SaberFang

I'm guessing there's climate reasons that we play the Alice game pre-bye and the Darwin game a few months later? Temperatures or something?

The bye after the NT game is one of the smartest things I've seen related to our club's fixturing in many a year. Something so obvious, simple and infurating that many of us have screamed out for over the years. That's got PJ all over it, methinks. Well done, MFC/AFL!

Can't complain too much but one Friday night game for us when Sydney and the Bulldogs share 2/3 of every Friday night for the entire season? Taking the [censored] now, aren't they? Even if they made the Grand Final, surely sharing around Friday nights a little more evenly would be the preferred outcome. Have they not learned how boring the surplus of Carlton, Richmond, Collingwood and Hawthorn games became in recent years!?

2 games against Norf, Carlton and Collingwood is great news. St Kilda though...

Wow, pretty pathetic "leadership" from a captain.

Sick to death of these feather-duster punishments for such egregious crimes. They wouldn't happen in the first place if someone was made an example of! You see the same infuriating [censored] in the judiciary system.

It's hilarious that they play Hawthorn in round one. Could you possibly ask for a less timid, vocal and arrogant opposition crowd to "celebrate" the return of your guilty, convicted drug cheats against? They will be booing in full force. Let's not forget the Sam Mitchell incident, and the fact your drug cheating captain cost him a Brownlow! It will be ten times worse if he isn't stripped of it!

Don't worry, the 11:30pm Christmas Eve press release will explain everything.

The fact that Jobe hasn't handed this in already is an indictment on whatever remnants of integrity the bloke had.

LOL. Priceless.

Wait, they actually expect that concocted story to get them off these charges? ... Wow. Just when you thought you'd seen it all over the last 4 years, an even dumber group of drug cheats pops along. Mindboggling.

Well, those guys are all "good blokes," of course.

Sydney get pick 9 & 19 from Port Adelaide for their pick 13 & 17.

Why the hell did Carlton do that deal? Did they trade those scraps to GWS for Pickett or something? Otherwise they gave up their 2017 second rounder for absolute rubbish?! And now Port have given up pick 9 to Sydney for pick 14 and 17?

You can't trade your own but you can trade those from other teams. They somehow got second rounders from GWS and Carlton, not sure how yet.

Pickett and Palmer to Carlton for 45 & 58 from GWS. Yuck @ Rhys Palmer. Geelong 2017 first rounder to Richmond for Deledio.

Gibbs deal not done. Officially remaining at Carlton. Koby Stevens to St Kilda for 50 and 61 from Dogs (and a swap of 4th and 5th rounders next year).

5 seconds. Gibbs must be staying at Carlton.

One minute to go, no deal on Gibbs. Deledio to GWS deal done, details unknown.

Agree, bizarre deal in hindsight. Why didn't they just hold on to their future first rounder?

Pick 10 and two future second rounders to GC for O'Meara. Good deal for GC.

We're done, Dees contingent leaving. Gibbs, Deledio, Marchbank and O'Meara all not done.

Interesting. Throw us a player, Hawks, and it's all yours. I love desperate Hawthorn, much nicer than the one that wins premierships every year.

Brilliant result, another upgraded pick. I wonder if we can package 47 with anything to get an early 40s pick?

They gave up their 2017 first rounder for pick 19 and 29 didn't they? Horrific.