Nic Nat for mark of the year!

Majak Daw for rising star!

Jack Trengove for the brownlow, you read it here first.

jack watts to have a break out year.

Richmond to finish 9th

gws to not win a game.

Crows to do fuck all and Tippett to do a runner.

more tough love for SA as a footy state.

Saints Snatch an Unexpected Premiership!

with captain/coach nick riewoldt leading the club to victory?

Another fkn Watts pic, gold.

Having to look at jacks watts face all of 2012? Fark! Cheers whatwhat

i tried to get it in early but it was so damn hard to pick which pic of pretty boy to use...

Israel Folau to finish 16th in highest goalscoring list.

The Watts pick is always a source of amusement when Melbourne reach their fresh epic fail levels.

2012 - The Year of Sloane

Fremantle to finish second last. Ross Lyon to get the sack.

so....anyway....

hAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!

gerard whateley off to 3aw apparently. boo!

I thought it was a perfectly reasonable and level-headed suggestion, gabbo.

well done swannies. great team, full of seemingly likeable dudes. nice fans too, as far as i can tell.

Watching replay beyond me how Hannebery didn't get Norm Smith

It seems they did do a deal with the devil in 08.

At least we were competitive.

Hodge's speech was magnificent - class act.

Agree with this. First losing captain in a while to actually not be a total sook and seem like he meant every word he said.

really hating the journo talk about how they ''pinched'' a premiership; they deserved to be there and the fact that the 'premiers' are determined by a single game, well, i don't know why so many people are so confident in predicting it. upsets happen all the time.

also haven't heard much talk (yet) about that friday/saturday fixturing debacle... so, i guess credit to the hawks for not playing that card.

Umpiring was generally spot-on

Thought Swans were actually pretty hard done by, but I guess it's inconsequential now.

Was real nice to see the McVeigh, Reid and Shaw brothers share moments of celebration during their victory lap.

Just goes to show how little 'journos' know. Any self respecting commentator saw Sydney shut down Hawks outside run and struggle when they are forced into 1 on 1. Exactly why Geelong have done so well against Hawks for so long. Surprising was how poorly Hawks coped with it in that 2nd qtr especially after the Crows game last week. Surely they would have expected as much from Sydney.

I love this time of year, and the free agency stuff should be good too.

Monfries to Port? Goddard to Essendon?

Just goes to show how little 'journos' know. Any self respecting commentator saw Sydney shut down Hawks outside run and struggle when they are forced into 1 on 1. Exactly why Geelong have done so well against Hawks for so long. Surprising was how poorly Hawks coped with it in that 2nd qtr especially after the Crows game last week. Surely they would have expected as much from Sydney.

i blame the buddy spoogefest; if he kicked straight they would have won. but he didn't. and rarely will he ever.

nice call by ted bailleu prematch that the hawks were going to win by 80. fuckhead.

Goddard to Essendon, 4 years.

Huge get for Bombers

indeed. find it strange that st kilda seem to have happily let it happen. whats the story there?

Can't match the offer.

• will get compo.

From Goddard's point of view it would be a no brainer.

Given his form this year you'd be safe to assume he wanted out for a long time.

why cant they match the offer? cant or dont want to?

can't afford to, it seems, or maybe don't want to. he probably wants out and essendon are offering an extra year and an extra 100k (according to reports)

they've got cap issues jimmy, that's why.

i blame the buddy spoogefest; if he kicked straight they would have won.

buddy's misses hurt, but he and sewell were the primary reasons we were in the game. being out coached and out-played across the board was the difference. so many moments where experienced heads did catastrophic things (mitchell's 50 before 3qt, hodge ignoring an option to balk into a tackle inside defensive 50, young shitting himself at the death, etc).

Question though- what happens to Clarko now? Has he taken the Hawks as far as he can?

not sure why you're asking that. maybe if we'd finished 5th-8th and bowed out early.

crackwhore said 22 minutes ago:
they've got cap issues jimmy, that's why.

how could they have cap issues? they arent paying 100% are they? reiwoldt and hayes are their only two guns now.

they made the GF two years in a row and everyone got the bonuses, i guess. it sounds like they didn't give him the extra year + cash on principal because it didn't fit into the St. KFC model