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Yes.

It certainly looked good - I wonder if Lynden Dunn was watching, expecting Frosty to incur the wrath of God aka the coach? PS: in neither game was I comfortable until I heard the first sonorous peal of the siren. Such is the pessimism build of the last 50 of 60+ years of following this team. I have long gone lost count of the times death has been ignominiously snatched from the very jaws of glory.

So what IS the current AFL* rule on this - remember too that AFL is highly regulated and has I believe interchange stewards one per team. There are also the emergence maggots looking at the interchanges (as Ducker Sellwood now well knows) My understanding is that now there is a free kick plus 50 m at the time it is detected and paid from the point of play. I believe that the stripping of all scores to the time of the detection has been dropped, at least at AFL level. In SANFL are there interchange stewards for each team, and is there a stated rule for breach? In a game decided by fewer points than were scored by the offending team during the breach period, common sense and natural justice would surely dictate that at very least any scores made by the offending team should be void, and some sort of additional penalty added such as stripping say double the number of points scored during that time would seem reasonable. *Still, were it to happen at AFL level I am certain that Gillon and Shocking would jump to arrive at a considered and very fair conclusion that would satisfy all, and follow the terms of natural justice. :-)))))

A lot of speculation here Is the really good? What position / role does he play? Does he fill a specific need for our list? Wouldn't he be a Lions F/S option should they want him? (Does he want to play for us?)

Thanks Devil I hadn't;t appreciated just how important was Milkshake in that final quarter - huge.

Even Prancer the Great struggles if the opposition midfield gets too free and deliver, though I doubt if Brooooossse would recognize that.

They Who Shall Not Be Mentioned

Was the said commentator sober? Weed could well take Jesse out for a goal kicking session .... classic smooth action.

He was, actually, [censored] scared.

That from 'supporters' of the team carried by Burgoyne and Rioli for so long. Hypocrites.

Agree 100% - it is actually quite pathetic that especially the commentariat on 25 April keep pumping up the Druggies and the Pies along the lines of emulating our ANZAC heroes. FFS what rot. Sure it takes some courage to even walk out onto an AFL field, but it is nothing even remotely like going out knowing you are going to be shot at and bombed perhaps over a few years if you are lucky enough to survive the initial onslaught, just for starters.

No .... that was tears. Softened up by Viney in past encounters, and that was le coup de grace.

So just maybe we will now "have earned" a few more Friday and Saturday night games than Carlton and St.Kilda. Still, it is Gillon and his pathetic band of acolytes who make the call, so I won't count my chickens yet.

I must say I was very pleasantly surprised that the maggot didn't call it a block (as they did to Melks - was it the Power game?) which neither clearly were. And I loved the commentator (was it BT?) on 7 prattling on about the great torp but how the Hawks were going to capitalise on it .....sudden silence as we frenetically swept it forward for a goal.

at who's expense?

A huge difference this year and especially in the latter half of the season is that we now have a TEAM ... not a bunch of talented individuals, but a cohesive team. Like Richmond, like Footscray 2016. Could achieve anything should this hold, and of course that always depends to a degree on luck and more so avoiding bad luck.

IF Norm just heard the name, and not the club for whom he is playing, he would turn in his grave like a rotisserie. But if Weed could pull it off, would it be the final exorcism?

DV8. Spelling errors. The word you surely meant was ruining, not running.

If they want to encourage longer kicking in after a behind how about NO MARK being awarded to the defending team until it clears the 50? Sure as hell that would get them emulating Sam Frost’s Friday night special and not risking little chips back and forth across the defense.

Totally corrupt - Max and Clarrie should share it with Gus and Jetta equal third.

But, please, the tackle must be correct first. All too often the player who has the courage to go in and get it then gets taken high or in the back and gets pinged. THE CORRECTNESS OF THE TACKLE MUST TAKE PRECEDENCE. In my cynical mind, if the signal for incorrect tackle was as much a display of maggotrial flamboyance and ego as is the HTB waving of the arms, then it may be paid more often.

The HTB against Nev early on (? their* first goal) was disgraceful -- didn't even had it and was taken high. * their referring to Hawthorn plus the maggots Chamberpot is the kindest one I can think of, though they do of course have some purpose. Come to think of it ... maybe he does have the same purpose?

A variation on the one week at a time mantra: one flag at a time.

I am sure that the Visy environmental ambassador will give them a dressing down.

And by Weed!! With grandpa sitting up with RDB appearing to be happy though deeply conflicted internally. So so is it now three or four years in a row that GW$ aka Great Waste of Space choked in a prelim? Their supporter must be tough or stupid.