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 (89) v Essendon (80)

The footballing arm of the Essendon Legal Defence Fund, showed that while their high priced recruits are all QCs, the players can still challenge the mighty Cats.

That said, the Cats don't appear to be as mighty as they once were. It took two miracle goals from Steven Motlop to get them over the line.

I’ve heard Chris is getting some coaching from Brad on 'excuses'.

Hawthorn (116) v Gold Coast (63)

So it really rains in the Tasmania National Park. This game occasionally looked like it would need to be halted to begin preparations on some sort of ark.

Hawthorn was just too good, with the majority of Suns failing to realise the season goes on for more than 12 rounds.

Not Gary Ablett though. The rain just made him angry. His 45 possessions, while largely unsupported, were worth the £300 Tasmanian for entry alone.

In tragic news for Bruce McAvaney, Cyril Rioli suffered a hamstrung tear and appears to be out for 8-10 weeks.

Bruce managed to pull himself together to call the Collingwood/Carlton game, but if you listened carefully, his voice almost broke with every ‘special.’

St Kilda (73) v Richmond (117)

Good news Tiger fans. It's been a bad season, but not 'we lost to St Kilda' bad.

Trent Cotchin was eager to show Hawthorn what he can offer for a slice of that left over Buddy money.

Cotchin kicked five in a midfield/forward role and was outstanding. Wouldn’t it be wonderful if free agency takes a player like Cotchin from Richmond and delivers him to Hawthorn? What a heartwarming story.

Hardwick said the Tigers are out to earn back respect in the last part of the season. What good news for Richmond fans.

There’s good news for St Kilda fans too, despite the loss. They’ve appointed a New Zealander to their board. It’s part of their plan to crack the $7 New Zealand sporting market.

Imagine if the powers-that-be at St Kilda were putting that amount of effort into fixing the club’s numerous problems in Australia?

Luckily, they’ve got that piece of paper that says they’ll win a Premiership before 2020.

Fremantle (88) v West Coast (81)

West Coast proved again that they are almost-good. Unfortunately for them, Fremantle is quite good.

While Western Derby 40 can’t live up to the hype that surrounds traditional rivalries on this round like North Melbourne/Brisbane, it still has its charms.

West Coast plays Sydney next week, so there goes the season.

Sydney (106) v Greater Western Sydney (60)

The Cost of Living Allowances gave the Massive Draft concessions a wake up call in this one.

What’s that? GWS gets COLA too? I know but they gave it all to Tom Scully’s Dad, so they may have well poured it all down the drain.

Free agency is a big success in my opinion. It’s moved a player like Buddy Franklin from the Premier to the Premier from the year before.

This sort of equalisation is just what the code needs.

How good are Sydney this year? They’re so good that people from Sydney are aware they exist. Some are even attending games!

Word is, Sydney has had to significantly reinforce their bandwagon ahead of the Finals.

The Giants, however don’t have that problem. They have a ‘bandscooter’ instead, which they are thinking of selling.

Brisbane (70) v North Melbourne (66)

Unless you're part of that rare species, a North Melbourne fan, this was a cracker of a night.

To begin, Brisbane honoured the retiring Jonathan Brown the only way that was fitting, with a stirring win and Brad Scott turned in a coaching performance worthy of Brad Scott.

North fans keep pointing out that he can’t coach, but the media seem to be a bit quiet about it.

If performances like this were happening at another club they’d be a hue and cry to get rid of him.

Brent Harvey got a little upset with Tom Rockliff at the end of the game which was fun to watch. Seems Boomer isn’t a fan of being on the receiving end of what he usually dishes up to people.

Lucky he had Brad Scott there to protect him. Classy move by Brad to spend the ceremony acknowledging Jonathan Brown by having a whinge directly to Rockliff.

He usually saves that level of sooking for his post-match conferences.

Western Bulldogs (91) v Melbourne (85)

What a shame I had to watch this. Not just because Melbourne lost, but the skills were beyond terrible.

Melbourne spent most of the first half remembering everything Mark Neeld taught them.

They fumbled, missed targets, didn’t try and did that ‘slow jogging at all times’ thing they used to do.

The Bulldogs just sat back and capitalised on the steady stream of turnovers the Dees committed.

Finally, Melbourne seemed to remember some of the thing Paul Roos has been telling them to do and it looked like the momentum was all theirs.

But the Dogs just had that little bit more polish when it counted, with first year player Marcus Bontempelli showing he’s one to watch in the future.

There was a bit of controversy with a few umpiring decisions, a deliberate rush behind against Melbourne being the most glaring, but Melbourne would have to have their head in the snow to think the umpires beat them.

You can’t play like the 2013 Melbourne team for two quarters and expect to win anything.

Adelaide (99) v Port Adelaide (76)

It felt like Carlton lost twice on the weekend. Once against Collingwood and again to the Adelaide Crows, with former players Sam Jacobs and Eddie Betts crucial in the Crows victory over the more-favoured Power.

When you think about it, Malthouse’s said his big positive last year was turning over a quarter of his list.

Guess he meant a positive for the rest of the competition or as I like to call it, ‘the Richmond Strategy.’

Port Adelaide is obviously done for the year and we should instantly write them off. This performance shows they can’t travel.

For Adelaide, this win raises questions about why they started the year so badly. Probably something to do with time zones.

Collingwood (91) v Carlton (76)

How good is Sunday Night Footy? I think it’s great, if only for Eddie’s reaction.

Poor guy. Must be hard at the competition’s richest club.

Of course, you have to wonder why the folks at the AFL felt the need to ‘test’ this timeslot to prove no one would go.

I hear they are now planning to ‘test’ what happens when you stick a fork in a toaster. Don’t give up after one go guys!

Collingwood sent a strong message to the rest of the competition with this performance, ‘we are not top four.’

They got the job done, but it wasn’t exactly dominant and in parts they even made Carlton look OK which is not easy.

Dale Thomas showed he’s still friends with a lot of the Collingwood players by frequently turning the ball over to them. What a nice guy.

I heard he had to count his money for an extra hour last night to be able to get to sleep.