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I know the thread is about AFL but Wild went on to be a bush legend, winning league medals and flags in different competitions along the border. He had remarkable durability and his flaws at AFL level were not as apparent in country footy. He also seemed like someone genuinely grateful for his...

I'm sure the social media admin will have another side-splitting gag to take the heat out of the story.

North have pinned their colours to Arden street even though the possibility of Ballarat or a council on the outer northern fringe of suburban Melbourne may well have taken them. Same for Essendon and Tullamarine being just off the freeway to both north and west. Seaford has been attributed as a...

A lot of people are just assuming Richmond are heading back to a 90s-2000s style run where success is a false dawn and rebuilds are botched at the draft. But I think the majority of AFL fans should want Richmond to succeed in their rebuild becuase it's also the only way their own club can win a...

I would happily bin off all special mechanics - priority picks, academies, zones, father-son. If you want a player badly enough, trade up. Hawthorn's 08-15 run was built on doing exactly that by trading two good players for the pick that became Luke Hodge, but could've also easily been Chris...

Would it be less objectionable if there was no special draft mechanic to access father son - if a F/S is the best player in the draft then give up what it takes to trade for pick 1. BUT - once acquired by the F/S club, the player doesn't come under the salary cap or something like that. A 25%...

Preseason belongs to Essendon Home and away season belongs to Geelong Sometimes Port or the Swans get their nose in But it is a rinse and repeat cycle of teams the media loves talking about as 'the best' during the season. Some clubs and some fanbases just enjoy being talked about as a good...

One umpire getting hoodwinked into paying 50m away from six GF losses in a row. The Swans just get the occasional reality check away from cap and draft concessions, umpiring favours and a compliant media that assumes only brilliance could be the reason they've never dipped for more than a...

Worth pointing out as another season passes with the during-the-year praise vs who won the flag being massively out of whack yet again.

Never got enough credit for winning in the minor rounds did the Swans.

Today's a reminder of just how far off it a team with a bad coach is. Longmire's been to 5 grand finals and going at 20%. Hinkley can't even clear the hurdle.

Port artificially inflated the perception of the two teams that beat them in this finals series. Sitting ducks and my Hawks will be spewing we didn't save the finals series for the neutral by knocking them out.

The Giants choking in the QF hijacked this finals series with us falling short against Port a close second. Port have comically inflated the perception of the two teams that did beat them.

What a hot field. Grundy getting outrucked and outworked by Daniher and Fort while throwing in 3 clangers. 13 touches at 54% efficiency. Heeney 12 touches at 41% efficiency with 2 clangers and zero impact. Logan McDonald one possession. Joel Amartey with negative 10 meters gained form his four...

Amartey out of the blocks but Heeney's lurking. So was Charlie until that goal in the last minute.

It's the no.1 argument for the bookmakers having too much power in the game. They couldn't handle one game every 6-7 years where a team rests key players (and has only ever been done by two coaches) and thus kicked up a massive stink. The suggestion of a 'wildcard weekend' or bye round to fill...

Robbed. Need to spend the offseason fixated on it.

Scott outcoached by Fagan. Maybe Geelong needed another 90s failure to coach an opposition team to lay down and lose on command like Hinkley in the qualifying final.

Only finals win was against lay-down Hinkley

Guessing you think the camp was no big deal

Kenny's going to leave Port exactly how he found them and not a dollar, player or fan better.

Cats fans pumping HARD in defence of Hinkley. What de-list level players are Port giving you draft picks for this offseason?

No passion or fire or emotion at full time. Didn't get out onto the ground to give his opponent a send-off. Quite simply does he care enough to get Sydney over the line? When is he going to start behaving like the proven elite and irreplaceable coaches in the competition?

I think we all know the AFL season ended a week ago. Knocking out Hawthorn is all anyone talked about all week and now that we've had four quarters of junk time in the prelim and we're getting four more in the grand final it'll be quickly forgotten. We WERE the story of 2024 and beating us, not...

Swans either losing to Geelong in a blowout or the Lions at arms length. Snore.

Sorry but Melbourne media has spent a week talking about how tough and resilient Port are and how great (and hard done by) Ken is. Every "what would you know, you never played the game" ex-player with a platform has said the fine is a travesty and even some of the poindexters too. A perfect...

Turns out the answer is paying six holding the ball free kicks in the opening quarter. Swans have been able to do as they please tonight, throw and drop and spin in the tackle as long as they want.

Well at least Port can take solace in the journey for how they got to the same result as every other year. Blown away uncompetitively in a prelim. The only question is will they talk about the 2024 Semi against Hawthorn for another 30 years with the same reverence that Carlton do the 1999 prelim?

Port are playing with the body language and intensity of Melbourne 2009.

Port getting six holding the ball frees in the first quarter against us must be the biggest umpiring departure from the norm in years. Rule has well and truly disappeared again tonight. Swans can hold it as long as they want and correct disposal is optional.