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Highlight was signing Grand Old Flag together, roaring away in front of all the Brissy supporters. You're right, it was an excellent bonding experience for all of us who stayed to cheer on! Think going home would have been too depressing without witnessing and willing that turn around on ground. That being said... I'm getting quietly [censored] in the Brissy airport and nearly at my tether for mixed feelings, in part due to some transport stuff around (not Rex but Qantas for those playing along at home) and reading a beautifully, quietly destructive novel. Overall, go dees!!!

Demonstone!!! You really got me with this one. I've potentially come unstuck after the past 24 hours

Glad it's out of an abundance of caution! Hope it goes well 💕 My God, after the events of last night's game, I feel like I have a massive hangover despite not drinking at all...!

If you don't laugh, you'll cry...!

I don't think we need anymore bumps 😂

I took you seriously for a moment and was elated... then my brain kicked in 😂

When analysing how our midfield got smashed, can you discuss the connection between Grundy and the midfielders? I was fairly happy with Grundy's game last week and he seemed to be trying against the Lions. But can't tell if I'm just being overly hopeful

6 Lever - stellar defense efforts 5 Hunter - worked hard, particularly second half 4 Ben Brown - great goal efforts 3 Bowey - great disposals 2 Fritta - not his best but still helped with 3 goals (but if only some of those behinds had converted!) 1 Brayshaw - bit meh but did some good work in second half Thommo also was solid-ish given his playing profile. But overall the bottom 2 are just slighr advantages over an uninspiring 18 others

And if you go into the custom stats on the AFL app, you can get the turnovers stat. Unfortunately, Clarry had 12 turnovers, the highest in the game (with Petracca and Rayner next, each with 6 turnovers). Surprisingly, Lions had 77 turnovers to our 65. Wonder if that's the impact of after the lights. Of course, Lions might have had more possessions overall (have not counted yet) or the turnovers might have occurred in less damaging places. Edit: also now I think of it, we were being smashed in the midfield so the fact that our midfielder had such a high turnover rate is telling... Viney had 4, Harmes had 4

I was at the game and I'm not sure they showed it on TV but... they flashed up a picture of Gawn looking in pain and alone, in the dark of the change rooms, multiple times. Psychological warfare...

Good old fashioned human skill! Great stuff, DemonWheels!

Brilliant! Did you make this or is it DallE?

Thanks for that, didn't realise it was a Gate 8 entrance!

WCW and I and the rest of the Demon Army will be down by the goal (near section 211 and 213)! Come join us 😁

The Demon Army website has some info about tickets but you're probs best placed ordering via Ticketmaster (since the Try Booking link to register interest might not be monitored this late). Section 211? 213? are cheersquad zones :)

Since we're going all access, anybody know where they're planning on having dinner? 🤣 WCW's influence on me beginning to show haha

I highly recommend Rex! They have good specials, give you a snack, and have some of the best on time ratings for the past few COVID years. They only do the eastern seaboard really, but very solid service. For example - flew up to Brissy today. I was running late and they helped me get on board and arrived on time!

Yes, this is what makes me a sour puss! There's no soul to it. It's serviceable but not art. Nick Cave puts it very eloquently: https://www.theredhandfiles.com/chat-gpt-what-do-you-think/

It's fun to play around with! But tbh it turns me into a bit of a sour puss in reaction to the hype 😅

It's a large language processing model aka conversational AI. It can generate responses, some analysis, middling poetry and prose near instantly

According to BOM it'll be 25 degrees from about 7 pm onwards. Don't know about humidity though!

We're the oldest professional sporting code of football in the world... feel like that would rate a mention, pls and thx ChatGPT!

I don't think I'd ever emotionally recover from losing to the Pies in the Granny with this team!

Agreed, this year we truly seem unbelievable. Like we've somehow surpassed our 2021 selves. I'm trying to be cool about it... It would truly feel like a failure if we didn't at least get to the GF this year.

There are a range of teams I'm relatively neutral on... then there are the teams I hate. Often these are similar to other's hated teams, but for me the Aints hold a special place of hate due to some crappy supporters endured all through my childhood. Now I've moved to Sydney, I've adopted GWS as a soft spot team. Mainly so whenever my colleagues tell me to follow a Sydney team, I can proclaim I'll never follow the Swans and that they should all really be supporting the underdogs, GWS. Plus they now have Toby!