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from 2008 to 2014 my general rule of thumb was 'opposition doesn't crack 100 points that's sorta kinda a little bit almost but not quite a win, right?' that's almost a win today tally ho dees!

baker better than many senior teammates

i don't understand why we're continuing with what's not working in terms of oliver, viney, harmes as the core trio in the middle alongside gawn i'd try mixing it up - throw viney and oliver forward for petracca and brayshaw into the middle, for starters - brayshaw can't play anywhere other than in the middle anyway, so might as well play him there

angus brayshaw is one of the worst users of the football i have ever seen

it feels like 2013 all over again

brayshaw looks completely disinterested typical melbourne player; had his best year in his contract year

massive tackle oliver on coniglio

wow we're bad

maggots gonna maggot... well that was an appalling quarter and we're only 10 points down

brayshaw goes the bump not the tackle wtf

both sides awful so far tbh

my god brayshaw is so slow

we haven't had it forward yet, which is a bit ominous

our disposal is, as ever, atrocious

not really... afl: https://www.smh.com.au/business/companies/afl-to-announce-2b-broadcast-deal-20150818-gj1ppz.html News Corporation to pay about $1.3 billion of a record $2.508 billion six-year deal the league has struck nrl: https://www.smh.com.au/business/companies/nrl-inks-18-billion-record-tv-rights-deal-20151126-gl8nvg.html News Corp's Fox Sports set to pay around $1 billion for the pay television portion of the rights cricket: http://theconversation.com/seven-and-foxtel-snag-cricket-rights-meaning-more-content-but-maybe-not-for-free-94976 Foxtel will pay A$100 million per year and promises to “show every ball of every over bowled in Australia”, also part of the new deal. Foxtel will have a dedicatedcricket channel. so it's actually: afl: $1.3bn / 6 years = ~$220m pa nrl: $1bn / 5 years = ~$200m pa cricket: $1bn / 6 years = ~$170m pa a LOT of that value will be contra advertising too, so the actual cost of it could be less

those numbers are wrong; news corp's contribution is more like: afl: $1.3bn / 6 years = $220m pa nrl: $1bn / 5 years = $200m pa cricket: $800m / 6 years = $133m pa (although this last one is a guesstimate cos i couldn't find actual breakdown of figures it's not fox sports tier 1 sports that are a drain on foxtel finances

like polls?

the general consensus seems to be that scott has another gig lined up, be it at carltank or the aints i think he's tactically quite astute, but i'd argue north's list is 'better' than carltank's, and about par with the aints it's not like his twin, who inherited a champion team - if they hadn't won that premiership in his first year in charge i wonder what would have happened to him, given the puddy tatts' taxpayer advantages and incredible 'star' recruiting really, cats should've at least made a couple more gf's in his time at the club and, fwiw, i think the cats are clearly the premiership faves at this point in time

i disagree; he's no daisy but he's better than ling, bartel, or most others i wonder what crowd this dreamtime game will get given the weather? amazing how meth coke just keep winning despite not looking good; sure the umpire's helped but they know that they're never out of it

because he has shown no ability to run out a game of football at afl or vfl level

the idea of not playing gawn as starting ruck is absurd in the extreme he's arguably the best ruckman in the competition...and you want to station him forward of the ball, thus limiting his power of tapwork and incredible mobility?

this and sadly probably retired / delisted at the end of the year too...disastrous recruiting

gw$ players going down like ninepins but they're absolutely striking carltank out

bit wet at adelaide oval i wonder if gc17 can find a way to lose another close one - they've made an art form of it thus far in 2019

that's not a bad back six plus two defensive wingmen big q's around fitness of may and lever, and continued development of petty