Bring-Back-Powell

Jon Ralph reporting that the St Kilda V Port game might get moved to Saturday afternoon to allow Port to get home that night. I wonder if our game gets moved to 7:25pm so channel 7 retain their Saturday night game. Not that it really matters as none of us can go…

Much happier to play this game at the G rather than at Metricon, assuming it’s staying at the G. Any chance our game can get moved to 1:45 given that timeslot is now vacant? Seems a bit silly to have 2 twilight games go head to head while Saturday arvo is empty.

Hope not. I'd rather play this game at the G in front of nobody where we need to log as many minutes as possible at the venue we'll be playing finals at. Our last 2 performances at the G have been far from impressive after a 6 week hiatus from the G.

I'll be honest here - when I saw O Mac kick 2 goals as the sub for Carlton on opening night this year, I wished he was the sole McDonald on our list and not Tom. I may have even posted it in the round 1 non MFC thread.

So the AFL is evacuating to a state that also has community transmission. Gil must really love the hub accommodation up there.

Good. Hopefully nothing comes out of this little outbreak (no new cases today yet) and the Dees and Dogs will be at the G in round 20 in front of crowds.

Be pretty damn annoyed. We're playing for top 2 and a loss here may very well cost us top 2 considering we play Geelong at Geelong which is our hardest game on the run home. Incidentally Hawks are $7 to win. In our 3 losses, the oppo was around the $4.50 - $5.00 mark. Therefore it would be a next level upset if we lose this one.

Agree with all the above. I know we've missed plenty of games this year but if you're choosing between being locked out of the Hawks game or the rd 20 Dogs game or a finals game, most would be copping the Hawks game.

Yeah I had a chat to Wheatley once at a 21st birthday party. He’s a very pleasant and down to earth fella.

Restrictions are looming. Can anyone foresee the possibility of the 25K travel limit coming in but still letting people attend this weekend's footy, provided they don't travel more than 25K.

Fantastic list Supermercado. Martin Heppell could be added to the list I reckon. (apologies if he already is there) Former St Kilda player that crossed to the Dees in 1995 and played against the Dogs at Optus Oval and West Coast at the WACA in rounds 4 and 5 of 1995. Alas we lost both games. https://afltables.com/afl/stats/players/M/Martin_Heppell.html

Please no. I'd sooner tank the season than hub interstate again.

On SEN this morning, Kennett got on the blower this morning to wish the MFC luck for this year and hope we win the flag. I suddenly don't mind Hawthorn supporters.

What do you hate about them? I'm not a fan of watching the Dees play on Thursday but more than happy to watch another game on a Thursday night.

Heard a rumour that there will be no Thursday night games until week 1 finals. Judging by this fixture, I think that might be true.

Agreed. Suns have been good the past fortnight and a win over the Dogs isn't out of the question, if indeed the Dogs are having their obligatory slump. Hopefully when we play GC it will be a repeat of the Essendon win where we showed the opposition just enough respect to get the job done. It's the Hawthorn type game this weekend where we've had all sorts of problems this year.

Agree with all that. The narrative coming out post Anzac eve on the Richmond Bigfooty forum was "Can't wait to play Melbourne in the finals. We'll beat them when the games actually count" and "Kozzie Pickett's got a target on his back in the first qualifying final" I can only hope our supporters won't be as arrogant as Richmonds once we complete our 4peat.

Once again. A horrible winter's day expected and yet they close off the level of the Southern stand that has all the undercover seating.

Pretty consistent with other people’s interactions with Garry Lyon that you read about online.

Bumped into Clayton's Oliver's Mother while waiting around for an interstate game to start in 2018. If he's anything like his Mum, then I'd imagine Clarry would be a ripping nice bloke.

I agree with all that. In previous years, there's no way known a team that's well and truly in contention such as MFC would be sent up to Darwin. Did you ever see dynasty sides such as Hawthorn or Geelong being sent there. Admittedly Richmond got sent up there last year for Dream Time but that was directly resulting from COVID hubs. That's what leads me to think that both clubs, the AFL and the NT have formalised a deal so that both GC and Melbourne will receive a shared payment for the game as compensation for their respective lost games in June. I just can't fathom a strong CEO such as Pert accepting this massive imposition without some sort of financial compensation.

No, Tom Morris didn't say we've requested the Saturday night game. But I'd imagine we'd have requested the Sat night game to avoid the 6 day break. Would be keen to get a comment from Pert to see if this was a joint venture from both clubs or if the AFL said to Melbourne "too bad Melbourne, GC get all the money and we had to fixture an away side"

I mean that neither Watts or Jamarra are anywhere near being ready based on their respective debut games. (Now watch him kick 3 last qtr goals to get his team over the line)

There’s a whiff of Jack Watts circa 2009 debut about young Jamarra today.

No masks required at seats. Syndey dominating uncontested disposal and marks which is a good recipe for winning a game.