Demon17

Agreed. But the Adelaide Oval is do-able crowd wise and the least-worst option for travel. But with a Chief Health Officer who has no understanding of AFL, or ball games in general, I suspect we'll be locked out anyway.

We need to finish 4th to meet cats in QF which is highly unlikely. 2nd or 3rd only. With cats on top.

I am hoping for 2nd with cats on top. Then dees and cats straight into prelim after week 1. Only meet cats then once in gf. The trick in top 4 is to win week 2.

The mrp is a joke but i would think Christian looks at at least all incidents involving concussion and especially being subbed off. A week probably coming up for tom.

The afl own the grounds during finals so to speak and set ticketing policy. Thus if we play in adelaide there will be many more dees fans getting over there and wont be anywhere near a full port crowd.

Saints winning see the dees the most probable mclelland trophy winner.

Imagine just how good Petty and Rivers, and probably Bowey, will be in the future after playing under May and Lever fo 2-3 years.

And if it was against the Dees, the tackler, probably Selwood's tagger Jack Viney, would be cited by the MRP and get the GF double penalty and be rubbed out for 2 weeks, escalated to four for carelss high contact and medium impact. And Dangerfield, in his capacity as President of the AFLPA would note the following Monday he thought the act wasn't an in-play act andthus be deserving of a suspension with the MRP getting '..about right.." He will have already have been cleared of knocking out Dees playmaker Kozzie Pickett in the first quarter. Now tell me that's not an unrealistic scenario.

Possibly the most bizarre yet funnily possible post of the year.

Great point and proves the Noise Affirmation theory IMO. Take out the Dogs game and across only other Optus games , the eagles are Plus 34 Frees at home games. Equates to around 5 extra frees a home game, not to mention all the oppo frees missed due to crowd silence

Thats the underlying issue isn't it. The crowd screams and the free is paid. A Dees player is pushed in the back - silence -play on.

The stat I mentioned above puts the eagles at + 27 ahead at Optus. As logic in umpire behaviour would suggest. They are Plus 4 across the whole season. But the killer aspect of this was that when the Dogs played over there the Free scores were 18 to 11 - Dogs favour. Doggies have unlocked this seceret and we need to find out what it is clearly.

An interesting stat would be the free kick differential for Home games only for Crows, Power, Weagles and Lions. I'm betting it would blow this stat table away and confrim the ' Noise of Affirmation'?

Good point but the key take out is this. We are the top of the table, and only 8 players are playing for bona fide finals teams (generally) And we have four of them. So how good are our nominees given they have made a place for themselves in a top of the ladder team where you expect competition would be fierce for spots, and/or they can hold their own in the AFL in a top team and then relentless competion that brings. Well done to these four. Several IMO are not in the bottom 6 for selection either -Rivers, Petty, KOzzie (?).

He executed a beautiful short pass in heavy traffic, between eagles players to a target in the 3rd quarter. He sold me then, composure, good decision and first rate execution. His HTB in last 1/4 was just a speed of the game thing and he'll learn. Huge pick up for the club IMO

I think he would also, but just at whose expense? He had 4 tackles and had an inpact in that regard. You can never doubt his endeavour.

Agree on this. The mindset for both teams at the break would have been tricky to manage. Dees go into the break knowing they have a lock on Top 4. Eagles know they are out of finals if they lose , so lots to keep switched on for. Theyr;e stil a proud club. Just human nature playing out and understandable. Winning in Perth after last 2 weeks of travel and upheaval was super human of this team. Well done lads.

This idea of " lets play vanderenberg for his aggression " . Amazes me as old-style thinking. A player has to contribute. Look at Oliver. He's as tough as he comes but what a contributor.

The umps have been generally ok tonight. We got some dubious ones

If we win tonight we go to the top.

Not one win this season was against a good, top 8 side , apart from Tiges who were on the slide, and Power don't count as they lose to anyone when away. Home record this year is weaker than usual. Their losses have been against quality opposition, incl North who were bouncing back at the time of that game, and Bombers who were starting their run.

Ed langdon, who is a BIT different to many other players, says he thrived in Lockdown last year and many of the team did also. Now they are playing for Top spot , not just double chance, I am quietly positive about tonight's game, given its only been a week away so far and Dan's sure to allow them back home to sleep in thioer own bed tomorrow night.

Nicely said WJ. The maths are simple and the bigeest test since final round, 2017, to see if we have progressed mentally. Win tonight and the Dees are on top, and then its " come and get us".

Selwood executed what was called a ' weak' act a few rounds ago and was roundly defeneded as being out of character. Not now. I see a sniping pattern here. The GWS player was lucky he was as low as he was at the time and Selwoods blow was glancing.

Thanks. An interesting take on the term. Most things are a statement of mind issue.