Timothy Reddan-A'Blew

Brilliant, you guys!!

Similarly aged, Monsieur(?), I agree. Nonetheless - and with a cheekiness alert (please forgive) - (A) ...from Tassie Johnson (30), Hassa Mann (28), Greg Parke (a precocious 20), Brian Dixon (32) - I wonder how these will compare with our Bluey 1st five this year? (B) Technicality: He would have been wearing #15 😉 Bailey has credit points for his performance in this particular premiership game, but he needs to add longevity at this level to hold this edge over Ray.

SithBPB... I'm making my way through the Highlight Reels thread and recognising for the first time how many times players with the ball instinctively and instantaneously got the ball to a teammate moving at full pace (which never diminished, right to the end) exactly where no break in said full pace was required - 'That Goal' (Jackson to Oliver) and several instances down the outer wing as examples. Electric. Perhaps a highlights-reel-type could put together a package, please?

2021 or the thread, Jontee? (aka 'Mr 2000' - who'll do #2021?)

EO, you've made me watch replays AGAIN! Oh, the 'pain'... I've realised he's just arrived at his row with the beer as the ball's being thrown up. So he's sculled it there and then, not even getting to his seat. Must have missed a few more goals then, returning to the queue...

? (I am rather old...)

'Cocoon'? The 2022 A(Antarean)FL premiership is where that demography can shine...

Seeing myself out, btw. Again.

Might that help, gs?

Like it BD. Here we go!

Kardinia Park; what number on Elm Street was that again?

...And make sure your second car has good space.

Harrison Jetty.

Neighbours? Bah! Like I said, S. Alighieri, 57 days. At least... And your follow-up banner qualifies you for an extension anyway!

Superb late-night, several-wines-in, five-weeks-later reading. Again and again, waves of ways of appreciating what has been gifted us.

Look, I just can't keep up with the 👍-ing and 😄-ing and occasional 🧡-ing and 🤔-ing I should be doing on this thread. So take them as read. But I do note the 2000-post milestone approaches. Better still, the 2021 milestone follows shortly thereafter! Take your marks...

I believe his Mum was very angry one Sunday morning late last month...

Not quite 'Saturday morning': Yesterday - too late to post then about it before the power went out and my internet access with it - I had, for the first time since '25/9', a flash of the pleasant feeling of Friday expectation of footy. Then I snapped back to October. Had it been real, we'd certainly have been on the teev. And I think it means I'm ready for 2022! Though I'm not letting go of 2021 just yet...

Earlier, somewhere in the mass of other threads and posts since '25/9', I did. Or rather, I described my thought, watching in real time on the night, that it had not travelled 15 but that I later realised, after the multiple replay binge, that during the change in camera angle Brayshaw added another 5 metres with his run and dive, from where he'd called. In that post I also posed that Bowey was intending to kick to the Brown/Daniel mismatch (equally demonstrating the smarts discussed here) to which someone suggested (probably quite rightly, and even better demonstrating the smarts) he was kicking to the space in front of it. Per the discussion above, I'm in the school of Brayshaw's raised - not pointing - arm, and whatever call went with it, having been for the handball. Maybe someone will ask them one day?!

Still up here (my even more modest pre-match display had babies at 3am on the morning of the26th...). I believe the circumstances demand they remain up for 57 days... At least.

There's no question.

As with the post-game thread, posters on this thread to date - too many to acknowledge individually - please accept this 👍from me. Pretty much every day I have a flash of clarity, that my 'belief' that there would be another premiership in the relatively few years remaining of my lifetime was a self-protective pretense, not supported in hindsight by any real evidence and shadowed by a niggle that the reality was that there would not be another. Every year there was a team, or more, better destined than us. But then follows the realisation that it did happen. It is a thing of wonder that something bad, lurking soooo long at one's core, is just no longer there.

I've got to agree, this fella's expression is wonderfully raw and expressive. Though(?) - and this has been sitting with me since first viewing, on the night - looking at his mannerisms, I'm thinking it comes from some degree of (and I apologise for the poor choice of words available to me) disability. Others, better experienced to consider this, may have a more informed and nuanced view? It is one of the images of the night for me.

Let himself down here: all he had for it was "What a kick", in the background...