Temporarily Hopeful Demon

Absolute gun

I'm just going off vibes but Geelong struck me as really arrogant in the lead up to this game. They seemed to just think it would happen.

I'm going to report you for plagiarism

This is on track to having a very similar plot as the '21 grand final. An arm wrestle until one team gets a run of goals late in the third quarter and then blows their opposition away in the last.

Geelong look absolutely cooked

I'm amazed Geelong aren't doing anything about Cameron. He's the last player you'd want to get off the chain.

Yes you are right. I am only 22.

He's an absolute phenomenon. Comfortably my favourite MFC player of all time. So glad he's staying.

The fact that NWM didn't get 3 votes for that game proves that the umps should never be trusted to judge what is meant to be the most prestigious award in the game.

Last year ANB tagged Daicos even more successfully and yet they still gave him a vote

Gotta hand it to Brisbane. They were a total basket throughout the 2010s but over the last five years I'd say they've been the benchmark side. And they call JDG a 'big game player.' Big lol. Has gone missing big time today.

It would be great for the competition if Brisbane can go back to back here

The lead up to the finals series in 2018 was unreal as well. We beat West Coast at their home ground in Round 22 after an entire week of worrying that we were on track to wasting another season. And our performance against GWS the following week was honestly my favourite home and away game I've ever attended. That entire game almost like a public celebration rather than an actual football game. We'd already confirmed a finals spot the week before and we played as if we basically had nothing to lose. Fast, aggressive, free flowing, attacking footy. I don't think I've ever felt as relaxed at a game as I was that day. That shocking preliminary final aside, the last month of 2018 was fever dream stuff. We couldn't have picked two better teams than Geelong and Hawthorn to knock off in the finals given the years of torture they used to inflict on us.

He's one player really wish I got to see in the flesh. I sometimes think about how watching Max Gawn in his prime as a teen/young adult would have been like what it was like watching Flower growing up. Two very different players of course but probably a similar vibe.

That was bad but I think the general consensus was that they weren't going to trouble Collingwood or Brisbane. From memory they were sorta flat track bullies anyway. Adelaide though... Before the Rankine case I was almost certain they'd make a preliminary final at minimum.

This surely has to go down as the worst finals campaign in modern history. Total dumpster fire.

I'm in a weird mood atm but I find this really funny. Our coach is named after a horror writer, we have a player named after one of his novels (Salem's Lot) and our second name symbolised horror. You can't really script all this 😅

Gawn was well due for another one. I reckon three best and fairests don't reflect how dominant he's been over the past 10 years.

What a horrific take that is. Compare us at the end of his tenure to what what we were when he took over. Not in the same [censored] postcode.

I [censored] hate how good the cats are every year

Any Adelaide supporter who participated in the booing last night is an absolute [censored] and deserved to watch their team lose. Honestly I'm completely turned off Adelaide now. After the way they've handled themselves over the past few weeks I want them to go out in straight sets. It's a shame because I love ANB.

If Collingwood end up winning the flag I think I will actually spew. Would top off what has already been an awful season. Genuinely looks like it can happen too.

This last quarter has been pretty painful I must say. Total scrapfest.

The gap between these two sides in terms of finals experience is really showing

Jesus ANB has been good. His ball use has improved dramatically over the past few years.