Diamond_Jim

Agree but with showers 13 and windy forecast for Saturday a warm day final is mildly appealing ? The old must have the GF where "the most people" can see it is a bit of a furphy when the stadium is pre booked by permanent stakeholders. Anyway given the 40 year deal it's a little academic

because to me the sense of place is so important to history

Definitely ....that place has had more name changes than I have had hot dinners To me it has always been Docklands but I'm tending toward Iceberg Stadium after going there a few times this year

Realistically there really isn't much at Casey to look forward to but at least one can say with Petty that he has not ruled himself out yet. The one caveat I would add is that VFL standard is so far removed from AFL standard for so many reasons it is not possible to say that one leads to the other or vice versa. For instance Brayshaw played well at VFL standard early in 2018 and then absolutely starred at AFL level. Why I'm not sure but to my simple mind he seemed to find more space and he had team mates who were capable of delivering the ball to him by hand and foot in that space.

50k is just right as it creates artificial demand... as much if not more can be made from such a stadium. You have to remember that Perth Park (Optus) is not owned by WCE or the AFL. Took a long time for the stadium deal to be done. I would love to know the final details. As an aside the stadium owners have refused to allow the two goal ends to be named after football players as they want to play down the AFL side of things and promote it as a multi use stadium. Brings back memories of the guy who ran Docklands when it first opened who said we would have to get used to anew way of going to the football. Lasted about six weeks if I recall.

yeah so much agree which is worse.... Zooom or Woof Woof and they go on The MCG is a difficult ground for atmosphere as even a crowd of 40k is almost lost. Better than 20k at Docklands which is so cold and dark because of the roof closure policy.

Frankly I'm getting a little tired of suffering premiership envy at this time of year. I had my worst case when the Bulldogs won. Hard to confess that perversely I wanted them to lose. My favourite second team is GWS for the simple reason that their wins mean nothing. Do I care this weekend... probably not... Even if they lose Collingwood will be up and about how well they did this year and will be unbearable next year. West Coast... used to like them but after the drug revelations they have gone down in my eyes. May just follow the Storm and hope Slater beats the rap

But Carlton has the final say of course

Big believer in not promoting the brand name on these ovals. Does anyone know if the new Perth stadium has a common name a la Kardinia Park etc Would be interested to hear comments about the raised ground viewing area and the fence. The high fence is certainly a worrying look on TV. Thanks

Not sure we really had one.

After a very lacklustre first half of the year JKH has won me over in the last six or so weeks. Year with a structured option for a second would be a good outcome. Bugg has been disappointing I will admit.

Hunt having a bit of a shocker. JKH quiet after a great first quarter

Should have had one more goal perhaps to reflect the dominance but great start.

amazing... never knew that... thanks for that Dee-lic

GWS are presumably in the same boat with Kelly as we are with Hogan. Trade/resign him this year or he can leave next year (2019) in return for a desultory draft pick. Makes one wonder about the possibilities except that a straight trade would not be of interest to GWS given the talls they already have.

Am I correct in assuming that the top 6 play each other twice in the following year? This will be good for revenues if so as it gives us home games against Collingwood, Richmond and Hawthorn. GWS and WCE home games can possibly be played at our winter home away from home in the Territory ... GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

If we play them at "home" it's likely to be in Darwin or the Alice unfortunately.

Let's hope Stretch breaks into the team and stays there on merit in 2019. Not sure about Kent and even less sure about Garlett.

Sidebottom has had a stellar finals series. Our players have been okay but no one took the game apart. That's one big difference

Perhaps they could use the GF ticket ballot money we all paid and give free entry ?

try $1M if the level 3 punters had a go Remember it's only the cost of a cup of coffee That cup of coffee possibly means not playing in Darwin if it had gone to the club

no... the finals were $15 a head. Not sure about the price of the GF. Pity it's at Docklands... zero atmosphere

can those who are criticizing him suggest who we replace him with? One of the best late senior players we have picked up. Sure we gave him three years but it's not his fault that there's not someone bashing down the door to take his place. And of course his first two finals were sublime.

Time to bump this up. Yeah I know it would have been great to watch on a big roll etc etc but these guys have done a lot for the club and deserve our support tomorrow. See you then

Eagles .. 3 inside 50's this quarter = 3 goals Hell we're back where we were at the start of this season !!