Bring-Back-Powell

Essendon ahead of Geelong on the ladder despite being belted twice by them. Sometimes the ladder lies.

I actually agree the poster. J Daicos is the best winger in the AFL. He was All Australian last year and will earn another this year. He’s an absolutely brilliant player.

Speaking of Melbourne being banged up in last year’s finals series. Did anyone hear Fagan on SEN the other week on “Fireball Friday”? He mentioned that Brisbane were severely banged up in their semi final against us and that they were out of juice for the following week’s prelim V Geelong. Perhaps we just weren’t good enough in September last year.

I think the Saints are bit of a show against Geelong next week being at Marvel, but yeah, Geelong are near certainties to play finals. Tonight was not a “must win” for Geelong.

Win/loss for the final 3 games that would see Brisbane finish first: Bris 3-0 Melb 2-1 Coll 1-2 Port 2-1 Not overly likely, but not out of this earth unrealistic either.

That's a tremendous crowd if it happens considering we couldn't get 50K to our home Friday night game in round 12.

There's a scenario which involves Collingwood finishing second and us finishing third. But that likely ends if Collingwood win tonight.

Probably better for us if Collingwood lose to Geelong tonight. It give us more options. 1) We will likely finish higher than Collingwood on percentage if we go 3-0 and they go to 1-2, and therefore securing a top 2 spot. 2) Should us and Port go 2-1, Collingwood go 1-2, and Brisbane go 3-0, we would finish third and play second placed Collingwood. Don't mind that scenario at all.

I wouldn’t hate De Goey and Trac alternating between mid and forward.

I think Melksham played on Weitering late last year and he played his career best game with 4 snags.

In - Tomlinson, Oliver Out - Petty, Harmes, Hibberd (to start as sub again) Using the template of the Brisbane game when we kicked 16 goals without Petty in the forward line. 1) Joel Smith takes BBB's spot as one of our tall forwards. 2) Tomlinson takes Petty's spot as the third tall defender. May and Lever are a disaster without that supporting key defender that Tomo or Petty provides. Hibberd's a good sub option as Goodwin can assess which Carlton forward is doing the most damage. Hibberd can come and curtail that forward and perhaps sub out Tomlinson if we're too tall. Tossed up between JJ or Harmes making way for Clarry. Went Harmes as he's just too incompetent with the footy these days. The two poor misses against Richmond or the kicking out of bounds on the full from a 10 metre chip pass on the wing against North last week amongst his other clangers. Goodwin would make a great poker player if he selects Grundy. His demeanour and body language have been getting less and less enthusiastic about the potential of Grundy's return as each week has passed.

BBP's doomsday (but not unrealistic) scenario based on a loss to Sydney in round 24: PORT - beat all of GWS (h), Freo (a), Richmond (h) MELBOURNE - beat Carlton, thrash Hawthorn, lose to Sydney BRISBANE - beat Adelaide, lose to Collingwood, beat St Kilda. Finish 3rd and play interstate against Port (2nd) instead of finishing 4th and playing Collingwood at the G because our percentage bested Brisbane's.

Americans say "Could care less" Australians say "Couldn't care less" Not actually sure which term is correct.

If nothing else at least we know we've got a serious forward line next year of Petty, JVR, Fritta, Kozzie and Chandler. Compare that to last pre season where a lot of our eggs where in the T Mac and BBB questionable basket.

Apparently we were at the Junction Oval today according to Fox Sports news.

You do realise that by sharing your good fortune with us all, you're now obliged to hand over a couple of corporate box tickets to the demonland riff raff.

I don't think you can be definitive either way in regards to Collingwood or Geelong winning. Looks to be a 50/50 on paper. Collingwood losing opens up some further possibilities on how high we can finish.

Generally what happens when you don't sell a game interstate or get sent to back water venues every other year.

The MFC website suggested Tuesday 15 Aug.

And the one game he didn’t poll he used the pill 42 times in Gather Round.

It was only a matter of time until Viney featured in the leader board. According to the coaches, he's in the top 15 players in the league this year. Be interesting to see if he makes the All Australian 40.

Good result given we've avoided a 6 day break and the club gets some more FTA exposure. Now that the date has been announced, anyone have an idea when tickets will go on sale, or if the club has an allocation that they have available to on sell? EDIT - tickets go on sale Tue Aug 15.

If Collingwood lose to Geelong (and lose badly!), then things are really starting to get interesting! Assume we go 3-0 and Pies go 1-2, we would need to make up about 70 points on the Pies which isn't overly difficult. This could involve Pies losing to Geelong by 20, losing to Brisbane by a point and beating Essendon by 20. Meanwhile we could beat Carlton by 20, Hawks by 40 and Sydney by 10. I know others were happy with Brisbane beating Freo due to draft picks, but it would've opened more doors for us.

Round 24 times still not out despite it being only 18 days away. Good luck trying to plan a trip up to Sydney within that timeframe. Given Sydney are becoming more relevant by the week, I think we can almost rule out the Saturday afternoon time slot which is increasingly becoming the time slot for dud games.

LJ actually took a contested mark. The continuation of a strange weekend of footy.