The heart beats true

Damien Barrett on the AFL website this morning with Matthew Lloyd says ‘we know Angus Brayshaw will miss this weekend for other reasons’. They don’t even want to say the word concussion. This is becoming laughable. Its cult like.

This is good intel.

That’s a great spot to watch the footy 👍

Same 3183, but there’s 3 of us. I think the odd numbers stitched us up. M12 will be rocking on Friday night 👍

Yeah, I’m ok with it. I just love sitting behind the benches on the wing - but so do 100k other people, so I should appreciate what I have! 👍

If you get a bad gateway time out on purchase don’t panic. I got one and then went back and the seats had been paid for and allocated to me.

Do you work for Ticketek? Are you part of the global conspiracy to deny me good finals tickets?! 😂

Not for me it wasn't. I have priority access and could only get 3 tickets in M12. What's left in M50 are singles.

Meanwhile I can't get through!

35 minutes and nothing.

Reserved Seats and Visitor tickets are now sold out for the MCC Reserve for the First Semi Final between Melbourne and Carlton on Friday September 15. No additional visitor tickets will be available for this match.

God I hate this.

I agree Kev. I think the AFL is fully aware of how exposed it is to litigation in regards to CTE. It’s no coincidence the new head of football is a former lawyer.

I don’t know about the general public. I think Collingwood people are skewing the media landscape. The Age ran a poll asking people if they thought Maynard had a case to answer and 47% said he did (from over 5k responses). Given the scale of Collingwood’s supporter base, and their level of engagement with current football stories, that tells me that the average punter reckons this is clearly wrong. The landscape for football also needs to shift in order to create growth - both in audiences and participation. More women, more migrants, and more supporters coming from other sports. Those audiences and players want skill and goals, not concussions. The game is changing. The audience is changing. The media response to this is old fashioned, but don’t mistake it for the public consensus.

He’ll be remembered as a Premiership player. I reckon that seems right. I’ll miss yelling out ‘go Pig!’ every week.

Really great performance. Our experience and fitness clearly show out late in quarters. It’ll be a good side that challenges us this year.

Been much stronger around the ball this quarter.

This team makes me love footy. They are super talented, and so good at executing the plan.

Banno’s pace is ridiculous.

Kate Hore is a natural leader.

And, when you called me magnanimous by instant reaction was ‘I’m big boned, and have a glandular problem!’, but then I googled it. 🤣

I sat with some really nice, passionate Melbourne supporters on Thursday night and it gave me good perspective on what football offers us beyond wins and losses. The young Demons fans in front of me wanted it so bad I really felt for them. I walked from the G to Southern Cross after the game because I was so disappointed, but when walking I was thinking about all the stuff I’m grateful for because of the MFC. Demonland is definitely one of them. This year I realised that football always hurts. It hurt when we were terrible, it hurt when we couldn’t get it together, and now it hurts because we are so close. It’s easy to forget on here when emotions run hot, but we all love and want the same thing.

Paxy is a big out, but I loved the last half last week. We looked so dynamic. Excited to see if we can keep that form going.

I’m fairly sure they aren’t allowed to attend the club for a prescribed amount of time as part of the protocol’s. Anyone know if this is correct?

This is very, very interesting.