daisycutter

and the boundary umpire was close by with perfect vision, yet stayed mute nor was his opinion asked for. i was 150m away and saw it clearly (i was on a good angle)

money trumps sophistication every time at afl house

re "Regarding the draw, I was referring to the issue of who each team plays, not when and whether on free-to-air TV" i don't think you can just separate these two aspects as they often go hand in hand. and it is not just fta. it is also the day/time slot advantages.

i like your idea of locking in drafting positions based on ladder after 17 rounds......from an equality point of view re your argument about there be no real disadvantage in the draw, you are really just basing it on the one year. the real effect of the draw inequality is the impact it has on the lower drawing clubs over a longer period than just one season as it impacts greatly on their revenue and membership opportunities

amen

and he couldn't make the distance from a 35m set shot at the city end everyone seems to keep saying he is going to be good with longer development but i haven't seen much evidence of that. i checked hid tac stats for the 2 years he played tac and his figures were pretty minimal. makes one wonder why he was so well regarded at the draft. i'm getting a little bit nervous he might be a bust. i hope i'm wrong because one of our big problems is a real lack of tall kp players

what is so magical about the number 10. if your argument is to keep the home and away season "alive" why stop at 10, why not 12 or 14 or 16 or even 18? a false argument by my reading, but i'm sure joan kirner would agree to a system where everyone is a winner

methos should be banned from finals. can't win in melbourne.

methos getting owned by the injectors

no luck involved, biffo

must say jack, that the words sympathy, respect and port melbourne don't exactly gel with me

it's a very strange season

not necessarily, depends on how you handle the finals. doesn't have to be the nfl way

ninthmond losing is as good as a win for the demons, so sing it's a grand old flag

order in the universe is restored.....i thought my weekend was going to be ruined

yeeeeeees marvellous

and late inaccuracy it seems too (2.6 in last qtr)

relegation just gives the bottom sides in the top division a reason to play out the season. the relegation/promotion in the epl creates much excitement and keeps the home and away series honest to the end. but yeah, it does have other problems

my epl style division was very tongue in cheek (and yes the 2nd division becomes a level below the 1st division but is still a national division) whilst it solves many problems, existing teams ( and their stakeholders) would never agree to being shifted to a 2nd division. Imagine if one or more of the big 4 ended up being contenders for 2nd division at creation time). And in truth it does create a few new problems esp in draft, trading, salary cap areas.

here's anothery from left field, macca add 6 teams (tassie, nt, canberra.......) making 24 split into 2 national divisions each of 12 22 rounds each, so play each in div twice top 6 in each div play off for their respective finals bottom 2 in div 1 relegated to div 2. both div 2 grand finalists promoted to div 1 bottom 6 of div 1 have something to play for right up to round 22 (as do top 6 obviously) of course it would be too radical for the money men

i suspect there is even a few living coprolites here on demonland

he means the turd of a heavy metal fan

...but they were supposed to have depth to die for...

.....unless you are a tv station or a politician

surprised the techos at ch7/foxtel haven't used their skils to insert a digital crowd onto the screen complete with raucus cheering when gws18 are playing