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Quite fitting that Kiss have the half time gig this year. Will be an absolute bogan fest.

Fair play to the Bears. We would have kicked 7.17 and lost by 4 points.

Fitzroy at least look to have stopped Carlton's momentum with around 5 minutes left in that 1st quarter and will need to start chipping away at that deficit now. Home crowd seem a bit stunned and intimidated by the large travelling contingent of a real football club instead of the frankenstein outfit they follow.

A bit like Sinatra, Max could play out his twilight years in rucking duets with his industry peers.

Enough with the melodrama already.

I don't want to see the words key forward and operation in the same sentence ever again.

I don't understand the calls to replace Goody. He took a different approach from last year by promoting youth (which worked) and not playing banged up players (mostly). If nothing else he deserves a lot of credit for playing two of our most maligned players who helped us secure a top four finish (Melksham) and almost gained us a preliminary final place (Smith). He also persisted with Petts as a forward who I think (injuries notwithstanding) could well be the tall, strong, mobile presence we need up there. I love how he gives the press corps almost nothing and backs our boys publicly. He's the reason all our stars committed to long term deals and why the best from other clubs want to join us. The Gawn - Grundy combo didn't ultimately work because neither are great resting forwards but having BG helped us win games when Max missed a month. We'll also look after him in any trade that sees him leave and we'll lose no capital or friends in doing it. We lost 9 games by a collective total of 81 points. That's 9 points a game on average and one of those was by three times that figure. Injury deprived us of Petts & Melky at the pointy end of the season and Ben Brown's degenerative knee will likely see him hang up his boots, leaving us to rely on a very underdone T-Mac and Fritta who was playing with a plate in his foot. Far from ideal yet we almost completely dominated territory and possession in both our finals. I'm sure Macrae and Voss both feel like they've won the lottery right now. I really don't know much about the tactical side of AFL football tbh and lean a lot on some of the regulars on here to help make sense of what I see each week. Maybe my one strength is not making daft comments about things I don't really understand.

Something weird going on with the ticket allocations tonight. I sat in M55 which was a Melbourne bay party filled with Carlton supporters and had three bays of entire Carlton either side as well. Are clubs with huge "memberships" just selecting our allocation when they can't find any left under their own?

When all is said and done. More is said than done.

I thought this thread was going to be about Aston Villa 😂

Supports Celtic and Collingwood. What do you expect?

Collingwood. A scumbag organisation from top to bottom.

Me too. I was in N54 last week, very close to my regular seat. We needed 7 seats this week and it took the best part of an hour to get into the system so ended up on the lower level.

Doh! 🤦🏻‍♂️

Yup, If you can't get anything on level 2 that's as good as you'll get I think.

We're just a few rows behind you Bonkers and on the other end of the aisle. Pretty good seats all said.

Is that another mixed bay then FTB? Personally I'd have all the home team supporters at one end of the ground and all the away fans at the other end.

Cool. We're row x which I guess will be slightly undercover. Not that it matters with 26 degrees forecast for Friday. We couldn't get into the site quickly enough to get level 2 unfortunately.

Oh no, the absolute worst. Two weeks in a row. Thanks for letting me know though FTB.

We're all in M55 on an aisle this week. It would be nice to know if any Demonlanders have seats in the adjacent M54 just so we know were not sitting next to a Carlton bay. It was hideous being next to those dirty masses last week.

You just have to look at his previous 'body of work' to know that this is highly likely.

I hope he gets one more chance to steal Charlie Cameron's motorbike.

Or any other option for that matter.

You'd have to wonder what Schache must be thinking if Disco is potentially ahead of him as a forward option.

I suspect that they will just try and nurse Ben Brown's knee through training each week so that he'd be good enough to go if T-Mac get's injured again. Even if it's just for a single game, as he'd be our last back-up. I can't envisage a forward set up with them both playing.