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Who finishes higher in 2024? I’m not entirely convinced by Carlton this year. They were a team that caught fire and rode that through to the finals. 13-1-9 in H&A is a good season, and two wins in September is great experience. However their notable H&A victories this year were either come from...

Channel 7 do a lot of pointless things. Roaming Brian. BT and James Brayshaw generally. Jobeisms. Still though I don’t think they could do anything more pointless than a live ladder seven rounds before the end of the season, more so when it’s a live ladder for the first game of the round...

Two greats with parallel careers doing so post-game tonight. I can see Hawkins kicking on in 2024 but I think it really signals that this is the last season for Riewoldt, and I think this is a nice touch. In a year or two I’d like to see Dusty and Dangerfield do the same. Who else should do...

Inspired by this tweet... Given that most see Kane Cornes as a click-bait flog these days (as opposed to a 300 game premiership player) and a lot claim Trent Cotchin is a sniper dog who can't kick over a jam tin (when he really is a Brownlow medallist, state captain and three-time premiership...

Joel Selwood and Isaac Smith, now with four premierships each, and I think a good chance (if they play on) to join 21 other players with five flags to their names. If Geelong do win it in 2023 then Hawkins likely moves on to the slightly longer list of players (67) with 4+ flags. There are also...

18 years ago today… none since! Essendon 15.14.104 Melbourne 15.9.99 Happy Birthday Essendon Finals Win Drought.

I think this has been missed and I'm only aware of it because of RFC social media. Damien Hardwick becomes the 21st person to play and coach in 500 V/AFL games this weekend. Just searched for the records and discovered that Adam Simpson became the 20th person to do a few weeks back (currently...

Seven losses this year. Seven games where we have died in the second half. Round 1 - Carlton, up by 15 points at 3/4 time, kick the first goal in Q4... lose by 25 points Round 3 - St Kilda, lead by 25 points half way through Q3, kick one goal after that... lose by 33 points Round 5 - Adelaide...

After Kevin Sheedy's naming as an "Immortal of the Essendon Football Club" who at your club gets elevated to Immortal status? This is obviously the best of the best, sitting even above Legend status, which was Sheedy granted at Essendon in 2008. I'm happy for you to make your own criteria, but...

https://www.afl.com.au/video/722559/robinson-could-be-in-mro-trouble-after-this-heavy-bump?videoId=722559&modal=true&type=video&publishFrom=1647682512001 Why would/should Mitch Robinson be in trouble for this? IMHO Duursma ran into him with more force. And surely Darcy Byrne-Jones was the...

Starting with Sydney breaking a 72 year drought in 2005 we’ve then seen Geelong (2007, 44 years), the Bulldogs (2016, 62 years) and Richmond (2017, 37 years) break notable premiership drought. It’s also worth noting that a merged Brisbane-Fitzroy broke a 57 year Lions drought in 2001. That’s...

Bachar has announced he'll retire after Saturday's game v Hawthorn. He'll end up on 233 AFL games, with 26 of those being played at Essendon and 15 of them finals. Twice finished runner-up to Dusty in Norm Smith medal voting, on his way to three premierships. Played through the the 2020 GF with...

Not much in it, but just Toby being dirty again. Fines don’t work with this guy, and why would they when he’s out of pocket <1% of his earnings across his career. https://www.afl.com.au/video/633891/greene-on-report-for-striking?videoId=633891&modal=true&type=video&publishFrom=1624101309001

When do the first double-up games start to be played? How late in the season do two teams meet for the first time in 2021? Is the AFL risking two teams not playing each other this year? Given the covid uncertainty, possible lockdowns and border restrictions and moves by the AFL and AFLPA to not...

Highly experienced former umpire and now umpires coach Hayden Kennedy has quit, effective immediately, after being in the role since 2013. Possible friction from Kennedy and senior umpires with Steve Hocking may have contributed to his resignation, with the umpires unhappy with how difficult...

For me, with the Eagles winning and displacing Fremantle in the 8, I think it is. I expect to see each of the Demons, Bulldogs, Power, Swans, Cats, Tigers, Lions and Eagles playing in September. Final positions still to be determined. All eight have positive W-L records and % over 100. Freo...

Change it so that it is closer to basketball, where the ball is not OOB until it or player touching it is OOB. This far simpler and less open to interpretation/error. In the photos above OOB is called on Robbie Gray as he has possession of the ball and is over the boundary, even if the ball...

Started the season in 18th and have stayed there after a big loss against the Suns. Woeful percentage. Obviously their best chance to move off bottom is to win a game before another winless side, but there will be no easy games for North this year. If they find themselves at the foot of the...

Over the past four years the Tigers have added 29 premiership players to the honour board. Unfortunately someone has to miss out though, and there are a number of players who have played large parts of seasons to only find themselves not in the 22 on GF day... or maybe their best chance was...

Which is your favourite, and where do the other fall? 2017 - drought breaker, beat Adelaide by 48 points after an even first half. 2019 - redemption, beat GWS after dominating all day. 2020 - dynasty maker, beat Geelong 31 points, coming back from 15 points down at half time. For me I can't go...

Back-to-back and 3 in 4. Greatness is ours and it can not be denied

https://www.si.com/edge/2020/10/02/paddy-steinfort-mental-performance-coach-daily-cover?fbclid=IwAR0mwAEhNhEvGOtT5crJN4TvgtpO9_agxYm7VEy6RK8oTV1mj7Mbh3bI49Y

https://www.afl.com.au/news/492025/-i-spoke-to-toby-and-he-said-he-just-brushed-him-aside-cameron Known recidivist with multiple instances over many years, in trouble again with a solid whack to the midriff of Conca. No Lynch mob on social media or the Ch7 coverage.

As reported here Neil has passed away. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-08-26/footballer-neil-sachse-remembered-for-spinal-cord-advocacy/12598946

Earlier tonight the AFL's own counsel, in attempting to get Tom Lynch found guilty said the following: "As to (low) impact... the image shows Hurley throw his head back and immediately clutch for his throat. It has to be acknowledged he quickly looks for whether the umpire has seen this..."...

https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl/a-dusty-decade-since-hardwick-s-first-win-transforms-richmond-20200807-p55jjb.html Richmond 3.4 6.9 7.11 10.17 77 Port Adelaide 2.3 2.4 3.10 3.12 30 Led all game. 4 goals to Jack, 3 goals to Ben Nason, 2 goals to Robin Nahas and a...

In order... Jason Dunstall Michael Voss James Hird Tony Lockett Chris Judd Robert Harvey Greg Williams Lance Franklin GAS Nathan Buckley Mark Ricciuto Adam Goodes Glen Jakovich Andrew McLeod Dustin Martin Jonathon Brown Stephen Silvagni Mathew Richardson GAJ Paul Kelly Started with a list of...

Is it possible? How much growth do we have left in us after the massive increase since 2017 (73,000 to 103,000)? How far ahead of the Pies will we be?

Overshadowed by the premiership (and rightly so) but worth noting nonetheless... the Tigers have equaled their best ever winning streak. The 12 consecutive wins this season equals a feat achieved only by the Tigers of 1932-33. The 1932 Tigers were also premiers, defeating Carlton 92-83 for the...

I’d like to see a spot in the AA side reserved for a finals performer. He could even be added as the emergency. Examples - Dusty missed out on AA, but given his form in the back half of the season and if he carries that through September to a Tigers flag it could be argued that he was the most...