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MELBOURNE’S AFLW side has announced that Elise O’Dea and Shelley Scott will lead the club as co-captains in 2019. Sarah Lampard and Karen Paxman round out the leadership group.

Demons website has him at 193cm. http://www.melbournefc.com.au/player-profile/steven-may Google search of Steven May height had him at 190cm. Perhaps taken from the Gold Coast website which no longer has him on the Players list.

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Thanks to @EMDE and @daisycutter for assisting me with this.

If the Preuss experiment works Austin will have his work cut out for him.

I'm convinced that plan A is for him to start as a forward relieving Maxy in the ruck. Hopefully it works because it will definitely benefit both TMac and Weid's games as well as Maxys and going a long way to mitigating the loss of Jesse.

I didn't realise that the club deployed the drone for training analysis. I thought the marketing/social media department used it for promotion/web content.

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Well Preuss is a ruckman so he is obviously Taller. Preuss is going to be very hard for oppositions to match up on when down forward. Preuss is 2.06cm May is 1.90cm

My opinion is that the game is not broken so we don't need to fix it by bringing in AFLX. For some stupid unknown reason the AFL think the code needs AFLX and the only way the can try to fasttrack AFLX is by using the current stars of the game. I don't believe the AFLX will succeed in the minor leagues to the point where it can be a showcase because there is no problem with the length or rules of the game. I think the AFL realise that AFLX won't become popular in the bush leagues to the point where they can drag out no-ones and retired stars and get 20,000+ to pay for tickets and hence Danger and co.

AFLX is still going to need some big name players to make it a success. That's why the AFL have "coaxed" Patrick "the season is too long" Dangerfield and the other stars to be the faces of it. I get the whole genesis of BBL starting in the minor leagues but AFL does not have the same issues as the game of long form cricket. There is not a need to rejuvenate the game and in order for the AFL to fasttrack this idea they need stars. They don't have the time to grow this game in the minors because the game is not broken for the minor leagues to be able to bring people over to the concept. The only way to ingratiate the audience is to give them the stars. The AFL have to do it in the reverse of the way the BBL started because they're not coming from the same starting line even though the AFL want AFLX to be the BBL of Aussie Rules.

This bloke just keeps kicking goals with his community work.

Any changes to the rehab group? Gus still there? Hannan present?

Thanks for the report @Satyriconhome When I was at training a few Fridays ago I was looking for the camera on the pole. I noticed the guy behind the goals on the freeway side of the ground with the computer and the joystick but couldn't locate the camera or see a drone in the air. Would be interesting to know how in depth they are with reviewing the training footage and whether they use it to in meetings with players to improve their craft or training standards.

I don't want our players playing either but taking the emotion out of it AFLX can only succeed with the best of the best playing. If AFLX is on TV no-one wants to watch no names.

That's not what I'm saying. Personally I don't want any Demons playing for fear of injury. That's unrealistic (not having at least one or 2 or 3 Dees in a four team 10 man a team comp) so my preference is no AFLX. Those feelings aside my personal belief is that the only way the CONCEPT of AFLX succeeding is to have top line AFL stars playing it.