That, and the Torp from fucking Polkinghorne from 60 out for the winner. But McKeever, amazing last ditch effort, especially when darling had the run on him.

Ablett got more touches today than page numbers for this thread. Shame they still got smashed, was hoping for underdog round to continue :lol:

Also more touches than GC's total score.

Gonna sound strange, but having him there is doing more harm than good to that team.

Still fucking pumped. All the lads just stood up and made themselves count. Could ask for nothing more.

Just out of curiosity Funky are you a 'Roy who now supports Brisbane or just pure Brisbane?

Fitzroy through and through. Was too young to fully comprehend what happened, when it happened, but yeah. Fitzroy has been in my dad's side of the family for generations.

Ah right. Always feel sorry for the Fitzroy fans. Really didn't like when Brisbane dumped the old Lion, thought it was very disrespectul even though they have the FFC on the back of the jumpers

Fitzroy through and through. Was too young to fully comprehend what happened, when it happened, but yeah. Fitzroy has been in my dad's side of the family for generations.

Looks like we have some good kids coming through after the disaster of the last couple of trade periods.

Looks like we have some good kids coming through after the disaster of the last couple of trade periods.

I think what happened with those trade periods is very overstated. Vossy took a punt on going for a final Premiership tilt, and it didn't work. But you can't blame him for trying. Raines, Staker, McGuire have turned out very handy for us. I think there's a big upside in potential for us in the next few seasons. Leuey/Longer tapping down to Rocky/Redden/Rich/Polec is a fantastic prospect.

I'm still not sold on Voss/and or our gameplan. We still make a lot of basic disposal errors, but hopefully those things continue to improve over time.

Its good that he had a crack but the hole Fev situation we lost big there and with GC coming through and pinching some of our players.

True about Fev. I thought we could tame him, but obviously not, the bloke is a lost cause. As for GC pinching our players well...Brennan can't even get a start for GC. Rischitelli had just 7 disposals for them today.

I don't think either of them would make our team as it stands. Brennan definitely not.

I didn't realise at the time how dodgy the touch call looks. Was just elated that he got to it. But I'll give the umpire benefit of the doubt, he's right there, and made the call instantly, and was 100% sure.

AFL LEGEND Kevin Bartlett has no plans to vacate his post on the influential Laws of the Game committee despite fan condemnation of his radical call for an interchange overhaul.

The @AFL Twitter page exploded with comments from perplexed fans after Bartlett suggested the current interchange system be scrapped and replaced with eight soccer-style substitutes.

"I don't make anything of it, I don't make anything of it at all, people can always have their say," Bartlett told AFL.com.au.

"I like being involved ... the rules committee is there as a sounding board, it gives advice that's what it does."

Bartlett did concede "a lot of people might think it's radical," and that includes current Richmond coach Damien Hardwick who laughed when asked about the idea on Thursday.

"Listen I think the game, and people said on the weekend the game on our Friday night, was outstanding to watch," Hardwick said.

"I'll just worry about what we can control and let KB control the rules of the game. That's his mantra and it's his job."

Earlier, the 403-game Richmond hero declared the game is "becoming like rugby" and is being tactically "hijacked" by interchanges.

"I'm confident the game would be better without interchange, pick your best 18 and have six to eight players on the bench to cover injury and flexibility for the coach, but once you've come off, you can't come back on," Bartlett told his SEN listeners.

"No longer is the bench about covering injured players, interchange is now running at an average of 129 per game," he said.

"Interchange has hijacked the game to such a point now that it's becoming like rugby, it's not an indigenous game of Australian Rules football any more.

"I think we'd see better kicking, I think we'd see more marking, I think we'd see more contest, I think it'd be a better game.

"Interchange was never ever brought into the game so that you could have 160 interchanges in a game and have players running in huge masses around the ground."

But Bartlett said he would draw the line at a suggestion from Greater Western Sydney coach Kevin Sheedy that five forwards and five defenders be restricted to inside the 50m arcs.

"I have never supported any move that stops players from having full access to the field of play except at centre bounces," he said.

Earlier, the 403-game Richmond hero declared the game is "becoming like rugby" and is being tactically "hijacked" by interchanges.

Has he actually WATCHED a game of rugby?

Doubt it. The guy just doesn't know what he's doing. Seriously they have to get him of the rules committee because one day he's going to do something drastic that could possibly ruin the game.

There are a dozen other people who can veto any ridiculous rule changes that he tries to implement.