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I thought he was going to have an aneurysm when that Essendon player's boot came flying off.

This commentator needs to get out more. It's only a VFL game ffs. Calm down.

Anyone heard from Mick Malthouse?

Just back from the game. Will need to watch the replay but for much of the night it felt like watching a cat playing with a mouse. Port playing for their season next week so will likely have to play more in 3rd gear.

So nice to be hermetically sealed here on deck 2 on the Olympic Stand away from the oppo fans. Most of the ones I’ve seen on the way here are definitely missing a chromosome.

Love it!

Hi mauriesy. The final siren sounds and our full forward has marked it 40 metres out on a 45 degree angle. We're 5 points down. Do you want Ben Brown or Weeds taking that kick?

Edward Rubberhands into the 23. Now I am a little concerned.

I always feel a little short changed when we play on a work day and can't enjoy a proper full day build up to the game. On the flip side of course we get the chance to bag our 4 points early then sit back and watch the hoi polloi scrap it out over the weekend. Swings and roundabouts.

And the dogs win the flag! Oh, it's only round 3.

Nice touch with the old South jumpers. Better than the red yoke with the cutout bridge.

A $3 pie covers a multitude of sins.

Bit of a nightmare if you're trying to book flights & accommodation for interstate games well in advance to take advantage of sale fares. You'd need to cover Thursday through Sunday or even Monday if it's a late game in the west.

Like the Gus situation the consensus between the parties here could just lie in the new bargaining agreement that is due to drop soon and what the numbers on a long term contract might look like to help keep most or all of the current squad on our books.

For any of us that for so long had to hang our hat on that one measly win at Windy Hill where Billy Bennett went nuts isn't it a delight to see their fans so demoralised at the thought of facing us this week. I hope we don't let them down.

Hi Tincan. The buy one get one free memberships were mentioned further up on this thread. I agree that there is nothing wrong with having an option to buy three game memberships for the very reason you mention. My point related to the relevance of the actual membership tally if we're flogging free memberships just to make the numbers look good. We could end up with 70,000 members, perhaps 40k that are full home & away, 20k that are three game memberships and another 10k free memberships, for argument sake. If we had to go to the bank for a loan (thankfully we don't) and they wanted to see what collateral we had they will ask how much money we made from our season ticket sales, not how many members we have.

Hi AJ. I'm not sure that every other club doing it is a valid reason. I don't see much point in announcing we have 60,000 members for example if 10,000 of them were given away free although it probably explains why GWS are supposed to have 30,000 members when their ground is always empty on tv.

Is there any point updating our membership tally going forward when they're all going to be of the Mickey Mouse 3 game buy one get one free variety? Surely the only metric that matters is how much actual $$$ we rake in at seasons end.

Godfather offer from Geelong?

I'm taking comfort in the thought that St Kilda won't play this well again for the rest of the season.

Him and his brother Russell are both in their late 70's and still touring Mazer. Edgar Wright (Sean of the Dead) did a big doco on them last year .

I hope Dogga is watching this.

Max King looks like the weird keyboard player Ron Mael from the band Sparks.

Hi SD. I only wrote it as a play on WC and toilet. I agree with you that they're not totally out of the finals picture but losing two of their most winnable games first up will make it very difficult.

Sunday graveyard slot and a 2/3 empty MCG. Looks like the Tiger Army are in full retreat.