Diamond_Jim

Doesn't sound too bad on Petty from the video but perhaps a rest for next week's game "recovering well from sore ribs which were hit again last game and will be re-assessed later in the week" paraphrased

Lots of good points but your best is the relative benefits to the teams finishing 1-6 and in particular the lack of a sufficient advantage to the top 4. Interstate members of the top 4 get a real advantage from home ground advantage. For Melbourne clubs..sorry it's what happens when you have 10 local teams

I like it in the sense that 7th and 8th in an 18 team comp is not a great season result. These 2 teams would get home ground advantage against 10th and 9th respectively. Realistically 7th and 8th rarely kick on so it gives interest to the nothing weekend. At the same time I would be happy to reduce the season length by a couple of games and put in a 2 week mid season break. I'd even support a Qld gather round in the colder months

I think top 4 is locked this weekend if Brisbane and ourselves win. We would need to lose 3 or 2 (by a percentage damaging margin)of the remaining 5 to be catchable by a team that wins all 5. You could argue that we can catch Brisbane but if they win this weekend they are still one game plus a big percentage in front. The 5-8 spots are almost impossible as the margin between 5 and 14 is so close

On pinching songs/tunes some of the younger ones may not realise how slack copyright laws were even in the 60's. In those days the local Australian music studio bosses/radio DJ's would get the latest singles from the UK and literally allocate a song to local artists for recording. Royalties, permision etc were unheard of. Life was simpler back then with your FJ Holden

Chandler is fighting young Taj for a spot not Spargo. We are presently going one tall short in the forward line. When that tall returns whoever he is that's when things get interesting

Buckley coached Grundy either as assistant or head coach for Grundy's entire career. On Fox he was skeptical about him playing forward. Sure... it's one opinion

Interesting....from the web The original music is from the Gendarmes' Duet (the "bold gendarmes") from the 1867 revision of the opera Geneviève de Brabant by Jacques Offenbach (1819-1880), which debuted in Paris in 1859. On the Grand Old Flag Written by George Cohan of Yankee Doodle Dandy fame.... The original lyric for this perennial George M. Cohan favorite came, as Cohan later explained, from an encounter he had with a Civil War veteran who fought at Gettysburg. The two men found themselves next to each other and Cohan noticed the vet held a carefully folded but ragged old flag. The man reportedly then turned to Cohan and said, "She's a grand old rag." Cohan thought it was a great line and originally named his tune "You're a Grand Old Rag." So many groups and individuals objected to calling the flag a "rag," however, that he "gave 'em what they wanted" and switched words, renaming the song "You're a Grand Old Flag".

I love symmetry

Realistically? Is there a chance of Hawks passing Freo

Sorry GoF will always be a jingoistic US knock off The Crows song is arguably worse being that of the US Marines !! Amazing France has never complained about Brisbane/Fitzroy using the National Anthem of France Time for a reset of the knock offs IMO

The next six gives us time to get a lot right if we are to challenge in finals. Adelaide seem to play a less skilled version of the Collingwood gameplan so that will be a good place to start Ideally we need the Cats to lose one more. Having them 1.5 games behind us is a little worrying especially if we drop a game

Watched ANB carefully on the replay. He struck me as one of the few players that took risks with his kicks. Sure some were to one on ones where the other side prevailed and there were a couple of clangers but if those risks aren't taken we go nowhere. It's not as though we are awash with skilled pin point distributors a la Collingwood

A draw would be almost perfect

Agree Assuming Port lose today We'd need to win 6 and they'd need to lose 3 Won't happen Mind you Port also have the game against Adelaide ??

Those first 4 goals from Collingwood off half back and straight through the corridor were terrifying. No team stops those

The win was wonderful but next week is the consolidation test. Need a good no stress regulation 20 point win. No change other than injury. Hopefully it's decent weather

Hunter ?

9 scoring shots to 2 in that last quarter Not bad at all

Agree... on so many grounds We recaptured fast scoring !!

well I suppose the positive is that this is our highest score for several weeks

what's a corridor asks the coach

out coached who'd have thought that a shoot out when you don't have a gun is a good idea

when Gunston gets a goal you kind of know where this game is going

an old fashioned shoot out... wonder who will win