Bring-Back-Powell

How was that Boak goal overruled? Dogs are always getting the rub of the green.

Bont first goal! This guy stands in our way of premiership glory.

Good on ya mate for taking one for the team. Enjoy the 2 hours of fresh air tomorrow.

Mate, I’ve got no idea what you’re on about but if you live in Victoria you won’t be attending finals this year. Our case numbers were a disgrace today. Hopefully in 2022 we can all attend finals, utilise our GF guarantee tickets and win the flag.

ANB is having the absolute epitome of a "career year" The amount of times this year he's stepped up to kick an important goal when we needed one. The MCG boundary snap shots against Richmond and GWS come to mind. Sure he's not perfect, he's a had a couple of poor games and won't be anywhere near the All Australian side. However, he's had a very good season overall and doesn't let 1 or 2 early errors define his performance. I was hoping he'd stick around after 2 promising late season games against GWS and Essendon last year, and he's more than upheld his end of the bargain. Hats off to ANB for a very good H&A season.

First has played on the following nights over the last few years since Thursday night finals were implemented: 2020 - Port - Thu night 2019 - Geelong - Fri night 2018 - Rich - Thu night 2017 - Adel - Thu night 2016 - Syd - Sat arvo Knowing the AFL, we'll probably cop a 4 day break and be the pioneers of Wednesday night finals.

I think last year kind of set the precedent in changing grand final dates.

The way COVID/delta is destroying most of the east coast and now probably NZ, are we even going to have a grand final? How can the AFL book in a grand final elsewhere and do it with any confidence?

Mate, that is terrible luck. How extremely disappointing for you both. Who would've thought that the night we all went to the Anzac eve game (85% capacity) that 5 months later footy would flee Victoria and we'd be watching the finals in lockdown once again....

I had a glimmer of hope yesterday. Today - 25/55 only in isolation. 6 Mystery cases. How can the ratio of infected people in full isolation go from 73% to 45% in the space of a day? Just call the GF in Perth now and put everyone (except for people living in Perth) our of their misery.

We should'uve choosed that Young bloke at Freo.

I don’t see what they see in Sparrow. I get the Jordon omission though. The Jordon of round 1-17 has been far superior to the Jordon of rounds 18-22

Ok, well that report has burst the ballon. I almost had a glimmer of hope, but 40 cases…..nar she’s over. although the report indicates that a lot of the spike will be due to people from Al Taqwa college that have been in quarantine while infectious, and tested positive after their day 13 testing.

Grand final may still be at MCG if we come out of lockdown on 2 September. That’s the final deadline. Eddie adamant on this.

Who’s to say it will even be this year? We might give it everything we’ve got but Bontempelli or Hawkins or even bloody Charlie Dixon gets a hold of us in a prelim. There’s still some brilliant teams in contention, we don’t have the finals experience of others and we might not quite be the final product yet. A premier has to get it perfect for 3 games in the September pressure cooker. Time will tell if that’s us.

Good on us for digging in. Don't pander to the Gerard Whateley's of the world who think's it's selfish to host a final in front of no crowds. Seattle Seahawks hosted LA Rams and Washington hosted Tampa Bay Bucs in January 2021 in front of nobody, despite other teams hosting with crowds. If it's good enough for the biggest league in the world to ensure home team integrity over crowds, it's good enough for the AFL to do so.

Sample space since round 1 2020: Port Metricon 6-1 GABBA 3-2 BRISBANE Metricon 4-3 Adelaide Oval 1-0 W BULLDOGS Metricon 6-3 Adelaide Oval 2-1 GABBA 0-2 GEELONG Metricon 3-1 GABBA 5-2 Adelaide Oval 2-2 So I'm taking Port and Dogs to the GABBA and Geelong to Adelaide. Brisbane perhaps in Tassie.

Port have played in Tassie 11 times - 10 at Launceston. 5-6 record overall.

Because it upsets Gerard Whateley.

Oh well if nothing else I'm glad our club is sticking up for itself, and sticking it to the Gerard Whateley's of the world who would deem it selfish if we hosted a final at the MCG in front of no fans.

Agreed. Small sample space but we did not play well in our 3 games at Metricon in 2020. Conversely we had very good wins at the GABBA last year (if you ignore the Port disaster) If we took the show to QLD, would rather the GABBA.

For those that have witnessed 1988 and 2000, the only answer would be watching a GF win on TV over attending a GF loss. They are humiliating experiences watching your team cooked by quarter time in a grand final. I know people have shot me down for this question but if you were given the choice of winning a flag in 2021 or 2022 which one would you choose - bearing in mind that you will be guaranteed that one of the two years we will win the flag under this hypothetical. (obviously without the hypothetical option, you take the 2021 premiership and run with it!!) I would choose 2022. I know many would choose 2021 due to their own individual circumstances, but I want a grand final week where we can soak up the action, attend the MCG live for the game with our guaranteed tickets, and experience the elation of the MFC players and supporters at 4:30pm when the magical siren blows to signal that your team is the premier. I want to experience the fairy tale that Richmond, Dogs, Geelong and Sydney supporters experienced this century. And enjoy the celebrations with your friends and family well into the night. Watching it on TV in the world's toughest lockdown just doesn't compare to the above experience that many of us would be denied.

Hadn't thought of that one but that's more of a home ground advantage than Adelaide Oval or Gabba, which is where I reckon the AFL (not us) will urge us to play.

We’ve never beaten Geelong on a Saturday night at GHMBA stadium. We’ve either lost after the siren or got tonked by 80 points 2 games after appearing in a prelim.

Would you be happy to wait until next year if you were given that luxury when the GF will return to the MCG, but at the expense of either losing the GF or not making the GF this year? Genuine hypothetical.