Rodney (Balls) Grinter

Absolutely I believe Chol deserves 3 weeks for that. He chose to takle second and just throw all his huge momentum into his back without any regard for the player. Others have been suspended for showing far more duty of care than he did.

Apparently been given 3 weeks by the MRO, but the Hawks are arguing against the penalty: The Hawks said Chol “feels sorry for what happened to Mr Stewart as a result of this footballing accident, given the significance of the game this weekend”, but argued he tackled reasonably in the circumstances. We've seen how this plays out for other clubs, compared to the MFC. As I've said before, this isn't the first time involved in this sort of incident. Will be interesting to see what kind of stand the AFL do or don't take.

A 'karate' chop to the head to snap them to their senses for supporting that vial scum seems more appropriate.

Slight change of topic, but Chol absolutely needs to be suspended for the first 3 matches of the 2026 season. ANB got rubbed out for 4 matches falling forward in a takle in 2020, Kade Chandler 2, Kossie and Steven May also got suspended for 3 matches this year because of invidents that resulted in concussions Chol has form in throwing his huge body around and giving other players concussions etc and needs to be taught to exercise a duty of care to his fellow players. Asides from that, I've got nothing against the guy (well that and asides for him playing for Hawthorn), but if the AFL doesn't suspend him, it's negligent and corrupt.

Absolutely a football action

Could have just read "Disgusting scenes at the MCG - Collingwood fans"

Have a bit of a Brisbane following in my household, so was going off that last quarter. When Charlie Cameron kicked that goal things just erupted. After had the season we did and missed the finals, tonight's game was pretty much the perfect way to end the year. The elation of Brisbane making the GF was overwhelmed for me by making Collingwood miss out on it. Having them think they were robbed with the non free to Elliot made it even sweeter.

Him getting nailed in a tackle at the end of the game was an awsome full stop

Nah, I think your maths are a bit out their old Dub. Flags in 2009, 2011 & 2022 - that's three flags in 14 years and if you go back one further to 2007 it's four in 15 years. I'd definitely take that. ...the 20 odd years prior to 2007 might have been pretty heart breaking though, but we know all about that.

My thoughts exactly. ...youngest son was going for the Hawks tonight, so I had to feign support for them to win. Part of me was dying on the inside.

Wasn't there at either, but sat through loosing GFs in 88 and 2000. Just give me that premiership at the G and I'd be complete in a footy sense.

That was a bit of a game giant [censored] vs [censored] sandwich. I think the giant [censored] won.

Perhaps if he's getting tactical moves from Dr.Who and can warp the space time continuum. That would be handy. ...in which case, I'll put the 2022 and 2023 premierships on back order as well!

You mean after we win the 2026 & 27 GFs as well?

Say what you will about the rest, but Spargo and Sparrow were solid contributors to a premership team - how many premerships has Flanders played in? While Sparrow hasn't gone to that next level we'd all like him to or perhaps even produce quite as consistently at the level he is capable of, I still see him as a valuable part of the team. If we don't have him, we're dipping into playing the likes of Henderson, Billings, Laurie and co more often and makes for a weaker team. IMHO, it's easy to look at other teams players through rose coloured glasses, when you don't scrutinise them every week and it's mainly their best games that get noticed widely. If Mat Rowell was a Melbourne player, last night we'd all be beating up on him worse than Trac, that he can't produce in the big games, being just a bully to the mid and lower tier teams. Prior to the Darcy Moore injury, Trac had a number of seasons where his output against the better teams put him as one of the true elite and best players in the comp.

Will be very happy if he emulates the coaching record of the guy in the background. Don't know anything more about him than has been publicly posted, but he's our man now. Let's get behind him and the team and looking forward to some great season ahead.

GWS were given the most extensive draft and recruiting concessions in AFL history. As much love as there is with the public for a Tassie team, I can't see that same level of concessions being made available to the Devils.

Salem is solid best 22 player at the moment. Maybe not a superstar, but a reliable contributor. Great sides need these sort of players just as much as they need the superstars.

Yeah, but you do get that impression when you combine it with all this: 8× All-Australian team: 2016, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 (c), 2022, 2024, 2025 AFLCA Champion Player of the Year: 2018 2× Frank 'Checker' Hughes Medal: 2024, 2025 Neale Daniher Trophy: 2016

I actually thought Salem was pretty solid this year and had a few good games. Somewhat surprised that he finished as high as 5th though.

I'm not going to hate on Trac, but really can't see how he should finish 2nd. Stats are one thing, but I struggle to remember where he used the ball effectively enough to make a big positive impact on the game. Wouldn't argue against him finishing somewhere in the top ten, but to me that Bowie finishes below him in 4th, just makes our B&F like the brownlow - another midfielder's medal. I'd probably also have rated Melksham above both Salem and Trac this season.

Agree. Stop radically changing the rules and nature of the game. I know someone will probably tell me the boundary umpires were only introduced in 1955 or something, but the ball has been allowed to be knocked out of play one way or the other on the bounce without an automatic free kick for the entirety of the time I've been watching (which doesn't date back anywhere near as far as 1955). Moving to this rule won't take the subjectivity out of out of deliberate bounds decisions. It will just replace those errors with umpires not being able to decide which player touched it last, players trying to hit it out off the other player basketball style etc. If they want to make the game more free flowing, start tightening up on the holding the ball decisions again. I see way too many players practically diving on the ball or letting themselves get wrapped up without attempting any disposal and or doing a 720 degree tour while getting takled etc without getting penalised it's not funny. Just go back and look at how the rule was generally adjudicated in general play in the 80s and I think that's the standard that should be replicated.

Saints had their chance to have Trac and took Paddy McCartin instead.

Yeah thought that's what you meant. I did mention that we got Lingers (aka Ed Lingers Langdon)

Agree regarding loosing any liking of Freo after they went on a poaching spree on us. I guess we did get Jeff White from them, but then they have taken the Wiz, Jessy Hogan and Dogger. There have been a few others and we got Linggers, but they seemed quite OK with trading him. While any dislike of Freo might not be on the same level as Collingwood, I'm also quite happy to see them lurk in irrelevance and starved of sucess. We might not have made finals the past 2 seasons, but at least our club has actually won a premiership and we're not Freo. On that note, this clip cracked me up a few times: