Footy is a passion, not some cold hearted, spread sheet dominated rational exercise.

On a Monday you want irrational reaction. You want emotion to trump reason.

What you really want is idiotic hysteria.

You’ve come to the right place.

Geelong (92) v North Melbourne (98)

Despite the Channel Seven commentary team's best efforts, North Melbourne managed to defeat the Cats in a thrilling game.

To be fair, North looked the better team all evening, but as it seemed Geelong were dead and buried, North decided to go all Norf and almost threw it away.

Bruce McAvaney really tried to get Geelong home by telling us how amazing Joel Selwood is every two minutes and also repeatedly telling us that the Cats always win the close ones.

He was well supported by Tom Harley, who high on a cocktail of Swisse placebos, openly barracked all evening.

It was a tough night for Selwood. He played an amazing game, especially early on, despite being caught high by Boomer Harvey.

It left him bleeding all evening. Seriously, when are the umpires going to start protecting him?

For the Kanagaroos, this was a terrific win. It puts all those people who mocked them throughout the year back in their box.

I can tell you, it’s awfully crowded in this box and I would really like to get out. I promise not to make jokes at their expense for at least three paragraphs.

North were very good and what seemed at times to be a wasted season, has now become a very exciting one.

It was especially nice to see Nick Dal Santo gather 35 possessions and he must be deeply upset the Saints didn’t want to keep him.

What does this win mean for the Kangaroos? Apart from a Preliminary Final against the Swans, it means Brad can finally look Chris in the eye at the family Christmas.

The Swans will be tough, but if there’s anyone who can beat them, it’s Hawthorn.

For Chris Scott, it was ‘mission accomplished’ once again, although, annoyingly he still won’t reveal what his mission exactly is. I bet it’s got something to do with these new terror laws.

Geelong seemed to win all year in spite of themselves and going out in straight sets wasn’t a complete surprise.

When the end comes for great teams, it seems to come fast. The question is, has Geelong done enough in recent seasons to turn over their list and make sure this doesn’t happen?

Mark these words for next season, I have absolutely no idea.

Fremantle (83) v Port Adelaide (105)

It was no surprise to residents of Perth when the terror threat level was raised.

After all, they only had to look out their window to see hordes of Port Adelaide supporters descending on their mining camp.

Another terrific game, Port discovered early on that it's a big step up from Richmond to an AFL side.

In the first half, the Dockers led by as much as 31 points, and if I weren’t a weird loner with no other options, I probably would have turned the game off.

Fremantle had stopped the Power’s run, strangling them like an out-of-control Brian Lake.

But like Brian Lake, they couldn’t kick goals.

Then Ken Hinkley, the AFL player whisperer, called his charges together and spoke words so potent, the Power totally started to do stuff.

He probably did some of that tactical stuff that they talk about in the War Room segment on Fox Footy. I’m not sure though, as I always change the channel when it comes on.

In the third quarter, Robbie Gray happened. He’s really good!

Four goals and five possessions from him shifted all the momentum to the Power and I was glad I was a lonely man with nothing else to do on a Saturday night.

Port had discovered their run and all their annoyingly young and talented players stood up.

Chad Wingard was at his freakish best and Melbourne’s folly, Ollie Wines ended with 26 disposals and three second half goals.

While the Ross Lyon Schadenfreude Society loved the loss, the Dockers had a fair few injuries in this one and it definitely hurt them.

That said, it will go down as a disappointing season for Fremantle.

They had the Power on the ropes for a long time, knew they would come back at them and couldn’t land the knockout blow.

I personally thought they missed Tony Modra up forward.

The only good news for Fremantle out of the game was the Power win is probably the only reason the city of Perth is still standing.

For the Power, this was a big step forward. Is this the year for them? I don’t think they’ll go all the way, but the fact they could with a very young team, is good news if you’re a Port supporter.

The elation after the game was obvious to see in the Power camp, but good old Ken made sure their players kept a lid on it. He knew they still had to get out of the stadium alive.

He couldn’t get to David Koch, who was as excited as a TV host making his female co-host pole dance.

The Power now go on to play Hawthorn at the traditional time of 4.45pm. Seriously AFL?

Are you just drawing time slots out of a hat now? It’s lucky I’ve got nothing on. Again.