6 minutes ago, Rodney (Balls) Grinter said:

Isac Smith should throw his into the river.  Just about the most undeserving of a Norm Smith medal I can think of.

32 touches, 3 goals, 12 marks and 771 metres gained.  It's not a bad day's work, let's be honest.

1 hour ago, Nairobi_Demon said:

A fit Melbourne the only team that could have got close to the Cats this year.

Makes me more confident that the Dees game plan still stacks up - will be interesting to see how the Pies and Swans play next year.

But Cats are the team to beat next year. They’re strong, fit and there’s no clear weaknesses across the ground.  We need to respond. 

Only one weakness Gary Rohan

10 minutes ago, Rodney (Balls) Grinter said:

Isac Smith should throw his into the river.  Just about the most undeserving of a Norm Smith medal I can think of.

Just because they share the same last name.  Sheeesh.

You must be kidding! HE WAS SUPERB 🤩

53 minutes ago, John Crow Batty said:

I switched off the TV at half time and took the dog for a long walk. Glad this season is over. 

Just had dinner and going to put on last years Grannie. So far more interesting even with a similar result.

14 minutes ago, Queanbeyan Demon said:

I ate a pie, after which I settled down with a Four n Twenty.

No more now. It''s un-australian. Owned by overseas interests now.

Oh my that was a pretty boring, anticlimactic grand final. He wanted to do something else, but I explained I always watch grand finals to the end. I guess the age difference kinda shows, I’m a sticker for seeing it through no matter what.

Really was just a question of by how much and which cat would get the norm smith. Makes me feel much more appreciative of our premiership. It’s better to watch someone else win with having a massive drought hanging over our heads with the massive “when will it be our turn?” question. Although it’s not the result I wanted it’s the result I expected.

Anyway footy is now over for the year. Now we can enjoy the rest of the time we have together 

12 minutes ago, Cassiew said:

Oh my that was a pretty boring, anticlimactic grand final. He wanted to do something else, but I explained I always watch grand finals to the end. I guess the age difference kinda shows, I’m a sticker for seeing it through no matter what.

Really was just a question of by how much and which cat would get the norm smith. Makes me feel much more appreciative of our premiership. It’s better to watch someone else win with having a massive drought hanging over our heads with the massive “when will it be our turn?” question. Although it’s not the result I wanted it’s the result I expected.

Anyway footy is now over for the year. Now we can enjoy the rest of the time we have together 

Alas no CW. As much as I love my footy, the AFL will now hijack summer sports with absolute dribble.

I think I’m gonna be sick 🤢

Watched it today with a Swans mate, he was joking about his margin ticket at the start of the game (it was 79) and then at least had something to watch for in the last quarter and then that didn't go well.

It was all about working out how to beat us in coming up to the big dance, teams did that, then the best general football performance won it.

P.S. I would love to see what our small forwards could do with a couple of KPFs running around next year so they can do their work not around 12 blokes in a pocket. Not entirely relevant, but it is a bit :)

32 minutes ago, picket fence said:

You must be kidding! HE WAS SUPERB 🤩

Yes he was but I thought Danger maybe as he was doing a lot of the inside hard ball get and distribute stuff that was tearing the Swans midfield and defence to shreds. 

2 hours ago, Nairobi_Demon said:

A fit Melbourne the only team that could have got close to the Cats this year.

Makes me more confident that the Dees game plan still stacks up - will be interesting to see how the Pies and Swans play next year.

But Cats are the team to beat next year. They’re strong, fit and there’s no clear weaknesses across the ground.  We need to respond. 

This is the standard we must get back to.

13 minutes ago, Return to Glory said:

Alas no CW. As much as I love my footy, the AFL will now hijack summer sports with absolute dribble.

What’s there to watch? I’d probably watch the 2021 replay but we did that last night and we don’t have long left together 

2 hours ago, picket fence said:

🤮Watch the AFL hand them another DREAM run of home ganes vs mainly Duds re GC W.C GWS , NORF, ETC x twice

100% PF ... no wonder their record there is outstanding.

Their Ws should have an asterisk

W* AFL assisted (Stadium courtesy Vic taxpayers)

On 9/18/2022 at 11:34 AM, jnrmac said:

So after much reflection, I have very little interest in this GF.

If I was to think about what is the best thing for the MFC I would say Geelong winning is.

This is a team we owned last year and they went away, licked their wounds recruited smartly and changed their game plan from the boring predictable, easy to set up against game plan they had last year. It got them close but they were found out.

Sound familiar?

We blooded 1 new young player this year for 1 game. I know that we had 9 players 22 or under to win last years GF but there was no renewal with personnel and no change whatsoever to our game plan. Boring predictable and taxing.

1. Any mystique about our much vaunted midfield was countered by many teams and is perhaps gone forever

2. Fast ball movement against us saw teams break through our impenetrable defence and avoid the intercept marking our game was built on

3. relentless pressure against us as the no 1 team saw us crumble in second halves

4. Our scoring from the back half dried up

5. Our fwd 'connection' was a disaster and nothing was done to fix it. Except moving a banged up Gawn to the fwd line which didn't work.

6. We learned nothing from our 8 defeats that were in essence identical. IN 7 of them we were ahead by at least 23 points.

7. Goodwin's mantra of not crushing teams but managing leads was a disaster once we became the worst 4th qtr team in the league bar NM and WCE.

So. A Geelong win shows what can be done by making large changes to game plan, recruiting wisely and as importantly managing workloads (which we dismally failed to do against lower sides)

And aside from that Sydney are so freaking smug, in players faces with 'toughness', pushing and shoving etc They deserve to be smacked down.

Up there with some of the better posts this season.

Especially the last part about defending leads.  As i said throughout much of the 2nd half of the season, very hard to defend an 8 to 12 goal game.  14/15 feels a little more realistic.  The more the better obviously.

Nice summary thanks Jnr

How good is premiership glory!

Chris Scott is a fantastic coach, no doubt about it.

1 hour ago, MT64 said:

Just had dinner and going to put on last years Grannie. So far more interesting even with a similar result.

Just think Malcome, soon, if we don't look at the final scores first, we will be able to watch it and have a new win in a final, year after year.    It's about the only win win situation i can see coming up.  Cheers mate.

In the words of Shawn Michaels ij the lost my smile speech. "I'm gonna go home now" 

Geez leweez

Missed the Granny due to due other commitments and just caught up with the highlights.

Out of curiosity, Did BT and Brayshaw know that they were calling a Grand Final? I've heard more enthusiasm come from VFL commentators. 

8 minutes ago, Demon Jack said:

Missed the Granny due to due other commitments and just caught up with the highlights.

Out of curiosity, Did BT and Brayshaw know that they were calling a Grand Final? I've heard more enthusiasm come from VFL commentators. 

It was never a contest from the First Bounce

2 hours ago, Cassiew said:

What’s there to watch? I’d probably watch the 2021 replay but we did that last night and we don’t have long left together 

How about a tour of the Casey ovals? It's not the Gondolas of Venice but awfully close

 

29 minutes ago, Sir Why You Little said:

It was never a contest from the First Bounce

Yup. Geelong broke them early and there was nothing Sydney could do about it. The pressure from Geelong in the first 3 qtrs was incredible to watch.
 

Pretty bland GF for neutrals though I thought…

Cats have set the standard.  Our best from last year would have provided a fierce contest today.  But not this year, in the end we weren't good enough to make a PF

But we've got to get back to our best to challenge. Or more importantly, achieve a new best.  Reinvent

As for the Cats and the other decent teams, it could be assumed that they are looking to improve on their best

So we have to catch up, then catch up again and then exceed to succeed.  Good luck Demons

As Selwood said today, GF's are hard to win and he had to wait 15 years in a side that has been very competitive (throughout that hiatus)

So it's hard work and you need luck with injuries along with loads of talent (and top level coaching)

Hate the Cats with a passion but they were clearly the best team in it and deserve their success. 
 

We go out in straight sets to Sydney and Brisbane, and then Geelong come out and win games against those same two opponents at the same ground by + 156. We were miles off it this year and Geelong would have embarrassed us.