RalphiusMaximus

The new look midfield. Seeing Oliver, Brayshaw, Harmes and Viney step up to become the first choice mids ahead of Jones, Vince and Lewis gave us a real glimpse of the future. Viney is the oldest of the group. They'll be dominating for the best part of the next decade.

Could not agree more. We start with asking for two top five picks. He's worth every bit of it and we hold all the cards. MAYBE let them get away with five and nine if they sweeten the deal.

Don't want him. Go for Martin instead.

I'll be sad to see him go. He has pace and a great penetrating kick. Sadly his injury issues aren't going to get any better at the Saints. Still, he's doing the right thing for his family, taking a better pay packet and a longer contract. Good luck to him.

I think this is very simple for us. Hogan is contracted. If Freo want him, they have to pay. He cost us more than a first round pick when we traded for his rights. He's one of the best young KPFs going around. If they want to trade for him, they can give us their first pick and the first round pick they get for Neale. That would be picks four and five to us for Hogan. Maybe an exchange of later picks in their favour, but I don't see the need to be honest. They've been trying to pry him loose from us for years. If they want to do it this year they need to pay.

27-19 their way.

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 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.