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Lots of them here.....

Agree. Trying to get wheelchair seats. Call "hotline"...get told to fill in form, and wait till they get around to it. Last time they responded the day after the game, saying there were no seats. But the ones which we were trying to get were unoccupied during the game.

Trouble is if the proceeds are $20M then we need a 10% return every year ad infinitum just to break even with what gaming produces today. No "savvy" investing will produce that without high risk. The only positive that may be from this outcome, is that the State Government has linked a "project financing" for the training base to the removal of gaming.

Likewise have a good degree of scepticism. "Future fund " sounds great but it has to earn a bucketload of money to cover the $2M per year that gaming produces for this club. At $200 per membership we would need another 10K members permanently, just to stay where we are financially. And if the money is spent on a Training base, then there is no Future fund left.

Stringer played the majority of the game in the middle. Hibberd picked him up when he drifted into the forward line, when Essendon were in attack. He didn't have to pick him up all that often, because Stringer is inherently lazy and hung back looking for the cheapie turnover, ala his goal in the first quarter.

Tmac can't do it all on his own. Part time rucks aren't forwards. Bring in a forward who can kick straight from 40m. Bring in a forward who will take the opposition tallest back Bring in a forward who can take a mark Is there anyone you can think might be able to do that?

Item 1 is the answer......and the best the reporters can get is outside the fence.

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Weideman was worse than I had thought before this game. He simply doesn't know how to play as a forward. All game he was trying to mark from behind! He is a supposedly a forward. He didn't lead a single time in this game, now because I suspect, he doesn't know how to, and it is hard to lead when you play behind the defender. It is even harder for the players up the field to kick it in, when you play behind all the time. If there is one thing BBrown can do it is lead ( and he can mark the ball as well)

Great for Eliza, and showing the benefit of the Casey alignment in the AFLW stream. We now have a number of senior players at Casey, creating a pathway for the younger ones. But importantly it enables us to keep them within our system getting the same message week to week throughout the whole year now with the new scheduling for 2022.

Carlton just haven't learned what is wrong. They became the experts of "buying" the players they wanted, and it was actively promoted by their boards in the past, and the culture still exists today. Since the turn of the century they haven't cottoned on to the draft and development to improve the list, and then fill holes with the role type players that are missing. They didn't learn the lesson with Judd. One player, no matter how good will win you a Premiership, you need a team. Why would you pick up ( and pay huge salary) to WIlliams and Saad? They may look flashy, but they were not what Carlton needed. But it kept their fans and Board happy.....for the short term, as they have already found out. Cripps is already a shell of the player he once was. Walsh is first rate, but who else do they have to move the ball. McKay is a standout, and Weitering is as good as it gets for a defender. But as @mauriesyhas pointed out Murphy and Betts should have been told to hang up the boots. Now they have 2 players currently playing every week, who won't be there next year, so they will have even more holes to fill than this year.

Not only that but if he had stayed at Brisbane, they probably would have won more than 3 Premierships with him in the side. As an aside, he wouldn't have won a Brownlow either except for the stupid umpires who allocated the votes in our game against Sydney. They gave 3 votes to Michael O'loughlin who had kicked 4 goals( i think) but didn't play after 3/4 time with a hamstring injury. Goodes was easily best on ground that day, and he absolutely ripped us apart, but only got 2 votes!! Change those around to what they should have been, and Goodes would have won the Brownlow on his own......not having to share it with Buckley.

Importantly we now have a true forward, with Cunningham announcing her retirement as well. We were desperate for someone to kick goals last year, and until they moved Daisy up forward we were struggling. Interesting though why she wanted out of Carlton, given the amount of money she was on there.....and they are not a basketcase like Geelong.

Trouble is that you have to move Storm as well as Rebels, they both use the same field at the moment. Or move Victory and use the the soccer fields area. Or get approval to cut down some trees and expand the current Gosch's field.

...an announcement in coming months about a feasibility study...... So nothing concrete or new, and exactly what was said at the last AGM.

Our Premiership window is NOW. We don't need to keep gifting games to a FF who can't mark the ball or kick goals today.

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He was banned for threatening other posters. Give it up.

The biggest story in the past 100 years in the AFL ( the Essendon saga) was broken and reported on by John Pierik and Michael Gleeson at the Age. Caro was head of Age football reporting at the time, and didn't write a single line about it. Her source at the AFL was Demetriou and he was trying to push it under the carpet, so no mention from Caro. Journalist? No...... Pierik and Gleeson are journalists.

The only reason the axe wasn't swung this week ( as it should have been for a number of players) was that Casey played last Sunday. You can't take 5 day break people into the game against the top side on the ladder.

He was our worst, and his only efforts were in the 1st quarter.

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