Rab D Nesbitt

After 23 years of pain. It's coming home.

I like how they crossed to the Southport social club at the start of the game and there were 7 people sitting having Sunday lunch and a beer.

There are momentum swings in every game. Had we made the most of the time we had the ball locked in our front half we'd have finished with a 20-2 home & away record and would be playing next weekend.

One silver lining is that I no longer have to sit through Robbie Williams at half time I guess. Has anyone broken the news to Geelong that Take That have split up?

Those that live by the sword die by the sword. 😂

Swans did well to hold off the Collingwood charge in that third quarter. I felt they were a goal short of being able to put the Pies away before the momentum swung when Sam Reid went off injured. In contrast we would have coughed up three goals to have them sitting right on our tail with the magpie army up and about.

If you think Jack Ginnivan is already unbearable imagine him with a premiership medallion around his neck. Our only kernel of comfort being the likelihood that some of their team would o.d. in the post match celebrations.

Kick 8-3 in the first half last week instead of 3-8 and the game is effectively over and we're a bees [censored] away from another GF, banged up or not. Our one regret should be not having tried JVR in a roaming centre half forward position a-la T-Mac over the last six weeks or so of the home and away season. BB then doesn't get double / triple teamed, we have two genuine marking targets again and our mosquito fleet doesn't have to produce the goods every time the ball hits the ground. Hell, we could have let him pinch hit in the ruck and give Dogga a run as a genuine mid just to keep the opposition on their toes.

When does the official fawning period end?

Well that was a right royal f-up.

Will they be having a minute silence tonight for the head of the English aristocracy popping her cloggs?

Give them he'll Dee's!

Hi Roy. It was an away game at The Piggery as well so the equivalent of finding a gold ticket in a Wonka bar. I gave them to my cousins who drove down on a Wednesday night when they had reorganised the date. I think we horsed them 2-0. Thankfully they didn't cancel any of the U2 gigs I also had tickets for at that time at Wembley, Leeds and Edinburgh so could have been much worse.

I was over there when Diana died and had tickets for an Old Firm game that was cancelled. Not impressed. Cancel the croquet and fox hunting if they want. In the 21st century there is no place for taxpayers to subsidise one family (who ironically aren't even English) and their hangers on in such an opulent lifestyle (£4 million to renovate her grandson's 2 bedroom flat??). What I find more bizarre however is the public fawning at the smallest thing they do and the adulation at her handing out medals each year in the name of an empire that caused so much misery and suffering to so many people.

Fine with me DubDee. It might be all we have for the next few months after tomorrow night. Although Green Bay can help fill that void for me until the end of January. I flirted with a few of the London sides when I lived there and have been to games at most of the grounds. I had a soft spot for Fulham, West Ham and Charlton at various times but settled on Brentford as Griffin Park was the closest ground to where I lived in Kew. You could always go a bit left field and pick a non-league side to follow?

I hear ya DubDee. I used to work with rusted on Blues fans who stood at the Shed End in the old second division long before they became a depository for dodgy Russian money.

Very different to their near neighbours who since Ken Bates sold his £90 million debt to Abramovich for £1 have attracted mostly glory hunting chavs.

If we're looking for a crowd comparison in the sporting world we might be more like Arsenal. Their previous home was known as the Highbury Library. As supporters I'd say we're more like Fulham.

In a 2018 Preliminary Final Richmond played a hampered Dusty in a tacit admission that their chances of success hinged on his presence (they still lost heavily). With a similar injury (corky) to Trac do you think we might be tempted to do likewise and if so would we be sending out the same signals? Can the presence of an 80% fit superstar lift all his team mates enough to make up that difference? If so can you think of any famous examples where this has worked or backfired?

#whiteflagmantle

Agree DD. I really don't want to be in the vicinity of the toothless army again anytime soon. It warms the heart to know that most of them will now miss out on getting tickets for their prelim.

Thank christ for that. I'd fancy Sydney to take care of Collingwood again up there should they get that far. It's just a question of whether we can bring our best for three consecutive games. Right now I have my doubts.

Sounds like there'll be a few 'landers there tonight based on what I've read on this thread. I hope they still have that dark ale on tap I've had on my last two visits.

LOL. Gold Coast lost 60% of their "members" in one season.

Couldn't have scripted a better way for Richmond to get dumped out of the finals. Sydney v Brisbane next week at the SCG should be another cracker.