Bring-Back-Powell

Hats off to Kate and an absolute shambles that only 55 can attend. No doubt blokes like Eddie McGuire, Tom Browne and Damien Barrett (who's already quarantining) will somehow find their way over there.

Agree that Hunt has been clearly best 22 all year and has been a good contributor. I personally think he should be back in the side. The question is whether they want to make a change to a recent winning formula. I fear that Hunt has got injured at the wrong time and may have lost his spot for good this year. Who knows?

I wouldn't be surprised if there's no change for not only next week but for the remainder of the finals series. I can't recall too many premiership sides making involuntary changes throughout a final series, but happy to be proven wrong by posters who can recall examples. We certainly made an involuntary change in 2018 when we dropped a regular (Fritsch) for an irregular (J Smith)

Victorians can’t even quarantine in WA for 14 days unless they have a special exemption.

Because Mark McGowan.

I honestly don’t think you can even if you were willing to commit. I could be wrong but it looks as though people from medium risk states such as VIC must receive special permission just to enter the state prior to their 14 days quarantine. Victoria won’t be downgraded to low risk by 11 September.

I think WA will open the border to QLD once they go 28 days without community transmission. I think you’re every chance. At the moment you can at the very least do 14 days quarantine. VICs won’t even be afforded that luxury unless they have a special reason to enter the state.

Well done on the commitment. Was it hard to get the G2G pass? The below website says only those with special circumstances can get in to WA and then quarantine for 14 days. This is reference to medium risk states such as VIC. https://g2gpass.com.au/apply

Not sure about MFC membership but if you transfer your AFL membership ticket to someone you’ll likely have your membership torn up or at the very least be downgraded from full to restricted. I suspect the answer will be yes to your question given that the club will desperately want MFC supporters to attend the grand final this year when we make it.

I wouldn’t think so. How can they sell tickets to a large section of people that are ineligible to attend.

My memory tells me that he was captain of either his under 18’s or school side and was a very well liked and respected teammate. Given his shenanigans over the years, I’d tend to believe your colleague.

The weird thing about Stevenson is that when he was drafted the overwhelming theme was that Collingwood was getting a player with outstanding character.

I’ve convinced myself we’ll be playing Geelong.

Melbourne V Geelong - Friday 17 September. 8:10pm EST. Optus Stadium. No change.

I also thought Matt Jones was integral in our 2013 campaign to try and get a 3 win season. I think this is the best team I’ve seen since 1990 but it will be so Geelong to knock us out in the prelim.

I stand to be corrected but all I saw all night was Cameron kicking goals on Smith and Smith giving away free kicks to Cameron. I have no issue if Smith gets another game as he’s a good intercept marker and has terrific pace for his size. But he was pantsed tonight IMO.

Smith might be in trouble given his opponent kicked 5 on him. Who plays on Toby Greene if GWS get through to the prelim?

At this stage the grand final is at the MCG. (why they haven’t yet conceded it is just insulting to the public)

I want to shake the persons hand that traded Watts for the pick we ended up using for Fritsch.

It’s our only visible weakness that I can see.

I think he’ll get away with a fine but the club must surely have had a gut full of his antics.

Does a high scoring shoot out suit us? Cameron kicking 3 in a qtr certainly doesn’t.

Crowd has probably exceeded my expectations. 7,000 ish???

Fair to say Sydney threw that final in the bin. 7 behinds in the last qtr!!.

Yeah, so Heeney’s pretty good at footy.