1 minute ago, Sydee said:

If Kozzy did what Mills did we all know 100% he'd be gone for at least 3 weeks - this tribunal system is a complete farce

On Spargo's injury he did seem to hurt his shoulder just before the Mills contact when he was in a contest on the left forward pocket - could be either incident I think

The hit would have exacerbated the prior niggle to the n-th .

Quite frankly the AFL disgusts me with its bias.

13 minutes ago, roy11 said:

"Melbourne Victory in the A-league have reported a comprehensive loss of $9.877 million on revenue of $17.368 million for 2024. The company reports negative equity in the order of -$12.376 million"

Yeh no free drinks from these fellas

Wow, that’s a big hole to fill.

Paramount deal is not allowing the game to be adopted by the majority.

When a finals match from last week out of Auckland not being shown free to air, you can see that contracts play a more important place than the grass roots spectators. No new fans, no merchandise sales.

Victory are one of the biggest, if not the biggest club and make finals regularly. Last seasons runner-up.

They also produce stars for international and Socceross call ups.

Something is wrong with their business plan, with such a financial loss.

Their open training was good to watch even though a flush run. Miranda the captain on his own program after carrying a niggle to Auckland. Adama Traorè in full training mode today.

Thay play the grandfinal against Melbourne City, 31 May 7.40pm kickoff, at AAMI. The Friday game is the only AFL one on in Melbourne this week, a free kick to the A-League.

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1 hour ago, Ghostwriter said:

Spargs has indeed done a scapula but isn’t expected to be sidelined for eight weeks, the doc said it’s likely only four or five weeks because it wasn’t as bad as they oftentimes are.

Absurd that mills gets 1 week after breaking spargo scapula!!!

1 minute ago, Oxdee said:

Absurd that mills gets 1 week after breaking spargo scapula!!!

The thing is though, his shoulder was already an issue due to an incident a few minutes earlier. But yeah, the Mills bump wouldn’t have helped.

46 minutes ago, Sydee said:

If Kozzy did what Mills did we all know 100% he'd be gone for at least 3 weeks - this tribunal system is a complete farce

On Spargo's injury he did seem to hurt his shoulder just before the Mills contact when he was in a contest on the left forward pocket - could be either incident I think

Spargs says it was the first incident.

Talk about humble! I told Bowser that we’ve always known how good he is but now it seems everyone else is taking notice. I quoted Kingy who said, “Watch out, young fellah. You’re on the rest of the competition’s radar.” I told him he’ll be minded from now on and he actually blushed. 🥹 He said, “nah, that won’t happen.” I said don’t make me slap a player! He said, “Okay, that won’t happen… every week.” 😅 He’s a quick learner is our #17 😉

1 hour ago, chook fowler said:

it's bad when it is only head injury that is taken into account by the tribunal in deciding penalty for unduly rough play. Mills should have got 3

who says that is all they take into account?

spargs scapula injury was not known at mro time (even if it was done in a previous incident)

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10 minutes ago, Ghostwriter said:

Talk about humble! I told Bowser that we’ve always known how good he is but now it seems everyone else is taking notice. I quoted Kingy who said, “Watch out, young fellah. You’re on the rest of the competition’s radar.” I told him he’ll be minded from now on and he actually blushed. 🥹 He said, “nah, that won’t happen.” I said don’t make me slap a player! He said, “Okay, that won’t happen… every week.” 😅 He’s a quick learner is our #17 😉

Next time you speak to him, tell him Chook thinks he's got himself in ripping nick.

2 hours ago, DistrACTION Jackson said:

Was Lever at training?

He was not with the squad doing the flushing.

Turned up later in casual training gear, started pointing and instructing until they gathered with the Administrator staff.

1 hour ago, Ghostwriter said:

Spargs says it was the first incident.

Yes it was the contest immediately before the Mills hit, remember Spargo grimacing and then rallying... only for the bump to happen. Poor Paul!

Hopefully the injury isn’t to Spargo’s DJ arm

Another huge thanks to Ghostwriter, Harvey Wallbanger, Kev Martin, all posters and special comments greatly appreciated. Terrible news for Charles though, he is such a valuable pressures player.

49 minutes ago, DeelightfulPlay said:

Yes it was the contest immediately before the Mills hit, remember Spargo grimacing and then rallying... only for the bump to happen. Poor Paul!

That initiated it. Watching you see him grimace. Having [censored] Mills go into orbit to collect him did him no measure of help.

Tough cookie Spargypants

23 minutes ago, beelzebub said:

That initiated it. Watching you see him grimace. Having [censored] Mills go into orbit to collect him did him no measure of help.

Tough cookie Spargypants

Yes and then he clearly wanted to stay on the ground, based on his grumpy face on the bench! Tough cookie!

Well I’ve just got back from the beach and the reports are continuing to achieve standards not seen before in afl circles. I don’t want to pat myself on the back as I’m yet to do a report but I will anyway.

6 hours ago, Ghostwriter said:

Update: the coffee wasn’t free, not even for their members! Cheap bastards.

After our boys had gone back to the rooms Salo hung around with some little Victory fans and was showing them his soccer skills. Very impressive and I wanted to film it, but by the time I found my phone in the bottom of my bag he’d finished up. 😢

Thanks 👻, and others for their reports.

So was Salo’s soccer session extremely short, or are you just slow on the draw with your phone? 🤔

55 minutes ago, monoccular said:

Thanks 👻, and others for their reports.

So was Salo’s soccer session extremely short, or are you just slow on the draw with your phone? 🤔

He put on a decent-length show but I had to deep dive into the great abyss that is my bag. Meanwhile the phone was in my pocket the whole time 🙄

5 hours ago, Kev said:

He was not with the squad doing the flushing.

Turned up later in casual training gear, started pointing and instructing until they gathered with the Administrator staff.

There were a total of eleven listed players who did not "do the soccer". Individual programmes apparently....

8 hours ago, Ghostwriter said:

Dunno but our boys are having an absolute blast playing with them.

Thanks Ghosty, but for those decrying the soccer work at our flush runs, you forgot to mention that when our boys came out, in the spirit of cross-code harmony they left a bag of Sherrins with the Victory mob, who did a session of kick to kick - they didn’t touch the round balls. There was a lot of across the body kicking on display - expect some heavy checkside action in their next outing. 🏉

(Weak attempt at humour alert - just joshin’….😉)

Edited May 27, 2025May 27 by Tim

16 minutes ago, Tim said:

Thanks Ghosty, but for those decrying the soccer work at our flush runs, you forgot to mention that when our boys came out, in the spirit of cross-code harmony they left a bag of Sherrins with the Victory mob, who did a session of kick to kick - they didn’t touch the round balls. A lot of across the body kicking - expect some heavy checkside action in their next outing. 🏉

I didn’t notice that. I should’ve since I spent quite some time on the Victory side of the fence but then again I was too busy trying to bum a *free coffee to notice anything.

*by free I mean totally not free.

7 hours ago, Sydee said:

If Kozzy did what Mills did we all know 100% he'd be gone for at least 3 weeks - this tribunal system is a complete farce

On Spargo's injury he did seem to hurt his shoulder just before the Mills contact when he was in a contest on the left forward pocket - could be either incident I think

If Kozzie did that the AFL would have thrown 6 weeks at him.

9 hours ago, Deeko2 said:

Hey Ghosty, thanks for keeping the training threads going along. Really appreciate it.

Hey can you tell me if McAdam has been back around the group? I thought he would have been more visible around the indigenous rounds but I don't recall seeing him.

Does he still get around the lads much or are they getting around him still?

Deeko, I'm pretty sure I saw in doing some of the AFL promo stuff for Sir Doug's round a week or so ago on TV representing the club. Good way to keep him involved and engaged.