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Let's hope that Emperor McGowan doesn't deny them exit visas 🤔

So we eventually did get Judd

Back to linguistics - is it not strange the the word "Democratic" in a nation's name (DRC, DDR - old East Germany and Kim's kingdom, the Democratic Republic of North Korea) usually guarantees that there is no hint of democracy. We did have a close match (in a close match by the way) at CHF in our previous premiership, (1964 for those who have very short memories) Graeme Jacobs #20.

" ....secret handshakes between clubs sharing info on who they want, and who they will leave for other clubs. A fraternity of goodwill emerging. ..." 16 clubs - Freo and EssUndone excluded Fraser Rosman (and maybe BaileyLaurie)??

Won't be satisfied until Colonwood's 4 in a row is not only matched but exceeded. I suspect that Jacob's family, being from Zimbabwe, would sound to us Aussies like Afrikaners - maybe he would sound like Yakob fon Rhooyen, though may be know as Jake or even Jakko

As I understand the Jackson family are looking at real estate in Melbourne - maybe the van Rooyens will too?

Welcome. I trust JT to make the call - a tall forward who is given 2-3 y to develop and not rushed as had been the cases over the last decades sounds just what we need. And am I right in saying he is a teammate of Jackson and Rivers?

Surely one or more of the guys could choose, on any day required, to "identify as female" and that would do the trick!

Do we know anything about Andy Moniz-Wakefield?

How incredible is this partnership - went a long way to winning our flag.

It was exactly how I felt at the time - firstly disbelief, then overwhelming joy, anticipation and expectation. "Can it really be true, can this really be happening to us?" I still tear up with pride and happiness when I watch the onslaught. I must say even tinged, ever so slightly, with a minuscule touch of commiseration for the Dog fans, as these sorts of events (though never ever nearly so totally devastatingly overwhelming) have been happening to us for decades.

Don’t remember Clark glassing Martin 🙄🤔

Maybe the team can sync an on field replay as the game plays out in the big screen. All they would need would be 22 red, white and blue witches hats.

Try telling that to Geelong's recruiting staff, and their coach. 😮 I was just thinking, had we been 19 points up at that stage of the GF we would have been feeling pretty comfortable, as I suspect many Dogs' fans were. It was, to me, just an incredible (in the true sense - unbelievable) turnaround in the following 8 or so minutes.

.... and in fact the first part of the third quarter in the GF ..... obviously had a few bob on the margin at that time 😮

Certainly a hard luck story: injured just that little bit too late in the year to get back into the lineup. I hope he gets back in but will be up against Bowey and Hibberd in particular.

As much as anyone plays a position these days, I reckon he was a HFF - if that is what you mean by your question, Jontee.

I didn't say he single handedly turned it around, I said "....had such an influence in turning a GF completely on its head in a matter of minutes.", and he did have an influence, a big one, in that turnaround.

I doubt if any 19 yo has ever had such an influence in turning a GF completely on its head in a matter of minutes. There were rumours that his parents were looking at real estate in Melbourne, which is promising.

Of course nobody knows what his ceiling will be, but he has given every indication that it will be very high. Lets just enjoy his excellent GF and fantasise that he will get even better.

Seems a bit of a pointless self flagellating thread to me. Personally I will just continue to enjoy the moment.

Yes re Jackson, Pendlebery Not so sure re Watts, Bradke.

As mentioned before, an absolute dogs dinner. I hadn’t appreciated that there were an even number of clubs: why then multiple byes? And 22 teams! Who dreamed this up? Should be sacked.

Still seething that we allowed those single final quarter goals to Geelong in the PF and Footscray in the GF 😮. Need to be more ruthless 🤗

KC. You clearly know a lot more about the VFL than most here. What are you thoughts on reverting to a locally based Victorian feeder competition rather that a mega unbalanced competition that travels all over the east coast? How do the average listed VFL players with “real daytime jobs” eg tradies and the like respond to whole weekends away? My thoughts have been than an even numbered local competition would serve us all far better.