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I don't mind playing away first final from 3rd. It gets the away final out of the way while we still have a double chance. Our interstate opponent (win or draw) goes into the other side of the draw. We get a "home" prelim final against Collingwood if we both last. If we lose this first final, we next get a home final against 5th to 8th.

I understood only Richmond in 1967 from 4th and none from 3rd?

It is a ripper. I have always supposed that they had the costumes and props from the Mosely series.

Ask an Irishman.

Do you have the kms run? I believe that when Spargo is seen at defensive 50, the boys are putting on the screws and we win. Said that last year and got a kicking.

Who is Tony Hardiman? You list some good players but they are way off 98 kgs,

What he said. And re McGovern (190/96), we need to go to the draft for a gorilla in training to replace May. Unless a team needs a salary dump. Turner and co. are rather slight.

Indeed, these would be "imaginary numbers". Several mathematics professors have just stirred in the armchairs and allowed themselves a gentle smile.

Down at the Don't Give A Fig Club (yeah, next door to the other), we dispose of the infinity problem by using the Indifference Index. This is defined as 1/(Caring Index -1)

I hope it is 2 weeks at Casey to see if he his run back. No loitering in the goal square. He was fairly immobile in the firsts when playing. Yep, probably requires an iffy Grundy performance.

Which dried in ridges.

No, not BBrown, North surprisingly let him go in his prime, 2021 and 2022 were good. This is year is patchy albeit without the robust TMac to shoulder the Key Back's physical pressure. Not mooted by the FD but suggested on this forum by posters, Gunston, T. Walker (good this year), Buddy (possible in jest), Darling, probably others. I have set my self a challenge specifying forwards. Well then, Templeton, Moose Henwood, Rod Owen, Ken Roberts (an all-time favourite), Alan Davis, that guy from Footscray, Michael Pickering got a run at CHF. This century. I thought Dawes was quite serviceable but usurped by Weideman. Loved Ben Holland but unfortunately for him, in later years, he was competing for a place against a legend of the club. My beef is mostly that Melbourne used to buy in responsibility in rather develop it in their rogue players, e.g. Sylvia, McClean. They acquired the services of Lewis, Shannon Byrnes. I expect that many names will belatedly pop into head over the next few months.

I have actually seen the umpires rubbing the shine off the replacement ball to better match the old. Did they do this?

The Petty shall bear us up to Glory! I am most impressed that the FD wanted Petty forward and trained him up to do so as opposed some hare-brained scheme to recruit a fading star.

I spent many minutes wrestling with the finals format. I concluded that if we play Port in the first round, we get the interstate final out of the way. We would play Collingwood in a PF or another team that finished lower than us. I would be content.

The Port doc was wrong again IMO. He did not need to perform a test then. He needed to immediately rule both players out of the game. The guidelines state that players must be removed if - the player took No protective action in fall to ground i.e. Aliir - the player has Dazed, blank/vacant stare or player not his/her normal self i.e. Jones There are other criteria such as loss of consciousness but these are not as patently obvious from the replay. The Guidelines (link at bottom) state that there is an external concussion spotter in the AFL Review Centre (ARC) who will flag incidents with the match-day club doctor by approved means. Furthermore, The AFL provides all available broadcast video feeds via the HawkEye system to the club bench at match venues. This link enables the club to utilize real-time video feeds, with variable playback speeds, and multiple camera views. And Sideline video review is mandatory in the assessment of a suspected concussion. On the face of it, this is a good system. It needs also to be investigated if the parts of the system other than the Club Doctor failed. Usually any ineffectiveness of the AFL creates good copy but this will also ruin people's lives. https://resources.afl.com.au/afl/document/2023/03/12/134a48f5-9206-4dd4-b88b-426dd1ea7b31/AFL-and-AFLW-Concussion-Guidelines-March-2023-FINAL-.pdf

Alliir was unconscious and lying motionless for some seconds. That is criteria #1 and #10 respectively on page six of AFL/AFLW guidelines. #1 prohibits return to play. #10 requires first an assessment before return but is trumped by #1. Jones had #5 Dazed, blank/vacant stare and #9. Player reports significant, new or progressive concussion symptoms, i.e. migraine. These both require immediate removal and no return to play. And out for two weeks. This excessive detail is to indicate that is quite cut and dried rather than to annoy you.

Goodwin has become a good coach overall. Loved that he said that they had Grundy working on his leads, at Casey. Love a solution for a problem. Interesting that he was second choice for understudy after Dew?? said no.

Strong coaches but I disagree that they got the absolute maximum out of their lists. Strawbs O'Dwyer was rubbed out in the Prelim in 1988. He should have been rubbed out the previously week, caught wonderfully on the replay. Swooper put 6' 0" David Williams at FF. He, tallest on the FF line, was 3" shorter than Ayres, the shortest HFC on the FB line. Too short up forward! I have been stopping people in the street and telling them this but I see that Wikipedia says he was HFF and Wight was FF. I wait with interest and trepidation to be corrected. This "Little Bigman" theory as the paper called it in the early 70's did not work and has its echo in Melksham playing as the second tall forward. This didn't seem to work at the end of last year when I suggested to some derision that Mitch Brown just for his size. Could be a podcast topic. The 2003 list was much the same as 2002 but crashed. Daniher had his non-performing favourites (e.g. Yze post 2002) and non-favourites (e.g. Lamb), and gave the dead horse a tickle-up. The President, Szondy, noted this at the time but recanted within the week. We lost Steven Powell and Farmer (gammy hammy) because the club wanted to put them on one year contracts. Wilson went. G. Healy left. We had the stars but they went. Now I think depth is unimportant, considering the number of fringe players who left and got a premiership medal. It is the Dusty's, Petracca's, Bont's that matter.

Yep, that is probably the team. Personally, I would pick Hibbo for Charlie Cameron, Rozee and Rankine. McVee was slow to get up on the far wing and the ball stayed in for an Adelaide forward thrust. He trailed his man in for one of their late goals; should have lit the afterburners; (yet still a player most teams would love have). Bowey let Rozee run past him into the 50 for an easy mark (but again a player most teams would cherish) . Both are drawn to the pack leaving their man to goal. I would pick JVR for BBrown. He is more of a marking threat than BBrown when he doesn't have a long run-up. Based on how foot injuries have gone this year, Fritsch will probably miss. So Melksham should stay with a greater scope to run not minding the CHB/3rd tall.

If Brisvegas paints themselves into a corner with the salary cap, how about Payne. A big lump of a lad to take over after May.

Hilarious!!

I think Daniher was given some easy goals by Petty being to crook to go with him. I would have subbed him earlier.

Very much so. I would use Boland.

His dad was one of my favourites. I loved that he took the effort to weigh everything that he ate. Sure he will make us proud too!