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It's pretty bad. Not that anyone needed to as it was so obvious, but I ran it through the AI detector ....

Two shoutouts. The first one is for Oliver. He had 25 possessions today and I think you could say this was his best game since Rd2. He's still a long way from Peak Clarry but I have the gut feeling he's going to play some seriously good games before the end of the season. The other is for MIlkshake. I know it's been said plenty on DL tonight but I need to say it too! His penetrating 'link' kicks are sublime. He could have had 4 goals today (missed a sitter and handballed one off to Lingers) and we are seriously a better team with him in it.

Does the Kolt get a rising star this week?

Oh. I'll have to look at it again!!

There is no way that goal should stand. The umpire called play on and then stuck both hands up. They had all of half-time to fix it.

I'm all sorted now. Thanks to WCW and excited to be going.

We had 4 picks within the first 20 and six overall at that draft. Max was taken as our fifth pick behind Scully, Trengove, Gisberts and Tapscott. Imagine if you had a crystal ball and we had selected: Martin, Cunnington, Fyfe, Gawn (of course), Duncan and picked up Dylan Grimes with pick #1 in the pre-season draft. We'd have won six premierships with that list, although in second thoughts we probably would have debuted them all on Queens Birthday and scarred them for life.

I sent an email to [email protected] on Saturday. I haven't heard anything yet. When should I expect to hear something or what's the deal? (Not trying to hassle, just want to settle down the last bit - and kind of an important bit - of my trip to Brisbane).

Now you've got me worried. I booked through a third party online site and they've accepted my booking (made 2 weeks ago). I'm going to have to follow that up.

Oh, I will be there! Do you know how to ensure I'm seated with decent (ie Melbourne) people?

I'm at the Paramount Motel which I believe is about 3 minutes walk away!

Yeah... I've only just wandered back on.... Ticket already booked I oddly feel more comfortable when I don't think we're a premiership chance anymore. I might be able to enjoy games again!

Virgin had a triple status points promotion a few weeks ago and in a desperate desire to take advantage I reached for the AFL schedule and spontaneously booked 1 ticket to Brisbane to see us play the LIons. I arrive midday Friday and leave Sat morning. I have booked cheap accommodation a 10 minute walk away. I'm on my own (can't believe I got the leave pass from Mrs BIg Col but I don't look a gift horse in the mouth) Only thing I haven't organised is footy tickets, although I'm also keen on catching up with Dees fans when there. So ... 1/ How do I get tickets that are around Dees fans? Is there an allocation? 2/ Are there any functions or pubs or hang outs that Dees fans are likely to congregate? 3/ Any D'Landers who want to catch up before or after for a beer etc ? 4/ Anything else to know?

I have Windsor into Melb top 4 that will net me $750 on a $5 bet so I'm kind of excited now! (if Petracca also wins the Brownlow, it becomes $12000 !!). Hoping for a win tomorrow, where Trac is BOG and Windsor kicks 2 goals.

Windsor could be in with a real chance now if Reid and Darcy both get suspended. They both should, much as we may want to give a medal to Darcy.

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This is my hood. I have a few locals I know who are true Coburg Lions fans. They're my 2nd VFL team. If you go, please support the club by purchasing a beer/dim sim/chips etc

Because membership and loyalty to the club is inversely related to games we win? We're all hurting atm, don't add to it.

"Geelong was a little bit off today" "The schedule we've had really took its toll" "We are obviously a much better side than this"

So annoying. I live reasonably close but by but I don’t think I could get there before 6:30pm at the earliest. why such an early start?

I reacted the same as the commentators. "ah, he's overkicked it ... out of bounds {relax} ... what? OMG that's crazy"

I met this woman a few years ago who told me how she had six children under 10 years of age. All the kids, both boys and girls, were called 'Daicos' because she was such a massive Collingwood fan. "Fair enough" I said "but how do address your kids given they all have the same name?" "No problem" she told me."I just call them by their surnames"

Father's Day must be so confusing for them too

Petty is a FA in 2026. If he leaves then, the most we can get is a first round comp which would realistically be 13-19. Plus, if he leaves then, and we want to bring in a free agent ourselves, then that will dilute our compensation. If Petty plays the rest of the season like he did last night then his asking price for a trade is very high indeed. It'll be an interesting trade season for us. If there's some good FAs available to us and the trade offer for Petty includes multiple first round (and high first-round) picks then we could set ourselves to be competing for a premiership for another 10 years. (eg pick up another 2 star midfielders to replace Clarry and Trac) Either way, a performing Petty means MFC is doing well.

For years, especially when we were performing poorly, the AFL would schedule us at 1pm on Mother's Day at the MCG while we'd be mocked for getting a crowd of only 15,000. Well, strike me dead. I just looked at next week's schedule and lo and behold .... 1pm Collingwood vs West Coast (which will be 11am in Perth) Furthermore, it's to be played at Docklands. Yes, Collingwood will play a home game at Docklands. I'm flabbergasted that the AFL have done something so good with their fixturing. So kudos to the AFL.