Bring-Back-Powell

Absolutely nothing surer.

2-0 at Marvel. 0-2-1 at the G. Some of the crowds we played in front of last year may as well have been NIL. Didn't we get about 125 to Melbourne V Port at the GABBA?

So very true. Hawthorn beat Collingwood twice in 1990 including putting 160 points on the pies in round 20. A lot of Collingwood supporters are adamant that there would have been no 1990 premiership had they copped Hawthorn in the finals.

Happy to have it in a state where VIC's can enter that state, and thus MFC members with GF priority tickets can fly over. If we come out of lockdown next week and do not have another outbreak, it's highly likely that every state will have opened their borders to VIC by late September.

Western Australia should immediately be ruled out as a grand final option. McGowan has twice plunged Perth into lockdown and locked out fans on the morning of game day. How can the AFL take that risk? It would be an absolute embarrassment and a farce if that worst case scenario transpired. Play it in QLD if they have to, or suck it up and cop a 40,000 crowd at the MCG as a show of goodwill to Victorians who have clearly done it the toughest since March 2020.

Agreed. 1 kick/1 mark games like last week aren't going to cut it at this level. Performances like that are what cost Weid's spot in the side. Needs to increase his output over the next few weeks or we risk carrying a player into the finals.

No doubt he’ll probably play his first good game in 3 years.

Dogs going all of Naughton, Bruce, Ugle-Hagen and Shache. Looks potent on paper, if the latter 2 snags some goals along with Naughton and Bruce.

Yes we have been lucky with babies being born away from game day. However, T Mac could've been excused for taking personal leave the weekend his wife was due to give birth. His mind wasn't on the job the day we played Collingwood, and perfectly understandable.

This win and the win over Hawthorn at Princes Park were certainly our watershed moments of 1989. Not sure what it was about the Dees but we couldn't get pass second base in 89/90/91 despite showing great promise in all three seasons.

I could be wrong but if at 10pm Saturday night you look at the scoreboard and we have more goals than behinds, you'll most likely be singing the MFC song. Accuracy has now had a direct result on 2 of our last 3 games of footy.

His hatred of the MFC is just plain unprofessional and blindingly obvious. He's always making subtle or obvious digs at the Dees. An example being that the day after our finest win of the season against the Dogs at their joint, Huddo and King were rightly raving about our win on the Fox Footy Saturday midday show. Meanwhile this bloke who has a clear hatred of the MFC had the temerity to claim that the Bulldogs were pretty much the better side on the night aside from conceding a few goals in the first quarter. He labelled the 9-1 Bulldogs performance as 'brave' and that the MFC pretty much stopped to a halt after qtr time despite extending the lead to 41 points in the last quarter. It might be time for him to be replaced with some fresh/younger analysts.

I really hope so. T Mac, Lever and to a lesser extent Viney would be key outs for the 2 week road trip. Mind you we've been spared a lot of the injury hardship that a lot of other clubs have had.

https://www.heraldsun.com.au/subscribe/news/1/?sourceCode=HSWEB_WRE170_a&dest=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.heraldsun.com.au%2Fcoronavirus%2Fno-vaccine-no-entry-considered-for-footy-major-events%2Fnews-story%2F39e80eba75a8d1cc0dc823fa78cc5247&memtype=anonymous&mode=premium Can anyone access the above link. It's an article suggesting that a no jab/no entry policy may be brought in for the footy and other major events. Totally agree with this stance if it comes into action next year once everyone has had an opportunity to have been vaccinated. Totally disagree with this stance if it comes into action in September 2021 when a wide section of the population actually aren't eligible to get the vaccine.

Is that the same Dermie who was adamant the Dogs were the better side than Melbourne in round 11 for the most of the night despite us leading by 40 odd points in the second half.

Brown's key responsibility in the side (IMO) is to nail his set shots. He's made a living off his accuracy (67% career conversion) which is so much better than any of our other forwards. But on Saturday night he kicked 0.2 from gettable set shots and didn't do a great deal to be honest. We all thought Brown's inclusion was key to T Mac taking his game to another level, but the ordinary T Mac returned on the weekend with just 3 marks and a goal. Brown should be given 2 or 3 matches for sure, but if the Hawthorn game is his stock standard 2021 performance, than it's pretty underwhelming.

SA in lockdown for 7 days. You'd imagine Port V Collingwood will be played behind closed doors unless they can move it to the "savior" of football.

No I wasn't surprised because we've been pathetic against bottom 4 sides this year. We even conceded a half time lead to a side that would not have been able to beat the Nar Nar Goon ressies at the time (although they have since improved dramatically) Yes, I was surprised we couldn't even slump over the victory line when I looked at Hawthorn's injury list. If the players haven't already yet, they deserve an absolute roasting from the coaching staff and a few home truths need to be dished out. We are playing like a 9th-12 side since the Brisbane triumph, and we will be lucky to win a final at this rate.

Awesome. When do tickets come out....

Depends how confident the AFL are that we'll still be in lock down by 15 August which is when we play Adelaide at the MCG.

Was thinking the same thing. Assuming we have no further outbreaks until October (which is a big IF) one could argue that it's perfect timing to have an outbreak 6 weeks before finals. Allows plenty of time to bring the thing to ground in VIC and we'll presumably be out of lockdown for the entirety of August, touch wood.

With our possible Darwin game in 12 or so days, why would the NT let us in this time when they didn't let us in during early June when we had lockdown v4 ?

Was going to a post the same thing about Montagna who I rate as an analyst. Montagna thought Viney was outstanding and made a point that once a player reaches his fourth game on return from long term injury, they get back to their normal output. Viney was far from perfect on Saturday night but it was certainly a step up from the last 3 weeks.

GWS remind me of us when we completely fall apart. Cannot stem the tide and quite frankly cannot execute a possession. Agree with others that Sydney look at good as anyone at the moment. Their offensive game looks better than ours.

Given that they managed to complete an NBA, MLB, NFL and NHL season in 2020 in a country that did so much worse than us, I can’t see how the AFL season gets called off. The AFL and state governments are in bed with each other and will allow clubs to fly in at the drop of a hat. If you want to say goodbye to a loved one who lives interstate, well that’s another story.