HB’s Overreactions – Round One – The Problem With Harley

I’m not sure how often I’ll write these articles. There has to be something to overreact to, right?

Haha – who am I trying to kid? It’s footy – there are things to overreact to every ten minutes!

Round One gave us no shortage of matters that caused me to bubble over with pride, anger, excitement, or fear.

I’m a pretty emotional guy, right? I mean, I got a bit teary watching The Lion King with my kids. Not because Mufasa died or anything – it was more that I watched them watching it, and saw how invested they were… and it kind of got to me.

So yeah… I’ll overreact here and there.

This week, I overreacted when Jackson archer was offered three weeks suspension for the incident with the Bulldogs’ Luke Cleary. No blame on Luke, but what else could Jackson do? Get out of the way? Is that where you want the game to go – players leaping out of the way of oncoming opposition players?

I overreacted when the Giants turned on the jets and played pure, desperate, beautiful football in the last couple of minutes to steal a road win over the Dees. That was just magnificent – Finn Callaghan was awesome again. Love that bloke!

And I cheered when Murphy Reid had ten minutes from heaven against the Cats, and looked like he might breathe some life into the lifeless corpse that was the Fremantle Dockers at Kardinia Park. That was fun.

However, of all the things I am overreacting the most about this week, I’ve settled on a young man named Harley Reid. On the weekend, I watched a supremely talented young man phone in a performance for a team that desperately wants him as the centrepiece of their rebuild. And it is on Harley that we kick off HB’s Overreactions for 2025.

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