Crows were already my favourites for the flag past few weeks. The way their defence stood up tonight and given that they can now let Burgess select which players to rest for the next 2 weeks before a home final makes me even more confident.

1 minute ago, dees189227 said:

After watching the girls game I flicked it over to the cricket then flicked it back to watch the last 2 minutes. I was convinced the pies were going to get a goal at the end.

I dislike Collingwood as much as anyone nut that should had been a free against thilthorpe when he kicked the ball away.

Anyway Collingwood lost so that's ok

I hear ya but i didn’t get the commentators going on about it

how is it time wasting when the ball is out of bounds?

11 minutes ago, DubDee said:

Pies with double the inside 50’s

hilarious

Reminds me of a certain final 😭

Still confounds me we can have a non-MFC thread on this board but we can’t have one on the Melbourne Demons team that is once again consistently showing up for the club and the fans.

English football on channel 9?

Yes please!

5 minutes ago, Previously known as LITD. said:

I think the cricket is going south.

Nah, Maxy's still there

4 minutes ago, DubDee said:

I hear ya but i didn’t get the commentators going on about it

how is it time wasting when the ball is out of bounds?

It's a rule if you kick or punch the ball while it's over the line it's a free kick

Maybe we shouldn't have scored those last few goals. Then hawthorn will be 4th & the pies drop.

A few teams stuffed up there top 4 chances this weekend.

If our team has any pride, they will give it a red hot next week to try and take Collingwood out of the finals.

Poor Flea,gee I feel sorry for him.... NOT

26 minutes ago, dees189227 said:

Nah, Maxy's still there

Great call

Wonderful end to the cricket, was great. In Maxwell we trust

30 minutes ago, dees189227 said:

It's a rule if you kick or punch the ball while it's over the line it's a free kick

True.

just sayin it makes no sense

3 hours ago, The heart beats true said:

Another week of Garry Lyon heading up the Collingwood cheer squad.

He knows where his bread is buttered.

It's so obvious isn't it? Just cannot talk them up enough. (Insert spew emoji here.)

58 minutes ago, Colm said:

Crows were already my favourites for the flag past few weeks. The way their defence stood up tonight and given that they can now let Burgess select which players to rest for the next 2 weeks before a home final makes me even more confident.

They'll probably drop one of their home finals, and we'll end up with the usual suspects in the GF. Not getting any hopes up!

Edited August 16Aug 16 by John Demonic

42 minutes ago, GS_1905 said:

If our team has any pride, they will give it a red hot next week to try and take Collingwood out of the finals.

We just have to beat them by 300 points or something for that to happen.

Fremantle losing to Brisbane pretty much locked Collingwood (and Hawthorn now) into finals, given Fremantle's much lower percentage.

We can hold them out of top 4, though. And for a side which was 10 points clear on top of the ladder after 16 games, that'll be some achievement.

Dumb and dumber joining forces. These 2 fanbases deserve each other in all honesty… like 2 peas in a pod.

2 of the most feral fanbases, arguably the most despised in the league calling out other fans. 🤡

3 hours ago, VNightCityLegend said:

Dumb and dumber joining forces. These 2 fanbases deserve each other in all honesty… like 2 peas in a pod.

2 of the most feral fanbases, arguably the most despised in the league calling out other fans. 🤡

Collingwood fans are going nuts on social media about footage of the Thilthorpe kick, and some throws.

They haven’t been on the end of some contentious decisions late in games since 2003, so this is foreign territory for them.

Calling that one touched and yesterday's one not touched. Me think the Arc is broking.

Just watched the Casey v Hawks VFL game, and I swear the standard was better than the Tigers v North AFL game, which was almost unwatchable.

Geelong pushing for second with the Tigers next week

Not my ideal result

16 hours ago, titan_uranus said:

We just have to beat them by 300 points or something for that to happen.

So you’re saying there’s a chance?

18 hours ago, dees189227 said:

I dislike Collingwood as much as anyone nut that should had been a free against thilthorpe when he kicked the ball away.

No way. If that had been a free kick that determined the outcome of the game, there would have rightly been an uproar. The purpose of free kicks should be confined to actions that impact either the course of play or the safety of a player. What Thilthorp did, did neither.

Kicking the ball away belongs in the same camp of staging for free kicks or starting a melee in my opinion. Undesirable behaviour that we want stamped out, but should only have an off-field consequence, ie a fine.

Last night’s game was an absolute cracker and made me want more. If it had been decided by a meat-head having a victimless brain fart, I can’t say I’d be talking the same way about it.

Geez this Croft kid can take a mark

Geelong will finish 2nd. Have missed finals just twice in 17 years (one of those years directly after their last premiership), have won 4 flags in that time, and somehow their last 9 games of the season had just one game against other teams in the 8 (and 4 at GMHBA).

In the same time we’ve played 5 finals teams, and just as a comparison - so has last years wooden spooner Richmond.

Equalisation is dead, and nobody talks about it anymore.

Edited August 17Aug 17 by The heart beats true

20 minutes ago, The heart beats true said:

Geelong will finish 2nd. Have missed finals just twice in 17 years (one of those years directly after their last premiership), have won 4 flags in that time, and somehow their last 9 games of the season had just one game against other teams in the 8 (and 4 at GMHBA).

In the same time we’ve played 5 finals teams, and just as a comparison - so has last years wooden spooner Richmond.

Equalisation is dead, and nobody talks about it anymore.

At least I'll join the choir invisibule before there they move to private clubs run as any other business with no limits on $.