Rab D Nesbitt

They're already organising a 10 year reunion for the guys that played in their first six games.

Back in the halcyon days of cheer squads in the 1980's I made a particular point of modelling our look on North Melbourne's. They were still playing at Arden Street in the first half of that decade and were sponsored by Budget, the rental car company owned by their chairman Bob Ansett. All of their flags had the Budget logo, white on blue or vice versa sans one corporate orange one in the centre of them all and they along with their floggers (at least twenty of them) looked magnificent. The white lettering on their run throughs, drawn and cut from cardboard stencils were millimetre perfect and centred perfectly on the blue crepe paper backing. They didn't have the benefit of drafting in professional artists to draw the designs on their finals run throughs like Hawthorn did but were still always perfect. Looking at last night's creation by their descendants made me feel sad. It was more akin to what the likes of Geelong, Footscray and Sydney used to always (and still do) serve up.

Talkback radio. Says it all.

Was half expecting to see the team doing sprints in Yarra Park for 30 minutes when I left after the game.

LOL. Swans choke again. Hilarious.

Sydney derby and virtually no sound when GWS kick a goal.

Dogga will be relieved he doesn't need to tell Peter Bell about the family holiday his mum has booked for September.

Bears sleepwalking their way through this one.

Brisbane look a bit listless today. Not good.

A clip just popped up in my youtube feed of that boofhead Eddie McGuire on Footy Classified saying the 715 million they appear to have scraped together will end up being 1.5 billion if they want a roofed 35,000+ seater stadium. Then there's the new club's training facility that needs to be built plus an upgrade to the ground in Launceston if they play any games up there.

I'd be happy to send the Suns to the original Gold Coast in what's now called Ghana.

Hmmm. That would be Ben Mackay but he'd have to be 2 metres tall so would go to either JVR or Schache.

Hi DJ. As much as that concerns me my response related to the inclusion of No.19 up front. I guess their best defender goes to JVR then?

Deary me. I suppose they know what they're doing.

It'll be tough on the boys to back up last night with another game in five days but as a supporter I think it's great that we play again so soon. Can't believe that it's round 7 already though.

I like how the differing views about the Anzac / Anzac Eve games are given their space in this thread without being shouted down. Our night game against Richmond is a fantastic spectacle. More so than the afternoon game the following day. That said I've always felt that they are little more than well spun cash cows for the AFL (and maybe the RSL?) and not an appropriate way to reflect on what the day is about. The same goes for the week long ANZAC narrative on steroids throughout the football media landscape that competes to out gush each other. Sometimes less really is more.

An actual sell-out or a gather round "sell-out"?

Having just read the rest of this thread apparently it has to do with anyone moving that's within a 5 metre radius of the kicker but as Lever wasn't the person standing the mark the decision was mind boggling. You'll be lucky to see it getting paid again this year.

Those post game espresso martinis tasted extra good tonight. Never tire of beating that bunch of NQR's. We weren't great for much of the night but they were playing for their season and we've effectively ended it.

Understatement of the year.

Sounds like GWS are getting some traction in Canberra. I just heard six people start a Giants chant when they got within 35 points of Brisbane.

Looking like Adam Kingsley was handed the keys to a reliant robin.

Flagmantle flag (verb) to become tired, weaker or less effective

BELL-ISSIMO 👌🏻

Ask Dogga if he thinks the grass is greener BT.