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siraj bowling up a storm superb series of test cricket india doesn't deserve to go down 1-3

paul roos on abc afl daily - if christian petracca is available and i was a coach at ANY club - let along collingwood or hawthorn - i would be moving heaven and earth to get him as he's a proven commodity where you know what he's capable of at his best i guess we'll know in 6-12 weeks how 'available' he is

I don’t know how you came to that way of thinking!

it is quite clearly a speculative yarn but, really, if trac wants to 'chase success' then dingley makes sense - they're there, thereabouts in terms of a spot around the 8 there's no guarantee that they'll stay there, of course... ...but there's also no guarantee that the dees will stay down the bottom

Poms should take out the 3-1 series win easily this evening The Ashes is going to be enormous

so still contracted with two years remaining

we're also an easy target no one cares about north being perpetually rubbish or aints being hot and cold everyone is bored of the peptides being garbage, even their fans aren't rocking up in the hordes that they used to do we and the baggers are the easy targets as we both had finals aspirations in 2025 and both have been abject since mid way thru 2024

nope, not that i am aware of

is supposedly 'in discussions' to stay at the aints seems strange given that they're bringing in tdk plus they still have marshall

tom stewart - caused no concussion; WILL not cop a week, MIGHT cop a fine

incredible spell from siraj almost bumrah-esque

siraj is bowling thunderbolts but prasadh has claimed duckett's wicket

and yet 9 teams are out of contention?

just as well the aints are gonna pay him $1.7m then, isn't it? good result for football here; flagmantle winning keeps the pressure on dingley to make the 8, which i categorically do not want to happen

mfc and footscray winning premierships in the last decade is the leicester city-alike wins possibly, but they're trying to anoint grundy for the honours for his 30-odd handballs and 100m gained vs old man goldzilla

he clearly reads my messages with some fellow fanatics... one of us thinks we should demand 3 first round picks for him; sadly i do not think he’s worth close to that anymore i’ll take baggers' 2025 pick that dingley own - so pick 7-10ish - plus worpel / lewis and they can have trac and his entire salary If they expect us to pay any then i want their 2026 first rounder too

kardinia park remains the greatest home ground advantage in the competition

kornes will blame the pub session and the over-celebrating of the win last week sure, it's another kkk (kornes' komplete kontradiction) to his stated views last week but, hey, #kornesknowsbest

with the likes of butters, pickett, wanganeen-milera, and now windsor moving into inside midfielder positions, is the big bodied mid being transitioned out for an entirely different style of player where pace and ability to break away from the contest is paramount over ability to win contested footy as a physical beast? as such, do you think langford will continue to be a wingman / forward in 2026, or will he become an inside mid at afl level, as he was at junior levels?

my concern is that a lot of itk people are saying he's had a contract presented to him some are saying he's yet to sign it, which is the concern

no, nwm was part of their aboriginal academy; completely different to any nga north play docklands well let's not forget we were monstering the aints til about 7 mins to go in the third, when we dropped our bundle - they're not very good

prasad is definitely mfc eligible in 2026, pending any rule changes between now and then (which is entirely feasible / likely)

little paper now saying harry dean is likely to push into top 5 calculations, which means top 10 by the time all the northern academy freebies nga selections have happened

yeah, i don't read this thread like that at all i think there's a lot of 'yeah, and..?' there's not much 'new' news in here; just a long list - and it's pretty long - of issues the runner / welfare officer being a problem is a bloody long bow to draw tho

got handed jamara; rules changed for everyone else for a couple of years, badly hurting mfc and the aints got handed darcy; rules to be changed in 5...4...3... when this afl administration scraps the father-son rule for first round picks it'll be a serious nail in the coffin for any form of romanticism in the game; we'll still have compromised fixtures to help broadcasters and unprofessional maggots making bizarre decisions and suffering no consequences tho