Bring-Back-Powell

It's not a 100% certainty that the round 24 game will be Buddy's farewell game like we assumed it would be. Apparently Buddy now wants to play on and it's up to Sydney on whether they want to give him an extra year.

Agreed with all that, but this could be the AFL's opportunity to help North out in a major way. Hope I'm wrong.

If Ben McKay leaves North, would they not get pick 3 as free agency compo? The pick after their pick 2. It's no different to us receiving pick 3 for Frawley in 2014.

I have no issue if he stays in the side for the rest of the year. We are undefeated since round 1 2021 with the May/Lever/Tomo combo. Yes you didn't read that incorrectly. Undefeated. Can we trust Petty to get through a final without getting injured? He's definitely one of the more injury prone players on our list. With that being said, I think it's pretty obvious that Petty will be replacing Tomlinson at the earliest chance.

Well done to Kozzie. Gone from a 4 possession game to equal BOG in the space of a fortnight. Kozzie hitting form can only be a good thing as we head into finals.

Did anyone else see the topic and thought his hammy had blown up again? Anyway, Yze sounded really confident on radio that he's on the right path and will playing games within 2-3 weeks. (I've learnt not to hang off every word Goodwin says in his interviews) If he can get the last 3 games in before finals, then that would be a good result. Even better if we can knock off Richmond without him.

Top 4's looking good. We can actually sneak into the top 4 by only beating North and Hawthorn if all of the following very possible events occur: 1) Collingwood beat Carlton 2) Collingwood beat Geelong 3) Dogs or Carlton or Port beat GWS which are all away games. 4) Brisbane or Richmond or Geelong beat St Kilda 5) Port or Dogs beat Richmond 6) Geelong beat Dogs in Geelong But who wants to limp into finals losing to all of Richmond, Carlton and Sydney? Beating Richmond next week will almost seal the deal. Unfortunately Brisbane are looking good for top 2 if they can won one more than Port. They have a good run home aside from Collingwood at Marvel.

Yze says North. Goodwin suggest 2-3 weeks away. I would say he'll be back for the Carlton game which gives him 3 games under his belt before finals. That would be a good result. We have no business losing to North, regardless of the Clarko factor and the game being at our bogey venue, so I'm happy for them to wait for Carlton.

I wonder where he will sit in the coaches votes leader board tomorrow night, as he’ll be receiving high end votes in this game.

Good interview with Yze just then on triple M. 1) confirmed Trac will play 80/20 forward. 2) Actually gave a bit of solid info about Clarry. They’re targeting the North game for his return. Trained well during the week. 3) Wants to put his name in the hat for the Richmond job.

The Collingwood supporters I speak to would rather play us than Geelong in the finals, despite our win over them.

And a Collingwood.

Curnow 43 West Coast 15 Lucky the bottom team are rich and not say North Melbourne.

Chandler in.

Thanks for sharing that. Not surprised in the slightest about BBB and Lever. Both come across as ripper individuals.

More than happy for GC to beat GWS. I'm still stinging from our preventable loss to GWS and it would be kind of good to see the Suns play in their first finals series. Plus the added bonus of them staying above Freo.

Looks as though most of you are getting your wish as the CEO's provided a luke warm response to the idea. Oh well, back to twiddling our thumbs during the pre finals bye instead of having two blockbuster games on TV and potentially getting 80,000 to the MCG for one of the games. What a silly idea that was.

Are you referring to Casboult beating Tomlinson? I don't believe Tomo played that day. He did get a hiding against the Essendon forward line in Adelaide.

That's a key reason as to why it shouldn't happen.

Obviously every game is important, but this one is hugely important for our top 4 chances. Should we get the win and Geelong loses, we would only need to go 3-2 to finish top 4 with two bottom 3 sides to come.

Top 2 is not critical. We just need to focus on the top 4 and go 4-2 to finish the season provided Geelong loses just once. The last time first and second both made a grand final was 2014. One of the grand finalist is invariably 3rd, 4th or 5th.

Clearly Sydney beating Freo and Brisbane beating Geelong are my picks from the menu. We need Geelong as far away as top 4 as possible. Top 2 is not critical in my book. The last time first and second both made a grand final was 2014. One of the grand finalist is invariably 3rd, 4th or 5th.

Understand if you don't want to give too much away but would you like to share who the other players are aside from Melksham who have appreciated the banners more than other players?

Last year it was released 26 July, but given it's a week later this year, I would guess this year's release will be the first week of August. I predict either Saturday 7:25pm or Sunday 3:20pm.