Bring-Back-Powell

No excuse with regards to the Sydney loss in Cairns. We lost to a pathetic side who were 4-9 at the time and had kicked 2 goals for an entire game just two weeks earlier. You can blame the wind, the pandemic, O Mac being sent to the goal square etc...but we just had to find a way to get the 4 points that day. Absolutely no way would a good side like Richmond, Geelong, Brisbane, Port or West Coast had dropped that game. The Freo loss was slightly more forgivable as they were in good form at the time and are far from a bottom side. And we played with more endeavor that night.

Yeah back in 1993 and earlier if you were down by less than 1 goal with a minute left and the ball was up the other end from your goals you had no hope of winning as time kept ticking during an umpire's bounce or other stoppages. Unsure if time kept ticking after a throw in back in those days?

A good description of O Mac over the last 2 seasons.

The AFL.com article suggests that all matchups and venues will be revealed after round 6 but not the dates. So we'll inevitably know that we'll have North Melbourne at Hobart in round 23 but we won't know the exact day of the game. Not ideal but you can plan you holidays with a bit of (COVID free) confidence.

That is a good point in that many of the consistent finals sides of 2007 -2020 such as Geelong, Hawthorn and Sydney we've barely beaten over that period. However, during Sydney's recent decline of 2018-2020 we've had all sorts of problems against them. They beat us in the middle of our fantastic run to a prelim in 2018 and tonked us twice in 2019 and 2020 despite them being badly out of form. The bottom line is we should've beat them, we should've won one of the two Cairns games despite a bit of adversity and the same problem exists year after year under Goodwin - we don't come switched on in critical games despite the rewards on offer eg- cementing a top 8, top 4 spot). I hope Williams can fix this.

He cops a lot of crap and he basically played himself out of a career by round 15 when we had to send him to full forward to literally stay out of the way and save on rotations in one of the Cairns games. However, he was quite good in 2017 and 2018 and we must remember that he was the first picked key defender in a final where we held Geelong to just 6 goals.

Rumour going around that it will be released 23 December.

Or they could also admit that we have a serious problem against the Sydney Swans. Since 2006 we’ve beaten them twice. TWICE. We could’ve played them at Metricon on an 8 day break and we still probably would’ve lost to them in 2020. A mentally switched on albeit slightly tired good side would’ve beaten a pathetic 4-9 Sydney side that managed just 2 goals in a game just two weeks prior - regardless of venue and time. We’re an excuse based football club.

Yep, since 1994.

https://www.afl.com.au/news/528623/full-time-footy-is-back-20-min-quarters-afl-to-reveal-floating-fixture Great news. And every round to be announced by the end of the year. First 6 round to be announced in full. Remainder will be floating.

Some Spargo highlights to get the mouth watering for next year.

Sounds like we’re drafting for needs tonight rather than best available.

His kicking efficiency is elite according to the Fox footy telecast.

Laurie looks more exciting than Bowie. Apparently a good user of the ball.

Jake Bowey - apparently has a bit of Shae Bolton and Caleb Daniel about him.

Are we allowed to attend due to COVID?

Looked good in the Collingwood game.

I hope that's not the case as how many years of disappointment can a group of supporters put up with like Melbourne's supporters have? What an absolute waste of a year 2021 will be if we miss finals once again with the caliber of players we now possess.

May we never play at the joint again! 3 losses there in the one month (one of them we didn’t play in but it knocked us out of the finals race)

He actually did ok on Papley in Cairns. He was a disaster against James Stewart of Essendon who was too tall for him and booted 3 in a shortened game. I would say if he’s to make it, it will be on the oppos small/mid fwd as you mentioned.

Fritsch should go back to defence.

I'm happy for him to remain at half back as the kick from D 50 is the most important kick in footy.

Didn't we also play Adelaide in London just after the 2000 grand final?? Can't remember if we won but I don't think many of us would've cared at the time coming off a dismal GF.

Rogers Centre had or still has astro turf. Saw a few of the boys running around in white runners in the video.

The key bullet points out of Steve O'Dwyer's victorious acceptance speech: 1) The chairman of the sponsor congratulated Melbourne Skipper "Mike" O'Dwyer. 2) In O'Dwyer's victorious speech he encouraged "all the single girls to get back to the York Hotel and we'll all have a chat" 3) The MC of the night Mike Williamson then proceeded to remark "Well spoken Strawbs" at the conclusion of O'Dwyer's victory speech. Ah 1989 - a little less PC than today.