interesting that both on the couch and OWAAT both have collingwood players on tonight (jolly and leigh brown), whilst our only rep is ross lyon on OWAAT. one thing the sports psychologist said on the radio was that it was best to clear your head and recover mentally for the first few days of the wee...

the program 'hack' on triple j just had a really good fifteen minute segment on sport psychology and the grand final replay. would be worth downloading the podcast later on tonight. i'm pretty sure it is on itunes. as i was listening i couldn't help but feel that our guys have to have the advantage....

i'm pretty sure we don't want gilbert cited at all. i think he is dangerously close to 100 points...

Probably. Do you think the winners next week are more likely to buy it or the losers? Definitely think the winners. i havent watched a replay of 09 gf. and if we dont win i wont watch a replay of either 2010 gf. it'll all blend in to one. None of us will ever want to watch those last 5 minutes agai...

when people ask me how i feel my response has been "we should have won and we should have lost at the same time". i reckon the draw is a fair result for us..yeah we should have pinched it, but we shouldn't have been let back in. dawes and (i think) sidebottom should have iced it at the end...

Any interstate members backing up for round 2 this week? I live in Sydney and have sorted transport and accomodation again...hopefully dont have to queue up all night in the MCC line again.. luckily i'm a uni student and dont have too many non-negotiable commitments. anyone else making the long, exp...

can't see many supporters buying it until the result is known next week. our long-term feelings towards GF1 will be completely dependant on next weeks result. If we win next week, GF1's second half becomes one of the great second half's we remember with fondness forever....but if we lose I feel we w...

not sure...but you'd think that all the footy shows would rate pretty highly and the tv networks would be jumping at the chance to string the season one week longer...

Will be really interesting to see what the footy media is like this week...to be honest, I reckon they are going to run out of things to talk about. I feel that all the programs seem to talk about the same things anyway...but they can get away with it because most weeks teams dont play the same team...

Anyone else disappointed with those two muppets butchering the national anthem yesterday?

I was looking forward to belting it out then screaming a big 'Go Sainters' at the end but after the pathetic musical tricks they tried to play the whole mood seemed a bit subdued...

Just got here. Probly about 1000 here. Hope it's nice weather tonight. J

Will do guys. I'm probly going to get there at like 1130pm. Will keep you updated.

Just arrived in Melbourne from Sydney. Eric bana was on the same flight. So He is definitely in town.

Brought a wheels magazine with him and sat in economy.

flying down from sydney on friday arvo and i am looking at queing up at night for a seat.. didn't need to queue up last year and that was my first year of full membership. so im not really sure whats the most sensible time to start queing up. i dont really mind whether i end up in the back row, i ju...

as much as i'd love us to be wearing our home guernsey. i think that unfortunately it is right for us to wear the away strip this week. the fact that the collingwood jumper is not the 'traditional' jumper is irrelevant here no matter what eddie says. the fact is, whether we like it or not, the pies ...

flying down from sydney to stand in the mcc members queue all night friday night...was able to walk in and get a back row seat at 930am last year...not sure ill be as lucky this year...

Surprised there is not a thread on this already... I am very very nervous about this weeks match review panel...nothing would be as cruel as to see goddard, dal santo, gilbert, riewoldt even get rubbed out for small incidents... when do we find out aboutt he results this week? as much as i dont thin...

gee raph was good in a couple of contests in that clip.

bummed he's not there this year...

luckily gwilt has stepped up down back for us this year.

luke darcy is fast becoming one of my least favourite media identities in footy. i think i used to like him but i dont think anyone is more bias than him.

do us a favour channel ten and move him to netball commentary full time.

as i live in sydney i went along to the swans - blues finals match here a couple of weeks ago. thought that in the third quarter the blues midfield worked like clockwork to free judd up and he played an amazing third quarter. sure he's a superstar, but i was very impressed by the midfield set ups th...

i always had the impression harley was a really good, humble guy. would be a great mate to have. unfortunately he played for geelong. was never an outstanding player but you can see why they made him captain. geelong would've just about done anything for him. thanks for your insights and your balanc...

still like dawsons ability to take the big forwards.

tonight was a wet night so we didn't miss him as much. but i reckon we need that shut down option.

very similar to barry halls hit on staker in my eyes.

obviously not as hard. but just went "whack" to the guys head.

but cos it's bakes, likely the umpires will find some way to get johnson off.

worrying signs when they get on the "fast break" or get quick clearances. i think because we are worried about that we aren't going forward as fast...hence we don't look like scoring most of the time. also, mcevoy is getting destroyed whenever he is in the ruck. probably needs to lift so t...

this really shouldn't be 'football news'.

it is really a story about potential corruption in the victorian police.

bit disappointed with the football media jumping all over it. i dont go to the footy pages to read about police corruption, i go there to read about the weekends games.