Straight Sets Simon

Not only that, midfielders who accumulate a lot of the ball tend to win it. Neale, Tom Mitchell and now Wines are all very good players but I’d argue that there are others who have a lot more of an impact on games than these players.

I hate Channel Seven so much. Their attempt to attract non-football fan viewers by showing “highlights” such as a ball bouncing off the head of a player is down right embarrassing.

I don’t want to know his name, I just know he is number 22 and he’s awful. Honestly, I couldn’t tell you many other umpires but he is one who just seems to always make the wrong call.

Not surprised Cunnington got the three against us, we no answer for him.

I still maintain that Salem was the best on ground by some margin in the Richmond game. To only get one vote is laughable.

Love if you could ask what’s the biggest difference Gary has seen in how the team is performing from 2020 to 2021.

I really hate they don’t actually talk about each game before each round, even briefly.

Massive secondhand embarrassment watching that band. What an awful song choice.

I can’t stress enough how good this is, well worth a listen where I learned a lot about Oliver:

I hate the fact that the Grand Final is always played at the MCG. It should be either rotated like the NFL or home/top team gets it. Therefore, the fact that it’s in Perth doesn’t bother me at all. The only thing I hate is I had no chance of going, but at the end of the day my team is still playing in a Grand Final at an amazing venue.

I’m just so excited to see us play in a Geand Final. I was way more nervous last week.

The Bulldogs should be wearing their white jumper anyway.

But they did contribute to the real thing, they contributed towards the team making it to the Grand Final which is the hardest part. Someone started a good thread about this the other day:

I think we will win because we are a better team. Anything can happen on the day but we deserve to be favourites.

2015 was my reference, I’d forgotten that the royal blue jumper wasn’t West Coast’s home jumper that year. Geelong and Sydney being in so many Grand Finals muddies the water because Geelong offen wear white shorts home and Sydney often wear red shorts away.

No the team that finished higher on the ladder is the “home” team.

I’m surprised he’s only 30, he’s really lost a lot of pace.

It makes zero difference to me.

Around about the 23 minute mark is when they talk about the draft (what we now know as a super a draft) and I always remember Alan Richardson saying we should take Jackson.

We often see players leave clubs to chase success, would Weideman prefer to stay at a good club with less opportunity of be the main man at a bad club?

This is something that I have believed for many years but it's never really been of relevance to Melbourne. It may still not be if we lose the Grand Final but it's something that I believe strongly in. All players who play in a premiership team during the year should be regarded as "Premiership Players". I've heard a few people mention it in the media recently and Angus Brayshaw brought it up on the latest Gus & Gawny podcast in relation to Nathan Jones. At the end of the day, premierships aren't just won on Grand Final day and there needs to be recognition of all players who helped contribute to the success. It doesn't mean that all players necessarily receive a premiership medallion, but there does need to be something to acknowledge them.

If we do win the flag I fear that he will resent it.

Critically underrated legend of our club. For me, part of the gloss of making the Grand Final has been taken off from him not being there as I firmly believe he offers just as much as Jordon as the sub. Having said that, he made the right decision to be home for the birth of his twins regardless. Thank you, Nathan. You are a bloody star.

Wherever the new training base is, it should be named after Nathan Jones.

I’m still laughing at this.