Chook

I was impressed by him in the Round 2 game against the pies and have had him in my best 22 ever since, so I would like to say that I was on the Macdonald bandwagon very early. I like the cut of his jib, and can see him in our back-line for a few years yet.

If they put the Chinese table tennis or badminton team on TV, I'd watch it. Accessibility is usually the biggest hurdle for interest to overcome. Humans (especially me) are lazy, but if it's on TV, chances are much higher whatever it is will be watched.

Edited for accuracy.

I hear you. When we're in trouble and our forwards have started to leave our forward 50 because their supply has dried up, a high kick into the forward line might give them time to get back and provide a contest, and would certainly be better than a long kick to no-one. Similarly, a grubber to the boundary-line might set up a throw-in situation which is infinitely better than kicking to a two or three on one situation. But hopefully our midfield will be good enough in the future that our supply won't dry up enough for these tactics to be worthwhile.

Don't worry. He's in a better place now. Although he could have used those sunnies in the church there at the end.

Agreed. Not as cool as Jack Shephard's though.

Football genius. Nothing more for me to say.

Gorillas make crappy footballers. Let's not go down that path.Also, how did Paul Roos go against Dean Bailey this year?

There's always going to be an opponent on Grand Final day and history suggests that it's likely to be the same team twice in a row, so there's a chance it could be the Pies.

Oh. Thanks.

Why do they call him BJ? Shouldn't it be BG?

Why do you think the wooden spooner is under-achieving by winning 8 games and losing to the Premier by a total of 1 point over the course of two games?

Good idea. Although, I do need some new toilet paper . . .

Depends what you watch it for. If you watch it for the bitching and the hot mactors, then you're an idiot, but if you watch it to see the strategy behind the game, then there's something to the show.

And if the idea that it's unfair to have to travel to Victoria two weeks in a row is such a big concern, then why even have the Grand Final at the MCG every year anyway? Isn't that equally unfair? But I don't hear anyone complaining about that "outdated VFL anachronism" as Gerard Healy put it/

Me too.

You can usually tell Pie vomit by the little chunks of meat and pastry strewn around! I kid, I kid.

I wonder what the draw ratio is in games between clubs adjacent to each other on the ladder, which is a better indication of the evenness required for a draw to occur. You'd think that a Grand Final is played by teams one and two, so I wonder what the ratio would be if you discounted all those first verse last blow-outs that happen in the Home and Away rounds. Those would surely mess up the ratio.

New Years Day is now January the 8th, FYI.

I'm in love with the idea of replaying the GF. And don't use the excuse that they don't do it in any other game, because the only reason they don't is that every other week already has a game scheduled for the week after. LOVE LOVE LOVE THE GF REPLAY!!! If it happened to Melbourne, of course I'd be shattered we didn't win, but come on. How awesome would it be to get a surprise extra game to watch. Footy-lover's dream. I would also guess that more hardcore supporters would get to go the next week, which is great. What do they do with the Draft Camp and Trade Week, though?

Came fourth out of nine, but looked to me to be at about 60% the whole way through. I don't know how the handicap thing works in the real one at half-time, but I think that if thee is one, Jackie boy will have a fair head start.

Is it wrong to be more excited about this than the Grand Final itself? Don't get me wrong, I'm pumped for the game, but I'm even more pumped to see Jack Watts' blistering pace. Don't forget, he was able to keep up with Lewis Jetta at the end of the Sydney game, so he's no slouch.

Why don't any of them actually sing? Surely someone from the 700 odd footy players currently playing can do something other than parade around in a g-string! I was watching Saturday Night Live on Foxtel at the same time as the Footy Show was on and I prefered to see The Rock doing some wierd dance routine with a chair than see Jason Akermanis pretending to play the piano three times. Surely there's something wrong when a two-year old episode of Saturday Night Live is more interesting than anything we can dish up.

People who are disappointed with Judd's win should just accept that the way the Brownlow is voted for, this problem is bound to occur, and that by changing the scoring method or anything, it's not the Brownlow anymore. But what if there were a second, side-award given to the highest vote getter from the team which scored the highest number of votes. In this case, I think that would have been Swan. This way you reward players from good teams even when there's a surprise god amongst worms, so to speak (as Judd was, compared to his team-mates.)

It actually says a lot about where Carlton are at that Judd gets so many BOG's. There's no Pendlebury to take votes off him, for one. Judd's second Brownlow came because his teammates are so bad that he's the only one that stands out.