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The footy gods are all powerful. But not above some mischief making, as Eddie 'my old mate (insert some rich blokes name here)' McGuire recently found out.

I'm Gary Lyon. And so's my wife.

Do you you know what will hurt more than not being able to go to the g to see tge dees play a GF? Not making it to one this year. Ir we di make it, of course it is upsetting not to be able to go. All those hundreds of matches sitting at the top of the ponsford, and miss this one. But there it is I'm thrilled for fans like you psd, mcquuen, et, chook in Perth and all the other WA fans. It really is awesome for you all. And great reward for sticking fat with dees in eagle town. In rhe lead up to the prelim you will all be able to fly tge red and blue with pride I hope you all can get tickets for tge prelim and gf, if we make it (a stress that I won't have to bother with, which is a small mercy) And leaving aside the disappointment of the gf not being at the g, obtus oval is a great option. It will be a fantastic event. And us vics will get our chance next year and beyond. And those chances will mean so much more because if missing out this year We are a seriously good unit, with the perfect list age and talent wise to be a force for the next five years. Compare us to the Eagles and cats. They are super reliant on blokes 30 and over. Our most senior players cant even get a game. Go redlegs

Agree. Port have come into form a the right time, and have most, if not all, of their best 22 back. And they get the advantage of the home finals. The dogs have been off their tucker of late but got the contest part of their game back on track last week. If they get get back to their best they are a huge chance as their best is best is a better than than Ports best reckon. And Beveridge loves the us against them narrative, so might well thrive in front of the Port ferals fans

I'm a Smith fan, but he struggles one on one against natural forwards who read the ball in flight and use their body well. A player like Fritter would give him a bath. Cameron is one of the bets in the business, one on one, so it was always going to be tough ask for Smith. However, to balance the critique of his performance against Cameron it is important to note that he kept him to one possession and a point in the second quarter when we won the game. And significantly Goody kept Smith on him all game. So must have been pretty happy with with the defensive set up across the board. For me it depends on matchups. he is perfect for Geelong as they run with three talls and only Hawkins is really stay at home forward, so Smith can stay with Rohan and Cameron running. All that said, if Hunt is ready to go for the finals i'd bring him in a flash, with Smith the unlucky out.

Not at all sue. To be honest, I find the narrative of the AFL as a Machiavellian puppet master all a bit silly.

For those criticising the AFL, the tribunal is independent. The AFL asked for six weeks

Given he pleaded not guilty and the afl.asked for 6, 3 weeks is a joke. The afl should appeal

That's exactly what I thought. Stupid beyond words given he can't deny contact. Will deservedly add 2 weeks to his penalty, impacting the start of their 2022 season. What are they thinking?

I'm taking it one week at time. So no comment until Friday 7:51 pm

Didn't take you for an anti vaxxer jaded

Loving watching an elimination final and nor caring in the least about the result in terms of its impact on our premiership chances

I don't have the numbers, but I suspect the overwhelming majority of goals kicked against us have been my mid sized forwards. Definitely our weakest area defensively. That said it is skewed a bit because opposition big forwards don't mark it inside 50, and the ball almost always come to ground, so ground ball get goals are basically the only way teams can scoring goals against us. Last night was the perfect example of thst phenomenon. The bottom line is goody is not going to be too fussed if a player like Cameron kicks 5 if the opposition only kicks 8 or 9 in total

100% agree on all points.

Fair points. Loved him, moved a bit like Robbie, and like many dees fans was desperate for him to come to the dees. From memory he was close to doing so at one point.

Micheal Aish says hi

Go Redlegs

They will take a squad to Adelaide, on the assumption that they will go straight to Perth. Every player that goes to Adelaide will be a chance to get a gig. I've been thinking about the chance of Jonesy being a medi sub in finals. In terms of selection, Goody is a funny mix of pragmatism, sticking with winning teams and left field selections. Who can forget the decision to bring Smith in for fritter in the 2018 prelim. And that was after bringing in vanders late in the season, which was made more curious because viney had come into the team late in the season too and so there was a risk with two players returning from injury. Goody can be hard nosed, as Fritter and now Jordon know all too well, but he loves loyalty too, and has a dash of romanticism about him. So I could see goody making Jones a medi sub in this game and/or the prelim. Would bring his energy and spirit into the group, and a heart and soul intangible. And in many ways he would be the perfect sub to come into a high pressure finals game. He is obviously very experienced. I assume has played in more finals than any other dees player. Coming in fresh, say in the last quarter, he can impact with his strength and physicality. and can play in multiple positions, including as a defensive forward on Rich (though he might be a touch slow for that job). When do they announce the med i sub?

Genuinely surprised jj is not in for Captain Jack.

Absolutely. I didn't pick that up live, but if lever had made any move to play on it had to be 50 metres. He was basically directly in front of lever

100% agree about incentives being more effective. And I'm not suggesting we should, or even could, go down the legal route. But we are certainly about to head into very murky areas in terms of Vax v non Vax - work place mandates are the obvious ones. But there is a million other less obvious ones. On changing young people's minds. And some oldies like me, if they were clever they would pumping up things like the outdoor music festival summer circuit. I go to golden plains every (non covid) year. Not much chance of social distancing there. Those sort of events will surely be double Vax only. So they should be telling you gunston, if you want to go to merideth, splendour, falls, rainbow serpent etc etc, get bloody vaxed. And maybe even offer a discount to tickets to such events. Or a ticket guarantee.

All good points. However there a couple of interesting considerations with two of your examples. Whilst we don't restrict health care for those who fail to wear a seatbelt, or whose BAC is over .05 an nor should we - we do apply very serious penalties. Both are illegal, so whilst you can choose not to wear seatbelt or drive when over .05, you will be charged with an offence and penalized if caught doing so. And in the event of driving over.05 there are a range of other possible non direct penalties. If you crash your car when over the limit your insurance will not cover you, limiting your health treatment options and exposing you to some pretty serious financial ram(pardon the pun)ifications. And if you hurt or kill someone whilst driving over the limit you will be charged with serious criminals offences. Could there be similar non direct ramifications for someone who got hospitalized because they chose not to get vaccinated? For example their employer might decide they are not going to give them sick leave.

But they are not superiors to us at winning contested ball and around the ground stoppage clearances. Their numbers might be touch better at around the ground stoppage clearances, but that is because we have one less players at stoppages then they do. Its a problem for them becuase t if they don't win contested ball and around the ground stoppage clearances they don't win. It is their one wood. We are likely to match, or beat them in both areas on Saturday night. But as we have shown many times this year, particularly in regard to clearances, even if we don't we are likely still going to win. Because we don't rely on winning in these areas to win games. Our one wood is our relentlessly effective defensive system. Much harder to negate an offensive strength (eg clearances) than a defensive one. Which is key reason why the dogs have fallen in a heap.

The problem for the lions is their game plan relies on winning contested ball and around the ground stoppage clearances. Given the strength of their midfield even numbers at those contests works against most teams. Not so well against us, given we have viney, tracc and Oliver - three contested ball bulls who have the advantage of feeding off maxy. The other problem for the lions is the more they look to negate our strengths by moving players around, the more they have to adjust their own game plan. This is one of our key advantages over other teams this year. We might tag the occasional mid, but by in large we make minimal positional changes. And whilst we might make the occasional tactical tweak, by in large we stick with our system. It means we are proactive, dont waste energy worrying about opposition plans and remain predictable so our players alwas know what is happening. Whereas we force other teams to be reactive and focus on us.

Ha, just saw this. No wins from 4th in 26 years is remarkable.