Bring-Back-Powell

Thanks for clarifying. The herald sun gave a misleading headline that Gawn’s wife may have been due in September.

Definitely feels like we’ve already won the flag.

The similarities between Melbourne of 2004 and the Dogs of 2021 are quite amazing. Both sides were on top of the ladder late in the season. Both sides fell off the cliff losing their last 3-4 games. Both sides finished 5th and played/will play Essendon in their respective years. Will Essendon end their finals wins drought, which ironically commenced the year after they beat the 2004 Melbourne side.

Can we just get rid of the bye given that Melbourne is no hope of hosting the GF? Also, Max's wife is due to give birth in September. I wonder if he'd pull the pin on the finals series to be there with his wife, given that it would be near impossible to fly in/fly out at the drop of a hat?

Very interesting. Didn't realise AZ's efficacy was that much lower than Pfizer to begin with after second dose.

If this year, celebrate in silence so as to not wake the kids up - (assuming it's a 7:30pm EST kick off and we'll be still in lockdown) If next year, celebrate with 50,000 other MFC members at the home of footy and then off to the Richmond Sporting Globe where you'd think the first 100 kegs would be on them.

Hogan playing his first final this week. Be interesting to see how he goes.

That is literally the first positive comment I’ve ever read about Hamish McLachlan. Have to admit he’s growing on me as a commentator.

Can anyone foresee the possibility of us being let out of lockdown by GF day and we can at least watch our boys at the pub or at small outside gatherings? Would be a massive step up from watching it on your own in severe lockdown. Or are we cooked till xmas?

I wouldn't totally be opposed to him being sub but the ship has sailed I reckon. There's worse options than having a 300 gamer as sub who wouldn't be freaked on the occasion of grand final day.

I honestly think WA, SA, TAS and to a lesser extent QLD will be just fine over the next 5 weeks. I'm not sure if it's geography, behavior, culture or just plain luck but it always seems to be the same states that cop it in the neck while other states provide freedom to their citizens. It's quite frankly demoralising being a Victorian IMO.

They won't get 10,000 irrespective of crowd capacity. Who's going to be that fussed on attending a game with two out of town teams? Who has the discretionary cash to pay 50-$100 to watch a game that your club isn't involved in. With that being said, I think we're as good a chance winning a game at AO than MCG. Our form at the G after the Carlton game was pretty uninspiring.

If you could swim from Bass straight to the Southern Ocean you could probably get away with it.

Now it’s become crystal clear as to why Adelaide charged us 2 first rounders to get him. Clearly one of the best defenders in the game, and it’s pretty awesome that we’ve got both Petracca and Lever from the 2014 draft.

Nothing confirmed but it might be 27,000.

What sort of crowd are we expecting? 7,500 - 10,000??

Hasn’t the NT come out and said that you need a special permit to quarantine in that state, if coming from a hot spot, and VIC is a steaming hot spot at the moment. Not sure attending a grand final would get you that special permit?? https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-08-08/nt-covid-cairns-hotspot-declaration-howard-springs-change/100359614

Quick trip to Woolies this arvo: 1) Women with 5 kids walking into Woolies with mask below chin. 2) Women walking into BWS without a mask. 3) Two grown men playing basketball at the nearby school despite school clearly closed off to public. Any wonder we are where we are in that people just don’t give a stuff.

Absolutely agree with your grand final points. Given how the game has evolved into a lower scoring code, if you’re inaccurate on grand final day, you’ll most likely be crying into your runner’s up beer. From 2007 - 2020 only one premier has kicked more behind than goals, and they were a potential Dom Sheed behind away from losing.

Fair call to be honest.

I’ve got no issue playing Port over there as the away team. This year has clearly shown us that we play our best footy when there’s a challenge put in front of us. Pies and Hawks and Crows were not a challenge at face value and looked how those games turned out. The last time we played at a genuine neutral venue it was against Collingwood and we were as a flat as a pancake.

He asked Luke Beverage the first question of the presser via Zoom, Beverage wasn’t impressed with the question and responded with a question back to Tom. Tom was nowhere to be heard and clearly skirted the question.

Is the fact that since 1990 every premier aside from West Coast in 1994 has gone at least 1 game in a finals series where they’ve avoided kicking more behinds than goals. All of these premiers have played at least 3 games. Now how amazing a stat is that- at least one game in a finals series since 1990, a premier has gone at least 50/50 conversion in at least one of their 3 finals, aside from West Coast in 1994. Moral of the story is that if we kick more behinds than goals in ALL (YES ALL) of our upcoming finals games, we’re only a 5% chance of winning the flag. Foot note- West Coast kicked 47.70 in the 1994 series which is completely unsustainable and unrealistic in modern day footy.

Yeah fair call.