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1 hour ago, Ethan Tremblay said:

Is it just my poor judgement or was Grundy completely ineffectual? Huge amount of hitouts but that was a consequence of GWS’ game-plan. 

Grundy was great. GWS roved well to him early, however he  dragged the Pies back into the contest in the final term.

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    1 hour ago, McQueen said:

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    However, it's hard not to admire the bloke for persisting with that hairstyle against all better judgement for the better part of a decade. 

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    Ha ha ha! Get [censored]ed Eddie!

    Is the time keeper a secret magpie? The last quarter went for 35 minutes. 

    Not even Mr 22 game suspension could get them over the line. Karma. Get [censored]ed Eddie!

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    2 hours ago, jane02 said:

    Thank God. My husband wanted me to order balloons etc for his office for next week - he was so confident that Collingwood would be in the GF. 

    The correct course of action now is to order the balloons.

    I foresee a tragic mixup though: a second delivery of balloons the next day.

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    2 hours ago, sue said:

    That goal review: It's one thing for the umpires to make mistakes, and another if the video evidence is unclear.  But when the video is clear, unforgivable.  Imagine if C'wood lost because of a clearly wrong goal review like today's.

    I'm imagining. Mmmmmmmmmmmmm ... ahhhh ... goes well with a scotch.

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    3 hours ago, Sir Why You Little said:

    Darcy: “The Pies must get the next goal to be any chance”

    Capt. Obvious indeed

     

    3 hours ago, dees189227 said:

    It's like when the  pies player gave away a blatant kicking in danger and he says not much in that. The pies player made contact with the giants player hand. 

    Darce is thinking about his job security. "Sh*t, I'm on the radio with Eddie on Monday. I'd better say some good things about the pies or I'll be in the doghouse. I dare not cross Eddie!!!"

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    3 hours ago, america de cali said:

    Very poor ruck work by Grundy in the last couple of minutes. Just tapping the ball back into the congested stoppage time after time. Should have tried to knock it into the clear. 

    That is what I was saying to my kids, a clear punch to open space and break the congestion. Gawn would have :) . 

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    In the end we achieved the same thing as Collingwood..... no flag. 

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    14 minutes ago, Nelo said:

    In the end we achieved the same thing as Collingwood..... no flag. 

    The filth finished the H+W season with 15 wins, and a percentage of 117. They also won a final.

    MFC finished with 5 wins, and a percentage of 78.

     

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    What sort of sick individual takes joy out of the misery of tens of thousands of Collingwood fans ?? 

    Oh yeah................. I do !!!!

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    There was a hushed silence on the streets of Melbourne tonight. Traffic was light. Did the cool change after the last couple of fine days  keep people indoors? Was it the heavy showers of rain which passed over the suburbs intermittently? Certain citizens cast a gloomy pall over everyone within their radius. Was it the return of wintry weather the reason for this despondency in the air? 

    No. There was an unexpected result at the MCG this afternoon. Shame.?

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    I don't know why but I was quite calm in the dying minutes of the last quarter. Everyone around me was so stressed, convinced Collingwood was going to pinch the win. The commentators kept saying, there's plenty of time, plenty of time, for them to score, even down to the last two minutes. My view was the opposite. I was convinced the wobbles were going to run out of time, because the Giants were able to lock in the ball, or it ended up over the boundary. I don't think the commentators could believe Collingwood were going to lose. They kept raving about how they came back from being 32 points down or whatever it was. Well, they didn't win, so who cares about the comeback. Another failure.

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    5 hours ago, McQueen said:

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    Crying from the weight of carrying the Pies when both games were on the line.

    Edited by John Demonic

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    So, is that a cakewalk??

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    1 hour ago, John Demonic said:

    Crying from the weight of carrying the Pies when both games were on the line.

    Because flakey players like Sidebottom go missing I might add!

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    Anyone that thinks that GWS winning is good for football is insane. They have been gifted so much at our (and other) teams expense, and will continue to do so for years. Love or hate Collingwood at least they are a real team with real history, unlike those Mc Donalds things planted in the middle of rugby land. 

    As much as I know that another Richmond flag will bring out the munters that follow that team in droves, I hope the Tigers smash the living crap out of them and headfuck them for the next 50 years

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    32 minutes ago, Uncle Fester said:

    Anyone that thinks that GWS winning is good for football is insane. They have been gifted so much at our (and other) teams expense, and will continue to do so for years. Love or hate Collingwood at least they are a real team with real history, unlike those Mc Donalds things planted in the middle of rugby land. 

    As much as I know that another Richmond flag will bring out the munters that follow that team in droves, I hope the Tigers smash the living crap out of them and headfuck them for the next 50 years

    I don't think so. They win this and that's their whack and we can go back a little more towards normality. Once they have won a flag, like Brisbane, like Adelaide, the Weagles and Port, their favours cease. 

    I thought GWS were terrific yesterday. Very hard at the contest and while the ball was greasy and mistakes were made their determination to put in a second, third, even fourth effort to regain the ball or pressure the Pies was sensational. It was very good finals football. They dominated the first half but did not get the reward. Collingwood, however, had no forwards and only looked threatening when they could get their slingshot happening. The Giants' pressure stopped them doing that more than a couple of times. They only got going once they could exploit Grundy's dominance.

    If GWS win it, they'll have played well and the bars and restaurants in Swan St, let alone the motorists parked there, can rest easier.

    Then we push back into a fairer competition. (I just wish the Suns are sent to Tassie.)

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    1 hour ago, Uncle Fester said:

    Anyone that thinks that GWS winning is good for football is insane. They have been gifted so much at our (and other) teams expense, and will continue to do so for years. Love or hate Collingwood at least they are a real team with real history, unlike those Mc Donalds things planted in the middle of rugby land. 

    As much as I know that another Richmond flag will bring out the munters that follow that team in droves, I hope the Tigers smash the living crap out of them and headfuck them for the next 50 years

    Eddie also has his tentacles everywhere UF.  Pitty it had to be the orange circus but would rather that than another 'Colllllliiiiinwoooood' chant echoeing around the G next Saturday.

    The Toiges have at least managed to grow and prosper organically, especially on the road, where they've played plenty more than the filth over the last decade or so and often come out the victor agaisnt the odds on many occasions.  They were also on their last legs like us when they went on their fund raiser many moons back and have completely turned things around.  Their supporters have stuck fat also going through a massive finals drought but still turning up for more rubbish year after year until things finally turned.  It has a familiar ring to it.

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    Arhh !!  What a joyous thread this is !!

    The so often disparate and fueding  Demonland family …. united in one wonderful cause .

    Kicking the [censored] out of the filth .. and their verminous supporters! 

    I'm so happy. I think I shall give the maid a jolly good thrashing!

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    To both - sure, and I realise that my opinion is unpopular given who GWS beat, but they have guns in their side that should have been ours but for AFL gifts. And I don't think for a moment that things will return to normal after success. What will happen is that the spike of interest will drop off as they do too, and then they will be looked after again. Sydney isn't allowed to fail for that reason too (though I'm old enough to call them South, so I have no issue with that team being helped).

    Suns to Tassie - a bit off topic, but yes. I think the AFL now knows it put a team into a graveyard and no matter what they throw at them it will always be a failure. Hmmm The Hobart 'It's not sunny, but at least we can play football'?

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    9 hours ago, bingers said:

    The filth finished the H+W season with 15 wins, and a percentage of 117. They also won a final.

    MFC finished with 5 wins, and a percentage of 78.

     

    Very true from a statistical point of view and the enjoyment their supporters received from watching more wins and better football. In the end though they still didn’t win a premiership. 

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    33 minutes ago, Uncle Fester said:

    To both - sure, and I realise that my opinion is unpopular given who GWS beat, but they have guns in their side that should have been ours but for AFL gifts. And I don't think for a moment that things will return to normal after success. What will happen is that the spike of interest will drop off as they do too, and then they will be looked after again. Sydney isn't allowed to fail for that reason too (though I'm old enough to call them South, so I have no issue with that team being helped).

    Suns to Tassie - a bit off topic, but yes. I think the AFL now knows it put a team into a graveyard and no matter what they throw at them it will always be a failure. Hmmm The Hobart 'It's not sunny, but at least we can play football'?

    A link to an exercise I found worthwhile doing.

    Toggle through the years beginning in 2011 - the Giants first draft where they admittedly were handed a swathe of first round draft picks - and then follow through until the 2018 draft and you’ll come to the realisation that a lot of those high picks have moved on to other clubs or have been broken with injury (Patton) or left the game (Boyd).

    Whilst it irks me to even acknowledge this, the Giants have basically made the most value out of their trades which of course have usually resulted in more high draft picks that’s left them at the pointy end of the National draft again and again.

    I wonder how all of Treloar, Adams and Hoskins-Elliott (ex-GWS top 10 picks) we’re feeling yesterday as they were running around in Pies jumpers?

    GWS draft history

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