Winners at last

Big stakes ... playing for the Vin Catoggio Cup.

We need to bring in another tall, possibly Tomlinson. (Why do peeps call him Thommo? There's no 'h' in his name, and it can't even be justified on a phonetic* basis!! Sorry.) If not him, then I guess it's Schache or Smith. No way Lever should play on McKay or Curnow. *Isn't it ironic that the word 'phonetic' is not spelt phonetically? It should be spelt 'fonetic' ?

I was at the 1987 PF too. Yes, it was so, so bad. I woke up the next morning hoping it had been a bad dream. Having said that, it didn't cost us a flag. We would have been thumped in the GF the following week by (coincidentally) Carlton.

There should be a separate thread about Cerra/MRO decisions. Rather than hijack the pregame thread.

Cerra ... lol. Is anyone seriously surprised? Cripps will play.

HH ... it's a yes from me too.

An additional tall defender must come in. I guess it has to be one of Tomlinson (most likely) or Smith or Schache. I'm not a huge fan of any of those gents, but Lever can't play on McKay or Curnow. As has been said repeatedly, he's not a particularly good one on one defender. He needs to be the third man up/inteceptor.

I wonder how much he lost ....

Lukisous charged front on. No free kick .... thankfully Humphrey kicked a miraculous goal.

Umpires doing their best to get the Dogs home

Mac Andrew is trying for a world record for the number of his kicks being smothered. Rowell is a freak.

Sadly I think that the Bulldogs will run over the top of Gold Coast. I hope I'm wrong.

He turned sideways. Would you believe it ... he disappeared!!

Early last week Sportsbet had Freo at $4.10. Ridiculous odds. I put a few bucks on at that price. I would rather have lost my money.

What a funny old fellow is Humphrey. He gets in all manner of strife.

Bad kicking is bad football.

I was at the match. There was never a moment that I thought we'd win. I've seen the movie too many times. At least I had a nice lunch, and a few drinks, so the day wasn't a total loss.

Deserved to lose

He's referred to as a lizard. Not sure about that .... there's a case for him being described as a rikali, or an otter.

What's the bet that Curnow & McKay kick straight next week? I still recall Travis Cloke kicking 7 straight against us years ago.

I've moved on from the 70s. Watching Kula Shaker live concert in Cologne (2016). So good. Their best song (second last song of this concert) is Great Hosannah.

I think I'll go back to watching 70s music videos on Youtube.

I'm not sure if it's strictly on topic, but those women in Boney M were really hot.

Surely Franklin must retire at the end of the season? A shadow of his former self. Other than his kicking Curnow (Charlie) is playing really well. What's up with Walsh? Warner tries to take on the tackler too often. Excuse my ramblings.

Petty's absence should not be underestimated.