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I’ll be having the Qantas app open and my finger hovering over the ‘book flight’ button the whole match.

It's a great stadium (though the inhabitant aren't ideal). Optus, along with the new Adelaide Oval seem to be great places for football and spectators. Puts the Docklands Stadium to absolute shame and shows what a bit of creativity can do.

Very slim I think. I believe Silver gets a go at them if the Golds don’t sell out first.

"It's a VFL conspiracy!"

Hopefully he can do an Open Mike or, even better, a Demonland podcast... would love to hear some of the stories and his thoughts on the club.

I like that it’s ambiguous enough for us to anoint whoever played better each weekend.

Weid has finally justified his inclusion at the center of the Demonland banner!

A standout performance like that in a final is worth ten home and away matches. We could have a pretty special player on our hands here...

Cut our losses and trade him.

Tuning in from Hong Kong! 2006 feels like a dozen years ago!

From MFC discard to MFC owner in the space of 10 years.

Nic article about Nev Jetta making his finals debut... only, that’s not Neville Jetta.

That was just so underwhelming. There was just no substance or depth to any of the questions or answers and I don’t think there was anything there that wasn’t already public knowledge. Something that surprised me was that when asked what he’d do differently, he replied he’d investigate, question and challenge the club’s decision to move on senior player at the end of 2011. He often referred to how young the list was that he inherited and lay the blame at the feet of the admin. At the end of 2011, we delisted or traded out: Matthew Warnock Addam Maric McNamara (rookie) and Cameron Johnston (rookie) Where is this mass culling of senior players that he referred to numerous times throughout the interview??? He then claimed that we brought in a significant number of young players for his first year, but in fact we brought in: Mitch Clark (mature) James Magner (mature) James Sellar (mature) Leigh Williams (mature) He claimed that he went for all out youth and knew it would be a long, slow rebuild as a consequence, but that does nothing to explain the following preseason bringing in: Rodan Byrnes Dawes Pedersen Gillies.

I simply cannot get my head around this one. I thought, in the limited times I've seen him play, that he has a lot of potential as a full time ruckman. This makes me wonder why he's not being hotly pursued by many clubs, why Nth is letting him slip away with Goldy in his twilight years, and why a ruck, who could be playing consistent AFL games next year, would come to a club where he is guaranteed to be second fiddle to the best ruck in the league... The only answer I can come up with is that I, and many other fans, have significantly overestimated his ability and potential output.

I think there’s nothing to gain from looking back at this and definitely nothing to be gained from trying to rewrite history or putting on too thick a shade of rose-coloured-glasses. 2008-13 was two steps forward, seven steps back. We were a broken shell is a club inside and out when PJ and Roos came in.

Loved it! Today the nerves started kicking in thinking about Friday... not sure I could watch a grand final...

Haven't heard a lot about him this season... Was today a huge surprise or is it something that he's been showing/building towards through the year?

I think we’re at a stage in our list build that we can look towards developing young / untried players as our depth. We’re past needing to bring in experienced older player who would not immediately improve our best 22.

Hopefully his son inherits his fathers determination and his mother’s skills.

Carlton and it’s supporters need to make up their minds. They either have the most talented young list in the league and are confident that Bolton and Silvagni are building towards sustained success and dominance if they stay the course... or... there is not enough talent on their list and they need priority access at the upcoming draft. We’ve been explicitly told two contradictory stories this season.

Does Tyson have the full forearm cast, or just his wrist?

Great news for Captain Daisy!

I used to watch it during its first couple of years. Before the celebrities and comedians took over it used to be great to watch some former players running around. They seemed to take it a bit more seriously then too. Now it all feels a bit too self-indulgent for me to sit through... but they’re raising money, so good on them.

I think he has a point... a lot of players are open about not having the time to watch a lot of opposition matches. Every year the AFLPA survey makes me raise an eyebrow or two with many of their results.