Rodney (Balls) Grinter

So here's the other million dollar question - which team gets cut? ...personally, I say North and put them out of their misery and send them South to Tassie, or Hawthorn since they love the place that much, they can make it a perminant home base.

I like alot about this proposal @tiers. Certainly has a lot of potential to more fairly even out the draw. Big issue with basing the double-ups on last seasons lader positions is that teams often improve or get worse from one season to the next, based on injuries, the rise and fall of list profiles etc, such that a fair draw could only really be determined in retrospect - or on the fly as you are proposing. Don't see it as being a big disadvantage of not knowing the last half dozen fixture games in advance as the league pretty much let the time/day of those float around at the moment anyway until a large way through the season. Love the idea of going back to simultaneous games - was such an interesting feature of going to the footy on a Saturday or Sunday to check in on the other scores of games as they progressed, which I feel has been lost. The inability of teams to game the system is also a great feature. Personally, I'd like some kind of weighting system applied in the finals system, or even just leave it as the system we had the past 10 years or so. I do like the sudden death elimination nature of finals, making prelims etc and that the best performing teams throughout the season get some reward for consistent performance throughout the season in the way of second chances, weeks off, home games etc, which I think all ultimately improves the theatre. But all in all, I like this out of the box thinking.

So disapointed with the AFL/MFC (not sure who's decision is was) that we are once again playing a home game at Marvel (again against West Coast). A few years ago the club announced with great fan fair that they'd 'won the war' and we wouldn't play home games at Marvel, but it seems like they have totally capitulated on the issue again.

Sorry, constant night games are rubbish for taking kids to the footy. Particularly when most with young families live towards outer suburbia these days, your looking at 12:00am - 1:00am until you get home. Doing that with pre-teen kids every week isn't fun at all. That said, early Sunday afternoon games aren't that great either, because they tend to clash with Jnr footy, which is typically played on a Sunday. I am so over the AFL constantly scheduling games to suit whatever their TV masters desire as opposed to the real fans. Please give us back more of our traditional Saturday 2:10pm time slot.

Bring it on!!

Which is saying something, because Culley is a big man too and looking totally ripped - obviously kept in good shape over the break.

Wounder how 9thmond Tigers supporters feel about all this? ...I guess with 3 flags in the bag in the last 10 years, they probably don't care.

Agree with this to an extent. It now places more of a premium on finish 5 / 6 compared to just 5 - 8. That said, I think those teams in positions 5 - 8 are usually fighting pretty hard to make sure that a) they have a top 8 position secured and/or b) they give themselves a chance to finish top 4. In some ways, I can live with this and it does somewhat even out teams not making the top 8, because they had a harder H&A draw. Not that it matters in a way. Finishing top 4 is still the percentage play to win a flag. Still Brisbane won it from what 5th this season - will someone win it from 9th/10th one day?

Would love to finish 10th and knock out Collingwood who finish 7th, just to make them spew.

Agree to a point. He looks horrible in a Melbourne jumper and don't really see how he fits our list, unless we could some how have him as a rookie or something, but saying he's a waste of flesh and bone is going a bit far. I know he's got a bit of arrogant Yank that you probably couldn't beat out of him, but asides from that he seems to be a decent enough bloke and unworthy of quite that level of vitriol.

Can someone change the title of the thread to this?

Yeah, he's been missing someone to spew on since $cully took the money and ran ... and then broke down.

Oh please 🙄 Talk about melodramatic.