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Going through these threads I could just cry. I can't believe this is real. Reports on 774 just now that Nathan Jones is expected to be catching a flight home to be with his pregnant wife. Sad if true as I'd love him to be there, but wish him and his family all the very best. Whether true or not, regardless, thanks Jonesey, sincerely, you've been a light in the darkness and we wouldn't be here without you. ❤️💙

On Bowey, fantastic game again by a very skilled and composed player. Books a GF appearance in what will be just his 7th game. Recall in '97 a certain Simon Goodwin won a flag in his 10th game... dare we dream? On the other end of the football ledger, the mixed emotions our warrior Nathan Jones must be feeling. 300+ games, a beacon through the bad times, wife on the other side of the country soon due soon with twins, and he's just fractionally outside selection.

Super proud of Viney's efforts last night, and stoked for him on booking a GF berth. His family and particularly father Todd must be over the moon!

186 was a special kind of horror. Years later I dug up and read through the gameday thread of that game. Macabre stuff. But while it was the low watermark, 186 was but one of so many pastings we've had at the hands of the cats over the years. After two heartbreakingly narrow losses to them in the H&A 2018 season, the 2018 Elimination Final went some way towards healing the wounds of the past, but to put them to the sword in a Prelim when their trading and list management has put them in such a precipitous position, having also beaten them first in a controlled manner early in the season, then in the soul-crushing 44-pt goal-after-the-siren rd23 bonanza, this to me consigns 186 to an historical footnote irrelevant to our current team.

How good does Saturday morning feel!?!? Stupendous performance last night by the Dees. Couldn't have happened in a better way to a more deserving opposition. 3 wins over Geelong in a season. How good is that! Doing our bit for the wider Aussie Rules community in keeping Dangerfield flagless. So good to have thrice stuck in in Isaac Smith's face that he chose the wrong destination, but so glad he did - I doubt we'd be here if he'd come to us - there's something intangible and special about what Brayshaw brings to the team, and his work on the opposite wing to Langdon has been crucial all season. Pinching myself that we're in the GF. Only happened twice before in my lifetime. This will be the first time we go in as a genuinely competitive chance. If we play to our best it will be ours. So proud of what the club has done this year. The coaching and support staff they've brought in, the performances on the field, the smooth change of President, Pert kicking sponsorship goals, stringing 9 wins on the trot to kick the season off, when with BB and Weid injured many thought we could have been 1-4 after the first 5 rounds... One more game. Give it everything!

Reverts to follow the cats. T o s s e r. How are our supposed 2018 Prelim fears looking now d!kchead???

F*%k me I can't wait for the podcast this week!

Enough time for 186???

Love seeing Selwood having a frustration-induced brain snap at crucial points in finals against us :-)

So nervous I could spew. Come on boys! Trac and Kozzie have done some ridiculous things - skills simply on another plane. Viney a beast. Take our chances when we have the ascendancy and we've got this!

JJ

How many throws from the cats there? It's not rugby!

Hahaha 19 page gameday thread and it's still half an hour away. Go Dees!

12 hours to go and I am $#!tting myself.

Someone must've put a gun to the Doc's head in the rooms.

Port will [censored] all over the Bulldogs

You hit the nail on the head - I'm watching this expecting to see lightning handpasses hitting targets, imperious defence, etc., not this slop.

Jeez terrible skills on display

Preuss is with GWS I believe, but has had back to back long term injuries (including a torn pectoral in the gym) and hasn't played a game since leaving us. Edit: And best of luck to Dom Tyson for the future - he was a bright light in a crappy time for us when he first came over.

I'd prefer Geelong, because I frankly love knocking them off more than anyone with the exception of Collingwood. However, given the two options, I think they're more likely to run out of legs than GWS by the Prelim, having to go "the long way" to get there. As to next weekend, I think Geelong will get over the top of GWS given the tumult of the Greene fiasco and the likely absence of Tom Green and possibly others. Oh, that and the fact they are a soulless polymer extrusion masquerading as a club.

Thank you, yes, I stand corrected!

3 weeks. That is a [censored] verdict.

This protracted hearing is really ruining my productivity today. 😠

Read the room GWS. He won't need to make that flight!

I get he has to advocate for his client, but this just rings at out of touch with the community's pulse on this. I'd be worried about riling the tribunal with this kind or argument. "The message has already rung clear ... in the community." Rubbish. Handing down merely a fine will ring a bell in the community that the sanctity of umpires has been diluted. That is untenable. The tribunal must be firm in its verdict here.