Chook

For the historians, are AA captains just always guys who have been around a while? If so, I get it, but again I'd prefer picking a team with Pendlebury in as the AA captain, and Lingers and McLuggage as the wingers. Basically, which team would beat the US All Stars if they played AFL?

"So tom, you're captain of the All Australian team!" "I thank everyone at the Geelong footy club!!!"

I guess I don't know what leadership is because there is NO WAY I WOULD EVER. FOLLOW TOM HAWKINS ANYWHERE!!!!!

When you play North and West Coast twice each, you tend to shine...

Clarry is so good he made Paddy Dangerfield do a quip about going off script when presenting the AFLPA best player award, saying he wants to be more like Clarry. Course he would - Clarry has a premiership medal.

No way Melksham goes out.

Ripper goal from Jack Steele. Looks like we might get there in the end.

I reckon that was a hold/in the back to McKay that wen't un-rewarded in the last couple of minutes.

Feel so bad for those Carlton fans I know right now.

lol blues

What a goal from McReary!!! Surely Carlton can't s the bed two weeks in a row. You'd be so nervous as a Blues fan right now.

Darcey Moore is so good. He just wins 50/50 balls like the opposition isn't even there.

Every saints player is just jogging constantly. They'll get absolutely smashed and we'll be Sydney-bound.

Collingwood is an awful matchup for us. Swans aren't much better, but I don't want to be anywhere near the Pies in this finals series.

Motlop with a cracking goal to put the Blues 17 points up, and the fans have gone unbelievably!!!

That was a mark to Howe IMO.

You blokes need to watch the grand final more. The quote was "And the Melbourne fans have gone unbelievably." Still wondering where we went, and why it was so unbelievable.

Mason Cox just ups his unlikeability factor with every contest he is in.

Mason Cox has form with that knee as a weapon in ruck contests. Carlton's delivery into the forward line isn't very good despite having 2 60 goal forwards in it - which shows it's not your forwards as much as your mids delivering it in, and the pressure they're under when they do it.

Collingwood is going to blow this game open soon I reckon.

Dees fans might not all go to games but I guarantee a massive number of them have great TVs.

I reckon Rutten is cut from the Goodwin cloth but Essendon is about 35 years behind Melbourne in its realization of where they are, what the competition is these days, and what they need to do to be successful again. It took Melbourne a very long time to understand it doesn't just "happen", and Essendon are in the same boat now (and have been for the last 20 years). Long may it continue - happy to see them stuck in the Essendon equivalent of Melbourne circa the mid-80s forever.

The Dangerfest at the cattery is on - time to head to the bottle-o.

He was just about their best player I thought.

Bradshaw yakking about the treatment of Zorko by Melbourne but not wanting to go near Zorko’s two headlocks and some clearly not right sledging. Total misread by him.