AS IT HAPPENED: GRAND FINAL CLASSIC! Pies clinch 16th flag after one of the greatest deciders ever

I won't be dropping it while you keep trotting out your rubbish. I'll be impressed when they win on their merits. Craig McCrae had won the whole footy community around and it all was blown away by the Maynard disgrace and the umpiring travesties, first in the preliminary then in the GF. Collingwood now sit isolated, disgraced and with a flag...but there is an ugly tainted asterisk on that flag. I'm happy to keep reminding you; all off season, all next season...just keep prompting me.

Are they the "loyal fans" that booed the Brownlow medallists? Gutter garbage. Only Pies fans can stoop that low.

We need three webpages and a lot of cyberspace to rebut your off the cuff remark. Let's just drop the matter. As for the Carlton-Melbourne camp, I have made a detailed analysis of that in another post. Take care. See you in 2024.

Yes, we do. Our loyal fans pay their hard-earned cash into AFL coffers.

Both were badly beaten by McInerney who would have contended with Coleman for the Norm Smith if the umps hadn't engineered a Pies win.

Collingwood. They get it all. This was not a fair finals series. It was arranged.

Carlton and Melbourne.

But each of those "contentious decisions" went in Collingwood's favour. Don't confuse "the establishment" with minor membership clubs like Melbourne. Collingwood, along with Essendon, Richmond and Carlton, make up the establishment.

The result of many of our 27 losing Grand Finals would have been different had the Melbourne establishment not been so Anti -Collingwood, too! Let’s just say 64, 66, 70, 77, 79, 02 were all quite controversial for a multiplicity of reasons. Every one of those losses was influenced by contentious decisions that all went against us favouring the Melbourne Establishment. There’s no better reason not to name the Premiership Cup after the late R.D. Barassi than that! Jock McHale and Norm Smith have done way more for football than the late R.D.

Both stood up (or in peddles case made others look like they were standing still) when it mattered.

You're a long way off getting the "interstater" badge aren't you. I thought the Wallabies are done, even if they win the rest?

Which team to you support mrl. All non-vic sides?

It happens every year. The boys are on top of the world. They have to be excused. I'm sure McCreery will make it up to him with a signed footy or something.

No one owed you that. You shouldn't have been there in 2019 because in round 10, Sydney's O'Riordan was tripped by Chris Mayne and you won by 4 points propelling you to a false position on the ladder, the wrong final and an earlier exit. You can't ignore that game. You owe the comp.

Yes. They are now truly greats of the game.

They owed us one Don. Do you remember the blatant push in the back on Brodie Grundy late in the third quarter of the 2019 Preliminary Final that resulted in a goal for GWS? Our club has been on the receiving end for far too long. Now, another minor detail overlooked by many is the great contribution South Australians have made to help our club achieve this success, namely Craig Kelly, Craig Mcrae and numerous telling players.

The use of Cameron and Cox over the last two- and a-bit years has helped propel the team to greatness while saving loads of cash.

We have lost some close ones in the last 65 years which we should or could have won. Winning one for a change helps heal some of our open wounds. Let's name them: 64, 66, 70, 77, 79, 02. Thanks, Graham Wright, for orchestrating the whole success...Thanks, Craig Mcrae, for building the self-belief and game plan. Thanks, lads, for executing the plan. The big issue that remains to be seen: Can we win our first back-to-back since 1935-1936? Can we keep our heads, not go over the top, try to build on today and create a dynasty?

Bollocks! I thought the umps were more lenient on the Lions, especially paying 50 for a stupid stand rule against the Pies.

Asterisk?