Rab D Nesbitt

And introducing him to the pineapple. I'm sure he's looking for a ghostwriter as we speak. Bless.

He's an hour late. They close at 5pm. Should've ducked in earlier.

To be clear I don't really understand any of the permutations that get floated at this time of year but do enjoy the intrigue and speculation. If we happened to be keen on pick 7 could we get another club involved who was keen on Jack Bowes but not his large contract and in effect 'buy' the pick for say $150k x 2 years and allow that other club to get the player at a more sensible price?

I wonder whether each of these three players were at the club at different times over that ten year period without any overlap and therefore unlikely to have any connection with each other. If that happens to be the case and they have each been contacted independently as part of the review in order to hear about their experience at HFC as an indigenous player then it makes it very hard for someone to refute. I can see this being taken out of the hands of the AFL sooner rather than later considering the nature of the allegations. The question will then be asked as to how long the two senior coaches are stood down for whilst justice takes its course.

Gobsmacked.

As he no longer plays for us I don't give a rats @rse where he end up.

Just play an extra round and leave it at that. Why would you try and shoehorn 18 teams and their travelling support into one state?

They should do away with all the pretence and just invite the midfield group of each club. It's the same with the All Australian. They just cram inside midfielders onto the wings and flanks because they can't fit them all into the centre.

I hope the bloke doing the Welcome to Country speech is wearing fake fur.

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.