Bring-Back-Powell

Pretty poor and uneven fixturing by the AFL to schedule us 5 games in a row away from the G. I think we did pretty well to go 3-2 considering we went Adelaide-Geelong-Alice Springs-Docklands-Perth. Hopefully we get a lot more MFC fans than on QBDAY as were clearly outnumbered that day.

Be fantastic to have full house except for the fact that you may end up next to a Filth supporter....particularly in the AFL members. I think we end up getting 75K which would be a fantastic effort. The last time we played a home game against Collingwood that wasn't Queens Birthday was in 2019 and we got just 31,000.

Cox has destroyed us twice against us in 2018 (5 goals!) and this year's QBDAY. Quite happy for him to be omitted.

Howe was interviewed last night on channel 7 news and he's confident he'll play. Injury is very minor. Taylor Adams is set to miss 1-2 weeks.

Re: people's refusal to acknowledge Collingwood as a genuine contender, what would be the difference between Richmond's 2017 flag and a potential 2022 flag win by Collingwood? Richmond made finals in 2013, 2014, 2015 but then had a year full of turmoil in 2016 finishing with only 8 wins and a percentage of 78. Then they obviously got it all together in 2017. Collingwood made the finals in 2018, 2019 and 2020 but then also had a year full of turmoil in 2021 finishing with only 6 wins but a better percentage of 86 compared to Richmond's 2016 percentage of 78. Collingwood are first on my list of teams I don't want to win the flag, but I can unfortunately see them as a right in the thick of the race.

If that scenario played out, that would be two very tough opponents to open the finals series given how much grief those two sides have given us in the Goodwin era.

Feels like Sydney with their easy fixture are our main competitor for top 2.

We’ll probably have to beat Brisbane in round 23 to finish above them (in addition to beating Pies and Blues) so percentage isn’t overly critical between the 2 sides IMO.

Absolutely 100% and just shows the top 6 sides won’t be dropping any silly games in the last few rounds.

Make that 0-8-1 of non MFC games going our way since round 19.

Since last Friday night’s Richmond’s V Freo we’re 0-7-1 in terms of hoping for top 4 contenders to lose. We cannot get a result to save ourselves. Hopefully Brisbane slip up today to finally have a non MFC result go our way.

In all honestly I’d rather get beaten by Geelong in a GF who have a percentage of 136 rather than Collingwood who have a percentage of just 106. Whilst I’ve admired what Collingwood have done this year, Geelong are simply the better side and I’d rather lose to the more highly credentialed side in Geelong.

Disagree that they’re an ordinary side. I reckon their football can stack up in September because they play with high intensity, defensively sound and play fast attacking footy at the right time.

Pies steadied to kick the last two before quarter time to reduce the lead from 24 to 12. They’re just a well drilled outfit unfortunately.

Port 38-15 and all over the Pies. Nothing surer than Collingwood pulling something out of their behinds and winning by a point.

I suppose if we were desperate we could make a play for McStay who’s kicked a whopping 3 more goals than Weid.

In- BBB Out - Weid Bringing in Harmes would be dropping a a player for the sake of dropping a player. Everything simply worked last night. (Maybe they end up dropping Hunt for Harmes)

Viney’s played some inspirational games in Perth. In 2017 he got 40 touches in a BOG performance against WC (the game T Mac kicked the winner) The grand final and obviously last night.

Unless you place a massive priority on finishing 1st and winning the minor premiership (and potentially being awarded the Friday Night prelim) rather than finishing second and still having 2 MCG home finals on route to a potential GF, I’m actually hoping Geelong beat the Dogs tonight. The nauseating over celebration of the Dogs beating us last week is enough to hope Geelong can go some way in ending their season tomorrow. It’s the Sydney’s, Collingwood's and Brisbane’s that are our main threat for top 2, and they’re the teams we need to lose more so than Geelong who will finish top 2 regardless with their soft finish and strong percentage.

We’ve won our last 10 quarters at Optus. We won every quarter this year against WC and Freo and obviously the second half of the GF.

Max Gawn: I really want that game. - in reference to next weeks game against Collingwood. (Pavlich’s interview with Max on Fox footy, post game)

6-0 interstate in the one season. Anyone else ever done that before?

After last week's disastrous results, we're due one or two non MFC games go our way. We're ostensibly in the finals if Richmond lose this week, even if we lose tonight. St Kilda will lose at least once to Geelong, Brisbane or Sydney so there's no way they'll be displacing us from the finals.

Not only is there a "no boo" policy, I'm hearing there's a campaign for Freo Supporters to clap Jackson every time he gets the ball as a mechanism to make him feel welcome for next year. Hopefully they'll be jumping out of their seats with applause as LJ kicks the winning goal in the final minute.

Hopefully we do a better job of containing Schultz (4 goals) and Lobb (3 goals and 9 marks) this time around. A lot of Freo supporters are disappointed Banfield got dropped as he can kick the clutch goal and he's tracking towards a 25 goal season. Wouldn't be surprised if he's a late in or at least the medical sub. I have absolutely no basis or information to support this but I wouldn't be surprised if Banfield is part of the Jackson trade.