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My weather app says rain most of the day turning to a mixture of sunshine and showers around game time with the potential for heavy rain again towards the end of the match. Hope you're right though. I think I’m in an exposed seat and don’t fancy a soaking.

Nah. There are shinier things to occupy the media. Sydneys new kids on the block, the doggies silky midfield, Ports over-powering of the tiges, the saints come from the clouds win (remember all the experts who tipped them preseason, they’ll jump straight back on after yesterday) And remember we haven’t beaten anyone yet, we’ve been lucky to play teams when we did, they had injuries, the cats are short of danger and Cameron, they are old and past it anyways etc. etc. A hard fought, meat and potatoes win will do nicely. Keeps the focus off us for another week.

GWS had an added incentive to beat the pies last night. They hold Collingwood's first round pick this year. Pity we couldn't get our hands on it. Imagine the mirth and merriment death riding that pick for the year and based on last nights performance it could well land in the Top 5.

Still gutted for the girls. Goddam fixture stitched us.

The weather has turned so looks like it’ll be a slog. If so, not sure Melks will be able to show his silky skills. Maybe Sparrows grunt is preferable on a day like today? Anways, this decision won’t be the winning or losing of the game. Melks needs a run so lets see if he has shaken off his putrid 2020 form and can be a contributor this year.

Horrible morning out there. I predict a slog for 3 quarters but the superior fitness of the Dees to subdue the tired old cats legs in the last. Dees by 4 goals

I understand the scepticism but I think the Weid can be a very capable second forward. He’s looked very good in spells but when in poor nick offers very little. Hoping he can find his way back to form because I believe our flag winning team will have BB and the Weid as spearheads. Thanks to everyone who provided a running commentary and wrote up some excellent reports. Very much appreciated.

Anzac eve would be a tough first up game for BB. Prefer he gets a run against the Hawks

He's a fantastic player. Would love to see him in the red and blue.

Applying some Demonland logic here but if we beat the saints easily, the saints then beat West Coast doesn’t that mean….......we’ve gone past West Coast ?

True but we have to have something to talk about.

West Coast are just down hill skiers. Apply the pressure and they wilt Great response from the Saints after the Essendon horror show

Fair comments Maybe I did let my frustration at the performance boil over a little. Skills are improving every year. Rome wasn’t built in a day. I think that’s worth bearing in mind when appraising the team. We’ll leave it at that.

These women have been magnificent the last few weeks. No shame in losing today. No shortage of endeavour but lacked quality. The vagaries of the draw caught up with us. We better get a favourable draw next year or I’ll be fuming. Just too big an ask to back up week after week against the strong teams. Adelaide are a good team but we belted them on our patch. They had a softer draw racked up the percentage and that was enough to get them top spot and the or so important home finals. We’ve had a great year with some real talent emerging. The foundation is there. I think the one thing we are missing is a dominant forward. Any chance with could pinch Tayla Harris from Carlton I wonder? She’d straighten us up and give us a real presence inside 50. Bannon is too young and callow yet and needs more time to develop. I’m disappointed we didn’t give a better account of ourselves today but the future is bright. The girls can hold their heads high this evening. They’ve done us proud over the journey. Go Dees.

And if our men can show half the heart of this team we'll be a long way towards a tilt at the flag

Our progress this season, other than a bad mid-season wobble, has been excellent. I don't like condescending remarks comparing the women to U15's. It's out of order imv.

Have you watched any of our games this year or have you waited until the prelim to stick the boot in?

We're in Hail Mary territory now. We need a toby greene style flurry of quick goals to have any hope.

Huge ask now. Not sure what Stinear can do. They need more than guts. Gotta kick a goal somehow

Need to kick the next one. a 3 goal lead would be very hard to reel in

Weak from Downie.

That's a given

Nothing happening in our forward 50. It's coming straight back out again.

Tarrant - miss of the year

Huge hit.