Brownlow Kelly has 11 touches and 4 clangers

Giants have [censored] the bed.

No big big sound tonight

Giants so poor

Port have given them every chance with their poor kicking

Giants had 30 free kicks to 16

If it was the Pies this thread would be melting

Gee this place would be up and about if we hadn’t [censored] the bed last week.

Had we won, we’d currently be 10th, knowing that a win on Monday (however unlikely) would take us past the Dogs, and just percentage off GWS in 7th.

As it stands, we’re now just percentage out of the bottom 4 again, and a 10 goal loss would send us back there. Yay.

Other commitments and a general lack of appetite for the game at the moment has meant I've watched a total of not even ten minutes of football this round.

A round with an average score below 60 but still an average margin over 20.

My appetite is not whetted.

1 hour ago, Devil In Disguise said:

Giants have [censored] the bed.

51 minutes ago, dees189227 said:

No big big sound tonight

Well, it was either one or the other?

Or maybe sometimes that is the big big sound?

48 minutes ago, DubDee said:

Giants had 30 free kicks to 16

If it was the Pies this thread would be melting

Close. The pies tonight had 33 to 17 for Casey.

And yes, that thread was melting!

North playing a home game in Bunbury WA against the Eagles. When you add in their Hobart games they are truly a team without a home.

They've also sold their home game against Freo but it's played in Perth at Optus. (This one is interesting because when we sold our home game to Brisbane all those years ago other clubs complained that Brisbane was getting an additional home game that increased their already considerable chances of a high ladder position.)

On the money side the deal goes until 2027 and is reported to be worth around $2.5M per year. At $1.25M per match that's very good money by comparison to what is reported for similar deals. For example we are rumoured to receive $800k for playing in Alice Springs

3 hours ago, Diamond_Jim said:

On the money side the deal goes until 2027 and is reported to be worth around $2.5M per year. At $1.25M per match that's very good money by comparison to what is reported for similar deals. For example we are rumoured to receive $800k for playing in Alice Springs

And that’s why North couldn’t possibly say no to the offer

North playing ‘at home’ in WA against the Eagles?!

wtf?

24 minutes ago, DubDee said:

North playing ‘at home’ in WA against the Eagles?!

wtf?

AFL cough Integrity Unit: Tanking for draft positions = bad. States buying opposition team home games = good.

Edited June 8, 2025Jun 8 by Rab D Nesbitt

if the AFL want to grow the game in regional WA get Freo or Eagles to play a home game there. Bizarre to ask North to play a home game there.

Just now, BDA said:

if the AFL want to grow the game in regional WA get Freo or Eagles to play a home game there. Bizarre to ask North to play a home game there.

North are playing two less games in Hobart this year and this is just their attempt to make up the shortfall.

Agree with you in the sense that Hobart was neutral while selling a home game to Freo which is to be played at the Perth stadium is marginal to say the least

14 minutes ago, Diamond_Jim said:

North are playing two less games in Hobart this year and this is just their attempt to make up the shortfall.

Agree with you in the sense that Hobart was neutral while selling a home game to Freo which is to be played at the Perth stadium is marginal to say the least

were we the first side to sell a home game against an oppo to be played on their home deck when we played the bears at the gabba during their dominant era?

chalked it up as a loss every year... except for that one year neitz dominated, and oh that was glorious!

Eagles doing a good impression of MFC goal kicking. that last miss was a sitter.

North will be on life support in a few years time. Fitzroy 2.0

This charade has gone on too long, they should have been the Gold Coast side 12 years ago.

James Brayshaw assured everyone that he had the long term vision

But nothing happened

8 minutes ago, whatwhat say what said:

were we the first side to sell a home game against an oppo to be played on their home deck when we played the bears at the gabba during their dominant era?

I believe so:

Melbourne sold home games to the ground between 2001 and 2007 in an attempt to rescue their dramatic financial woes, before moving to the ACT for 2008 - 2009 and the Northern Territory from 2010 onwards.

http://demonwiki.org/Gabba

Edit: Apparently Fitzroy were first in the early 90]s hosting teams at Nth Hobart Oval and then at Bruce stadium in Canberra

https://footyology.com.au/is-alice-deal-really-worth-it-for-melbourne/

This article touches on our NT experiment

Edited June 8, 2025Jun 8 by Diamond_Jim

This is hapless from the Eagles

8 minutes to go in the second quarter and they are still goalless. And North can barely get out of their own half

32 minutes ago, BDA said:

if the AFL want to grow the game in regional WA get Freo or Eagles to play a home game there. Bizarre to ask North to play a home game there.

It was North’s choice. They sold the home game for this year and the next two. Probably purely because of the $ they stand to make.

This is an absolute banger.

33 inside 50s

for zero goals and 8 behinds HAS to be a record

even we wouldn’t get near that

Anyone else watching this thinking Melbourne will rise to the challenge West Coast is throwing down for worst kicking at goal?

I watched the Casey v Pies VFL game last night, and have been watching the North v Eagles game since quarter time. Very similar game styles, similar pressure, similar (poor) skills. Absolute snooze fest. So much of our great game has devolved into a defensive network to strangle opposition, followed by fast break turnover, and finished off by exhausted players who can't kick due to exhaustion.

I loathe the Hawks and Pies but their kicking skills (and the Crows) make them at the least very watchable.