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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.

Surprised at the thread. I've always considered him a Bomber who finally relented and left for the Lions as a last resort after both he and the club gave each other ample chances to work things out. His entire Brisbane resume feels like an addendum to being Essendon's great hope of the 2010s. He...

Will be heartbroken he can't lie down and lose by 119 to Geelong next weekend.

The entire AFL industry mobilised to knock us out of finals and now they're basking in the junk time. This is a prelim final? Barely looks like Round 18 between two bottom four teams.

Go the other way. Relocate the GIANTS to Canberra because at least it's resonated there. It's worked. Then bring in team 20 to offset the Tasmania bye as a second Sydney team playing out of the SCG. Leave the actual west of Sydney for another 15-20 years down the track for team 21 and 22.