Topical piece from Jake Niall on the Eagles and the Tim Kelly deal that seems to have backfired and hurt the Eagles -

Bad timing: why the Tim Kelly deal is hurting West Coast

6 minutes ago, Whispering_Jack said:

Topical piece from Jake Niall on the Eagles and the Tim Kelly deal that seems to have backfired and hurt the Eagles -

Bad timing: why the Tim Kelly deal is hurting West Coast

After the drug times and there attitude to the competition I find it hard to have an sympathy. May they rest at the bottom for an extended period.

1 minute ago, old dee said:

After the drug times and there attitude to the competition I find it hard to have an sympathy. May they rest at the bottom for an extended period.

i wish nothing more than mid-table mediocrity upon them

Saints haven’t done too well selling off games. 

Would love to see the suns knock off the pies & obviously the dogs thrash the bummers

18 hours ago, Chook said:

Freo on top of the ladder. That said, I will never agree with the idea that a team can be ahead on the ladder if another team with equal points has a game in hand.

The ladder doesn't count until the end of the round surely. But I agree this will be an issue once the byes start (as they have already in the VFL) . There are solutions like ranking by ratio of wins to total games played and then percentage but for some reason the AFL doesn't do this.

47 minutes ago, Demonland said:

Saints haven’t done too well selling off games. 

yep the media is starting to question the decisions.

Just like we did with the Darwin game.

Alice is the optimum destination if you have to sell a game. Dry and around 22 at game time. Not sure what it would be like playing at night there as we haven't done so as yet

1 hour ago, Diamond_Jim said:

yep the media is starting to question the decisions.

Just like we did with the Darwin game.

Alice is the optimum destination if you have to sell a game. Dry and around 22 at game time. Not sure what it would be like playing at night there as we haven't done so as yet

The AFL is all about equalisation but clearly some  clubs have to sell games to balance their books and some don't. Frankly, no side should ever have to play in Cairns. I couldn't believe how ordinary the ground condition looked pre-game and the humidity is not conducive to playing Australian Rules. If you're trying to sell AFL to Queenslanders why play in Cairns which doesn't show the game to best advantage? I'm sure there's about a thousand places elsewhere in the Country that are at least as deserving off hosting an AFL game.

To me one of the biggest issues is that these games always involve non-Victorian clubs being the away team. How is it that Port Adelaide rather than playing away games in Melbourne against St Kilda & Melbourne get to play them in Cairns & Alice Springs. As I've posted before, these games should be against Victorian teams where loss of home-ground advantage isn't so significant. That doesn't happen apparently because Victorian teams don't like it. Well, bad luck. Their opinions should be totally irrelevant.

Watching filth v gold coast. GC are terrible. 

Umpires love the filth. 2 ridiculous free kicks to Brown. Ridiculous free kick to ginnivan. Clear 50 metre penalty to licotius (sp) ... against #7 daicos. Not paid.

 

Wind GC up. Soulless club designed to make fat cat execs feel good about themselves.

2 minutes ago, Return to Glory said:

Wind GC up. Soulless club designed to make fat cat execs feel good about themselves.

Train wreck

5 minutes ago, Return to Glory said:

Wind GC up. Soulless club designed to make fat cat execs feel good about themselves.

not a club; they're a franchise

sole (soul?) purpose to to have 2 teams in the brisbane market and bolster the broadcast rights deal accordingly

4 hours ago, whatwhat say what said:

alice doesn't have the taxing humidity of cairns or darwin

Cairns is putrid for humidity.

Never been to Alice but no place on earth can possibly be as 'wet' as Cairns. 

19 minutes ago, Jaded No More said:

Cairns is putrid for humidity.

Never been to Alice but no place on earth can possibly be as 'wet' as Cairns. 

If they're going to play in Cairns, it should be a twighlight match so the humidity/dew isn't as bad.

At least they always get a crowd in Cairns. Personally I feel a team in Cairns/Townsville would make more sense than Gold Coast.

15 minutes ago, whatwhat say what said:

not a club; they're a franchise

sole (soul?) purpose to to have 2 teams in the brisbane market and bolster the broadcast rights deal accordingly

I agree, but even GWS (franchise) seems to have players who play for the club. And GWC seems to have no discernible system, just goals through talent of few.

Why don;t they make Brisbane and Gold Coast play in Cairns? It's in their state after all

Here come the Suns 

do do do do

 

May have gone too early

21 minutes ago, DubDee said:

Here come the Suns 

do do do do

 

And I say ... it's alright ....

#freekickbulldogs

Watching the Essendon Bulldogs game with interest. No team gets more frees than the Dogs, and no team consistently feels like they are on the wrong side of umpiring decisions like Essendon supporters.

Channel 7 should have promoted this as the ‘cue the boo’ clash.

5 minutes ago, KysaiahMessiah said:

#freekickbulldogs

Free kick Bulldogs on full display the past few minutes

Pies into the 8

1 hour ago, Jaded No More said:

Cairns is putrid for humidity.

Never been to Alice but no place on earth can possibly be as 'wet' as Cairns. 

Your pretty close there as Cardwell, just south of Cairns, I believe is the wettest place in Aus.

Bulldogs have fallen off a cliff.