Bring-Back-Powell

Only Carlton (1987) and Essendon (2000) made good on that stat. You won't ever see a more dominant club than Essendon of 2000 while Carlton's last last 8 or so home and away games and finals in 1987 were seriously impressive. So I'm guessing it was the Geelong and Freo games we were down at 3tr time.

That is an incredible crowd for a semi final given GWS were the oppo. Based on those numbers you'd be looking at mid 60's as a pass mark for next Friday.

I don't think he'll be back for the Sydney game and might not even be back for the prelim assuming we win, as they won't want to mess with a forward structure that is working well at the moment. As others have mentioned, Richo gave the impression on SEN radio that they're not in a massive hurry to rush him back. Mind you it's hard to make unforced changes when you've led a top 4 contender by 66 points at half time. In terms of T Mac's recovery and game minutes, it will actually be beneficial (just for T Mac not for Casey's flag chances!) for Casey to lose week 1 so he gets a second hit out the weekend we play Sydney. Then he'll be match fit for either an AFL semi or (hopefully) AFL prelim.

Yeah agree with that. I'd say level 4 of the AFL members will be rather empty particularly around the half forward flank towards the city end. Will be plenty of room for walk ups on the night.

And that’s exactly why the non competing club full AFL member allocation sold out in five minutes for the Pies V Eagles 2018 grand final. 7,000 of the 13,000 odd allocation were already allocated for Collingwood Gold AFL members. I can’t believe I’m saying this but I almost hope Collingwood beat Geelong next week just to avoid the stress of getting tickets for a potential Dees V Pies prelim. (Assuming we take care of business against Sydney)

In our 2021 game, Sydney actually outnumbered us in the AFL members. We certainly do not have many AFL (MFC) members

And to make matters worse, Collingwood supporters hog most of the AFL members reserve Going to be a nightmare getting tickets in the AFL members if we play them in a prelim. And if we do get tickets, it's going to be a nightmare sitting next to the ferals. Hopefully they go out in straight sets.

Kicking 50 goal in a season probably had something to do with it...

And the fact that two of our best wins of the season have come in the last four weeks. And the fact that we've had a brutal last 4 weeks as opposed to last year's last month where we had the struggling Gold Coast, West Coast and Adelaide. It's a very good achievement.

and a shorter season.

Now to break the longest drought in the AFL at the moment. (aside from Gold Coast) Something we haven't done since 1991.

They're confident because their set of supporters have seen their club beat our club 10 of the last 13 times at the MCG, the most recent being this year.

Pies were coming off back to back 6 day breaks when we played them I was disappointed we ran out of legs in that game.

If Geelong are half serious this year they comprehensively beat the team that gave up 8 goals in a quarter to Carlton yesterday.

Very happy with Friday night. Much better than Thu night. If we lose I believe our semi final will also be Friday night.

I reckon they’ve done a last minute swap with our game and the Cats V Pies, hence the delay, to allow Papley out of protocols. Our game from Thursday night to Friday night. Just a theory.

If Collingwood lose to Geelong then we’d play winner the the Pies and Freo/Dogs semi final. Assuming we win week 1.

Since the Thursday night final was introduced in 2016, they’ve never had a MCG final in the Saturday twilight slot. Thursday or Saturday night for mine.

AFL delaying week 1 announcement to ensure Papley clears his 12 day concussion protocol??? (surely not 😂 )

Absolutely. Although gut feel says it will be Freo V Dogs.

I can’t see a scenario where we have to leave VIC, given we have two guaranteed home finals, and if we lose week 1, Geelong or Collingwood will be waiting for us in a prelim if we win week 2. How exciting!!

Could be any timeslot except for Friday night.

Swans for mine. Cant deal with 70,000 filth supporters for the third time this season.

Would we rather play Pies or Swans?

Max King!!! 13 pts down only