RalphiusMaximus

How do you know you're a Collingwood supporter? When you let your 12 year old daughter smoke at the kitchen table, right in front of her kids.

I could not agree more. I think most of us said at the start of the season that we wanted finals. We got that. We got a hell of a lot better than that. We got to see our team knock over two of our bogey sides for two winning finals. We came back from the wilderness and won two finals. Going further would have been nice, but I am thrilled with what the team achieved this season.

I have to say, this has not been a good weekend for Aussie Rules, and in particular the officials. Last weekend in the SANFL we saw a team play 19 men and get away with it because the complaint came from the bench and not the captain and by the time the captain was made aware of it the extra man had been pulled off the field again. Today we saw some Casey run out to an early lead only for Box Hill's best three players to put in a superhuman effort of one-sided umpiring to drag their team over the line. All in all a terrible look for the state leagues.

The one worry I have with Jesse is the feeling that he's going to be the super talented guy who breaks down every year and never lives up to his potential because of the never-ending rehab. I would love to know what our medical staff think about him. It's just possible that two top ten picks could turn into a bargain for him.

The game plan is Spam. Literally. As in we pepper them with endless poor quality f50 entries and eventually sheer weight of numbers mean we'll score a few. Imagine what would happen if we had that many entries AND an actual plan to convert entries to goals. We'd be unstoppable!

What does it cost to charter a plane?

No Change. You don't mess with a winning formula.

vandenBerg - Beast. Can't kick.

We have eighteen players on our list who have never lost a final.

Vandenberg. The man is an absolute beast. I just wish he could kick a little better.

Channel seven showing the highlights to the tune of Hells Bells. Love it. I notice there's more idiotic noise about Oliver going down easily to get a free, but nobody seems to be talking about Sicily hurling himself out of marking contests the moment he feels contact. I wonder why that is?

So at the start of the season I think we all agreed that finals was the minimum acceptable result. Pretty sure we're all happy with what we've achieved now. Let's just hope we manage two more.

There are going to be some headaches next year when we have Hogan and Lever trying to squeeze into the side.

I'm just looking through the stats. I can't believe how little ball we had. Our mids seemed to be everywhere, but only three players went over 20 disposals. The Hawks had more inside 50s as well. The stats really don't look like us winning by 30+ points and kicking over 100 points.

The Umpires tried damn hard to take it off us. Amazing composure to pull control back out of their hands and run away with it.

But no mention of Sicilly a couple of minutes later flying out the front of the pack.

Wow. I can see why people hate Nicholls. The bias is blatant. The guy should never have been given a final.

I heard that Nev has taken him on as a project. He's coming along ok. Not setting the world on fire, but steadily improving.

I queried the AFL as to why I wound up sitting in a Geelong section at the last game. They replied with the following: So basically, you SHOULD be seated in your club's section, but they make no guarantees and I was just unlucky.

I have a possibly silly question. Given that we buy tickets by following a link the club gives us and entering our membership number, are we supposed to be allocated seats in a Melbourne area? I wound up sitting in a Geelong bay and I don't see how that works. It's not like I had the option of picking seats. I just selected the area behind the punt road goal and that's what the system gave me. If there are not bays designated for each side, then how did all of the Geelong fans wind up in the same spot? I'm confused.

A bit harsh on Petracca there. If Salem gets a seven with his cervine tactics, surely Petracca rates equally with his six tackles and one brilliant assist to his captain?

He contributed multiple uncontested marks to the Geelong stat sheet.

Home now. Bloody Hell that was awesome. The noise when Jones kicked that goal in the last... Incredible. Loved the Weed's game. Not just that he had 24 disposals and three goals, but he also racked up four tackles. For a young KPF, that's awesome. I've done my share of bagging Lewis during the season, but he was immense tonight. If there's one knock n his game it's that he didn't get a tackle to his name, but he did everything else, including putting himself in Harm's way taking intercept marks. He was everything we needed from a veteran tonight. I don't think I can go through everyone who was amazing tonight, but I've NEVER seen the team attack the ball and their opponents like that before. If they do that a few more times this year we'll have a pretty silver cup. I should also point out that we have 18 players in that side with a 100% winning record in finals. ? I would have Salem in that sentence. He had some shockers. He was the only player out there for us who looked like he was overwhelmed by the occasion.

We were pretty poor for two quarters. Well, maybe not poor, but we dominated the game while being almost entirely ineffective in attack. They could easily have pinched this one from us with a five-minute burst in the last because our ball movement going forward was terrible after quarter time.

I have never seen the Dees tackle like that. It was Richmond-like. Absolutely epic effort.