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Spargo & ANB are crucial cogs in the team balance. They aren't Petraccas or Oliver's. They are as better than the next option as Trac & Clarry are better than them. We take them out and we will be poorer for it

I'm not unhappy with the change but you have to feel for JJ. Spent most of last year as the sub, including the GF, manages to play in the 22 most games this year and now, on the eve of the finals, it looks like he might be warming the bench again

I don't know why he came off but he was standing ready to come back on on the sidelines for a long time while the play was stuck on the other side of the ground

We look tired. We give everything to only get our noses in front, cling desperately to our lead and watch it slip between our fingers. Those moments of dominance where we pile on goals in a short amount of time are almost non-existant. We looked good recently against Brisbane and Freo but neither of those teams pushed us. Every time we come up against resistance we stumble. No come-from behind wins this year. The only games we've looked half decent we have been playing against badly out-of-form teams. This is not the same team or competition as 2021. I haven't been able to see us winning it this year for a while but I keep telling myself anything is possible with this group if only we can get a few things right. I will be very, very surprised if we win the flag this year

We look tired

I tend to park in a side street on the east side of Punt Road and north of Bridge Road. 20 minute walk to the ground. Plenty of alternative escape routes that avoid Punt Road traffic

I thought you were talking about Joel Smith? Unfortunately McDonald is the only forward on our list who seems capable of it

The last time we played them our defence buckled, our structure unravelled and the rolled us. Unless we get very unlucky with injuries it won't happen twice

We were spoiled with home games in the first half of the season but it's been a while since our last one and we only have two more games at the 'G and then the next time we go will be The Finals 2022. I think the weather, scheduling, cost & inconvenience, will all be dulled by The Occaison. This is it; we're in the endgame now. We need to build momentum and hit the finals running. We need to put fear back in the opposition. Get behind the boys. Cheer them on. Lift them up. Go Dees

I don't know if Harmes should come straight back in to the team but I do know that he's a proven finals player and if we do call on him he will give us his everything and we have nothing to worry about.

Unfortunately since that call I've noticed that almost any time someone kicks a goal he goes "bang". Cheapens it a little for me. Not that moment (praise Clarry!) but Brayshaw's work

Before the game today I'll be dropping in to the place I was house-sitting at back in July 2017 when McDonald kicked THAT goal. That might be one of my most vivid football memories. I'll be moving in with their new dog for the first time since '17 on September 26th this year, 2 days after the GF. Let's hope it will be equally as memorable. And let's hope we break our NT drought today

Pride cometh before the fall

In their defence it was 1 v 6 (or something like that) when they scheduled it

Ben Brown halved just about every contest he was in tonight, and most of the time the ball spilled to our advantage, which was no accident. He isn't marking many but he is feeding our ground players. You all are mad. Without him we would have lost tonight

I always wanted to name my first son Sean (not Shaun) because this courageous man captured my imagination as a child. Now I don't actually want kids at all, but I still have a soft spot for our brave Irish Scotsman. R.I.P.

Because he is playing now that Jackson is out!

Farmer played 118 games in 6 years for 259 goals at Melbourne. He played 131 in 6 years for 224 goals for Fremantle. He was as good for them as he was for us. A remarkable player that you aren't doing justice to

Let Gawn have another week off. I thought Bowey's confidence was looking seriously shaken in the past few weeks as he learnt what it was like to lose - coughing up the ball, shirking contests, showing indecision - but last night he did all we could have asked of him and looked more like the 17 game undefeated champion we've all come to know and love, so I say keep him in. It will be interesting to see how Viney pulls up. That was a hard hit he took and my first thought when I saw him on the ground was he'd ripped his hammy off the bone. Obviously he shook it off and played out the game as though nothing had happened but it may be a different story today. If he goes out we will have to bring Dunstan back in and just hope his poor disposal doesn't hurt us too much. The other question is Salem. Hopefully he's fine but we have either Rivers or Hunt to come in if we need them. I imagine since Hunt was the sub he is seen as next in line, but by all accounts Riv has been improving during his time in the twos and it wouldn't worry me if we brought him in. Forward line stays as it is.

Bloody hell I love those team goals the most

OMG that was beautiful Kozzy

Viney is making up for our missing skipper

KEEP IT UP

SPARnoooo

ANB looking clean tonight