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Maggies 84 Bears 80
Long way to go yet
STEELE SIDEBOTTOM!
90-80
It looks like a Collingwood Premiership.
Costly 50 to give away.
Colliewobble time.
It’s not over! Essendon’s Big Joe Daniher makes the margin 4 points. 1:33 left.
Very soft call for Collingwood there. A ‘non’ advantage for the Lions in a good attacking position.
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Terrible decision.
COLL
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WOOOODDDDD are the Premiers. 90-86.
Awful advantage call there. A free on the 50 not given. Colingwood eek out another win. Just about the better side overall tho
There are going to be massive arguments about that call and the whole of the rest of footy will say that Collingwood got that call because they are Collingwood. It quite possibly decided the Premiership. I was slightly up for Collingwood for most of the match but when I saw Eddie McGuire getting selfies taken with five minutes left I suddenly switched to wanting Brisbane to win.
Collingwood also got their last goal off the back of a 50 metre penalty which looked soft enough.
Ah the 50 was definitely there, cant have any quibbles over that. The advantage tho was huge. Call it back, set shot/ free on the 50 is the play there
It was a scandalous call. The kind of bad call you’d always be waiting for as a Spurs supporter. Big Ange incidentally is a Carlton supporter. That Magpies wins won’t go down well in that particular quarter.
The similarly named Ange Christou was a great defender for Carlton in the 90s. The Blues will be itching to get a crack at Collingwood next year. It’s now 16 Premierships each between the big three of Collingwood, Carlton and Essendon.
Bobby Hill gets the Norm Smith medal.
Decent enough day for 50 year old Collingwood coach Craig McRae as his wife gave birth at 7:45 this morning.
Colliwobbles veteran Peter Moore presents the disappointingly named AFL Premiership Cup to his son Darcy Moore, who has as good a shock of blonde hair as you’ll ever see.
Ok guys, i wasnt aware brisbane were in the final
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One of the great new(ish) Grand Final traditions is for people to pay attention to which players act like dickheads with the kids who are presenting them with their medals, and then to pelt them with abuse on social media afterwards. This tradition arose when the 2006 West Coast Eagles team (with the possible exception of Adam Selwood, IIRC correctly) almost universally behaved obnoxiously towards each child, so clubs have been keen not to court bad PR and generally have the players under instructions to not come across like somebody about to throw a king hit on a King’s Cross street at 3 o’clock on a Saturday night.
However there are always a few who let their inner caveman out and today it’s mainly Collingwood’s Beau McCreery who is taking it in the neck, with dishonourable mentions also to Mason Cox and Steele Sidebottom.
Playing for Collingwood since 2006. He played in that classic finals game where Collingwood beat the reigning premiers West Coast in extra-time at Subiaco in 2007 when Martin Clarke looked like the next Michael Long. He’s played 383 AFL games, given a regular season is just 22 games that’s serious going. 432 is the record. He could theoretically break that record by playing for another two seasons if Collingwood qualified for the finals both times and he got an injury free run but realistically he’d probably have to commit for another three seasons to do it.
This is the sort of stuff the GAA should be looking at producing more of. It’s really isn’t that hard to do, you get somebody with a good camera and a good eye and the teams themselves can have final say over what goes out.
