Bring-Back-Powell

On paper it's probably about 7th. ANB, Spargo and Weideman aren't names you would associate with dominant forward lines, on paper at least. And Petracca's an inconsistent player. That being said, if Weideman can kick 35-40 goals and takes up the Hogan slack, then we're laughing.

Interesting that we're the last of the clubs to return to training, despite a very late start and an extensive rehab group. Meanwhile contenders such as West Coast and Collingwood are back today and Wednesday respectively. Not having a go, just interesting.

Is one of them Jack Watts?

Weren't Infinity becoming our BOJ sponsor or was that just a rumor around here.

North just became the most inneficient and slowest midfield in the league.

I can't see a single thing in Tim Smith that would warrant him being on an AFL list. The one thing he was supposed to bring to the AFL table was elite accuracy, but at 4 goals 5 thus far, he couldn't even excel at that. However, I see a brighter future in our other Smith

Who cares. Dangerfield won’t even bother playing. He’s too busy campaigning for less games and shorter quarters....but obviously more money.

Or perhaps he’s a micro manager?

Should we go all in and give him a 6 year contract?

And a couple of Johnny Coleman’s

JM’s only 41

Some random bloke that loves chatting with Lord Nev and ribbing Salem about EPL teams???

Any relation to the great Peter Hore?

Yep, they were the good old days. Although back in the first year of Docklands (Colonial Stadium in 2000) they had just one other game in progression and still listed the 2 teams as W and X on the scoreboard one particular Saturday night. I can remember at the time thinking why didn't they just name the 2 sides as we all knew who they were, given there were just the 2 games on that Saturday night.

15 wins in the H & A. Then a respectable loss in the prelim is my pass mark.

Was at that game too. Horrid day in the history of the MFC losing to a bottom 4 side with everything on the line. Blundstone arena is a disgraceful AFL stadium. Your’re dead right about the cues to the toilets and food/bars. Probably up to 20 and 30 minutes respectively. Not good enough for a professional league such as the AFL. Manuka oval is not much better.

Round 2 2017. Before that round 11 2011. Before that round 5 2008.

I used to hate the idea of selling home games in the NT. However, we’ve finally started to win games there to the point where we went 2-0 there this year. And they were both dominant performances. We’ve also mastered the recovery component of NT games as we’ve won our last 4 games the week after NT games. Hopefully we can make the NT a fortress gong forward whereby we get an automatic 4 points, the opposition dread the trip up there and we cash in financially. And we still get our 11-12 games at the G. North will play finals next year due to playing 4 games at their ‘fortress’. And hopefully we’re too good for West Coast Adelaide with those 2 extra wins getting us into the top 2 after rd 23.

The weather shouldn't be an issue in Alice Springs in mid July, which is when we play WCE. The game starts at 2:50 so the second half will be played in the shade and the average maximum is only 20 in July.

We actually also got a 6 day break after Alice this year when we played the Dogs after the Adelaide game. Hopefully getting a 9 day break after the Darwin game next year will be of benefit as opposed to the usual 7.

West Coast, Collingwood and Richmond twice. We play Gold Coast and West Coast back to back interstate. West Coast off a 6 day break. Very stiff draw.

Could be a Friday night game in Melbourne for us in round 3 if we’re playing Thursday in round 4. No way the AFL would give us a 5 day break and a 4 day break in the one month...

Great idea. Except Eddie will throw the toys out of the cot and demand a new queens birthday partner. And the AFL will roll over to him.

I get the feeling we’ll playing in the NT for the next 20 years at least.

I would've thought one of Pert's first gigs on the job would've been to ensure we keep Q'bday as our home game until the following season. We're already missing out on a ton of gate receipts as the away team on Anzac Eve. Perhaps we have some blockbuster home Friday night games to offset the Queens Birthday loss of revenue??