NON-MFC: Finals Week 03

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1 hour ago, Redleg said:
There is no way they are letting Elliot go and I haven't seen that Hill wants to go.

It was reported a while ago that Hill wants to go back to WA.

I guess we watch this space.

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15 hours ago, picket fence said:
Oh break my bleeding heart?? Seriously its the crew that ended Gus career I hope his team suffer untold woe from this loss AND NEVER RECOVER! harden up, Dont give them or anyone associated any credit for anything.... End of rant

Yeah, sorry. What was I thinking. I temporarily forgot where I was.

Kill them! KILL 'EM ALL!!!!!

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2 hours ago, Lucifers Hero said:
Fair enough.
Maybe I should amend that to the last 4 years is what a dynasty looks like.
Would love it to have been us with their record.

I think in context their entire 7 years has been amazing. They just went on with it after 2022, whereas we…didn’t.

Of course, it helps that they had the Ashcrofts and Fletcher as father son picks. Would love a summary of what they had to spend on those three.

To be fair, they’ve also had Coleman, McCarthy and Doedee on the sidelines for almost all of the last two years. If they win it next week, gee how will those three feel, the first two in particular - been at Brisbane for a while but injured when the flags came.

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1 hour ago, Return to Glory said:
A little while back, someone on Demonland mentioned that smallish AFL content producers needed to include pro- Collingwood stories. I guess it's akin to needing positive stories for the Indian cricket team.
To my mind, we now have commentators and whole media groups that are now nothing more than disingenuous sycophants.
End of minor rant.

And McCrae pampers to the media as he does to pies fans.

At the end of his press conf yesterday he thanked all the media there and those that attended during the year for their reporting of Coll (paraphrasing).

And producers are wary of non-positive pies news for fear of the avalanche of criticism on the air ways and social media.

It is 🤮inducing !!!

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7 minutes ago, titan_uranus said:
I think in context their entire 7 years has been amazing. They just went on with it after 2022, whereas we…didn’t.
Of course, it helps that they had the Ashcrofts and Fletcher as father son picks. Would love a summary of what they had to spend on those three.
To be fair, they’ve also had Coleman, McCarthy and Doedee on the sidelines for almost all of the last two years. If they win it next week, gee how will those three feel, the first two in particular - been at Brisbane for a while but injured when the flags came.

You could make the case the winner of the GF had claims to be the best team of the 21st century.

Cats, lions, and hawks have all won 4 flags this century, with the cats and lions, including this year, appearing in an incredible 7 GFs and the Hawks 5.

These three teams have won over 50% of the flags this century.

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1 hour ago, rjay said:
It was reported a while ago that Hill wants to go back to WA.
I guess we watch this space.

Ok, I didn’t see that.

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3 hours ago, Lucifers Hero said:
Lions record for the last 7 years
2025 GF
2024 Premiers
2023 GF
2022 SF
2021 SF
2020 PF
2019 SF
Haven't been out of finals since 2019. They won at least one final each year. Always in contention.
That is what a Dynasty looks like!

I think they were robbed in 23, should be going for a three peat.

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Probably already mentioned many times but anyone missing Houston?

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3 hours ago, Lucifers Hero said:
Lions record for the last 7 years
2025 GF
2024 Premiers
2023 GF
2022 SF
2021 SF
2020 PF
2019 SF
Haven't been out of finals since 2019. They won at least one final each year. Always in contention.
That is what a Dynasty looks like!

Fagan doesn’t talk about learnings after every loss, but after 2021 they were 1-5 in finals and since they are 10-3. Hope it’s 11-3 next week.

Considering they were wooden spooners in his first year and bottom 4 second, it’s been an extraordinary coaching effort.

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1 minute ago, Watson11 said:
Fagan doesn’t talk about learnings after every loss, but after 2021 they were 1-5 in finals and since they are 10-3. Hope it’s 11-3 next week.
Considering they were wooden spooners in his first year and bottom 4 second, it’s been an extraordinary coaching effort.

Agree.

But like Geelong the real key has been how solid they ate off field and in particular how strong their governance had been.

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