Adam The God

I was really hoping the Toumpas drafting decision might somehow come to light in this article. Who overruled who? Was it Neeld who overruled Viney or vice versa? He certainly never seemed like a player Viney would select. Does anyone actually know the answer to this?

Not to keep digressing, but certainly that embarrassing 148 point loss to a drugged up Essendon outfit, was in hindsight, the loss we had to have to be rid of Neeld. ?

Knew he was a fellow East Bentleighian, but didn't realise the Beveridge connection. Makes sense though. Taylor is a wonderful asset.

Channel 7 got it right today but Sky News got it wrong. 21st Century journalism...

Surely Ethan is the Town Idiot™?

Certainly would offer us something that we don't have a great deal of - breakaway speed from the stoppages. Would love playing under Max, that's for sure.

Cried all the way through it. ❤❤❤ We've been through a shitload. Come on demons. Make us proud this weekend.

I have no idea what you're talking about Biffboy, but that's not unusual.

We're going early tomorrow morning and spending the day in Adelaide, before flying into Perth on Saturday morning. Not confident, but hoping we can put up a good fight.

Yeah, shithouse rumour.

Haha, HH. Youse are funnys.

Absolutely no way Hannan goes out. Hannan's run was vital last time out against West Coast. He'll worry McGovern. I think we are in agreement that there'll be no change, however... If there were to be a change, I presume our coaches love for Smith is based on his tackling and closing speed, as they're his only elite traits. His marking is a bit iffy and his kicking is ordinary. But I'd say given the love for him, they're more likely to bring in an inexperienced Smith and release Fritsch up the wing as others have stated, rather than bring in an inexperienced player like JKH, who has shown no elite trait himself. I don't think we can carry JKH in a final. In this scenario, Fritsch's fumbling in defence is replaced with Smith's, but we get Fritsch's superior ball use replacing Tyson on the wing. And instead of having Fritsch and Tyson being played out of position, we maximise Fritsch's assets and potentially tidy up our defence.

I'm not convinced. Tyson may get caught with the ball, but at least that gives us time to set up. JKH coughs the ball up or doesn't get it all. Like Smith, JKH would immediately be a weak link and in our bottom 2 or 3 players on the ground. Why change the winning formula with Tyson?

I don't care what you think either, Biffen.

I prefer midfield depth, to shaky defenders, yeah. The midfield is our advantage and where the game will be won and where the game has always been won. Why would you weaken our one major advantage?

Smith is an ordinary kicker and his decision making is questionable in the regular season. No way we play him in a final. Fritsch's fumbling is enough of a liability back there, we don't need to add another weak link.

I think we'll try Hannan on him again. As they said on the commentary the last time around, McGovern doesn't like being turned back, nor does any defender. But you get can him with pace out the back. Hannan is a great decoy too, because he's not as important to our connection as Melksham, but we may need to use Jake on occasion too. Likewise, if the Eagles try to get the McGovern/Weideman match up, then Weideman needs to drag him up the ground to leave space in behind. If Tommy can get Barrass and beat him, I reckon we're a shot.

Knew we should have waited. Tiger and Jetstar have put on more flights for Saturday.

Fritsch was ordinary under pressure again the other night. He's a real worry for me. If I was West Coast, he's the one I'd look to exploit at the back.

So we bought our tickets to the game as soon as we could, determined to buy flights only 8f they put on cheaper flights. But, as is always the way when it comes to the MFC, my old man, my sister and I, bit the bullet and splashed close to $800+ each. We will be there and I hope my loudness can compete with the 50,000-odd feral out of work miners.

We just bought tickets but won't be going unless cheaper flights are put on.

We just got tickets but won't be going unless flights become cheaper. The AFL need to step in and do something if they want a full stadium. Not a good look for them.

I'm sorry. The cringiest piece of commentary for the weekend goes to Luke Darcy when De Goey took a mark. He sounded like a constipated nuffy. "De Gooooooooeeeeeeeeeeyyy!!!!!" I'm cringing just thinking about it. Darcy makes BT sound like a half decent caller. I actually didn't mind the Viney call. I'd argue it's spine tingling. Darcy just sounds like a try hard though when he did it.

I'm surprised it's that high but he certainly didn't click IMO until round 6 or 7. No way he gets that many votes IMO.

Laughable. Gus missed too much of the regular season to be that high in the votes.