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I watched that on my flight to NZ this week, and loved it.

Well, it's a grey sky but so far none of the winds that were forecast and no rain. Unless something changes drastically in the next couple of hours, they should be playing on a good surface even if it does rain during the game. A good indicator of conditions is that my son's game at the Alan Davidson Oval in St Peters that is a similar distance from the city as the SCG, is still going ahead...and they are prone to canceling games if someone so much as sneezes near the ground.

Game, set and match OD ;-)

I recall he managed to kick goals against us...hopefully he can kick a few for us.

If we are going to have any chance of beating the Swans, it has to be now while they are without Tippett and most likely Rohan and no Sam Reid to come in to replace Tippett. Still a very big ask, but definitely not outside the realms of possibility. Taking confidence from that into the break when we have a chance to recharge our batteries, and anything is possible in the run home (although I'm sticking by my original prediction of 10th).

Let's face it, he's just an attention seeking tosspot, and it worked ;-)

Well, this IS our grand final remember... isn't that what Eddie told us?

I feel really sorry for Rohan, every time he's starting to show what a superb player he is, he gets cut down by injury. Yes, it's good for us if he can't play next week, but I'd rather it was for something less significant.

I seriously cannot recall when I last saw a game with the atrocious skill levels on display currently in the Saints v Carlton game.

Have to agree it was extremely poor fixturing considering the AFL must have had a pretty strong inkling that Essendon would be going down in their trial... due to that uncertainty, Essendon should not have been considered at all when planning season 2016.

Well as someone who does make the very occasional trip to Melbourne from Sydney, I would have to disagree with you about that... particularly as someone who generally uses points to fly and accommodation is often not so readily available.

I had the same thought... it means that one game would have to be allocated to Friday which could be taken from either Saturday or Sunday's fixture, making them both floating fixtures until the Friday game has been settled upon. Would also make it difficult for anyone planning ahead to travel to Melbourne (or wherever) for the game.

I t6hink I tipped a 75 point winning margin to the Hawks. On track at the moment.

I think that before the season kicked off most of us would have been hoping to break the record and only just, so the fact that we are so close to the magical 40K is a bonus... but who knows, a good win in such a high profile game as Monday's coupled with the Big Freeze event, may see a sudden spike in memberships that are both performance and sentimentally based.

Look at post #5 above and all will be revealed.

Rohan Connolly couldn't find a place for big Max in his mid-season AA team (had Goldstein as first ruck and Nic Nat second)... so it's no surprise that the media don't notice Nev.

The Garlett decision is obviously a tough one. Should they have risked playing him and have him misfire again, or should they send him to Casey to regain his form and confidence so that he's firing when needed next week against a much tougher opponent in the Swans? I'm happy to think the club made the right decision.

I'm looking forward to the Freo v Bummers game... it's going to be interesting to see how Freo can lose this without being too obvious about it (if they win they will move up to 16th and lose valuable draft picks).

Don't worry, the ground only holds a tad over 100k at full capacity.

In what way was that selfish? He had a clear path and took the kick... terrible kick, but definitely not selfish.

Apart from the fact that Garland is out for 3 weeks with a cheek bone injury? Frost may come in?

One of these days, if we can find anyone willing to have us desecrate their venue and when we can find a convenient way of getting all seven of us down there.

My band is playing on the afternoon of the election (poster below) The bar is owned by friends of Albanese and is in his electorate of Grayndler... be nice if he popped in for a tipple - regardless of your politics, he's a nice guy.

Agree on Tree of Life... I bought that on BluRay based on the praise I had heard.... BIG mistake. However, the film I have hated more than just about any other would have to be Independence Day 4.... apart from a few decent effects, the thing was, to put it nicely, pitiful! Most films of this ilk I can appreciate on a level of "so bad it's good" and have a bit of a laugh, but for some reason ID4 couldn't even elicit that kind of a response from me... when I first saw it in the cinema, all I could feel was anger.

Ok, what have you done with him?