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Irrespective of what Walker himself decides to do about next year his club have already made the decision to keep him on for 2022 judging by the six week ban handed down. You'd think if they has any intention of ripping up his contract they'd already have done it. It'll be interesting to see if on the back of that whether any of their current indigenous players seek a move away or if it makes bringing in players more difficult. If nothing else at least they didn't hold a presser to announce it being a proud day for the Adelaide Football Club.

Carlton have all the presence of a wet lettuce leaf. Teague must stay.

This might end up being a moot point but I seem to remember receiving an email (or it could have been a letter I guess) that I received sometime last season as a category 1 Tridents member that in recognition of 'donating' my membership payment for 2020 should we play finals in 2021 the first one would be free. Does anyone else remember receiving something like this because for the life of me I can't find it anywhere.

Hi DEE Fence. What are you doing over in Sudan if you don’t mind me asking and what’s it like being there? I’ve always fancied going out to see those pyramids at Meroe. Does that old railway still run between Wadi Halfa and Khartoum?

I reckon 10 years of playing in front of nobody is paying off now for GWS. They thrive in empty stadiums.

Just tuned into this game. Giants need one more goal I reckon.

I'm not against there being a side in Tasmania but every time I've been down there for a game the place has been a ghost town on the Sunday and you can't get a decent pub that opens before 4pm. Then again AFL footballers probably have different motivations.

I wonder if they're related to Rob Sitch who is also a Melbourne supporter.

Without any breakdown these number tell very little. For all we know the 25,000 civil servants working in Canberra all get 2 game Giants memberships as part of their salary package.

It all sounds very promising. Maybe we can make some extra money by offering up the naming rights. Grolsch's Paddock? With the Cherry Tree just a five minute walk away in Cremorne I'm not fussed about whether there's a social club included. As for the extension of AAMI Park I'm glad to hear it. We need it to host big international matches. Nothing looks more amateurish than plonking a football pitch in the middle of a huge footy oval.

I might be the only person on here that doesn't mind the Dockers retro guernsey, if only for addition of the green. And that's from a Rangers supporter! They should really think about adding a bit of green to their current home and away guernseys. Their white away one is particularly bland and soulless.

VA metal flying into OOL. That's travel industry parlance if ever I heard it. Where in the business do / did you work Superunknown? I think the original plan was to refuel, take meals onboard and change the flight crew for a flight to Perth and logistically this was easier to do in BNE.

Managed to snag one of the few tables at The Rose to watch this one. Don’t know how they’re going to accommodate so many overlapping games to be honest. Like everyone else I have no idea which version of Melbourne will show up today but I’d feel sick to my stomach if we throw away another opportunity.

Hi Wellsy. Yup, I get all that, I really do. I had no problem letting the club keep my $800 from last year have no intention of asking for anything back for the games we've been locked out of this year but they can't be doing this for games we could legitimately attend.

If we do end up having crowds back for that round and this game is moved up there I’ll be ringing the club for a proportional refund on my tridents membership.

Hi there Titan. I appreciate what you're saying but I was just trying to give some perspective with the amount of travel time AFL side have when compared to other sports. On average we play 6 interstate games a year, at least half of which will usually be no more than an hour away by air and played in similar conditions to our own. I'm not sure how much playing 60 games a season of a supposedly less taxing sport in comparison to our 22 games factor into a players flight fatigue any more than how much padding they wear in a game could. Likewise I don't know if Trac would necessarily feel more refreshed than Nibbler getting off that plane in Perth next Sunday just because he's on $500k a year more.

I know that footballers in other countries are seen as prima donnas by followers of our code but at the highest level an English Premier League side could be playing a domestic game on a late Sunday afternoon followed by a Champions League game as far away as Moscow (a four hour flight) midweek followed by another domestic game on the weekend. If they're good enough to play for their respective country they might have to fly to any part of the globe for a midweek international (Manchester to La Paz in December for example where there isn't just a climatic change but an elevation difference of over 3,600 metres) then back again for another domestic game. NFL players will play in Miami one week, Green Bay the next and Denver the week after.

If they move this game back to Darwin then there is no way it will be played in the afternoon. It's still stinking hot during the day but the conditions are really good for a night game. Most of our side would be familiar with the place so it would be more of a home game for us if it happened I think. We'd also be flying to Perth a whole week before our next game anyway so recovery shouldn't be an issue.

With a 3.10pm start it's fair to say it won't be in Darwin then.

Sure I'm disappointed but looking at the game in isolation there was very little between the two sides on the night. Had we been able to pick up the ball at the first attempt in the middle & inside fifty and hand it off cleanly, particularly in the first half, then we're probably looking at a different result. Again, when we're able to lock the ball in our forward half for long spells we have so little to show for it on the scoreboard and letting them out the back to score on the counter undoes it all. This result only looks bad when we bring our other losses into the equation and what it might mean for where we finish the home & away season. After eighteen games no side has been able to put us away and I'm still confident that we can go all the way if we can get the double chance. I'm also not keen to chop and change the side. If this is our best 23 for the game style we play then they need to find form as a collective in the next four weeks. Anyway try and enjoy your Sunday everyone. Living deep in doggie territory I've already snuck out to the shops and back before I see any red, white and blue on show.

Not sure if I've seen that one. Will put it on the to do list for a rainy weekend.

Wow. Never heard that before EO. He's got a a really good voice Fran Healy.

Yeah, love that song from the movie Hardtack. The cafe is in Newberry Springs and was known as the Sidewinder Cafe back then. I camped next to it for a few days when I was taking photos in the area. Barely a soul around. The film itself has a beautiful light to it.

Glaswegians (from Glasgow), or Glesga' as we say.