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Harmesy looks like he's about to compete in a woodchopping contest.

Gandalf the Brown

Great to see a solid contingent of senior players watching the match from the sidelines too.

CASEY WON!!!!

26 minutes gone, 8 Point lead after Bombers get one back. Need to be composed now!

GARLETT YOU RIPPER

Cmon Casey!! Getting hard to kick goals with these conditions..

Watched him really rallying the crowd off camera after the siren, talking to elated supporters and congratulating them. He looked genuinely happy for us. Good on him.

Umps doing everything humanly possible to screw us. Umpiring is ludicrous.

What a surprise that bald headed cheat was the unpire who paid that idiotic free against Neville. Didn't see this coming.

That free kick was [censored] absurd.

Thanks mate, need an extra scarf!

Is there a good place inside the G tonight to buy Dees merchandise, or just the Demon Shop outside?

The stupidity of the AFL, they screw everything up! The West Coast prelim is locked for Saturday twilight/night. The Richmond prelim is locked for 7.50pm EST the Friday night. This means: The winner of Collingwood v GWS gets less than 6 days to recover before their Friday night match against Richmond The winner of Hawthorn v Melbourne gets 8 days to prepare for the Saturday prelim in Perth Whoever wins v West Coast gets ~6.5 days to recover for the Grand Final, losing half a day for rest/recovery in transit (3 hours travel + 2 hours in time zone) The winner of Richmond v Col/GWS get ~8 days to recover for the GF, with significantly less transit as all 3 are east-coast clubs If they reversed the nights of the prelims every team would have received a 7 day break between all remaining finals, with an extra half-day for whoever has to fly over from Perth (to compensate for the half day lost in transit). Richmond could have played their prelim on Saturday arvo @ 2.10pm, to allow nearly 7 full days recovery before the GF (keeping in mind Richmond already had 2 weeks off, so they're hardly being screwed over. As it stands, every team except Richmond are disadvantaged). They could also have scheduled both matches in a Friday night double-header (no overlap with Richmond prelim @ 6.20pm EST, West Coast prelim @ 6.50pm WST) but that still leaves GWS/Collingwood with a 6 days break vs Richmond.

So, if we beat Hawthorn, do we play WC on the Friday or Saturday night the week after? Seems pretty unfair to give a Victorian team a Saturday night match in Perth the week before a daytime Grand Final.

If the Pies roll the Giants next week, Richmond v Collingwood in week 3 will be a huge match. Very glad that only one of those two teams can make the GF now. Also, one of us, Hawthorn or West Coast will make the Grand Final now. So we have a 33% chance of being in the GF.

Pretty much this. Just have to look at the respective matches this year. Our win against the Eagles at Optus was probably our second best win of the year (second only to last night). Queen's Birthday we were thoroughly towelled up. Can't underestimate the Pies at the G, they're bloody good. Anyway, next week first! Not much point speculating about week 3 unless we can roll the Hawks!

Yep, another awful thought. One of Collingwood or Hawthorn guaranteed to make the Grand Final if we were to lose. Get me a vomit bag! Much funnier imagining West Coast being shat on by Richmond from a great height without the home-ground umpiring to get them home.

Luke Darcy is a [censored] terrible commentator. That grating, monotone voice. Sticking needles in my ear would be less painful.

Collingwood winning puts them one win away from making the Grand Final. Enough to make me feel sick!

Kennedy is horrifically underdone, looks shocking tonight. Just a comedy of fumbles and errors from West Coast.

Quite conflicted about who I want to lose more here. West Coast look thoroughly beatable playing like this, I wouldn't hold any fears playing them at Optus in week 3. Collingwood at the G, on the other hand, not sure. Hmmmm.

Not sure why the Eagles are still just bombing it into Kennedy after he hasn't taken a mark inside 50 all match. Such a one-dimensional attacking strategy, easily being countered by Buckley, flooding defence.

Didn't even register a mention from these brain-dead commentators. Seems like Pies players can get tackled and drop the ball and it's play on. Different story when the Eagles do it.

He marked that over the line.