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I've watched the last two minutes of this game many times. It always amazes me that, even up until the moment the ball touches Cross's foot, Der-wayne is still yelling that Dawes is the only option. Stubbornly ignorant man.

Fox Footy has published the photos. It's a sad state of affairs when fan footy forums have higher standards of integrity that media outlets.

Viney was a gun and an inspiration throughout 1998 in particular. But I can't go past three All Australian selections for Gawn - he'll be remembered as a great of the club.

A genuinely exciting night. Gysberts tore it up in the midfield as well. Sad to look back at that line-up, that had the potential to play such exciting football, just melt away.

Anyone who hasn’t read Schwarz’s biography ‘All bets are off’, give it a look. Astounding story and very easy to read. Recasts his career in a completely different light.

Interestingly, we’re seeing a bit of a discrepancy in the Demonland votes and the social media votes. I doubt we will in this one though. Robbo was a very good player and a fan favourite, but Neitz is an MFC great.

The hub needs to keep players quarantined from the general public and possible sources of infection. They can interact with each other, but not the general public - otherwise a hub can become a cluster.

Yes! Strangely, I hear more praise for him from opposition supporters than our own. He is a highly respected player in the community, but seemingly not so much in our own.

How does a ‘hub’ work away from families if the players can get out and about? It’s a quarantine to limit potential expose to the virus.

Population density helps locking down, but counts for little without isolation. Put 60,000 people in the MCG on 3 times over a weekend and you'll have 'mass graves' no matter how sparse your population. Yes, a hubs proposal essentially keeps players in detention - an isolation much more extreme than any measures in Australia and on par with Wuhan, Ital and Spain. Like a racehorse, they let out of their stable to train and play. It's absurd and such a low priority.

No worries.

You'd be hard pressed to find any children begging for less time with their fathers. AFL is so far from an essential activity; it is a luxury for society. If it is safe to play, then that's fantastic. Playing is isolation hubs where players are essentially under draconian lockdown however is absurd. This is a global pandemic the likes of which hasn't been seen in 100 years. Literally pulling families apart for a luxury spectator event is absurd. Australia is not Covid-19 free and most likely, won't be for another 14-18 months. It will spring back up as soon as restrictions are eased - that is a certainly. The government can test, and track and attempt to contain it, and that will probably prevent it running wild and overloading the system. But it won't be gone. The only reason we don't have mass graves and AFL stadiums as field hospitals is because of social and economic lock-down. IMHO, we may be able to get to a stage where we can play to empty stadiums like round one, but if the situation is such that we need 'hubs' then it is not worth it. It may be nothing for 2020, empty stadiums 2021, then normality 2022. Western countries have already lost patience with the pandemic, they want it to be over and believe that sheer strength of will and positive thinking is enough to get it done.

Jimmy was a great player and the reason I started going for Melbourne. Absolutely idolised the man. With that said, Jeff White is a massively underrated player in the AFL for the past 20 years. He's very much overshadowed by the emergence of Cox and Sandilands toward the end of his career, and now with Gawn and Grundy, he doesn't really rate a mention by most. He was a gun. Stynes... but I did have to think about it.

Scully and Trengove were an absolute lock; as certain a top two as Rowell and Anderson last year. I challenge anyone to find a source from 2009 that says otherwise.

As a kid who was forced to play full-back every week, I loved watching Sean Wight play. He could punch a ball further than many could kick.

If the 'since' is including 2000 then it has to be the Wiz, though he left shortly after (not so exciting). For the excitement of seeing a player dominate and carry a team on his back, it would be Neitz. For the excitement of believing we had a genuine superstar emerging in our side, it would be Hogan, followed by Oliver.

Regardless of what happens with the draft this year, this was a good trade at the time and I'm stoked that we've got Pickett. Good luck to Nth, but I have a feeling their supporters may look back at this as a 'We could have got Kozzi moment'.

Todd Viney ‘retired’ to train Mark Philippoussis, only to later return to the Dees when that inevitably went aas over elbow.

Old interview I think as Robbo said at the end that he hopes to see Green in the finals again before he’s through.

I think we were Drake until 91, Snowy Mountain Water in 92, Pioneers Homes 93 Tooheys from 94-97. 94 had the distinctive diamond Tooheys Blue logo. I think it was the simple, rectangle one after that.

I don’t think we had Tooheys on the jumper in 98... I think we’d switched to LG by then.

The Eagles were an excellent team in 94 - very underrated when we talk about the great teams. For as good as our forward line was, teams simply couldn’t get a look in against a backline of: Jakovich, Worsfold, McKenna, McIntosh and Brennan.

Febey for me and by quite a long way. Talented, tough and completely reliable over the course of his career. Davey IMHO was at his best in his first three-four years and even then was too easily tagged out of matches. I think when you weigh up his talent and physical attributes, he under achieved for what he was capable of.

Just not sure he's a particularly good player - seems a bit like Port's John Butcher to me. Good luck to him, but pass.

Tingay is a very underrated player; fast, tough, skilful, whose careers was derailed by injury... but it’s a very difficult ask for any child of the 90s to vote against Allen Jakovich.