FireInTheBennelly

Why do we need to get to 5 goals down before we start playing football????

How about Malceski and their first pick for Chip?

Did Viney just get pinged for knocking the ball out in a tackle?

Don't mind them but I think you're getting into dangerous territory telling players they can't assist in a tackle, or play the ball under circumstances. Can I offer some tweaks? Free kick against the 3rd player into a tackle where the ball cariier is on the ground. Automatic push in the back for any player on the ground with a player laying on his back, providing the ball acriier has not rolled over. No 'in the back' decisions apply where the ball carrier has taken possession of the ball whilst on the ground. (Tempted with this one to saying no head highs either but the whole sacrosanct thing....) That last one could potentially swap in for the stupis sliding rule as well, as a player would be far less likey to do it knowing he wasn't aligible for a free and quite likely going to cop a belting. Don't know, thoughts? Agreed, hate rule changes.

Completely disagree, there was a free there, but it should have been against Crameri for blocking Dunns run at the contest. Crameri should also go for his rough conduct headlock on Dunn. That's something that should not be tolerated by the MRP. L. Jones gone for his disgraceful bump. Who was it that hit N. Jones square in the head (no free kick either), you're gone, and there was another punch in the face at some point. I count four dogs rubbed out for their next match. Any comment Purple/Jumbo?

Jumbo's very quiet.....

If it's supposed to only take half a second to make a decision like that on the field why is it taking the jury this long to make their decision....

The club needs to employ someone, possibly an ex-umpire to go through each game and put a tape together of all the [censored] calls, send it to the AFL and ask for explanations. Every game we are getting caned by umpires, so the pressure needs to be put back on them. The other thing I'd do is instruct each player, that if you're holding the ball when an umpire wants it for a bounce or throw, put it on the ground, make them pick it up. Even tell them until they show us some respect they don't get any either. Is there any free kick rule against that?

It's Lynch's head that comes back into contact with Georgiou's. Lynch to get 3 weeks

Cannot recall a more quiet Adelaide crowd. Love it

Well bugger me, we've drafted a kid that knows how to play football

I thought Clisby was a certain in for Terlich. Not so sure now, I think Nev may get a run. Tough choice, they both deserve a crack I think.

You're onto something here. Each training session this week should be preceded by the whole team sitting down to watch the replay together. If it's hard for us to watch it must be tough for each team member to see every [censored] up by one of their team mates.

Can't recall who was playing but one team was dominating through the corridor. Cometti referred to it as 'the Nate Myles effect'. Gold!!

Same here, although I'm assuming what the link showed me was his output for 2014. Absolutely [censored] all

Forehead....

Picture 10 reminds me way too much of the last few seasons. Just sayin....

Will have to give you the old 'yeah-nah' on that. As an owner the AFL would want us to play every home game (ex-NT) at the G. Ain't gonna happen. We're also a lock to get the crap Mothers Day timeslot. How many Friday Night games do you think? An owner would want maximum return. Vlad's just going through the motions. It's up to us to push our way through and we've done everything right thus far (for season 2014) They've propped us up, sure, but not as much as they have other teams. Don't believe the hype.

Looking back, it could have easily been Fitz being traded instead of/as well as Gysberts, as neither were in Neeld's good books. Fitzy's VFL form was good enough to get a decent run for us in AFL but he was obviously out of favour under Neeld. Craig takes over and Fitzy takes leaps and bounds. Neeld quite clearly got a lot of [censored] wrong and Gysberts may or may not be one of them. He simply wasn't big enough for Norf, and probably never tried to root the skippers mrs, so he got cut. He's light yes, but he may be a slow developer. A very slow developer....... I wouldn't be against having him train with us with a view to be rookied, but he'd need to dig deep. Very [censored] deep.

I wonder what he would look/play like now if he was originally picked up by Essendon.....

Fair call i'm in. It would surely suggest no boardroom member ever quits again. Far more beneficial to start a blue, wait for the AFL kicker and then walk away. Simples

Ya [censored] what? Never heard of this [censored], got a link? What's the reason for it?

http://www.afl.com.au/news/2013-10-24/lions-splash-cash-on-footy-department

What other conditions could they put on? Potentially 'ensure you are [censored] in trade period this year' could be one. They're certainly living up to their end of the bargain in that regard.

If I have this right, we are receiving $1.45M in AFL funding. The $1M is no strings attached, the $450K is dependant upon us raising the same $450K amount ourselves. It has been widely debated whether or not we deserve this handout, despite our poor (understated) performances over an extended period. The Brisbane Lions have just anounced they are receiving $1.8M in AFL funding as a bonus for resolving boardrom issues without needing an EGM. Haven't heard a word of criticism on this funding. WTF! Sure, they obviously have some issues, but their onfield performances have been sound. They won the NAB Cup. How can they receive more AFL funding than we have because they were able to resolve some tiff between suits???? 2013 they only paid the minimum 95% of the salary cap (like us), but openly admit they will now be able to pay the full cap next year due to this handout. Will we be able to do that? Under real equalisation who would 'deserve' the money more? Why the hell has no other team raised any issues with this payment, when they constantly dispute anything that we receive? I don't get it.