Bring-Back-Powell

A bloke who’s 164 cm is dominating this game.

I reckon we’ll get crowds back in VIC by round 22, assuming lockdown is lifted on schedule. Hopefully we’re still scheduled to play Adelaide that weekend, and it’s not brought forward for any reason.

Any chance we could kick more goals than behinds tonight?

Like the look of Henry from Collingwood.

Port love an easy kill. And why do the bottom teams play out of their skins against us but turn to water against the other contenders?

Can someone tell Abbey Holmes to tone down on the dramatics? Pendles has got a minor knock to the leg, not a career ending fractured leg in 8 pieces.

Pert will be tipped over the edge if the Adelaide game is brought forward to next week. That’s our last home game (on around 15 Aug) for the year and a chance for a crowd if we come out of lock down next week. No chance we’re having crowds next week in VIC, I wouldn’t think.

Whateley is leading the brigade that if the capacity isn't around 55K it shouldn't be at the G.

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.