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shocked and devastated at the news, hopefully he lives a long and peaceful life. angry at the injustice of how we ended up here. he needs a development role asap, need to harness the "energy" this situation will generate. his selflessness cannot be lost. longer term, this could be very interesting from a salary cap point of view. we could keep more stars for longer or maybe even poach a star to keep our window open for longer. the spreadsheet staff will be having a field day!

been brewing for a few weeks. havent been out of 2nd/3rd gear, lots of turnovers in the forward half and garbage going inside 50. finally play a team that can challenge us and we get smacked. not the end of the world, only finals matter, but they better start improving soon

dockers inaccuracy keeping us in it for now .. so many turn overs in the middle of the ground killing us.

dockers looking good so far, cant afford to be super inaccurate today

For sure! Hopefully everything with the fitness program is all good and we don’t have any mass disasters!

No one concerned we have two “hammys” at once, with a new fitness guy at the helm? Something to think about for sure

Like many, i have day dreamed the moment where you knew the game was over and when the song played after the final siren. if i was an actor and needed to cry, id just think of these moments 😂 it goes back to when i was a kid when leigh matthews got to the boundary from the box in the 1990 GF and did the fist pump. When Fristch kicked the 2nd goal on the 4th, that moment happened for me. i had a meltdown. a lifetime of day dreaming came true. the rest was a blur. still cant believe it - feels like the world has blended into an alternate reality with my dreams.

did anyone work out what the variant editions are? doesnt have any info, price just changes. weird.

GF votes should be weighted to be 1.5 or 2.0x for the very reason most people stated. this is the definition of a bureaucrat award.

the foil version going for 500-1000 on ebay, yikes.

I feel really calm so far, but this afternoon I will be a wreck and when they run out ill start crying with nerves. They are the better team, are more united and want to win it more than the dogs - i think they get it done.

if the unthinkable does happen and i grab one of these from the newsagents, will they think im weird when i burst into tears when they hand it to me?

means a lot. its hard to make the GF, harder to win it. some of the best players of their era never won a flag for whatever reason. the fact that your passion and emotion makes no difference each year, only the team can achieve success. to have so many years of bad luck, lack of passion, ineptitude etc from either players or staff made being a supporter hard. especially as basically every other team has tasted success and just about everyone you know has experienced that winning feeling .. i could only dream about it. even richmond, ninthmond, won a bloody premiership, its just so cruel. for this team to join the list of premiership sides would be an amazing feeling and i would honestly feel like i have joined a special "club" that goes back over 100 years.

its interesting considering he was on the trade table with his best, apparently, behind him. hopefully took less coin to retain younger players, with the opportunity of future glory the main prize.

I am as pessimistic as they come, but im not really "worried" about this game. I believe we want it more than any other team, are bonded and play for each other more than any other team, and if we bring the "220+ pressure" which is almost a certainty, then the odds are significantly in our favour.

even my unfamiliar with AFL family members watching the PF could tell how close the team was, they would run through walls for each other and played with incredible passion. 18PF was irrelevant. I dont think any other team can match this. Their will and pressure can outlast the dogs.

i re-watched the last Q of the R19 game. Dogs got to the ball first in stoppages quite frequently, with little pressure from dees players. they quickly got the ball to the outside. there is no chance this happens as easily/often in the GF, the pressure on the ball and outside players will be immense. pressure, locking the ball inside 50 and accuracy are the key areas to winning (which is probably obvious).

in the two matches this year Dees won center clearances while dogs won stoppage. it is likely we would win center clearances again in the GF.

Personally i'd have tmac FF and weid HF. tmac is a great pack mark, and worst case can punch and get the ball to ground. weid had some great one on one contests during the finals, so if he can get free as much as possible that would be huge. Also Melk I would rotate between the wing and HF. he is an amazing kick inside 50, and can also find the ball around the 50 and kick goals on the run. He set up a few awesome goals with one great kick that split the Def.

I’ll join the melts. disgraceful outcome, should have been 6+11 minimum. not happy jan

Cmonnnn 6+ next years first.

now this is the trade tv show id watch. Only one emerges alive - and gets all the trades for their club.

If I recall we offered our first and a second, but then changed to two firsts. for hogan, I really don’t see how we can’t command pick 5 plus next years first. We should be getting the best deal instead of whatever we can get just to get another deal done. It seems .. wrong.