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Didn't you also relieve us of a shot-up Henry Playfair and David Spriggs?

I have literally never heard of a bullying accusation for this.

Brisbane are in a bit of a no-lose scenario tbh. Nobody expects them to seriously win, but so long as they don't get thumped, they'll be seen as going just fine.

It does feel like Geelong should take this one easily enough; Brisbane has edged two cut-throat finals against lesser opposition just to get here. But I went to the 2008 Grand Final and so I don’t trust anything any more…

It’s not the players who are going to get their gut sliced open while they’re awake. It’s only football FFS

It’s absolutely not perfect. Source: my partner is an obstetrician

This is an awful take. 1) birth is hugely dangerous. Women and babies still both die in birth. 2) conceiving can be hugely difficult for some couples, thus holding off for a month isn’t a great idea for some 3) She could be premature 4) Medical decisions are to be made on the grounds of...

Oh look, the game was genuinely 50-50 and in a 1 vs 4 you should not be leaving it to chance. But twice we managed to pull that game out of the fire, and when it was really on the line in the last five minutes, we largely got it on our terms. I’m not delighted, but I am hugely relieved.

That’s my point, they did choke. We are far more solid than them.

I’m pretty sure that of all stats collected that aren’t directly linked to scores, i50s are the strongest correlator to victory.

Of course you can. There's no rule about that. Not sure if Essendon had ever played at York Park before last year's final, or the Dogs at the Showgrounds before the GWS prelim. Yes, Kardinia is skinny. But it's not exactly a triangle with a 10% slope from goal to goal

In fairness, we should have lost that game. But that was something like 4, 5 months ago and we are playing a lot better now

Sure, but if there is one team with the maturity and skill set to play slow and turn the game into a disciplined slog, it’s Geelong. You guys lost the inside 50 count by something like 20 yesterday. Do that against Geelong and it’s game over. The Pies can win, but they need de Goey and Elliott...

Geelong isn’t Carlton, Norf or Essendon.

Pretty much everything has to go right for Collingwood to win - but it could happen.

That’s not so much an age thing as it is just a player management thing. Whether you’re 20, 27 or 33, 22 rounds of AFL footy is punishing.

Yeah, no excuses today for mine - given Tigers are fairly comfortable favourites in my eyes, if we lose, we're beaten by a better side. If we win, should we celebrate with a strip-club visit and a bubble-bursting Corona kebab?

The honesty is refreshing. Players today have to be such robots

Geelong has one big achilles heel in 2020: that we are very easy to trap in the back fifty, because we deliberately move the ball so slowly and are so risk-averse with it. That tends to work ok if the ball is in the hands of Stewart or Tuohy, who can at least move it on pretty well and at some...

The AFL have said it’s unlikely

I highly doubt we'll do that because the 4th-placed team is likely to play Port Adelaide in Adelaide in Week One.

I have to admit, I would still do poos in my little pantses if we came up against Collingwood in the finals. They are a serious bogey team for us, and for some reason, can shut down our ball movement completely.

My God, a reasonable supporter on BF. What are you doing here?

After the Eagles tried to buy their way into the top four with the Norf game, I admit to being delighted with this result.

Jeremy McGovern following Terry Wallace's classic quote down there on the sideline into a Gatorade bucket...

Fair enough. I don't really venture onto other team boards anyway

We haven't had a home QF against any other interstate sides though, and certainly not since we increased capacity.

I live in QLD and honestly I'd get better treatment if I left the house wearing a cane toad suit with a KICK ME sign on my arse

... could do, if you meet us in a Qualifying Final.

I highly doubt that anyone at Geelong - or Luke Shuey - gives a damn.