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My dear brother died in 2004 aged just 44. A more avid Dees fan you would never have met. Along with my red and blue eyed mother who also succumbed to the dreaded C in 2007 they will be in my thoughts today. Mum who lived through many flags often would say to her three sons " Oh I just want to live to see a flag with my boys"! Sadly it was not to be but they will both be part of the celebrations today. As a footnote, we sprinkled some of my brothers ashes on the 50m arc at the Punt road end in 2005 only for the arena to be dug up for the Comm Games in 2006. Luckily we had enough left to repeat the dose in 2007! Go Dees!

Lucky the Suns list is so settled and mature. He can bide his time in the Twos while the seniors continue to dominate the league!

Geez I love Max as a media performer. Just a great bloke.

11 games at Sleepy Hollow flatters them every year. Probably works against them in pursuit of the ultimate goal as they will never play a Grannie there.

Just putting this here.

Jarrad Rivers I reckon got a medal for the Cats

The guy was a fave of mine but by all accounts he is a dyed in the wool filth fan from childhood. Meh, he would have struggled to get a game with us this year if fit anyway.

Beware the hubris my friends. This sort of thinking never won anyone a flag. Stay hungry, stay humble!

I have to differ with you about Bang! bang! bang! bang!. I just love it. JB is a right royal pain but it was just right for that moment. Thank God it wasn't BT as he would have been making inane comments about some irrelevance. Discussing with my Dees Mate last night we agreed that Daisy was head and shoulders above the rest on the night which considering she was watching her Club win the flag was no mean feat.

Love em all; never understand bagging our players, they are all we've got!!

I watched it and to be honest on a day when everyone else was bathing in the glory of our success she managed to drop the tanking issue into her opening comments. It stuck in my craw to be honest initially but I very quickly decided to let it go and revel in my boys getting the job done. It really only diminished her position when all was said and done. It is amazing how magnanimous one can be when one supports the Mighty Demon Premiers!!!!!!

I reckon the 2021 finals boxed set would sell like hot cakes Each of the 3 games a spanking all of their own!

Good read but I think I will save my shadenfreude for this time next week!

I would imagine they will play at the same time as the Grannie is scheduled.

Great stuff, I love your writing style, for a short period I was there with you. Now you just need to live blog during the Grannie!!!😉

Interesting to see that several of Geelong's team from last week's Prelim played in the Reserves Grandfinal in 64!...😁

Received a text from my Cats mate this morning "That was the worst game of football I have ever seen. Congratulations. I don't want to talkor think about footy for some time."

The Floodgates are about to open The Dee-rought is over!

In fact FD, we are the stand out team! I voted no only because I believe we will have a flag or two in the next couple of years but in fact I will be very disappointed if we dont get the job done this year.

I am wearing my #positivelingers Tee Shirt and MFC socks for each game. So far so good

Brendan Goddard

Buuut...what about tomorrow night? 😄

In an incredibly challenging year he has missed around 6-7 weeks with a significant facial injury and then landed himself a shoulder injury. Hard to judge anyone based on that form exposure. When he has played he has done ok by all accounts.

473 days old! Remember it vividly. A shout out to The Last Hurrah which describes the big day as if the author was there. After reading it I felt like I had watched a replay.