Katrina Dee Fan

As an example - would this be going too over the top?

Okay, I've just ordered some red and blue fairy lights for my apartment balcony, and I figured this could be a good place for people to show off their home decorations for finals. Also it could be a good place to share ideas, and also let each other know where you got a particular item that someone may be looking for/inspired by. Let's out red and blue each other!

Someone was bored :)

West Coast and Fremantle. The West Coast game was at Casey in 2020, and the Fremantle game was Season 6 last year at Optus. Daisy Pearce kicked 5 goals that day.

Just hoping Bowey's shoulder is okay, it had to be popped back in during the game.

He was one of the best on ground, 11 clearances, 33 disposals, 3 goals.

Yeah, nah. Not been successful finding good coffee in Sydney.....

I agree, but there aren't to many of them in Sydney. Mostly they're South Melbourne fans

They're incredibly smug, given they're a bunch of rugby league nufties who don't know how to play Aussie Rules.

Please, show Grundy the cafes in Sydney, then he'll see how [censored] they are, and he'll choose to stay.

I'm flying up on Sunday for it, it's my first SCG game.

Well, I didn't use that one, because like if all teams win, and all teams lose, the status quo applies. No change.

Just a note about next week, does it matter if we lose to the Swans? We're locked into the 4th spot, I'm just concerned if we win, but either Brisbane or Port lose, we'll be playing an interstate final first week. Scenarios as they stand - Scenario 1 - All 4 top 4 teams win, we play Collingwood at the G (same as if all 4 lose) Scenario 2 - Collingwood lose, all others win, we finish 4th, but Brisbane finishes top, we go to Gabba. Scenario 3 - Either one of Brisbane or Port lose, all other teams win, we finish 3rd, and play either Port or Brisbane interstate. Scenario 4 - Collingwood and Port Adelaide lose, Melbourne and Brisbane win, Brisbane goes to top, Collingwood, 2nd, us 3rd, Port 4th, we play Collingwood at the G. Scenario 5 - Melbourne wins, Brisbane and Port lose, we finish 2nd, irrespective of how Collingwood perform, and we host a home final to either Brisbane or Port.

I agree, he's coming of his own.

They're still going to talk rubbish.

Maeve Chaplin out with concussion protocol. She should be back for Round 1, though.

Given there is a bye already after Round 24, I'd be reticent to rest anyone. We can't give anyone 2 weeks off and lose momentum. I'm thinking more along the lines of who do we drop for Fritta next week.

The Hawthorn Handpass was in full play yesterday. Dad called them Hawthorn Handpasses back in the 80s, lovely to see they're still getting away with throwing.

I think I threw my phone on the couch and watched it bounce on the floor.

You're spot on. Plus I don't think we were arrogant after 2021, most of us spent last year in total shock it actually happened! Funnily enough I had a look at the Big Footy forum on Hawks just now, they have an entire thread boasting about how arrogant they are. Which goes for 149 pages.....

Also, have a close look at that goal that should have been called a goal. Smith should have got a free for being held.

I attribute evidence of child abuse to those days in late 80s, some of those stories I've shared in Demonland before. 1987, Preliminary Final. I was at my grandparents while my parents were in Queensland. We were listening to the game on the radio, and when that Gary Buckenara goal happened, my grandfather started teasing me, causing me to run to Mum's childhood bedroom, slam the door, and throw myself on the bed in howls of tears, while I listened to my grandmother tell Pa off for making me upset. 1988, Grand Final. My Dad, brother and I were the only Melbourne supporters in a sea of Hawthorn supporters in our extended family on my mum's side. Some bright spark, I think it was my uncle (the most arrogant of arrogant Hawks supporters) decided we should all go to Glenferrie Oval. I was 17, so already good at mastering the art of teenage surliness. My cousin kept playing "Happy Team at Hawthorn" on his tape player. Smoke billowed out of my brother's ears, while I contemplated throwing that thing on the train tracks.

They're awfully cocky for a bottom 4 team, aren't they? I had to laugh last year when a Hawthorn-barracking relative told me "You Melbourne supporters have become arrogant since winning the Premiership". I've put up with 40 years of his arrogance!

I wasn't disappointed in JVR, I'm just saying in a game like that, given that in the first quarter Gawn was being rested for sequential hit outs, I'd have preferred to have Grundy at the realm instead of the inexperience of JVR, if Gawn gets injured, without Grundy, we're cooked.

I was the first one Viney high fived :)