whatwhat say what

losing one of our best kicks out of the backline will be a real issue

double impact given the deployment of salem into midfield

all this handwringing about jefferson is absurd

23 goals in his first vfl season is not bad

give the kid a chance to develop

10 minutes ago, spirit of norm smith said:

He played a ripped game for the Blues tonight !!! 

his 3rd quarter was electric

7 minutes ago, layzie said:

I don't give a stuff about these other games right now. 

Enjoy the weekend peeps, some great weather ahead. 

3x 39 in a row is great weather?

no thank you!

Discovered this week, only Fox broadcast games in 4k

7 broadcast games contractually aren’t in 4k

Apparently NEP - the production company that runs broadcast - had to send a lot of equipment to allow NRL in Vegas to be broadcast in 4k

So much for ‘every game in 4k’…

fwiw, someone who knows says that - for preference - you should always watch live sport thru foxtel not kayo

kayo's compression rates are meant to be much higher which is why the pixelation happens so frequently

my mother is appalled, but i'm at graham nash at the palais tonite

carn the dees

15 minutes ago, Docs Demons said:

With you on this one Balls. If Paps gets up and about he can be very dangerous but also we need to keep Guilden quiet. He absolutely killed us in round 23 last year with about 100 possessions !!

Yet we still won despite losing a part of our forward line to an acl

3 hours ago, Deestar9 said:

Fantasy ..get offered a free flight to Syd to stay with family member. No ticket to game but go along to the open session to see players. Find out can get reciprocal rights with MCC membership but have to queue from 5pm & hope for the best . Half  an hour ago get call from a players parents who can’t make the game and want to know if a ticket is required. Reality.. will now be sitting with the players families tomorrow night. How envious am I but super excited for another Dees supporter to be there 

That’s fantastic 

2 minutes ago, mauriesy said:

Spargo will be part of the new, improved delivery inside 50, or I think that's the theory.

It’s outstanding that he’s usually so efficient with ball in hand

I just wish he’d get more of the pill

Goddamn ‘connections’ is as pathetic a term as ‘culture’

I prefer ‘accuracy’ and ‘hyperbole’ 

28 minutes ago, binman said:

These feel more like dispositions with young blokes down the local cop shop than interviews.

that there were two people involved in the interview and you can see the shadow of the camera person and interviewer in  the reflection of the whiteboard is atrocious framing and shows a lack of attention to dee-tail

will it actually happen?

march 23 could change the afl's opinion...

1 minute ago, Garbo said:

Long as he can find a permanent spot in the midfield I think he will stay, only reason to go would be for more opportunity like James Jordan last year

he's already got a permanent midfield spot imo; first rotation inside

it was interesting that they used him in a defensive role against cripps in the practice game - not entirely sure it was successful in terms of curtailing cripps, but he definitely hurt him the other way moving forward and hitting the scoreboard

What a nothing ‘story’ - classique Ralph

Reads like spaz’s manager saying “we’d like some of that Brayshaw retirement salary cap” puff pieces

2 minutes ago, FTB said:

Let’s hope that Howes, Laurie and Chandler play out of their skin as one will very likely make way for Pickett the following week. (Salem to a HB flank if Howes were to miss).

i'm confident that salem will play midfield all year

6 minutes ago, biggestred said:

Honestly bumps like this and Maynard's are why there should be a send off rule. 

Because if you were an immoral piece of feces you could do this a few times in a GF or to the opposition's best player, win a flag and who cares about the suspension. Even in a home and away game it gives you an advantage as the opposition have to use their sub to replace someone they might not have wanted to replace at a time they don't get to choose.

I'm not saying use a red card willy nilly but in cases like today's... 

and, just as importantly, if a player/s is sin binned, you can't use yr sub to replace them

23 minutes ago, old55 said:

Yeah but you don't have to travel for 30 minutes to get to your car on the way to Geelong and wait for 45 minutes before the car doors open and you can get inside, then wait 15 minutes getting out of the car at Geelong, 30 minutes to get your bag from the boot and 30 minutes to travel back home from your car.

That’s at least an extra 2+ hours each trip. IMHO they'd be mad not to stay in Adelaide.

not to mention the interminable delay of cancelled / postponed flights!

i'm sure i heard on a podcast that they are staying in adelaide this week, which would seem to be a sensible decision to make

i don't think it's going to be 10, but it should start at 6

in other concussion news, will pucovski was sconned second ball of his innings down in tasmania

he needs to be brayshaw'd and medically retired from sport where there's a chance of his head being hit

2 hours ago, Neil Crompton said:

....except ours?

Well, obviously

Many years however I would have welcomed at least mediocrity 

23 minutes ago, gs77 said:

They can be deathridden down to 9th. I don't want to see the filth enjoy higher draft picks than that.

i wish mediocrity upon EVERY club 

apaz they tested 4k during f1 qualifying today and the whole thing - somewhat predictably - [censored] itself

7 hours ago, rpfc said:

As the original Freo Death Rider I can’t condone nor authorise this supposed sequel. 

Sorry.

please, as if...do you even flagmantle 💀🏇 bro?

i spent all of 2023 baiting my freo buddy

it was a glorious time to be smug

(while at the same time lamenting the loss of dog jackson)

2 minutes ago, binman said:

Correct weight (i love his runs and carry and pass to Darren Bennet in the second vid):

 

socks up

2 hours ago, La Dee-vina Comedia said:

My suspicion is that the AFL has an ongoing promise to Richmond and Carlton that they will play the first game of Round 1 every year. And the AFL has found a way to stick to that promise.  

bingo