JTR

Another good read over on BF re our 16.4.100 to 1.1.7 run... https://www.bigfooty.com/forum/threads/best-30-minutes-of-football-ever.1287418/

Game was absolutely beyond my wildest dreams. Scored 100 points to their 7 since half way through 3rd when they up 59-40 Last two games after half time... Prelim - 10 goals to 1 Grand Final - 16 goals to 3 GO DEES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

No change for us Dogs Weightman, Keith in for Vandemeer & Gardner

My rugby mad mother, who I have converted to massive AFL fan and MFC member, will be watching from NZ

It's probably already been said, but if we had taken Wines, we probably wouldn't have had one of Oliver or Petracca today. Similarly, whilst 2019 was a horrible year, without it we wouldn't have Jackson, and probably not have Kossie either. Silver linings in everything.

Max is #11 👉 1 + 1 = 2 Max kicked 5 goals in prelim 👉 11 x 5 = 55 👉 2 + 55 = 57 Who needs Cam Mooney? 😎

Dr D said he was no good though. Think he said the same thing about Jackson for that matter. What/who do I believe????????? 🙄

That game was when we were having our little form dip, having just come off the draw v Hawthorn. I am confident we will be much more 'on' this time around.

Melbourne - beaten anyone yet?

Yep 👍 86 - 58

It would make my sport following life so much easier if my brain allowed itself to believe that... 😕 Ok, stuff it... We win 86 - 58 Petracca BOG

I had a sleepness night last night, but when I did drift off had a vivid dream of the final score tonight, and BOG. Wrote it down so I wouldn't forget. Would it be bad luck to post it here?

I moved to Melbourne from NZ in late 1999, and after many 'recruitment' attempts from Carlton, Collingwood, Essendon & Richmond fans I settled on the Demons. 2000 I thought I'd enter myself in an online tipping competition and I guess with no pre-conceived ideas about the teams or who the players were, I managed to win. Prize was 4 tickets to each week of the finals series, including the GF, so the first game I saw live was the Qualifying final vs Carlton. Probably still my favorite game, ahead of the 2 x 2018 finals. Been to plenty of bad games, but the worst, probably because of how disappointed/mad I was afterwards was round 23, 2017 where had to beat the Filth to make finals, but choked and finished the season 9th.

Considering some still question what ANB brings to the table and are apparently happy to trade away Brayshaw and/or Sparrow I'm not sure a subjective opinion on an anonymous forum is going to appease too many here. If it's true....

I'm sorry, but my red undies, red socks, dark blue trackies, royal blue superman t-shirt and home made red & blue beanie (thanks MIL) beg to differ. Stuck with that same combo all season 😎

Apologies if a re-post...

As do I

Nothing specifically, but it does say pass the barcode on, not buy the ticket and pass the ticket on, so would assume it does need to be in name of person attending?

Me too

That's crazy when you think about it! Certainly a bright future ahead if we can keep the list together. FYI... here's the side named for the first final: Jake Bowey 18 Luke Jackson 19 Trent Rivers 20 Kysaiah Pickett 20 Tom Sparrow 21 Charlie Spargo 21 Harrison Petty 21 Clayton Oliver 24 Bayley Fritsch 24 Alex Neal-Bullen 25 James Harmes 25 Ed Langdon 25 Christian Petracca 25 Angus Brayshaw 25 Jake Lever 25 Joel Smith 25 Christian Salem 26 Jack Viney 27 Ben Brown 28 Tom McDonald 28 Max Gawn 29 Steven May 29 Average 24.09

That reminds me... Off topic, but speaking of age, did I hear correctly that the side we played in the last round of the season (unchanged for the final) was the second youngest in the league? 😳

Watts for pick 31 Pick 31 for Fritsch 👍

Can get this for for same story hosted on another website before paywall kicks in "Nathan Jones will make the emotional decision to remain in Perth with his teammates chasing an elusive flag despite the impending birth of twins in Melbourne" Probably captures the crux of what we wanted to know though?

Anyone who still doesn't recognise what a crucial cog Nibbler is, either has no clue what they are watching, or are still going through games from 2015 - 2017. His impact on our game (structure, forward pressure, two way running.. etc) is huge.