Bring-Back-Powell

Doesn’t help when our opponents kick a combined accurate 28.15 across the two finals.

Yeah I’d suggest we may have won the game had it not been for those two late ones. The players and crowd were up and about after we got 12 points up and then we inexplicably coughed up the lead in the blink of an eye. Not sure if Brisbane would’ve been capable of bridging a 2 goal margin given they weren’t as defensively sound as Sydney were the week before.

Do explain please?

Hasn’t happened since 1991 when we beat Essendon at Waverley, after winning at least one final from 1987-1990. Clearly this record will continue into a 32nd year and won’t be rectified until Sep 2024 at the earliest. Carlton has the next drought - haven’t won back to back since 2001. Gold Coast obviously haven’t even been in a final. We all love and cherish Goodwin and will be forever indebted to him for winning a flag. However this is a record that he and us ought to be disappointed with. We clearly should be in the middle of a sustained run at prelims and grand finals with this current list. Consistency and continuity of success (by way of finals wins) has eluded Goodwin’s tenure so far.

No chance we get 3 first round draft picks for a player that is such a poor mark of the football. That’s a better deal than GWS got for Jeremy Cameron, and Jeremy Cameron is pretty much the best player in league football at the moment and a far more proven quantity than Jackson. With relation to Lobb, he’s the sort of player we should he targeting. A genuine forward that can ably pinch hit in the ruck as opposed to a ruck that doesn’t have any forward craft such as Gawn and Jackson.

Excellent and accurate summary. As bad as Sparrow was last night, his career worst games was the Queens Bday game in Sydney last year.

It was 1000% deserved but it plain sucks that they won a flag when we couldn’t see it. And then a year later we get dished up a woeful finals series at our home.

Really hoping we don’t become the next West Coast. Win an unexpected flag and then go backwards each year at an alarming rate.

Had an impressive 2 marks for the 2022 finals series. The most overrated player I’ve seen at the Melbourne Football club since Michael Newton.

If you believe the MCG data, no late changes and Bedford Sub. Prior sub for them.

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Sounds a bit Spargo-ish.

If you look at our mediocre MCG record since round 11, we've lost to Freo once, Sydney twice and Collingwood twice while beating Brisbane and Carlton once. Meanwhile with regards to our interstate record of 7-0, 5 of those wins came against non finalists. I think our average MCG record can be attributed to losing to high quality sides more so than the venue not suiting us as much. We had no issues winning our first 6 MCG against mostly mediocre clubs.

Yeah I'd rather play Collingwood in a GF rather than a prelim.

Apparently her funeral is day 10 after her death (if you believe news.com.au) so next weekends prelims won’t be affected. The Brownlow might be on at the same time??

I wouldn’t expect the game to be called off. A minute silence obviously.. When princess Diana had her funeral they had to move the 1997 Friday night elimination final to the Saturday afternoon. If the queen’s funeral is Friday night our time, I expect Friday’s prelim to be moved to Saturday afternoon.

I thought missing the entire finals series last year would motivate at least 45,000 of our 65,000 odd members (not including MCC members) to get to and cherish the idea of attending a final in person. Guess I was wrong and people prefer to stay at home and listen to BT's mistake riddled commentary where he's been known to call players that aren't even playing. Or JB marvelling about two traditional Melbourne sides in Geelong and Collingwood doing battle last week. Get to the game peoples!

If that trend continues this week and into next year, I can't see Selwyn Griffith having an overly long tenure at the MFC.

They're also now offering walk ups in the AFL members Reserve meaning: 1) AFL members can get free entry if they're happy sit on the top level. 2) They're expecting a rather small turnout in the AFL members. I saw a level 2 seat for sale last night which is unthinkable for a final.

So a bacon and egg mcmuffin could put our finals chances in jeopardy?

Wouldn't mind seeing Chandler get a full game in replacement of Spargo if he doesn't get up. What I've seen from him at Casey is impressive and he played a belter of a game in an AFL practice match against Richmond in 2021 and kicked a 70 metre goal against North at Casey in this year's praccy match. A bit hard to make your mark in this business when 8 of your 10 games have been as a sub, and out of the two proper games he's played one of them occurred when the sub rule wasn't even invented!

The great news story of the deal is that I'll never have to watch a channel 7 home and away game again from round 1 2025.

Love it how the opening question during Q&A time for the biggest TV deal of all time was: "What do you think the white powder was in Carey's bag?"

Foxtel to have its own commentators and graphics for all games from 2025. So you don't have to put up with the mistake riddled BT from that point onwards.

Sounds like more Thursday night games on FTA and less Saturday night games on FTA. I think Gil mentioned the first 8 rounds or so will only have Foxtel games on Saturday.