Big Col

what's the url? Asking for a friend.

6 Lever (took 10 marks for the game, and the only player IMHO who strung together 4 quarters) 5 Kozzy (record 33 possessions, his last quarter was surreal with his tackling and goal) 4 Steele (16 tackles! Boy did we need his hardness and he helped turn things around after Q1) 3 Max (say no more) 2 Windsor (his third quarter!) 1 Fritta (4 goals in the 2nd half was a welcome return to the Fritta we know and love)

Its been a few years since I took up the 3 game membership option so things might have changed. On the MFC app you can access tickets and choose to activate one of your 3 games. It should connect to your Ticketek account and automatically generate a bar code for your daughter to use.

Did anyone else hear the Fox promo about our game tomorrow? Apparently it's the 250th game for McDonald and STYNES.

IMHO the lasso rule has been a roaring success. It's kept the ball in play more often and removed most of the 50/50 boundary calls where umpires had to make a call about 'intention'. Obviously there will be examples of bad decisions, but I think this rule is a keeper

I kind of think this is the point, though not yours. Announcing that you're gay and played AFL football should not be of concern or interest to anyone. So why is it? Why don't we know about other AFL players being gay? Given that statistically they'll be amongst the 660 AFL listed players, obviously those who are gay aren't currently comfortable in announcing it (eg at a Brownlow function). That is why we should applaud past players who announce their sexuality so that one day, in the future, AFL players won't care and no-one will be "very surprised that in [2026] people care and report on what someone else’s sexual preference is". When they're not surprised, society has moved on.

I had to say this arvo "go, mate" to my Geelong supporting colleague who was dreading driving down to Geelong in this weather. Us footy fans in the office have an understanding that when your team's playing you can leave work early if necessary and you're not expected to do weekend work that would make you miss the game. It's a bit of a 'nudge wink' kind of arrangement but it removes resentment and creates camraderie amongst us footy fans.

Sadly, one of our players had ~"Sweet Caroline" and when they kicked a goal it probably got the biggest crowd sing a long.

This was exactly my take. The songs were way too soft at first but the bit that annoyed/bemused me was the lack of prep for which part of the song to play in a 20-25 sec break. Whoever does this at the G needs to think a bit more about this, so we don't have some long music intro before the chorus is cut in half.

I've been voting for years, but still don't understand how these totals are reached or how these factor into the Demonland Player of the Year.

6 Max 5 JVR 4 K Pickett 3 Mihocek 2 Sharp 1 Culley

Would you rather have someone defecate on you or vomit on you? Hard knowing who to support in Coll vs Adl

First throw now, although having said that I like the idea of still calling it first bounce. It's kind of like restaurants that charge for corkage even though most wine bottles have been screw tops for years. It'll be a nice trivia question in 20 years. "Why is the start of the game called the first bounce?"

How do you know that?

There were a couple of plays yesterday that left me gobsmacked at his brilliance. He is a very very very good player that every team would love to have on their list.

and no Matt Rowell tonight. Jeez GC look good.

I enjoy the death ride. It gives me 2 games per round where I have an interest. Assumptions are that GC performs well this season. They said that about Freo too. Top 10 pick coming our way. You read it here.

Still love Jesse

Damn... Weitering's injury could kill SOO in the future. Hope he's OK.

The only other footy fan in my office (a Port Adelaide fan) and I are excited and pumped for the game on sat night. Not because we care who wins (and she's from SA anyway) but because the season is starting .... Love footy.

paragraphs are useful. Just saying.

Multiple training reports have spoken (surprisingly perhaps, but nonetheless) of the development of Jeffo. What if ...

I backed us for the premiers in 2021. $25 at 25/1. Cleaned up. However, I'm at a net loss after having lost the same bet for more than 25 years.

Yep. A Dedicated reserves competition is really only the fairest solution. Support for 2nd tier comps is important too. The SANFL and WAFL will be fine. The biggest issue is for the standalone clubs (eg Port melbourne) plus Southport. It will require investment but an eastern sea board league that incorporated Tasmanian teams plus Canberra plus standalone teams from Vic and QLD could have 16 or so teams and be competitive against WAFL and SANFL teams.

Now I really hope we get him. That'd be an amazing chant.