Timothy Reddan-A'Blew

Curious: Why? Separate question: What makes him someone broadcasters want to use in this role. To me it seems limited to a TV-friendly voice and turn of phrase. No big picture wisdom, just catch-the-moment cleverness. So, at best, a caller, not a commentator.

(Sorry to do this here but I wanted to reply to the new 'Featured Article' but I don't know how to do it. Perhaps someone can advise?) The bookies don't make the odds - creating, in this case, the even money for us and Ninthmond (will we be 9th if when we beat them?) - it's the relative volumes of people betting / amounts bet. Willing betters on Richmond - which I suspect is a larger number, out of their supporter base, which we can't match - haven't yet dropped off! It was a different story for the earlier Essendon game when there wasn't enough exposed form versus perceived prospects (for either team) to narrow the odds.

Just don't let him get the ball (anywhere important) in the first place?

Did Whately "Steady on! Just steady on!" this??

(I'm interested in this topic because I hope we're in the frame for it to be actually at all relevant to us!! So...) I reckon that's the point. So the contingency after the first '5+5' should just be another 5+5, same rules. And another (and another, etc), if necessary but, seriously, how likely? I hope there isn't any OH&S nervousNelliedom: an extra half hour, say, after two dozen weeks of 3 hours? Suck it up. What a spectacle; what tension; what a 'tune in' impetus. And surely there can't be any issue of delaying other programs - look at how lengthy golf major play-offs are accommodated, for example. If one went into the evening's programming (that's about a dozen consecutive ties!) maybe then they can rethink it for subsequent years.

Will love to be in the position that that might be an issue 110 minutes in the future!...

Until the game day threads start, this is the nearest next best for this: Love the photo on the promo for Sunday just sent to me by the club. Chunk in fist-pumping exhultation after another rousing goal; Cotchin looking downfield with a worried look on his face!

Two words from JH's 'Burgo-poster': "WE" and "BELIEF"

I don't get any of this but it makes me smile! So thanks!

This is so a Jack Watts thread! (but it doesn't quite look like what I'm used to?!)

Well, that's a departure from the accepted DL wisdom re JG! Love them both and wish we could pick 30 each week!

Didn't see the game and haven't seen the replay yet (am just getting vicarious jollies from trawling through this thread atm) but my best impressions of AB's short career so far have been him loping through the corridor and raking it into the 50 (usually to Jeffy). Do we want/need him in the forwards? He's a back-of-the-square-to-forward-of-the-square link for mine. Clarry ('Jordie'?) is a get it in the contest / rip it out of the contest type for me.

...and any love for Jakey M?

Here's a thought: could Ed now go before Nath? Nah. Resume normal transmission.

Tut tut,Tut!

We are a broad church, to be sure!

A straw poll: How many here on D'Land have MFC-related plates? I am one (though I, like many, will prefer to sit on the specifics, to keep my anonimity).

I imagine the critical mass of demons there will allow Hell to be successful in the rights bidding. And the replays will always melt at the 30 minute mark of a 10 goal last quarter.

As Douglas Adams might (not) have said to you all, "So long, and thanks for all the giraffes"

Always my fear, too, GoB - it's almost infallibly fatal - but fear not this time; the sub-editor's dream, the American 'Pie, is playing his first!

Fasolo: Round 1, poor; Round 2, brilliant; Round 3, poor. Uh oh! Break the run, Nev.

Steady BA, we all have to start somewhere. I'm just impressed they've known how to start a thread!

It's still on the MFC site

And a number of other China/Chinese community based initiatives, I think, here and in China. Reaction from PJ or Bartlett?