AFL 2018 1st EF: Melbourne v Geelong: MCG, Friday September 7, 7.50pm AEST

[Bench warmer 84]

Please retire Bruce so sick of listening to your bullshit cringe talk

 

[Blue Heart]

Lol Henderson. Cats are will and truly cooked.

A pea heart if I have ever seen one.

 

[Sir_Loin]

Dip in GDP in the Alpine shire this year methinks

 

[fnerd]

I’m just a neutral fan, but to me it’s been obvious that Geelong don’t have enough depth in their 22 or list to compete deep in September. They’ve got enough guns to get them there, but the bottom six or ten can’t support them enough.

Hawthorn, Geelong and Sydney are all in the same boat imo. They all have club culture or management that we envy, but it means they are pressured to maintain excellence rather than accept the cyclical nature of an equalised competition.

My guess is all three will continue to have enviable records when it comes to finals appearances. But without a change in approach there will be few flags - if any - in the coming decade.

Good post
Those 3 clubs supporters will wank on about finals and culture etc but cats haven’t saluted since 2011, swans year later while I think hawthorn are very much same boat

 

[HTPunter]

Ablett needs to retire

The game went past him years ago

Played better in the 2nd half tonight than Burgoyne, Puopolo and Roughead did last night.

 

[Bengineer]

Good riddance Geelong

 

[dean33]

Good on the dees, I know what their fans are feeling. Just pure unadulterated joy.

 

[Benji85]

Selwood has been a disgrace to his colours. Absolutley shameful display

Well done MFC, well deserved.

 

[PhatBoy]

This is my argument.

Everyone wants to jump on him as being cooked/finished because he's not the primary ball winner anymore.

35 years old with a banged up body, still (despite an average kicking night tonight) a gun skilled player, and has put in his fair share of defensive hard yards tonight (including a big tackle on Viney inside 50). He just plays a completely different role. Dangerfield and Selwood should be concentrated on for doing far more defensive and inside work.

He's been too good for too long so people want him to be done and fail, but he's still a reasonable midfielder who will poll 10-12 Brownlow votes, which is pretty good. Not the 8-in-a-row AA player he once was, but he's still very good.

Absolutely. His role at the moment is one that every club has a need to fill.
Selwood has actually tried pretty hard tonight, fwiw. He's just not had much impact. He's had 7 tackles and 25. Danger has been really disappointing.

It's the same with Ablett as what you'd be familiar with via Boomer. Was he peak Boomer at 38? Of course not. As he still easily best 22? Absolutely.

 

[mick500]

Jenkins goals come from handballs over the top to him standing in the goal square. He is 200cm tall and plays like a 170cm flanker

Wrong. Just quoting media crap. Watch all his goals this year. Most of them were lead and mark goals. He played a different role this year and still had the same output.

 

[ToreadorMarch]

Congratulations Dees. Hope you go far. Way too good and determined tonight. Best of luck

 

[Daffytrain]

Ablett looks like he is walking off from his last game.

 

[Disco_Stu]

Another win for the team that links arms during the anthem.

 

[BG__]

Kudos to Melbourne, i doubted their ability to win a final all year

 

[Xtreme]

Played better in the 2nd half tonight than Burgoyne, Puopolo and Roughead did last night.

He looked like a 9 year old Auskicker and only started looking somewhat competent when the rest of the players were slowing down with fatigue

 

[Mr Cannons]

do you think he's a bull?

He was pretty unstoppabull.

 

[Xtreme]

Played better in the 2nd half tonight than Burgoyne, Puopolo and Roughead did last night.

He looked like a 9 year old Auskicker and only started looking somewhat competent when the rest of the players were slowing down with fatigue

 

[shniko11]

Well done Demons can make a Prelim from here.

 

[Suns of Anarchy]

Should’ve been played at Kardinia Park.

 

[Mr Cannons]

do you think he's a bull?

He was pretty unstoppabull.

 

[Maybenextyear]

Cya Cats. Go merge with Colac. Shocking finals history.

 

[Blue Heart]

Perhaps.

I know who I'd rather be, though.

We should revisit this conversation in 5 years.

 

[Luv_our_club]

Chris Judd in his man cave....

 

[Footy 1st]

Nice humble comment from Cats fan and hawks fan takes opportunity to sink in the boot. Interesting character analysis

Have a read through last night's thread... a nice, humble post from a cats fan may not be the regular reading..it was a matchday comment, commenting on the match, feel free to check the stats, who gave away the frees, check when the frees were given, watch the replay and find any Melbourne players stand around like statues arguing with umpires whilst opponents played on. Then feel free to cross reference all of those examples with which players were doing it.

 

[MinerBoy]

Cats were lucky to fall in to 8.... teams like PA tripping over themselves and Cats with a couple of training sessions to paper over the cracks.

Congrats umpires.

Did your job tonight. Well done

Haha Jesus. Only thing stopping a bigger Demons win was their comical amount of butchered chances.