Bring-Back-Powell

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.

Schmook must have logged onto Demonland this morning prior to editing his article.

The Dockers' round 11 win at the MCG saw Logue hold May to season lows of just six disposals and one mark (well below his 2022 averages of 19.1 and 5.2) in a big tactical win for Longmuir. https://www.afl.com.au/news/807974/does-this-dockers-defender-hold-the-key-against-dees- Apparently Griffen Logue holds the key to tonight. Some cutting edge analysis by Nathan Schmook on the AFL website. (we'll just ignore the fact that May missed the last three quarters of that game with concussion and was on track for a 24 possession game)

Essendon played down in Geelong last year in about round 16 or 17 but point well and truly taken.

Definitely not a key forward. Also too short to be a power ruck. But the answer IMO is a ruck.

Yeah the breaks are starting to have an effect on us recently. The Brisbane, Adelaide and Port games we had 10, 9 and 10 day breaks respectively and ran the game out strongly. The Geelong and Dogs games we had 5 and 6 day breaks and ran the last 10 minutes of the game on quicksand. Unfortunately this week we have back to back 6 day breaks albeit without the NT heat from the previous week. We should be fresher for the Pies and particularly the Carlton game which is an 8 day break. Lions game on a 6 day break shouldn't be much of an issue as it's a night game.

If Richmond lose to Brisbane on Sunday, we'll ostensibly be playing finals footy in 2022 even if we go 0-4 from here. The best Richmond could go in that scenario would be 12-9-1 and I simply cannot entertain the notion of St Kilda beating all of Hawthorn, Geelong (away), Brisbane or Sydney. Get you party poppers, balloons and champagne handy at 6pm Sunday.

“If they can go back-to-back, I think he’ll be content with the job that he’s done there and it will be a career move for him. “I think if they get done this year it might be a chip on the block that he wants to go again. Kind of a no loss situation for us supporters if Hamish Brayshaw is on the money with the above quote.