Rab D Nesbitt

Not so much a Spurs thing but one dynamic that is very different between football and Australian Rules, particularly in the English Premier League and the Championship is promotion and relegation as well as European football qualification for the elite clubs. The financial implications of which can make a massive difference to a manager's tenure. In AFL a club gets rewarded with the best young player in the country for finishing bottom. As an aside we really should have put Spurs away the other night at Ibrox. Ange can trot out all the all the injury soundbites he likes but his club has a transfer budget 100 times bigger than ours thanks to tv money and leveraged debt.

By all accounts it was a small private occasion for immediate family and friends. Much like our home games.

Perhaps the second oval will have Kardinia Park's dimensions and that's also why we could easily fit both inside the racetrack.

As bad as the Q&A was I'll definitely tune in next year just to see if the questions asked are even more mental that this years.

Quality not quantity LH. 😆

I found the suggestion about building a retirement village for our supporters out at Caulfield convinced me......to vote for mandatory euthanasia at the age of 70 if it ever gets to parliament.

I might go next year and ask if we're against genetically modified crops and suggest we open a cat cafe at Casey Fields.

It could have been a Guinness Book of Records attempt to fit the most amount of stupid people in the one room at the same time.

Geez, I'm 11 minutes into watching the Q&A session from the other night online and it's a hard watch. Is it always complete peanuts that hog the microphone at these events?

That's the worst spell of weather we've had for a while QD. 😆

I catch up with my dad for brunch each month at the cafe under the grandstand. The oval itself looks great but that’s its only redeeming feature. Other than there being an Ibrox Street just outside the ground.

Supports Collingwood apparently. Can't get any lower than that.

Work commitments haven't allowed me to get down to Goschs for a look yet but the more I read about Harvey Langford the more I wonder if we're looking at the next Trac and the thought of seeing in the same side has me salivating.

Hopefully that's all he was doing. 😬

The jig is up for North down there so I doubt that’ll be the case hardtack. With one preseason game in Perth already they’ll want to have at least one hit out in front of their own supporters surely? Of course it could be that it’s played at Casey which may as well be in Tassie for most of us.

North get another ‘home’ game in Perth. Lucky them. I hope our game against them is at Arden St and not in the @rse end of Cranbourne.

Inspired by these training reports I've just dropped the $10 gift I received from a betting app on the Dees to win the flag.

Any clash guernsey that isn't white or grey will be fine. Happy enough with our current 1975-1986 retro royal blue version though.

I work with a rusted on ex South Melbourne supporter who regularly goes to watch them up in Sydney as he is one of our sales reps. He said that there's a big difference in the mindset of both sets of supporters. The Victorian based ex South supporters are very grateful for all Horse has done for the club whilst the Champagne Charlies that go watch them up there just want to win and be entertained all the time.

All good Luci. I'd like this to be a safe space for anyone to post what they think on here. It stands for Brand Petracca 5. Just my little infantile dig.

Hi DeeZone. No, I'm just looking at the facts. He wanted out but we're holding him to his contract. He's a winner and he wants success. If he can't get it with us he'll try and get it somewhere else. That's fine, but I don't have to like or admire him for it. I don't know why anyone else is bothered about what I think about him to be honest. It's just an opinion like everyone else's on here.

Hi Luci. I don't mean fortunes in the monetary sense but rather the luck / chance version of the word. To me, the discussion on here about BP5 is more about why we should / shouldn't see him as any different to others that will be pulling on the red & blue guernsey in 2025. I think there is a subtle distinction to be made, certainly in regards to his peers at the club. In Max and Jack they see their legacy as being intrinsically linked to the MFC. Max re-signed for unders to help keep our best players and as per his post game interview in the GC game Vines never seriously considered taking up North's cheeky contract offer. Wasn't he reported as saying he would make us pay if we didn't draft him? As supporters this is what we love to see. I think the recent events have shown (to me anyway) that Trac's own legacy will be based on his success in the game irrespective of where he needs to play his football to get it. I hope this makes what I'm trying to say a little bit clearer but apologies if not. I don't have an axe to grind with the bloke. I'm just trying to articulate why I see him a little differently now.

No shame in that rpfc.

Guys like Max and Vines have hitched their footballing fortunes to those of the Melbourne Football Club. They are one and the same. Christian Petracca's fortunes are hitched to Christian Petracca, who happens to have a 7 year contract with the Melbourne Football Club. Same same but different.

I hear ya rpfc but it is the silly season so if someone wants to make a pantomime villain out of a sports personality that's been a bit of a tw@t I'm not going to lose any sleep over it.