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Petty and McAdam ruled out of the Sydney game, apparently?

Effectively exists for American sports already - you can get nba, nfl, and mlb as standalone

pertinent to some of the discussion herein: https://theathletic.com/5255840/2024/02/06/espn-fox-warner-sports-streaming-service/ what will it mean for us in far flung oztraya? probably nothing with the various streamers tied to networks and our anti-siphoning... ...yet...

yeah cos their name is either 'the peptides' or 'essendope'

no issues with bringing it in - it's inevitable but at least they didn't knee-jerk and do it this year

this whole 'goodwin is inflexible' narrative is clearly incorrect since the premiership year he has: had to try multiple different forward structures with our injuries / loss of players including playing the game's premium ruckman and inspirational skipper max gawn as a deep forward adjusted our midfield mix due to injury to one of the best midfielders ever seen in red and blue rotated brayshaw from wing to half back to midfield rotated pickett from being our best and most defensive small forward into an occasional midfielder rotated rivers our best running half-back flanker into an occasional midfielder rotated petracca our best inside / out midfielder forward to try and get our 'connection' working dropped a two-time all-australian ruckman because his role wasn't working in our side in the year in which he was recruited simmon stubborn? myth!

gw$ and crom either matched or said that they would match for cameron and dangerfield, both who wanted to go to the cats, and forced trades

You’d need to offer double that to get him to leave

If you were the MFC you’d miss

Kornes and Edmund rate Edmund? SEN even more self referential than I thought possible

Some consultant got paid a fortune to come up with that

don't be absurd; there was no cheating

the millions the afl pours into gc17 / gw$ is still less than the increase in broadcast rights that they have brought in

nah, i'd rather win games than have a moral victory

crowds make a negligible difference to the bottom line tho a 19th team brings no value into the competition they will need to add a 20th quicksmart

2025 are more interesting... https://www.footywire.com/afl/footy/out_of_contract_players?year=2025 brayden maynard, come on down?

aka rd 2

riv, jacko, kosi - rd 1 from their debut season? they were picked from the get go from memory

i think it's often underestimated how hard it is to change a game plan mid-season it's happened, and it's worked, and we definitely changed our entire structure and the way we set up mid-2023, but less so in 2022 when you've got time to work on tactics and roles is in the off-season, not when yr in the hunt for a premiership with the style of play that you execute, as i'd argue was the case in the last couple of years fwiw, i thought hunter had a strong first season in red and blue, and we paid little to get him; he is a senior player in a team that is experienced and in the hunt for premierships and i think will continue to be so in 2024

dean terlich another excellent trainer

I know i'm projecting, but richo's body language in the preseason update is super defensive petty sounds like he's in and out based upon loads on a per week basis https://youtu.be/tM2D03nWfUo

sadly no one of the things that's concerning me out of the training reports is mcadam's fitness being miles off

spurious headline; if yr in the finals yr in flag contention

Sun reporting Fullarton will miss months

awesome read full froth engaged