Sir Why You Little

Pay that one Wise!

Yes ‘82 there is a bit of that, but Finals are the real deal

Yep. That is the way we all must look at it. The MFC needs to be a part of September, it’s when real stuff happens. It’s why other clubs have 70-80,000 members, they make Finals.

We deserve what we get up till now This club has delivered nothing for decades, so the should be thankfull to have at least 35,000 at this stage. IF we can climb the ladder and stay up there, i have no doubt we can have 100,000 members in 10 years. Melbourne population is exploding. We must use our name to great advantage, but the players and coaches must drive this. It’s all about on field results

Cool ? They must be seriously juicy documents The AFL won’t split from ASADA. Too much money ? from the Federal Reserve would dry up. Still so much we don’t know about Essendrug... line in the sand ASADA

Expat Sports Bars are the only places (and they are great) but this bullsh!t about growing the game international is a joke. It gives the AFL a chance to fly on an international junket. That is all

50,000 this year if the players deliver what they should.

Promoting AFL overseas makes the AFL feel big and important. But they would be better off getting clubs out of debt and improving all training facilities, so all clubs are on an even base when any recruits are drafted in.

Agreed. But umpires have always been abused. It’s part of the game!!

Absolutely 100% If AFLX is the long term future of the game, i will be glad to be Six Feet Under. The main problem with the AFL now is that they give the game no time to breath, 2-3 rule changes are enforced at the same time and we have to live with it. But the main modern rule that has changed the game the most, interchange rotations remains. It is still a “good” game, but when CHF’s and CHB’s went into battle for an afternoon, that was Aussie Rules as a highly original and tough game

I have never questioned that the clubs are not a business now. Players get paid but the game of Australian Rules Football is not what it was, and i consider that a shame. It has always been popular to the extreme because of it’s differences. These differences should be promoted, not diluted The people who run the AFL are mere custodians of the game for a short while, are driven now to change the game yearly, so we have something that is vastly different to what it was AFLX will become a hybrid Soccer Competition, is that necessary? I say no

What are you talking about? i think you are losing the plot mate. Your arguements are like Swiss Cheese Dr. Seriously i am not an old Kevin Bartlett, but i am looking at what the AFL has done and is doing to the game It is unrecognisable to what i watched 25-30 years ago The AFL are swimming in money, but most clubs are in debt. You keep telling us this is a good thing. In 1970 121,000 people rocked up to the Grand Final and you could hear the cheer squads face off at one another from Richmond Station. As a 7 year old i have never forgotten that noise Now it’s loud cheap music and betting ads that are so loud

News from inside AFL House is it Dr?

They do now...!

Straight swap Watts,J. For Fritsch,B. I can live with that. Bayley has racked up more hard ball gets in 2 practise games than Wattsy got in 9 years. Wattsy was a beautiful kick, the rest of his game never got past average. When he looks back at it all in 30 years he will agree.

Good. I like the kid he learns quickly

Ok. and how many times did he lose a court case? Dean Wallis was supposedly in charge of the paperwork That is a court case in itself they got off so lightly it makes me sick

I get that part Jnr. What has never made sense to me is that Vlad did Essendrug a huge favour, regardless of any other facts, in that he gave them time to shred and hide EVERYTHING. Essendrug should have got down on their knees to him. And Vlad should have been charged for perverting the course of justice. 36 hours is a very long time to clear an office space and yet they hate him....

Don’t know about that dc. Maybe we will hear about it this week

I was under the impression that the call made to Evans was whilst Hird was in the room, not that it matters i have always been suprised at the Bitterness Essendrug has thrown at Vlad, i wish he had kept his mouth shut, so we may have got a more honest picture of what really went down. Evans has never said a word, suprised he hasn’t been called in this week

Seems a bit strange as it was Vlad that blew the whistle to Hird

Under oath ”Where are the USB’s with all the spreadsheets?” ”Do you know the whereabouts Mr. Demetriou?”

Only so many $$$’s to spend When did anyone last get a pay rise apart from those in the Corporate Sector..??

The cost of living is too high. The games are fine. The ticket prices and food prices you are forced to pay inside a Stadium keep the numbers down... it’s big money to take kids to a day at the cricket or footy now. It was a cheap afternoon when i was at school

The problem is South Africa will not come to Australia over the Christmas period, they want to have their own Boxing Day fixture, which is fair enough considering they are in the Southern Hemisphere, the only problem is that the public don’t turn up! Now is the only time we can play them... Mitchell Stark was magnificent on friday night!!