Timothy Reddan-A'Blew

The person airlifted to hospital: was he the same one Ch7 interviewed? Remarkable recovery!

Knowledgeable. Insightful. Measured. Unaffected. Humble. Humorous. Confident. Loyal. Real.

Thanks for this commentary everyone! As some have said, and no doubt everyone has thought, What. A. Night. Apart from the Charlie/Flag/Norm trifecta, one other item to tick off to make it a quaddie: Coach(*) Of The Year. (*which would be 'Coaches' in our case) (Quiet note to AFL: it's 'centre', not 'center')

Magic, WJ. Kudos. This year, and last Saturday in particular: The Gift That Keeps On Giving. And is it time for a 'Like' button that likes every post in a thread? I've been having daily guilt pangs this week...

As it will be this year, too (hopefully one S. Goodwin...)

Can't help myself, Colin...😏

Cards, keep it, you young whipper-snapper; you can look forward to being less and less worried about wuss as you get older. Take it from me.

Care to clarify, DD?

Even at my age (I was probably just a little shy of the legal age in '64...) I have joked with my family about doing this. Easy when it hasn't really been a prospect... Simple, small, well-concealed, but proudly borne and worn will be my go. Probably the 'MFC' and maybe the year. With room for addition.

It may have been Melbourne 'supporters' abusing (i.e. I heartily agree with you, Syd!) but I can assure you at least one person in those scenes was very generously not doing so. Such surprises are possible: I was at that game with a great, diehard Essendon-supporter mate, sitting not far from the race. Of his own volition - possibly in solidarity with me, but he also has a soft spot for Melbourne - he went over to the fence and let forth with loud and expressive 'C'mon Dees' supportive urgings. He was most embarrassed to be splashed across the following day's papers seemingly as one of the abusers!

Didn't know where else to post this, so here it is, from yesterday's Hun (apologies if someone else found somewhere else for it). Apart from Suns and North (LOL...) what's wrong with this picture? Someone's missed the Zeitgeist!

2017 anyone?

I was there in 88 and 00. With that record, and if tonight's experience is anything to go by, I'll be quite content, thank you, with a stay-away, live-on-telly premiership 😉

As an aside to the core thrust of the OP, this is a part of the 'September experience' normally gifted fans of the finals teams that is snatched from us. And no Gosch's sausage sizzling for me this year😒

I hope all previous posters check in here again in the morning cos I wanted to thumbs up, heart, medal, haha ALL of you, as several glasses of what's good for me have accompanied a very pleasant trawl through these 13 pages. I've gone for an 11-minute walk at the 10-minutes-to-go mark of previous free-to-airs this year so I am very proud of myself that tonight my eyes stayed glued till the end, including watching Max's kick. It is, come what may now, a moment that can't be taken from me.

We'll, not quite like that, perhaps...

It's been such a long period of relatively steady success this year that this end(ish) result is sort of, like, 'Yeah, well, of course!'... ...but WHAT A WAY TO DO IT!!!! p.s. Silverware (McLelland (sp?) Trophy) is in the post🏆

Eleventh(Twelfth?)mond

Has this already been noted? In the (likely?) event that both teams from the west lose, and if(?) the Tigers win... ...Ninthmond.

Positioning themselves for 7th(*). It's the only way they know... (*Yeah, I know, mathematically impossible, but you get my drift. Anyway, probably no pre-finals bye, so that part of their recipe gone too...)

Welcome back (early?!) ds - with an apparently increased band of headscratchers! May I remind everyone that Neil Crompton has a still-unsolved team over on ds's Discombobulator thread (and also remind Neil that SOME CLUES WOULD HELP!!!)

Don't mind Daisy's observations and analysis at all! Knowledgeable and informative. To a lesser extent, ditto for Lepper. But BT and JB? Yeah. Nah. Hopeful and misplaced drama their default.

Schadenfreude is in overdrive.

How much of 'home ground advantage' comes from 'home crowd'? Our players have often this year stressed the importance of the supporters. So, is an empty MCG as much of an advantage? The greater advantage/disadvantage/injustice issue might be 'home crowds' for 'away' teams at other venues, particularly Port and West Coast (and, gulp, Geelong - or is that now definitely off the table?) On another thread of this thread, I (no doubt like many others!) was there in 1988 and 2000. It might help the cause that I have to stay away...

Thanks, Adonski. So we did trade future picks? That's proving to be another list management win!😃