly I just haven’t engaged with the pre-season to the extent to make my own yet. But with the Essendon verdict declared and the teams for Round 1 in the paper; I feel ready.
At the end of r23 I see a top 4 of SYDNEY HAWTHORN PORT NORTH with RICHMOND SUNS BRISBANE GEELONG making up the 8. Freo, Adelaide and West Coast will go close but miss out. Then Essendon, GWS, Carlton, Collingwood, Western Bulldogs, St Kilda and Melbourne.
In the Grand Final Sydney will turn the tables on Hawthorn. Hamish Hartlett for the Brownlow. No-one will top 50 goals and the Coleman Medal will quite sensibly be kept in the drawer.
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Dugald has kept everyone abreast of the evolution of TTBB this season. More voices and shorter articles. On the graphics side we have a few new things happening. I have sizzled up a range of TTBB merch, to be sold through RedBubble. That’s where I have been selling my Footy Enigma stuff for 2 years now, and they are a very good operation with terrific quality products and printing. Our shop page shows a few of the items available, but there are even more, and one or two still to come (stickers are next). I have made each thing available in Yellow, Black and Duffle Coat versions.
This is all done on a print-on-demand basis, so Dugald and I do not have a warehouse full of doona (sorry, duvet) covers and zip bags waiting for your orders. Which is a huge relief really. I do want to be transparent about where this money goes. When you spend $28 on a t-shirt, $22.50 goes to RedBubble, and the rest goes into the TTBB coffers to support the site. The amount of profit varies but generally we are putting about 20% margin on the wholesale.
I would love to have your feedback about this venture as its very much an experiment, and we can tweak it as we go along. And please send any pics of your merchandise when it arrives. Huge shoutout to SkippyGirl, Craig and Anon for getting on board immediately.
Go Tiges!
Skippygirl says
01/04/2015 at 11:04 pmOooooh yeah I’m sending pics of my TTBB tiger T shirt from the US for sure! Thank you for doing women’s T shirts – the Club seems to struggle to offer much in the way of women’s apparel (at least, that I’d wear), so props to you. And those leggings! Every teenage Tiger girl will have those in a flash. Well done TTBB!!!
Joe Crawford says
02/04/2015 at 12:34 pmChris,
Not nervy. Not nervy at all. We will pummel the Blues and be off to a flyer in 2015.
Well done on your Newy/Astbury bet.
I have Liam Jones at 6/1 to have 12+ falcons during the match. I was tempted by the 25/1 on 18+ falcons but the ball won’t be in the Blues’ forward half enough for that to happen.
Go Tiges.
Chris says
02/04/2015 at 12:40 pmI am not as hip to the Now Generation as you, what’s a falcon? I am guessing it involves butchering a rolled-gold opportunity. I see Jason Tutt has bobbed up on the Blues list too – I thought he was a promising Doggie.
bowchamp says
07/04/2015 at 9:59 pmI’ve been buying from Red Bubble since about 2008, when it was small & Melbourne-based, & have purchased lots of cards, a cushion & a poster .
The quality of the products is excellent.
Chris says
07/04/2015 at 11:41 pmThanks for the endorsement Bowchamp. Their stuff is terrific and when the inevitable but very rare stuff-up happens they are the gold standard for excellent customer service. I simply couldn’t produce the TTBB merch and all my other stuff without them.