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My mail is that the club have offered Kozzy up to 5 spots on the list for family and friends if he stays. Unfortunately he’ll probably never play again, for any club - too traumatised after losing his housemates. Anyone who’s lived in a share-house knows how devastating that can be, and most people never recover.

So people who live in Casey have no interest in AFL, but the CBD is full of footy fans waiting for a team to market themselves properly? Lol. Not sure where you live, but it's somewhere in la-la land.

For all his elegance and grace, Lyon finished with a 61% accuracy rate. Plugger's 70% is probably the best you can hope for from a player with a lot of shots on goal. I don't have the numbers to back this up is but I doubt accuracy has changed all that much, ever. There was no golden age of goal kicking, and I won't be holding my breath that Choco is going to usher one in now. Would love to see better returns from Nibbler and Trac, but all of our KPF are technically sound, and as reliable as they're ever going to be.

Back in the days when you could (sometimes) get into the rooms.

My memory's pretty hazy DS so you may well be right, but I don't recall (m)any players wearing the lace-ups as late as '86. There certainly wasn't a retro round, but I thought it happened during a round when everyone was wearing them (including the MFC) ie so an 80's equivalent of a nod to tradition. If you go back to the pictures from that era (early to mid-80's), players aren't wearing lace-ups. Edit: Wiki says VFL teams stopped wearing them around the time of WWI, although in the SANFL and other leagues they were worn as late as 2001.

Demonlanders with a good memory will recall Robbie suffering a nasty injury when his finger got caught in one of these jumpers during a retro round type thing in the mid-1980's. They were banned after that. Such a Melbourne thing to happen.

Lol at deluded Port losers thinking they can hook up with classy Demon women.

Not just an MFC legend, but one of the most significant figures in the modern era of the game. We were lucky to have her in the red + blue.

If you're reading the last rites, can you please include Hugo Lloris, who's committing howlers on a weekly basis. Probably more deserving of a kicking from Spurs fans than Aaron Ramsdale.

Saw the video. Don't know about others, but I found it life-changing. Well done Harry and Meghan, and well done Netflix for releasing it.

I'm a big fan of the Viney clan but Todd sticks out like a sore thumb in that team. A very good player, for sure, but only had a few seasons where he could be considered truly elite. Was a butcher with the ball for most of his career. Max and Clarence are obvious inclusions (goodbye Stynes and Viney) and Trac certainly gets a gig in the emergencies (replacing Wells or Alves), if not yet the final 22.

You were booted off here last time you posted rumour and innuendo. Do it again and there'll be no coming back under a different name. But I'm sure the 'real story' is fascinating. "Kid who moved back home to be closer to family doesn't spend all day of every day at home with mum and dad"

Remember the energy and excitement of the 2018 Elimination Final against Geelong? It’s not a patch on the emotion attached to the world’s best football rivalries. Went to the North London Derby at Arsenal a few years back, and there was just an immense wall of sound for 90 minutes. My Spurs got rolled 4-2 but it was one of the best sporting experiences of my life. Have travelled to Europe twice just to watch Tottenham play, and while I’d love to see the Old Firm in action, my next soccer sojourn will be to Argentina to witness the bedlam below 🕺🏽

Watching them celebrate the past week has almost been as enjoyable as watching them play. Well done to the club, too, for all the content - the pics and videos have been awesome. I love the fact that “Demon Spirit” came to be the umbrella term for everything required to win the premiership, from the selflessness to the camaraderie, to the attack on the footy and more. A social media hashtag that became a creed for the team.

Around the time of the first exhibition matches, Brad Green was asked about women playing a greater role in footy, and he kind of fluffed his lines, responding with :"I'm sure it won't be long before we see a woman coaching in the AFL, or someone with a woman's background." 😂

I think it’s one of the beauties of the world game - mainly because many of them are so damn good at it. They’ve been poached by the American networks now, but I used to watch EPL games just to listen to Jon Champion and Peter Drury. Tyler’s voice still reminds me of my childhood and Sundays spent watching hour after hour of football on SBS.

Not sure if others have seen this before (looks to be from Indigenous rounds) but it shows the self-belief among the group and the joy they clearly feel playing with each other.

I can't believe I';m saying this, because I grew up idolising the man, but I agree with the overwhelming sentiment on social media that Martin Tyler has passed his use-by-date. Last night's game was a cracker but you wouldn't have known it from the call, which was flat and lifeless. Give us more of football's poet, please. https://www.instagram.com/reel/CkJDye2LI3G/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

I went over to the Collingwood forum to see if they were writing poems about Grundy, but looks like Pies supporters prefer to express themselves using the visual medium. This was from their ‘game-plan and tactics’ thread.

Me too mate. I got no beef with him. Just killing a few mins on a Thursday arvo, and there aren't too many other words that rhyme with 'dogga'

We once had a mate called dogga Who turned out to be a list clogger We wished him the best Shipped him off west And hoped his replacement wasn't such a flogger

How could this happen when there are only 948 gambling ads on free-to-air TV every day in Victoria?

Richmond share some of the blame, too, as they're insisting on holding it there rather than move to a larger venue. Lots of unhappy supporters from both clubs on social media. AFL is also potentially setting a dangerous precedent by agreeing to prioritise home ground advantage ahead of crowd numbers - ie the Geelong home final question, which has so far been off the table.

So impressed by the way the coach and players stayed calm and stuck to the plan, enabling us to get the game back on our terms after a fumbly and flat-footed start. That’s the kind of belief in the system - and each other - which helped the boys triumph last year. Mackin sells candy and steps around opponents like she’s been playing footy all her life. What a jet and a joy to watch. Likewise Bannan. Liv Purcell best on ground for mine. Gets lots of it and always uses it well.

Absolutely pumped. Feeling a lot like I did last year with the men's - a few butterflies, but mainly excitement and confidence that we're going to bring our A game and do the business. As Goody told the players before the PF last year: "Just be us. Just be the way we've been all year ... and the game will be ours."