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I’ve done some maths. We ran all over Sydney and Sydney ran all over the Carlton. Carlton’s defence isn’t as good as Collingwoods. I think it leads to one simple conclusion.

If we kicked straight we would have won the other night. Last year we couldn’t run due to injury. Context is relevant. Playing tough, hard football is timeless.

Who’s actually taking in football media these days? It seems everyone I know can’t stand it anymore and has switched off. I can’t help but feel the afl is headed for trouble with its poor management and horrific media arm. It has some serious things to sort out

I really hope we haven’t seen the last of him.

What bothers me is that no one has any idea how it will be adjudicated. This is increasingly true of a number of rules. The afl love the grey areas of the game. Increase conversation and fan engagement etc. But surely with an incident like that one we should all have a pretty clear idea of what the result will be.

The afl has shown tons of common sense so far with these situations.

We also need a few more elite ball users. Half the reason we suck in the wet is we lack composure and execution due to our average skills. We had petty going along beautifully. It’s not anyone’s fault he got injured. Our forward line got dealt a fair bit of bad luck. Every chance the gun forward we recruit does their knee or foot too

AFL only cares about the end result. They’ve shown this all year. That end result was one of the worst all year. Bad luck Maynard

The afl clearly don’t care about context either. They care about end result. This is why he’s done. Brayshaw got stretchered off. That’s what the afl care about

How does that get off if Toby Bedford gets a week. He hit him in the head, feet off the ground. That’s the end of it, surely

We didn’t have a choice. If we had petty or melksham or both we win that. What can you do. Injuries play one of the biggest parts in winning flags as we learnt last year and are learning again now

If Maynard gets off after Bedford got a week I quit football

We still suck in the wet. At least we lost it rather than Collingwood winning it.

God knows why I have to have a number of friends that are Collingwood supporters. Growing up in the north probably makes it worse. They’re everywhere. At least the ones I know are a couple of standard deviations above the average supporter. Still I’d rather not have to deal with any of it. I hope we never have to play them in a final again.

Me and Iggy pop are built differently. I feel like you are asking to sound terrible by going down the live route. No one represents themselves as well as possible in these situations playing live and it’s through no fault of their own. You get a bit of wind and you are doomed. Which is only one of a million ways it can fall apart. I blame the afl. Like I do with most things. This two weeks has been horrible. I hate the bye and I hate Collingwood more. I feel like I’m pacing around unable to concentrate on anything. Losing this game would hurt more than most to state the bleeding obvious. I am living with a high level of underlying anxiety for the next month it seems. Sometimes I miss sucking as a football team. No expectations had its perks. Then I think how much it will suck when I no longer get to watch max, Clarry, trac, Gus, may etc and I quickly snap out of it.

I struggle to pick up jokes sometimes. His voice was well and truly shot. But who wouldn’t play some provincial football games grand final that no one in the northern hemisphere will Ever see for a mil or two

Yeah I know. I missed a couple but it is overwhelmingly the case. Playing live in these settings is fraught with danger in my opinion

It has come to my attention that apparently plenty of Collingwood supporters hate Melbourne. I’ve had quite a few comments along the lines of “especially against Melbourne”. I never noticed this before. Perhaps it’s just cause we are playing them this week and that’s how they operate. Some serious arrogance amongst them.

True. Paul Kelly played live too apparently. That’s why you don’t play live. You end up sounding like poor old meatloaf. The afl doesn’t spend anywhere near enough on production to give the music a chance.

The grand finals are all mimed. The vocals are live with some extra in the mix to fill it up. I think powderfinger played one live many years ago but that’s about it.

You’d take vinnie colaiuta seriously. Man’s a genius. Also, get stuffed.

3 umpires missing that isn’t a mistake, it’s incompetence. It’s possibly an issue with the way they are taught. It seems this year the theme is becoming don’t call anything. They all seem scared to make decisions.

Except it feels hollow and like a movie set and there’s never any clouds which is concerning

But we lost by less than a goal Playing poorly and should have won if they did a proper review. You seem very definitive for something that went so close.

We have been pretty ordinary in the wet all year. Seems we play one way rain, hail or shine in hopes that it will shine in September when it matters.