Bring-Back-Powell

Did Judd happen to watch the celebrations after West Coast beat Adelaide in round 23 last year to knock us out.? You would've thought they just won their 6th straight flag. I can't recall Judd criticising West Coast's celebrations after falling into 8th place.

In fairness, Freo were a 15-7 side that year that went 10-2 at Subi. Not many if any sides were going to beat them in a final over there. And I can recall none of us were shocked that we lost.

GWS V Melbourne week 1 (if it happens) may actually be at 3:20pm or 4:20pm Saturday Sep 8 rather than 7:45pm. The AFL likes to have 2 Saturday games, and a possible schedule could be as follows: Thursday night - West Coast V Collingwood Friday night - Richmond V Sydney Saturday twilight - GWS V Melbourne Saturday night - Hawthorn V Geelong

Yes, we've had some stinking bad performances out there. In 2013 we let GWS have their only win of the year, and they steamrolled us in the last to win by 6 goals. In 2014 they also won by 5 or 6 goals in the wet, however I think we had 1 goal on the board at half time.

Given that Collingwood are playing a non top 8 side, they'll [censored] them.

Hoping Hawthorn win and they finish 4th. We'll either finish 5th or 8th, and if we win week 1 we'll play Hawthorn at the G (assuming they lose to Richmond) in week 2 as opposed to Sydney up there.

37,000 to a GWS game would be fantastic.

Wow, people really feel that about Watts? A bit pathetic. Nothing wrong with having a giggle at Watts's typical 8 possession nothing games at Port, but to actually have a sense of satisfaction with Watts not playing for us this year. I reckon he would've loved nothing more than to play a final at the Dees - regardless of his off field attitude.

I agree. Much prefer the Sunday final as it gives everyone something to look forward to for a late afternoon game. However the AFL prefers not to have them in order to remove 6 day breaks.

I've given up writing off Collingwood. They're the real deal and will pound Freo with the knowledge that they can steal second from West Coast.

I think the AFL would have the Hawks V GWS game at the G on the Sunday. I was under the impression Etihad would only be used if there were 4 VIC finals. But if the AFL don't want a Sunday final, then you could be right.

If we beat GWS, I reckon it will be: THU 8:10 - WCE (2) V Collingwood (3) - Optus FRI 7:50 - Richmond (1) V Sydney (4) - MCG SAT 7:45 - Melbourne (5) V Geelong (8) - MCG Sun 3:20 - Hawthorn (6) V GWS (7) - MCG (or Hawks V GWS at Etihad Saturday arvo just to pizz Kennett off!) If we lose to GWS, I reckon it will be: THU 8:10 - WCE (2) V Collingwood (3) - Optus FRI 7:50 - Richmond (1) V Sydney (4) - MCG SAT 4:10 - GWS (5) V Melbourne (8) - Spotless SAT 7:45 - Hawthorn (6) V Geelong (7) - MCG

Not sure who's been the better recruit. Him or Hibberd.

The only one that probably doesn't think this is great news is Tyson. I hope they know what they're doing this time as we really can't have Viney on the sidelines again for the next 8 months because he came back too early yet again.

"Melbourne can win it" - David King on SEN with Gerard Whately this morning, on whether anyone can challenge Richmond.

Desperately hoping for a Collingwood win today. That way we if we win tomoz, Port can’t go ahead of us and we’re in the finals. Two Port wins and 1 Sydney win means we’re going to be in a percentage battle with Geelong, and I’m not particularly interested in missing the finals by 0.5% again

Desperately hoping for a Collingwood win today. That way we if we win tomoz, Port can’t go ahead of us and we’re in the finals. Two Port wins and 1 Sydney win means we’re going to be in a percentage battle with Geelong, and I’m not particularly interested in missing the finals by 0.5% again.

Hopefully the Dons don’t have their Mad Monday drinks a week early. We need them focussed on beating Port next week.

So the first leg of the “Dees to limp in with 12” has come through. Now for Pies to beat Port Crows to beat North Dons to beat Port.

As would have I. Garlett's always capable of a bit of magic, but I concede his season has dropped off considerably compared to the first half of 2017. I hope Spargo just had an off day last week as his set shots from 30 metres out were not AFL standard.

JFK, Garlett and Pedo dropped. Hannan and Kent in as well as the other 3 discussed yesterday.

That's a great point. However, Hawks (52 pts) will overtake them on percentage if they win twice and Eagles (60 pts) lose twice. Even Collingwood could too. Unfortunately they have everything (top 2) to play for this week.

I clearly did. Well played.

They're just resting their stars for these dead rubbers. They'll be full strength for their first qualifying final against Collingwood or Hawthorn.