AFL 2025 Second Preliminary Final - Cats v Hawks Fri Sept 19th 7:40pm EST (MCG)

[voorhees]

Buddy’s moral for the week. That’ll do me!

do enjoy listening to Buddy talk footy.
knows his stuff

 

[timokane]

Have a feeling the hawks get up in this one in a real tight battle

 

[voorhees]

Geelong fans are very, very confident. I fear a loss will probably break them…

fingers crossed...lets all hope

 

[Mr Meow]

Geelong fans are very, very confident. I fear a loss will probably break them…

It's a game of footy, not a terminal cancer diagnosis.

 

[timokane]

Weather for this one going to be super windy.
Choppy weather Pies and lions have better weather.
Kind of going to be wind effected.
Punt rds the scoring end.
With the wind also showers mixed in there as well

 

[randyzany]

Geez handbag fans are arrogant, trying to justify the softest run home the competitions ever seen.

Not surprising though, Max Holmes the smug campaigner said after a round 11 win over the Dogs, ‘Well that’s finals locked in for us now’.
He knew how soft the draw home was as much as the rest of the footy world did, yet Cats fans argue against it with rubbish like Sydney were the form team of the competition when we played them
Astonishing really

They won’t have been tested like they will be tomorrow night, in months.

Nothing worse than being the handbag's bitches then which all teams have been for Geelong for roughly the last 20 years. And spare me the 2013 prelim, that was a Geelong team in transition with several of out Top 8 players that were part of the 2007-11 era already retired or in the twilight of their careers. Geelong had no business being that deep in finals at that point in time and it was quite an achievement that they were still a contender in 2013 and eventually as we now know even to this day. As well as the ready made excuse that 2011 final didn't count because it wasn't an elimination one. Finals are finals, full stop.

We are in 2025 and stilly using thinly veiled homophobic slurs I see, inferring that any man that deviates from hetero normative behaviour are weaker or less of a man. Or are they still acceptable on BF if levelled at teams for some unbeknownst reason? Quite humorous and ironic that a Maybloom bandwagoner is throwing the word handbag as a sledge when one of their champions, Don Scott, was famous (or should that be famous) for rocking them and being quite fashion forward for his time. Didn't stop him for being quite a good footballer did it?

As the Darling Buds of Maybloom have been telling us for quite some time that Geelong has had a soft run in the last couple of weeks insinuating that Geelong's record does not accurately reflect both Hawthorn's and Geelong's final ladder position, therefore it is the Darling Buds who have the weight of expectation and pressure of being the real Top 4 and not a fake Top 4 team like Geelong; following their logic.

 

[dcutter]

The build up to this game has been really weird.

Almost a low key nervous anticipation from both Hawk and Cat fans alike, it seems. Usually grenades would be thrown left, right and centre but this has been quite different (at least in my circles). Even our beloved Jeff Kennett has observed a noble silence

Honestly don't know what to expect. A calm before the storm it feels like

Reckon we're in for a belter

 

[HairyO]

I’d hate to be a blind reporter or junior AFL staffer after this game if the cats lose. Can you imagine what Chris Scott will do to them

Worse than that. Dillon will drive himself to Chris' house, paddle in hand to cop his flogging.

 

[Pistol Night]

do enjoy listening to Buddy talk footy.
knows his stuff

He must REALLY have a lot of respect for Crawf as he doesn’t do podcasts or any media really

 

[Wosh]

Not long till teams come out and hopefully tomorrow night we get the kind of finals game we’re all hanging out for.

 

[Peters_Nuts]

The build up to this game has been really weird.

Almost a low key nervous anticipation from both Hawk and Cat fans alike, it seems. Usually grenades would be thrown left, right and centre but this has been quite different (at least in my circles). Even our beloved Jeff Kennett has observed a noble silence

Honestly don't know what to expect. A calm before the storm it feels like

Reckon we're in for a belter

It's felt the same as the Pies build up imo

I was talking to a Cat supporter mate today (he's actually a nice guy) and we both agreed that any of the four teams can win the flag this year and there's a sense of dread that this could genuinely be a "what if" season for the prelim losers.

The nerves seem to be outweighing the excitement.

 

[StackedHunch]

He must REALLY have a lot of respect for Crawf as he doesn’t do podcasts or any media really

Strikes me as having zero appetite for bullshit, so presumably avoids media figures who deal in contrived drama and the like.

 

[Wojcinski]

The build up to this game has been really weird.

Almost a low key nervous anticipation from both Hawk and Cat fans alike, it seems. Usually grenades would be thrown left, right and centre but this has been quite different (at least in my circles). Even our beloved Jeff Kennett has observed a noble silence

Honestly don't know what to expect. A calm before the storm it feels like

Reckon we're in for a belter

Majority of supporters on both sides holding their tongues knowing a loss gives the oppo huge amounts of ammo

 

[hawkman]

No changes to either team

Stanley an emergency so potential of the usual late Geelong change

 

[Gammalite]

Com'on Hawks !! Love they sent us legend Hodgey to get the Lions 'sorted out' when Lions were wooden Spoon mugs.

Taking us from the very bottom 2018 straight up into the Finals in 2019 with 16 wins, and have played Finals ever since.

Thanks Hodgey !! (turned boys like Harris into men ) and on the path to Premiership Glory .
(along with 'daddy' Fages too. also coming from Assistant coach job at Hawthorn to the Lions )

Thanks Hawks ! Hoping you Go get the Win and see you in the Grannie

 

[Wosh]

Teams are up

 

[rapidfire7]

Tipped Hawks by a point. I'm 1-5 so for in the finals, so hoping my garbage tipping continues. Won't be more than a couple of goals in it either way. Surely.

 

[HairyO]

The startled CJ rabbit experiment continues.

 

[Vindicater]

Hawks by 5 points in a barnstormer.

Or

Geelong by 30+ running over the top of a tired Hawks team.

 

[Interdimensional Bigfoot]

Geez handbag fans are arrogant, trying to justify the softest run home the competitions ever seen.

Not surprising though, Max Holmes the smug campaigner said after a round 11 win over the Dogs, ‘Well that’s finals locked in for us now’.
He knew how soft the draw home was as much as the rest of the footy world did, yet Cats fans argue against it with rubbish like Sydney were the form team of the competition when we played them
Astonishing really

They won’t have been tested like they will be tomorrow night, in months.

Max Holmes is better than everyone on your stinky little team.

 

[NetworkNerd]

Teams are up. Neale with a 20cm height advantage over his opponent will be a game changer

 

[Munich]

No changes to either team

Stanley an emergency so potential of the usual late Geelong change

We haven't done that in a while

 

[Pistol Night]

Strikes me as having zero appetite for bullshit, so presumably avoids media figures who deal in contrived drama and the like.

I love that pod. Awesome listening to Buds thoughts on footy. Knows his stuff

 

[Mr Meow]

I love that pod. Awesome listening to Buds thoughts on footy. Knows his stuff

They both went with Brisbane over the Pies though. That must have made you feel conflicted.

 

[Pistol Night]

They both went with Brisbane over the Pies though. That must have made you feel conflicted.

Not really. They both picked against us last week and most weeks.