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And if anyone is wondering if the airlines are taking the urine with Melbourne -> Perth prices, up here you can get Cairns -> Perth on Friday for $255 and return $479. Last time I looked Cairns is further away from Perth than Melbourne

My lip reading isn’t what it used to be but I think he said that Umpire Matthew Nichols was going to be fair and even handed tonight and wouldn’t favour the Hawks at all.

Perfect summation of Petracca tonight Joeboy - Genius and Villain

If Joel Smith puts in a half decent game tomorrow I reckon Tyson maybe be nervous Out: Tyson In: J Smith

As much as I like Jeff Garlett he must be thinking about alternative employment as Spargo has taken his job Spargo tonight Goals 2 Goal assists 3 Clearances 2 Tackles 3

Not sponsorship related but given there was 90,000+ last week and probably the same this week does anyone know how the gate is divided and how much extra cash this actually represents?

So would losing Stratton and O’Meara be like us losing Hibbo and Brayshaw? Just trying to work out a closish like for like. I must admit I don’t know much about Stratton but if so it’s a couple of top ten players out for them. Huge.

Chris Scott on AFL 360 had this to say about the Demons "I’m happier to say it now than pre-game but for a while we’ve been watching Melbourne and they could be the second best team in the competition. They comprehensively outplayed us. It will be interesting to see how they go because if they keep that style they will be a hard team to beat."

There must be a huge buzz around the club having both teams playing finals this weekend.

For a team that missed out on top spot only by % Casey don’t have many players at the pointy end of the Liston. Assume it must be a bit like the senior side where they rely on an even contribution across the board rather than the Geelong model of a few star players?

And Stretch was looking like a proper AFL player before getting injured

Something to contemplate for a moment. All the pieces fall into place and it’s a Harmes V Martin match up on Grand Final day. The two number 4’s one on one. How good would that be!

So much for keeping the lid on or not getting ahead of myself, when I opened this thread I expected to read about our coming-of-age game against West Coast that guaranteed finals just 3 games ago. I think I’ve already mentally moved on from the Hawthorn game.

Love the low rumbling crowd "Weeeeeeeeeeeeed" that has spontaneously started up.

So going by the modelling we are fourth favourite to win (9%), behind the Pies (12%), WCE (13%) and the Tigers are huge favourites at (48%). That sort of feels about right but I think they have the Tigers a bit hot at almost flip a coin between them and everyone else put together

A fairly in depth article about Sam from the AFL site. Love that both his father and grandfather also made their finals debuts against the Cats. Nice time of the year to hit your best form of your life DISP MARKS CP UP CM MARKS IN 50 GOALS RATINGS 2016-17 AFL 8.1 2.7 3.8 4.7 0.5 0.9 0.6 4.0 2018 AFL (R5-15) 8.6 2.8 3.8 4.8 1.0 0.6 0.4 6.2 2018 VFL 14.5 5.7 7.2 7.4 1.9 2.4 2.5 N/A 2018 AFL (R22-23) 15.0 5.5 7.5 6.5 3.0 1.5 1.0 8.4

The AFL seem to fail to understand that we fans support our teams not concepts.

Conversely I’m always dead impressed to see the number of under 25 year olds who support Melbourne. They have only known, as Goodwin said, misery

Ralph actually had a fair old crack at Judd. You don’t hear that often between commentators. Good on him.

I think you can relax on that score jackaub. There isn’t a player in this team who won’t go when it’s their turn. I think they would actually welcome a bit of argy bargy. Remember Spargo in his debut game pushing Jones aside so he could get stuck into the 300 gamer in Goddard? These days we don’t recruit blokes who take backwards steps.

I like the way we cracked a mention in the commentary “It will be a Grand Old Flag in Demonland” I’m sure they meant us.

Friday nights at Chasers in the early 80’s - All you could drink for $12, $10 for girls until some [censored] complained it was discriminatory so it was bumped up to $12 for all

(Approximate) Favourite Dee Leaderboard 20 votes Oliver 18 Nev 10 Gawn 8 Harmes 6 Jones, Brayshaw 5 TMac, Trac 4 Milkshake 3 Hunt, Hibberd 2 Frost 1 Tyson, Salem, AVB, OMac, Viney and Hogan. Ill go for Salem so that will bump him up to 2 votes. Surprised Viney and Hogan haven’t got a few more votes

So assuming we get through to the last Saturday in September will we be wearing our traditional jumper? There aren’t any clashes with the other teams in finals or because say Richmond finish higher we have to wear our non clash?

The lid is off here. Just had a coffee bought to me in bed (Happy Fathers Day to all Demonlanders) and was trying to decide after we win the Cup this year if we would be a Western Bulldogs one hit wonder. For some reason I believe this group is set for a long term dynasty and we are more than likely to go back to back