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The Grand Final Rematch

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On 10/22/2021 at 10:35 PM, Fork 'em said:

To me it was a non-event.
If anything a sign of Gawns desperation when the game looked like getting away.
Bumped his own head putting GF sized dollop of mayo on it.
Not his best moment famously pointed out to him by Trac.

No way Maxy put mayo on it. Daniels is deceptively strong apparently

Reckon Daniels could be the answer to the doggies ruck problems. Nic Nat better watch out nest season!

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    Don't care who we play, we fear no-one, but would much prefer an afternoon game so i can bring my boy (he'll soon be 7). He watched the prelim and granny with me which was the first time he showed any interest in the Dees. I would love if his first game he see  live was the unfurling of the flag. Can;t think of a better way to cement his loyalty and connection to the team

     

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    Speaking of this ...any further info from Club land / Kate re the post GF family day!??  Surely if we can put 10,000 VRC/Corporate Sponsor elites into a betting ring swilling chardys and scoffing down oysters we can get a few ppl at the G outdoors for a gathering sculling down Furphys while we fly our vintage pre premiership flags about!?? (ty Aussie Post!)

    And ...if we have to please Dan and his betting state to get this one away, maybe we can set up our own betting action for the day with 10% going in to the state's coffers!

    You know important things like "who comes on stage first, which player was the first to barf in the cup post match, how long after the match was it before Uncle unlocked the maid's hand cuffs!?" etc etc

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    2 hours ago, BDA said:

    Don't care who we play, we fear no-one, but would much prefer an afternoon game so i can bring my boy (he'll soon be 7). He watched the prelim and granny with me which was the first time he showed any interest in the Dees. I would love if his first game he see  live was the unfurling of the flag. Can;t think of a better way to cement his loyalty and connection to the team

     

    Spot on. From now every team will be now  fearing playing the dees twice  . The cats especially.

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    30 minutes ago, brendan said:

    so according to this article the AFL Are considering having Melbourne v bulldogs on the Wednesday night to open the season, I really hope not will be too hard for kids to go with school 
     

    https://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/afl/afl-fixture-news-afl-considers-change-to-traditional-season-opener-for-2022/news-story/09029ac9621e5a73e490904281f25886

    They've missed a little school over the last 2 years, 1 more day won't hurt.

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    I want a Saturday afternoon game so i can bring my son along. Next preference is Friday night so i can have a few beers and not have to worry about work. Wednesday night sucks

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    Really? Do they consider people have to work the next day?

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    I see it's just been announced that our girls will open their season against the Dogs as well. An early opportunity to strut our premiership attire on their turf. 

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    I don’t like this proposal. It’s additional (and unnecessary) pressure on the team. And for little benefit. 

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    3 minutes ago, Rab D Nesbitt said:

    I see it's just been announced that our girls will open their season against the Dogs as well. An early opportunity to strut our premiership attire on their turf. 

    Just noticed that as well. I'm looking forward to heading over to Footscray for the season opener and enjoying a few beers on Barkly Street afterwards

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    2 minutes ago, BDA said:

    Just noticed that as well. I'm looking forward to heading over to Footscray for the season opener and enjoying a few beers on Barkly Street afterwards

    Absolutely BDA. Bar Josephine likely to get a look in and maybe the Victoria Hotel near the ground. 

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    How people can be so excited about watching the replay on the MCG screen and yet being a bit blah about finding we open the whole season with a GF replay which would be the talk of the town for 2 weeks beforehand, is puzzling.

    I think it it fantastic! please get it going. We will be flying the flag! 

    Think how many we will get to training all February and March. Killer Diller!

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    after the replay this sunday that will make it 3 games in a row we play those filthy dogs

    too much, too much, let someone else smash them

     

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    So we miss out on seeing our team win the granny for the first time in 57 years then they want us to unfurl the flag on a Wednesday night. Are they [censored] serious?

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    On 10/22/2021 at 4:40 PM, Pates said:

    Richmond have been slow starters each year after their premierships, the only thing that’s ensured them getting the W in round one is that they keep playing the Blues. 

    I think facing the dogs definitely has the advantage of coming up against a team that’s had the exact same preparation time. 

    Maybe a good point re the 5 week reduction in preparation time - in which case it would seem equitable for both the GF and the losing OF teams to play each other in R1.  
    It would take the shorter preseason out of the excuse box. 

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    Whatever. Just announce something.

    Also, since when do we have Wednesday night games? Weird. They want to have 4 of the 9 games standalone night games in the first round? 

    Whatever.

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    Just give us the Friday night game and stop trying to re-invent the wheel.

    We deserve nothing less tbh.

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    13 hours ago, rpfc said:

    Whatever. Just announce something.

    Also, since when do we have Wednesday night games? Weird. They want to have 4 of the 9 games standalone night games in the first round? 

    Whatever.

    We opened the season in 2000 against Richmond on a Wednesday night.

    That was a period when the AFL went a bit off the rails and experimented with mid week games.

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    What a waste of a blockbuster.

    Midweek night game

    Crowd 60k is my guess

    Probably the worst night of all four available evenings.

    Hopefully we make it big with the corporate dollars for the night

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    Do Bulldogs supporters go to the G? They dont have many as it is so wouldnt be expecting a monster crowd

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