Bring-Back-Powell

We must be near insolvent and ready to hand the keys back to the AFL if we're voluntarily agreeing to host Adelaide in Darwin given the following factors: 1) Home quarantining from Thursday lunch time to Saturday morning in preparation for a game day arrival for Gold Coast. 2) Hub/quarantine in Perth for a full week in preparation for the West Coast game. 3) Play Adelaide the week after in Darwin in energy sapping conditions just 3 week prior to finals, while at the same time alienating Melbourne's heart and soul (VIC crowds could well be 25% on 14 August) who have had just 7 opportunities to see their side play since round 1 2020 despite paying good money for a membership. 4) Then facing Geelong at the most difficult venue in the AFL in a presumed top 4 win or bust game - with the likes of Jackson, Jordon, Spargo, Rivers, and Pickett being physically and mentally destroyed after a 3 week circus over the country. I just cannot fathom why our club would be jeopardising everything other than that we are near broke and diabolically need a cheque from the NT. Struggling to grasp this news.

True on both counts but if the next 2 weeks remains stable in VIC, there will most likely be crowds at the G in round 22.

Can you please advise if there's any truth to our Adelaide game being in Darwin in round 22?

Winning is the only option despite any adversity we'll face in the coming days. If you're losing to Gold Coast Suns, you're not making top 4.

There should also be a crowd in Melbourne during that weekend.

What a way to alienate the majority of your membership. This game was probably going to have crowds at the G and now there’s talk of all finals being played in Perth if you believe the media. GC- Perth- Darwin- Geelong. Great preparation for finals… We must be near broke if we’ve initiated this.

This game will be at Metricon. They’ll find a way to play the game up there.

Aunty Annastacia might put the slows on the GC V Dees game going ahead with this development?

Interesting you say that. I went to the recent Dogs V Sydney game at Marvel where the Dogs won the free kick count 29-16, but the side itself put on a pretty ordinary performance overall in a 3 goal loss. I couldn't believe my ears when I was in the car park lift post game and I heard a few Doggies supporters directly blaming the umpires rather than their sides performance for the loss. Their supporters are going to be in for a rude shock when the tables turn and they lose a final via a controversial free kick.

You couldn't script that luck. As mentioned before I expect our CEO to have negotiated for Melbourne to receive half the proceeds if this game is in Darwin, due to: a) Losing our contract for the Alice Springs game in June. b) Being the bunnies that have to cop a Darwin game whilst we're in a critical phase of our season.

I'd be flabbergasted if it isn't at Metricon.

Luckily we have no home games for this next 2 week period. We play Adelaide on 14/15 Aug so hopefully we can have crowds by then.

This makes no sense to me. No sense whatsoever. The AFL are using Perth as a contingency plan for finals. You know the state that locks down on the morning of game day without any notice. How can the AFL possibly take that risk on grand final day? With regards to out lockdown ending today, we should be able to have a crowd for our game against Adelaide in round 22, if the easing of restrictions are consistent with lockdown 4, which they appear to be at this stage.

The free kick may have been even but perhaps one side got awarded all the marginal calls and the other side missed out. Certainly appeared that way last weekend.

Can anyone recall if we got crucified in the round 11 game against them? The free kick count of 16-15 would suggest not.

Would be peak Melbourne to lose this game if the Suns had to bring their home game to us.

Channel 7 reckon we’ll have the 3:10 timeslot this Saturday afternoon. Venue not confirmed. Marvel available on Saturday. Just saying….

Round 2 2014. We lost a tight one by 93 points. I don't think we've been fixtured as the home team since mid 2015 when we played them in Darwin. Your idea sounds awesome but we'd never be this lucky.

There's clearly economic benefits for the NRL to move up to QLD, just like the AFL last year. Conversely Brisbane flying down to VIC provides no benefit to QLD. Their chief health officer showed her hand last year when she admitted that Hollywood superstars would be given priority over the run of the mill nothing special Australian who applied for special consideration to come into that state.

If Geelong are a little off their tucker I can see North rolling them down in Hobart. Fortunately for them, and unfortunately for us, Geelong are way too mature to drop this sort of game this late in the season. I'd expect the Dees to get clearance to play GC at Metricon on Saturday twilight.

I assume they've made a typo with the GC V Melbourne game being at the GABBA. Would probably prefer it at the GABBA given that we had a winning record at the GABBA and a losing record at Metricon last year. I'm sure we'll play this game in QLD. That state will always provide exemptions where there's possible economic benefits to suit them.

I think we need to cop 1 or 2 of Melksham's half hearted defensive efforts in exchange for the offensive rewards he can provide going the other way. Yes, if he fails to impact then he's gone for good, but we need to mix things up a bit. The Dogs are the best side in the league and they make 4 changes a week.

Agree with all that. I like your ins in Melksham and Jones. Bring in some veterans to help us get to the rd 23 finish line. LJ and JJ to be rested completely from footy. Jackson has had 3 kicks in 2 weeks and one of them went straight to his opponent in Tim English. Jordon looked off the boil on the weekend and was a far cry from the cool and composed player we've seen this year. Harmes was just plain bad.

It's not at all confirmed. It may well be 3:20pm as the poster has suggested, but certainly not confirmed.

I'm fine with that. As long as they don't implement this stance in September 2021 which would shut out the cohort of people that are ineligible to get the recommended vaccine until further notice.