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Either way the optics sure looked good to the public!

They need a backup safety valve for the backup safety valve.

Essendon kicked 7.27 that day. And we thought Monday was a tough watch in front of the sticks!

We really got them in the physical stakes on Monday.

Bets and vested interests win out when it comes to remembering things you would know better than me 🙂 Mine was dead the moment '2-goal a game' Mihocek decided to bottle it.

Had Grundy kicked the goal after that it would have been the biggest lift ever. Gave me goosebumps similar to Neitz on McCabe or Whelan on Hird. There's nothing in my view that fires you up as a fan more than when you goal straight after these moments.

That's right. I joked in another thread that if 1% of Pies members are true decent footy fans that it still leaves 99% of 100,000 members that are total jerks. The flip side is that 1% of that is still 1,000 decent fans, credit where it's due. Next time we should assign people who sit in each part of the ground to report on the crowd loudness 😄

Good question, I felt like it was a poster each for Kade and Trac but might be wrong.

I think the booing of Grundy was pretty audible right at the start but you may well be right that there could have been sections of Collingwood fans who didn't boo or even gave him some credit for his time, this could have given our drowning out the extra 5% it needed. I have no way of saying this did or didn't happen but it could be a plausible explanation. Whether or not it was the loudest we've been for a while I will say that I was incredibly proud of our fans in that moment. As soon as the booing started nearly every Melb fan around me got stuck in with cheering and support, some who never say a word were clapping vigorously. In the past our club would have folded faster than Superman on Laundry day, I'm so happy to see we now have some fight in us.

Nice one mate, how long have you been coaching at CGS?

I'm happy to keep prior opportunity but I'd like to get rid of anything other than a clear kick or handball penalised, none of this knocking out of the hands play on if they've had prior.

They don't call him Positive Lingers for nothing.

This seems like a very appropriate time to re-promote Ken Mitchell's book I mentioned last week! More detail about this era than you can poke a stick at!

The 'good' Judd.

It will only take one good game for him to get back to some sharpshooting. Bit of confidence does wonders.

I heard the dog ate Maynard's homework.

Well let's hope Freo can work on getting some quality losses in a row.

99% of 100,000 odd members is a lot!

Oh the trauma!

Drowning out the Collingwood boos of Grundy was one of my more prouder moments of being a Dees fan.

Plus his ankle fell off.

Our pieces are all locked in. Now we focus on the task at hand. When the whistle blows everybody goes!

I like it!

A lot of people watching the replay today, think I will too. Fitting birthday activity.

Yep, played a bit of Rugby and Soccer growing up in Canberra as well I believe. Footy didn't come along until his early teens.