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Bugger....one of the most talented to come to our side from Ireland. Hope her sister Aimee isn't feeling the same.....

Other banana facts: The Cavendish banana, which is the one you buy in Coles and Woolworths, was first developed by William Cavendish, the 6th Duke of Devonshire, at Chatsworth House in England. This was because they are resistant to Panama disease. So really bananas come from England! Other useless fact.....an acquaintance who works for Toll transport tells me that each and every day 6 B-double trucks arrive at their warehouse full of bananas to feed to Victorian population through Coles. Just goes to show how much @Redleg is doing for the economy!

Jeffo knee bandage now.....AJ not on ground since first quarter

Blues are obviously the 1st pick side. It's a bit hard to judge the worth when the Whites have no forward or defenders.

I can understand why admin want to move. You only have to see the broom cupboards that they currently have to work in, which are spread across multiple locations at the MCG. Honestly, it is only used because of the peppercorn rental which is charged to us, but given the conditions...it should only be peppercorn. I don't know what the admin conditions at Waverley are like, but the reason Hawthorn are moving is that the FOOTBALL facilities are sub-standard in 2026.

Glandular fever

It is....

It is 12 months since he was been close to being on the field. He is still just jogging laps, if he is seen at all.

Facial injury. ...don't know if it related to concussion which was a couple of weeks ago now.

More likely McAdam

It has cost us dearly over 160 years. The MCC/MFC membership is a "donation" to the MFC. It doesn't get you into any more games, yet the spectacle is provided by the MFC, not the MCC, who just pocket the money from the annual membership fee of the MCC. The last time I saw numbers, ( and that was some time ago) about 20% of MCC members were MFC supporters. The current membership is approx 150K. So 25-30 K support Melbourne. Good luck to the MCC, they would never survive on cricket income alone. Football is what fills their coffers, yet the club that grew from them remains impoverished.

Sorry...this is the only way I could get these posts across to this thread:

2026 2025 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 1st game 15/03 H 16/03 H 07/03 A 18/3 H 16/3 H 20/3 H 22/3 A 23/3 H 25/3 H 25/3 A 25/3 H 4/4 H 22/3 A 31/3 H 31/3 H 27/3 H Oct week 3 19,068 21 15,211 20 21,980 22 19,026 26 16,654 22 17,625 25 Nov week 3 30,000 26 20,215 21 25,028 22 26,064 18 23,037 26 20,509 26 20,223 25 - 16,287 11,922 Dec week 1 36,074 11 28,005 7 30,096 7 28,354 07 27,914 9 24,402 4 22,433 3 22,105 11 18,217 3 18,747 2 17,541 3 Dec week 3 36,516 21 38,000 23 28,447 21 31,759 21 29,053 22 29,426 23 26,217 22 24,097 23 23,542 25 20,623 20,166 Jan week 3 37,846 21 40,000 21 29,764 21 33,226 21 30,068 19 30,200 20 27,027 19 25,112 23 24,558 21 21,873 22,402 22,396 Feb week 1 40,000 5 40,756 7 40,823 7 30,141 7 34,327 7 30,577 2 31,141 3 28,013 3 25,647 1 25,416 4 22,962 8 23,422 23,457 Feb week 2 41,252 14 41,530 14 41,562 14 32,157 14 35,148 14 31,310 14 31,537 10 28,759 17 26,290 12 26,039 12 23,650 12 21,448 12 Feb week 3 42,366 42,247 21 44,552 19 42,463 21 32,954 21 32,735 21 36,070 21 32,075 21 32,137 17 29,217 24 26,639 18 26,641 17 23,650 18 24,195 16 25,253 17 Feb week 4 43,505 28 49,850 28 44.526 28 33,458 28 32,985 28 36,973 28 32,948 28 32,679 24 29,450 26 27,066 26 27,736 26 - 25,277 Mar week 1 44,353 7 50,054 7 44,903 7 35,874 7 35,726 7 37,979 7 34,034 7 33,520 3 30,524 7 27,619 4 28,582 4 24,801 5 26,023 27,806 Mar week 2 45,460 14 48,880 14 52,738 14 49,667 14 37,083 14 36,063 14 39,537 14 34,691 14 35,080 16 32,623 16 29,510 16 30,421 15 26,751 14 26,791 14 28,068 Mar week 3 46,665 21 54,028 21 55,528 21 51,513 21 41,055 21 37,571 21 41,513 21 36,513 21 35,756 21 33,146 21 30,257 21 - - Mar week 4 47,707 28 54,981 28 56,572 28 54,164 28 41,325 28 37,888 28 44,008 28 38,089 28 37,025 28 35,117 26 31,035 26 32,324 28 - 29,588 31,087 Apr week 1 48,401 7 55,258 7 57,558 7 55,595 7 42,088 7 38,115 7 45,537 7 39,402 7 38,554 7 35,535 1 32,001 1 - - 32,235 33,359 Apr week 2 48,633 14 57,002 14 58,385 14 56,841 14 43,421 14 38,246 14 46,133 14 40,160 14 39,005 14 36,157 8 33,301 9 33,175 14 - - 33,753 10 Apr week 3 49,435 21 58,651 21 59,220 21 57,289 21 44,934 21 38,286 21 47,174 21 40,557 21 39,281 21 36,731 20 - 34,548 20 Apr week 4 49,630 28 60,241 28 59,545 8 57,802 28 46,093 28 38,431 28 48,080 28 40,636 28 39,634 28 37,597 30 34,068 29 May week 1 50,408 7 60,416 7 60,673 7 59,144 7 46,896 7 38,521 7 49,837 7 41,640 7 40,083 7 37,766 6 34,352 7 35,205 5 - 34,489 35,205 May week 2 51,872 14 62,072 14 61,324 14 60,000 14 46,896 14 38,591 14 50,107 14 41,825 14 40,380 14 38,102 13 - - - 34,961 May week 3 51,872 21 62,310 21 63,750 21 60,303 21 48,784 21 38,673 21 50,422 21 42,057 21 40,549 21 38,327 23 34,871 20 May week 4 53,658 28 62,606 28 63,869 28 60,782 28 48,784 28 38,673 28 50,520 28 42,352 28 40,749 28 38,479 31 35,017 22 June week 1 54,702 7 62,815 7 64,135 7 61,652 7 50,085 7 38,766 7 51,770 7 43,593 7 40,934 7 38,547 6 Jun Week 2 54,878 14 62,942 14 64,492 14 62,095 14 50,085 14 38,985 14 51,770 14 43,791 14 41,022 14 38,653 14 - - 35,403 Jun week 3 55,608 21 63,655 21 64,751 21 62,646 21 Jun week 4 55,947 28 63,984 28 64,929 28 62,738 28 July week 1 56,039 7 64,157 7 64,976 7 65,472 7 July week 2 56,519 14 64,214 14 67,122 14 65,756 14 July week 3 56,722 21 64,286 21 67,177 21 65,816 21 Final July 31 57,050 64,645 67,673 65,902 53,188 39,774 52,405 44,191 42,102 39,211 35,953 35,911 33,177 35,345 36,937 Post 31 July End 31 Oct 58,979 65,717 70,785 66,484 54,495 40,531 52,446 45,178 42,233 2026 Progressive total in Blue Actual dates in Red Date of first game of season Home or Away Indigo Previous years numbers:

There is no reason for Deakin Burwood to buy the Mt Scopus site. I walk there regularly and have for years. There are minimal students on campus today. Post covid even less as lectures and tutorials are all on-line. Deakin had a mad building programme in place pre-Covid, and now there are whole buildings which have nobody..nobody inside. It is a situation all universities are facing, but the last thing they need to be doing is buying more land.

They are starting to drop.....as per the last time this farce was played Fox SportsAFL Origin’s three-player boost looms ahead of marquee cl...Big three-player boost revealed; worrying update on superstar — AFL Origin daily

To all, please do not cut and paste the member only section from Mongrel Punt which is behind the pay firewall. It puts Demonland at potential copyright risk.

Watch out......Gosch's is in the firing line for the AO: https://www.theage.com.au/sport/tennis/we-need-more-space-tiley-s-radical-plan-to-expand-the-australian-open-20260201-p5nymj.html “There’s an oval on the other side of Gosch’s Paddock, AAMI Park, the MCG, these are good pieces of land and property, which we would look at and expand into,” Tiley said. ......maybe they will pay for us to set up home at Caulfield?

It is just incredible that after a "feasibility case" run for 12 months, and a "business case" for another 12 months, that we don't even know where the foundations are going to be laid (if at all)! We are being treated like mushrooms...kept in the dark and fed BS.

As @Greg Schneider noted as a novice track watcher....nothing to see here! Match Sims are not what we have come to expect or have seen in the past, they seem to be an exercise to work on a particular aspect of ball movement. Starting in the middle, there is a no contest between rucks and the ball just moves freely out. Maybe it is getting forwards to present, but there is no real tackling and because of the lack of numbers on the field you finish with really open forward lines, which would never happen in a real game.....make of it what you will. But I suspect the main match sims are being conducted behind closed doors at Casey, given the short time to season opener and a new coach trying to implement changes. I'll go out on a limb now....we will not see McAdam play a game this year. Barely, and I mean barely running, unable to extend one leg fully, and it is the end of January. Today looked even worse as he had a knee bandage on, then off and did the running with much less speed than even last week. Sadly, we will also see little of Viney. @Demonland mentioned his training is limited to half a dozen bunny hops. No running, not even walking the boundary. When he is finally able to get some running in, with the lack of the ability to do it now for months, means he will take a long, long time to get to necessary fitness levels. The same will inevitably apply to Bowey. The one thing noted by @thirty-one was correct.....at the end of the session, the players were gassed. All over the field they were on haunches sucking in the big ones. They are obviously being pushed harder than before. After two hours of "sims" and drills they finish with a series of 200m sprints. If it were me, the ambulance would be called.

Nothing to report here. It seems that no club has any membership numbers displayed on their website. Pity, since we always had some numbers, however flimsy, by December each year.

No. Will probably be at Casey, which is a closed to public session. Next Gosch’s is Wed 21st

Indeed.....the old heads on this site will remember what happened...... Players dropping out before the game with all manner of "injuries", as clubs rightly didn't want to risk their major talent in meaningless games. There are more than enough which occur during normal pre-season training in this the professional era of AFL. It's not the 1960's any more. Then the injuries happened in those games, and the clubs became even more disinterested, leading to its abandonment. History will repeat.

I'm with @waynewussell , in that there was little to take away from this session. The match sim component barely lasted 15 minutes, which is where you get an idea of who is playing where, how the ball is being moved, and the chance to see new players in competitive situations. I suspect with the season not far away, that those components are being reserved for the Casey sessions, away from prying eyes and @picket fence Telling for me was that despite the 10.00 advertised start time, when I arrived 30 mins beforehand, the players were already there doing "beep test" runs. That is something I have never seen before, especially more so when it is being done BEFORE the session. Then at the end of the session all players in groups of 4 were running boundary at a fair clip. None of the simulation is now over, get some water and sign autographs. Injury list: Viney, Campbell ( neck), Henderson, McAdam ( again..still), Max ( broken finger), Mihocek, Sharp, with Bowey and Laurie not present. Then some cameo's from Melksham, AMW, CJ at times, although they ran in the match sim. Better than the 14 on the sidelines pre Christmas, but I doubt we will see anything of a couple of those this season. So with a couple of "train on" players out there today, and reportedly there last Monday as well, I'm expecting a couple to go on the LTI, to enable us to draft in replacements ala Culley last season.

We have won 1 Premiership in the past 61 years! 2 GF appearances. Essendon, North and Carlton have won multiples over that period of time. Brisbane are lining up for their 3 Premiership in a row and off the back of the past 3 GF's. They are able to attract Oscar Allen and Sam Draper. Geelong have played in 6 GF's since 2000 with 3 wins. All have 1st rate facilities and they consistently are at the top end of the ladder (except North, who also have second rate facilities) . Their players are better prepared. They spend their time actually training instead of sharing facilities with soccer and rugby clubs, or driving for 90 minutes each time they go to Casey. In elite sport it is the small advantages which make the difference. For us we are at a huge disadvantage each and every year.

Or the players could just jump the barrier and walk to the oval......