Rodney (Balls) Grinter

Also, is the advantage of leaving open one or two regular list spots that we can promote a rookie to the regular list at any time, according to which ones are showing the sort of form that would have them in contention for a seniors game?

I don't quite get it either. If we commitment to take him as a father son, does that carry over to the rookie draft, where we could out bid a club who nominates him before us in the rookie draft?

Or have the inside knowledge from the coach. Gippsland Power seem to be a pretty happy hunting ground for us of late. Wounder if this is how it works at Geelong scooping the cream off the Falcons?

The BBQ down that country road

Only a few more minutes till some more of the most riveting sporting TV coverage we'll see this year!

Could be a case of the synergy of putting the two of them together is greater than the sum of the parts of them as individual players, which could be scary.

Love your work 666. That goal of Kozzie's against Freo was one of the more enjoyable moments of the season. Glad it got replayed about 3 times from different angles at the end.

Love this attitude. Apparently he attended Rowville Secondary college (government school) for their elite sports/football program at some point. A nephew of mine played with his younger brother at East Ringwood and a one of my nieces played with his sister and/or are coached my his mum there, so a real footy family. Only I think in some respects it does matter. Love XT's attitude to turning down a private school scholarship. The private schools love scooping up the tallents from Jnr clubs and public schools so they can wear it as a badge of sucess to have strong sporting teams and bragging rights when these player's get drafted, when in reality all they did was poach someone that was already a talented sports person. The public school system has been run into the ground and put down by the increasingly govenment subsidised private school system in the country for the past 20-30 years to the point of being something of second class citizens. The properganda seems to be that to be successful in life you need to attend a private school. I think it's awsome that public school kids can have at least a few role models like Max Gawn, Harvey Langford and Xavier Taylor that shows you don't have to go to a private school with the fancy ties, their own swimming pools, sporting feild complexs and world class performs arts auditoriums to be a sucess. P.S. Bayley Fritsch is another outer Eastern boy from the public school system on our list, having gone to primary school at Bimbadeen State Primary in Mooroolbark (my youngest son pointed out his photo hung proudly in the office, along with that of former Demon Matthew Bishop and 'cough cough' Sam Mitchell) and then Lilydale State High.

He says that he did Auskick in Mooroolbark at the start of this interview:

Stoked with this selection. Kozzie cuz power.

The Davey boys went pretty good too.

Going off the last few MFC seasons, I'm pretty happy to have a player kicking a bunch more goals than points at any level.

Am I suposed to feel better about that? Would that make us get Patty McCartin instead of Trac?

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.