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Unlikely as Carlton will have already won the Fair Play finals spot for the team with the least amount of player suspensions over the home and away season.

Carlton v Collingwood knockout final at Traeger Park in Alice Springs. Please make it happen.

Collingwood and Essendon likely finishing 9th & 10th this year was the sealer on the deal.

Don't forget to put the key under the mat too. Last home game it was my turn and I nearly forgot.

Quite happy with that result. Blues now a game and a half out of the top four if Brisbane win tomorrow. Important since they have WC away and St.K to finish their season. If Hawthorn lose tomorrow but beat Carlton the following week they could both end up miss finals. Along with Essendon, Collingwood and of course rock bottom Richmond. How sweet.

Didn't Fitzroy beat league leaders North Melbourne by 150 points at the Junction Oval in the early 1980's?

I don't think I've ever seen anything like this before. And I've followed Melbourne for most of my life.

Left early enough to miss all the dogs fans on the train. That’s a win yeah?

I'm bracing myself for a thumping tbh but hoping for the best of course. Dogs off a five day break should help but they have their tails up right now.

Do you have buffering issues on the international space station CHF?

Marvel tomorrow night. Get your lame excuses valid reasons in early.

If it has to be a Victorian side then I'll be cheering for the Dogs, although they'll probably have to win every game between now and the GF so unlikely. If it has to be an interstate side then probably GWS as nobody outside AFL HQ will GAF.

Bowie is actually pronounced as Bowey.

Not us.

You're right. There's always a media / AFL wånkfest early in the season about trying to break the round's biggest attendance record helped along by sending the likes of Collingwood to GWS and Carlton to GC.

I don't think I'll ever get my head around this discussion. In the UK, thanks to 14 years of Tory rule there's now a food bank in every town and city. Despite that, just last week my football team took 7,000 fans down to Birmingham on the Wednesday and a similar number to Berlin on the Saturday for two pre-season practice matches. It's estimated that 250,000 of our good citizens (that's 5% of our population) travelled to Germany for the Euros to support the worst performing team at the tournament. I think that sport participation rates here are really high, not so much to spectate.

It wouldn't prevent you logging on to buy your finals tix BA. It would just add people who regularly attend most home games to the mix. I think each competing team get something like 17,500 for a final, perhaps more if it's against an interstate side. I also understand that a lot of category one members have been paying for the GFG over a lot of years knowing we haven't a hope in hell of playing finals. Level 2 in the Northern Stand was three quarters empty on Saturday night and that area would make up a sizeable chunk of our category one members. It's not for me to tell people how to best spend their time and I enjoyed not having to queue for a beer but there's no doubt it's a bad look.

I have a season ticket that gives me access to priority level one finals tickets but I wouldn't be against our ticket allocation being weighted towards season ticket holders of any level that have attended the most home & away games. It should at least count for something I think. Perhaps a minimum threshold of 7 out of 10 home games to qualify? Just a thought.

Incase anyone has forgotten we have a Friday night game at Marvel for us not to turn up to in just five days. We need to move on people.

Definitely one that got away. At different stages we were poor at connecting inside 50 then just generally a bit flat footed and devoid of imagination. Those lost centre clearances and subsequent one on one contests up forward at the start of the last quarter killed us though.

It really is a pitiful crowd. I reckon North might have got more down in Hobart today.

Bombers now setting their sights on pick 6 in the draft.

I’m currently missing Essendon getting humped to come in tonight. It better be worth it.

Nope. Maybe he was from Shimla.