FearTheBeard

I’m sure everyone will be happy to know that the blond mutt Williamson (22) is umpiring us yet again.

Ticket sales are a bit better than the Geelong Saturday night game (51.7K) but worse than the Carlton Thursday game (58K). Hard to tell the impact of kids go free for a night game and how big the Essendon away GA turnout will be. I'm thinking 55k, Saturday nights never draw well.

Really classy comparing the afl to the Gestapo.

It is a suspension every day of the week under the current rules.

I'm all for getting ex-head coached as assistant coaches. Dew, Sanderson, Simpson would all be good people to have in the coaching staff. Suspect Simpson will be a head coach elsewhere though.

Bay 207 is the best available bay you can get (208-210 are best seats but are Gold Coast reserved bays). 207/206/205 will likely be full and will be 90% melbourne. I will at the very least be in 207.

Realistically, Max has been banged up for a while and has been miles off his best. He was particularly bad in Brisbane. It mightn't be the worst thing for him to have a week off and let his body recover for a big last 6 weeks. Fullarton will either confirm that he isn't any good or hopefully just nullify Draper. Would also not put it past Simon to bring in Tomlinson and not play a genuine ruck, with Disco/Tomlinson/JVR playing through the ruck.

He's not even close to 100% fit. Looked horrible walking around the hotel in Brisbane last week. Sparrow - Go to Casey.

Well done Dees fans for a great turnout today! 32K was massive overs for that game. Sunday 1:10pm is great for families plus the kids going free deal worked perfectly. It is really really annoying that our home games against Port and GWS are Saturday Night games and not Sunday/Saturday early arvo games.

For me it’s: Carlton and then daylight Geelong because of their stupid ground and whinging coach Collingwood North, the few supporters they have are vile Adelaide

Or people like me who saved up for it... But yes, your point is valid and i'm pretty sure I did say that a lot of people are priced out by it.

Clubs won't say no for as long as the AFL gives them the 750K payment. It's actually a lot of fun IF you are able to/willing to spend a lot, we went out to the wineries for lunches every day this year before heading into to Adelaide Oval. It does price a lot of people out. I'm hoping we get one of the Norwood games next year just for something a bit different.

Hotels for that weekend have been 300% higher than usual since they went on sale because it was obvious Gather Round would be that week. I booked at the Holiday Inn because it was still reasonable. Flights won't go back down to the $149 sale fares that were available yesterday because they were all booked. Like this year, is is more economical for us to drive there instead of paying for flights for 4 people.

Our lowest point of 2013 is the lowest an AFL club will be allowed to get to but I think they are worse over the 2020-2024 5-year period because it has been bottom-2 every season. We at least were a competitive side on the up in 2010/2011 (8.5 wins both years) before everything went balls up. 2014 Melbourne was a far more competitive side under Roos than what North have had. North have been bottom-2 now since 2020. In that 5-year period they have won 13 games and imo you cannot allow a team to be like that for 5 years straight.

Probably as many as our pathetic club got between 2007-2014. Don't forget that apart from the priority picks in 2008 and 2009 we were also basically given Peter Jackson and Paul Roos by the AFL and the AFL also ensured that the Frawley trade gave us pick 3.

Sam Maclure's face makes me real angry.

I think in most cases, if it walks like a free kick and quacks like a free kick then it probably is a free kick. This applies to Holding the Ball, High Contact and In the Back (which seemingly isnt a rule anymore). The problem is and it is a massive problem in my opinion, is that now there are 4 umpires, it means that an extra 12 umpires are now listed as potential Field umpires and these guys just are not up to the standard yet. Then at the other end of the spectrum are the experienced guys who seemingly always have to make it about them (I'm not going to list them because I don't think its fair to the individuals). We also have the problem where players are at the absolute worst for playing for free kicks of all kinds which makes it so hard for the umps. It also does not help that the AFL keep messing with the rules and Laura Kane seemingly has everything that she touches blow up in the AFL' face. I never watched footy back in the good old days, but I'd ask the people here if they thought that the standard of umpiring was better with 1 or 2 field umpires.

Please stop mate, you seem like a fool. I’m here barracking my heart out for them. oliver has been great today, stop being so spiteful.

Next to tarax :)

I’ll be here tonight! Row A cheersquad and making list of noise and only slightly tipsy

Ye look entirely my apologies for being short and being in a lift with our Lord and Saviour Max Gawn

Good guess, I am 5f 7 lol. Had the same experience in a lift with him in Hobart last year

Just arrived in Brisbane and rolled into the Sofitel only to turn around and see myself staring at someone's crotch. Max is unnaturally tall...

Knowing Simon, we will make Wowey sub for the millionth time and then drop him after 5 minutes of footy. Who the hell is going to play on Cameron, Ah Chee, Lohmann, Morris. They have two talls and a bunch of smalls and we have 4 key backs and 2 key backs playing forward.

team selection is criminal