Trisul

Flew to Adelaide last year for $56 and met up with a Darwin based mate where we hired a car for ~$26 per day.  Leg 1 drove to Port Augusta and stayed in a decent motel over the bridge.  Leg 2 6am-5.30pm Port Augusta to Alice Springs.  I flew back direct to Melbourne with the team.  Mate drove back to Adelaide then flew back to Darwin.  Between the two of us flights, fuel, car hire, accommodation, entryx2 was cheaper than a return trip plus it's not a journey you're going to take/see too often in a lifetime.  Pity the team came back only to fade away.

Add a third team in WA as well and it could work out.

"But in a leaked email to players, he accused some players of using "the media and an external legal organisation to conduct an aggressive and damaging PR campaign" against the association."

I believe he's saying that some players, and some clubs specifically, who are attempting to use the CBA as a bludgeon will suddenly find themselves with a signed and sealed CBA if their delays further hinder the rollout of season 2020.

The draft is in two weeks.  Pre-season can't be scheduled until a CBA is in place.  They are demanding a CBA that almost doubles the number of home and away games from 7 in 2019 to 13 in 2020.  Are venues even available for that?  Not to mention support staff (both club and ground), catering, television, radio, sponsors..

A pure power play that deservedly got hit with a reminder that not only are the vast majority of players happy with the proposed CBA but that such willful and damaging obstruction can and will be rendered void if necessary.

22.095 Max Gawn 
21.090 Clayton Oliver 
19.250 Steven May 
15.381 Jack Viney 
14.500 James Harmes 

13.917 Jake Melksham 
13.318 Christian Petracca 
11.714 Tim Smith 
10.650 Christian Salem 
10.5‬00 Jordan Lewis 

10.455 Bayley Fritsch 
10.143 Marty Hore 
10.067 Tom McDonald 
09.545 Angus Brayshaw 
09.476 Jayden Hunt 

09.273 Sam Frost 
08.727 Nathan Jones 
08.700 Harry Petty 
08.667 Jay Lockhart 
08.083 Josh Wagner 

05.909 Sam Weideman 
05.632 Michael Hibberd 

*Chancellor

Like it but it's not what I was expecting.  Sounds a bit like Carey, Jones and Chandler invited 'the APC singer' over to their long weekend jam session.

53 minutes ago, demonstone said:

So now we're taking Tom Browne's word as gospel with all his "suggested", "unclear", "questions", "sources", "understood" weasel words style of journalism?

Why wouldn't we? ...... "Tom Browne is an expert AFL contributor for 7NEWS.COM.AU"

Clearly well on the way to elite AFL distributor, just needs his level 4 

Oscar was 5 metres to the side and 2 metres behind his opponent.  

 Will be there in the company of a one eyed Eagles supporter.  Oh to see a repeat of the look on his face at Perflands in season last year.

Pre drinks and bbq at the motel.  Come one come all.

The number of one percenters tells us little about their quality.  As I understand it, one percenters officially include knock-ons, spoils, smothers, and shepherds although coaches also use a number of other measures when they speak of one percenters.  Only knock-ons specifically have a team advantage requirement built in to their definition. 

According to the stats I can find Oscar chalked up 4 one percenters v Adelaide (I presume mostly/all spoils however no data I found had the individual one percenter stats listed).  Spoils can be a dangerous thing.

He also had 4 clangers (gives possession directly to the opposition), 9 kicks and 2 handballs (63.63% DE by my math but afl.com.au have him at 72.7%), 8 uncontested possessions with 3 contested, 3 marks, 2 frees against (0 for) and 3 tackles  @ 95% time on ground.

For what it's worth his afl fantasy and supercoach scores were 46 and 38 (84 total).  Only Spargo and Hannan totalled lower (83, 75) however adjusting their scores up to Oscars time on ground puts Spargo at 114 and Hannan at 86.

Oscar needs to adapt, and quickly, because I think Goodwin rates resilience as highly as 'hardness'.

18 hours ago, Kumamoto_Ken said:

My special lady friend and I were discussing last night how great it would be if Fox Footy could implement a button where all you get to hear are the effects mics (umps, whistles, crowd noise, players swearing etc).

The red button.  It used to be a thing on Fox many moons ago and it was bliss.  Sadly too many people used it so it was canned.

Never mind leucopogon - Round 18 v WCE is where it's at.  Got my flights and road trip sorted yesterday.  

It's very easy to set up your account to see every new post on the site.

Exposure would increase on the initial posting but afterwards it would mostly just get buried beneath AFL posts.

I think organic growth from a dedicated section is best long term.  

Rest in peace Col.

Demanding sources is a great way to get them shut down (at minimum.)

1 hour ago, Wunders said:

who else has experience? Hibberd and Melksham had 1 game each at Essendon, Nathan Jones had maybe 2 in his first season and the rest are the 22 from last week. Is that right?

Yup. All the guys from last week

Away from the limelight, I think Oscar had some outstanding involvements when called upon.  Similar for Petracca and Tyson.  Our collective inabily to finish notwithstanding.

1 hour ago, Skuit said:

Irregardless

Drop and give the team 20 for that one.  ?

Delayed flight over

Cancelled flight back

Just got in the door

Oh yeah:

See you all there.  Looking forward to the match and will probably have a look at the Perth Demons v South Fremantle on the Saturday (Current coach: Earl Spalding).  

17 hours ago, Chook said:

Kicked it.

Theatre.  If a player threw the ball up like that at any other part of the ground it wouldn't go up 5cm before being called a throw.  If a defender did it they'd be laughed out of the league.

3 hours ago, Clintosaurus said:

Goal of the year?

Throw of the year.

I haven't bothered to look at it again but my initial take on Gawn having to go off was a Geelong player deliberately backing into him and slamming the back of his head into Gawns nose.  Correct/incorrect?

14 hours ago, McQueen said:

The last time I created a thread like this it was last year and we went on to smash the Crows in Adelaide.

Will it work a second time? Let's cross everything and hope so..

Anyway, when we beat Geelong, I will... 

... think my tickets to Perth for round 22 might be worth more than the suprisingly small amount I paid.