Preview GRAND FINAL - Collingwood Magpies vs Brisbane Lions • Saturday 30 September 2023 • 2:30 PM • Melbourne Cricket Ground

[Rocco sifreddi]

Australia vs pies
Get it done lads.

 

[jjami15]

How’s everyone doing. I can’t remember being so nervous before a game of footy. More nervous than a cat in a room full of rocking chairs.

Find it hard to watch any footy shows this week, or read the press.

I stopped watching TV media last year. Was quite healthy, this week rolls around and I was going to watch and read everything. I found that this only ramped up my anxiety. Since then, have not watched or read anything apart from here. Much calmer now. Tomorrow will be a different story though.

 

[RU_]

Melbourne’s cold .

 

[irel]

Melbourne’s cold .

Who'd want to live and play there.
Brisbane's the place.

 

[Grasshopper17]

Melbourne’s cold .

Give it an hour or so

 

[haystark]

Is this gonna go up on Kayo somewhere? Sounds fun

Just checked and it’s up on Kayo now. Excellent viewing!

 

[BrainOfMorbius]

Just seen the cup on TV with Collingwood and Brisbane ribbons. Suddenly seems very real

 

[HereIam86]

 

[bigbadbrowny]

Go lions!

 

[Nunez]

Spot!

 

[Nathan Barley]

Looks like a bigfooty catchup going on

 

[Nathan Barley]

Listening to the roar deal has got me pumped this morning after a few days of not letting it distract me too much

 

[Warwick]

Looks like a bigfooty catchup going on

Disagree. Can’t see a single fight.

 

[Warwick]

How many are there?

 

[Nunez]

Looks like a bigfooty catchup going on

Guarantee there are many looking around and speculating who's who. I saw a man dressed as a clown and can only assume it was 3KZ is Football .

 

[Gadzorks]

People still pouring in

 

[Warwick]

These are terrific sights. Thanks guys. Keep ‘em coming.

 

[haystark]

People still pouring in

What a sight

I think people (not us) are seriously underestimating the sheer volume of Lions supporters that will be at the game tomorrow.

 

[Nathan Barley]

Disagree. Can’t see a single fight.

Looks more like a clique love-in

 

[haystark]

“WE HAD TO MAKE IT”: FAGAN REVEALS WHY LIONS COULDN’T PICK PAYNE FOR GRAND FINAL​

Chris Fagan says he simply couldn’t pick Jack Payne to play in Saturday’s Grand Final given the Brisbane defender’s lack of training in recent weeks.

Payne missed the Preliminary Final win with an ankle injury he had been battling in recent weeks and was thought to be right in the mix to play on Saturday.

But Fagan revealed the 23-year-old only trained fully on Thursday and a risk couldn’t be taken.

“There’s always hard luck stories in Grand Finals. For Jack, it was just difficult because it’s all about timing sometimes and the truth is if he played tomorrow, it’d be his second game in five weeks… and he wasn’t able to train fully until Thursday,” Fagan told SEN Tassie Breakfast

“He worked his backside off to give himself a chance, there’s no doubt about that, but when you’re a coach… it just felt like not the right thing to do to throw him into a Grand Final on the back of one full training session in three weeks.

“As tough as that call is, we had to make it.”

Source

 

[Daniel_Rich]

Those who are lucky enough to be there tomorrow, once we have the game sealed (it's happening!) can you please start a COLLIWOBBLES chant? Would love to hear it.

 

[Gadzorks]

Just opened up a new bay for the still pouring in crowd

 

[Gadzorks]

Fagan got cheered every time he put a cone down

 

[Nunez]

Just opened up a new bay for the still pouring in crowd

Crazy hey. More people here than the 2016 game v GWS!

 

[DERRINALPHIL]

At captain’s run