whatwhat say what

friends of mine have specialised nicknames for some players...

judd mcvee - chris (although apparently he doesn't like it)

tom mcdonald - plugger (cos of his kickin action for goal and cos he can 'plug' any hole)

taj woewoedin - woey 2.0 (for obvious reasons)

ben brown - sideshow bob (cos of his former hairdo and the resemblance with a certain simpsons character)

4 minutes ago, Sir Why You Little said:

You can be sure that nothing will change. That new AFL CEO Andrew Dillon is an absolute wet blanket 

BUY SOME PROPER GOAL LINE CAMERAS AT EACH GROUND YOU CHEAP BASTARDS

There is nothing worse than AFL suits 

what a vile organisation 

afl maintain this should be a broadcast cost, not an afl cost

the afl won't pay for anything that they absolutely positively 100% don't have to 

2 hours ago, spirit of norm smith said:

Devils to get 

draft picks 1,3,5,7, 19,21,23,25 in draft “two years” before into competition 

then draft picks 1,4,7, 10,13, 19, 22, 25 in the draft prior to coming into the competition 

that’s 16 draft picks to acquire the best young talent.  Must trade at least 3 of these picks to clubs to acquire ready to go players 
 

free agent sign up availability 

priority access to delisted free agents etc 

access to any father sons from the TSL, VFL or AFL playing above 100 games. 

That’d make the leg up that the two northern franchises got look like chicken feed

4 minutes ago, BigMacjnr said:

Tradies podcast Mitch Cleary stated AFL will pay the majority and the dees will pay very little of his contract. 

It’s not really about who ‘pays’ tho; it’s about whether it’s counted in our salary cap for the next six seasons or not

Just now, Whispering_Jack said:

Is there anything else that he needs to know?

“Is #34 free?”

Some talk that north hosting flagmantle might dip below 15k attendees…

that’s gc17 / gw$ levels

jack seemed like a lovely fella, and i am sure he was great fun to party with

but it's easier to forget in the wake of his career that he was dropped by every senior coach he had

i personally doubt if, given the rigour that goes into draft pick selections these days, he would go close to being drafted in the first round

how good are the academy kids we have with us?

what's the odds on those nga kids sliding past pick 40 and into our clutches?

• filth?
• crom?
• flagmantle
• us
• bloods
• footscray?
• pear
• gw$

on replay, sparrow seemed to have a defensive role on johanissen for large parts of play, which seemed to work quite well

i would be amazed if sideshow bob isn't playing - he was excellent with his long leads, sticky fingers, and ability to bring the ball to ground

i presume dempsey from the puddy tatts got the rising star nom this round?

howes looks a natural

kornes was a very good player for the pear

he was also an aggravating and divisive personality around the club

he's modelled his career as a combo of his father and stephen a smith

great listen again lads

i would be happy for you to do a daily podcast for 30 mins to an hour

it's on my 'must listen' list the minute i see that it's gone live, along with the likes of nyt daily, indiecast, and slate's hit parade

i was screaming bloody murder in afl members about the ball-up at the top of the square

THAT'S NOT WHERE THE BALL WAS! IF THEY GET A GOAL HERE WE RIOT!!

apparently people thought i was being funny; i was deadly serious

she is super highly rated

hopefully she really nails our brand and comms strategy, cos it's been the bugbear of many on here for quite some time

terrible luck for porterhouse

3 minutes ago, layzie said:

I would have liked a full rebrand and kept that jumper and name for state football history but if this is what they think will work then go for it.

exactly

i don't mind the logo personally, nor the name particularly (although the lack of n is just odd)

but the state jumper? should've been a no-no

friend's response - why does their logo look like a hairy fish?

‘Tasmania’ Devils - they forgot the n and the extra head

Needs more syphilis

maclure called it 'pathetic' on the ninefax realfooty podcast

would love to share this with him but alas he doesn't accept feedback on any social media platforms:

2 minutes ago, Fromgotowoewodin said:

No ones crowd is a reflective of its membership (except GC, see below).

2023 average H&A crowd vs final membership totals, pies had 106k members, averaged 60k at games or 57%.

Tigers had 101k members who thought they were still good, 49k still committed enough to turn up or 43% - I’d expect they’ll get around 92k members this year as those bandwagoners realise its another rebuild.

We got 56% of our member number to games on average at 39k of 70k, slightly above the overall average of 53%, so we bat above.

Suns are an outlier as they got 82% at 19k ave crowd vs 23k members but that’s just cos their membership is so low, get 5k oppo fans to a game and you’re laughing. 

Our crowds are fine, it’s bias and [censored] from the media and oppo fans that we don’t turn up (and it’s not much better when our own club talks us down as fans). 

56 minutes ago, Go the Biff said:

FWIW there's a weekly thread on BigFooty where posters of all persuasions can offer their predicted results and crowd figures. After seeing this thread I went for a look to see what the great unwashed were anticipating. Aside from a couple of outliers, everyone was pretty close to the actual attendance.

The footy media give me the irrits and the simpering twit that is Sam McLure annoys me more than most. The whole lot are best ignored.

On the bright side, Matty Hill is calling footy games and Tom Browne is nowhere to be seen. A rare nett positive

could you share the link pls? would be curious to see what people's expectations were

20 hours ago, dimmy said:

No....they are being built for concerts i.e. like Baseball stadia because we are continually trying to be American

and this is where they're completely delusional

big tours that can fill baseball stadiums - the likes of taylor swift, pink, fredagain etc. - play primarily in melbourne and sydney, not even brisbane, let alone perth or adelaide - they're never going to play in tasmania

when even fairly large acts like queens of the stone age play in tassie they're headlining tiny venues compared to what they can do in melbs or syds cos, well, hobart simply doesn't have the population to support tours by international acts

1 hour ago, binman said:

How good is it to be super confident a player will hit a target by foot, or failing that at least not butcher it straight to an oppo player.

he had one shank in the last that was a direct turnover and it stood out like a beacon such was its unusual nature

good user

30 minutes ago, MrFreeze said:

Thoughts on our use of the wings? Langdon appears to be back to his best with gut run and link. Something new I was us splitting our offensive wing between Windsor from HB to center, and then billings from center to HF. The conditions and game plan suited Billings strengths to a tee. 

not sure i entirely believe these graphics as the amount of times on the afl members wing i saw langdon pass to billings was a delight

i didn't see anyone slagging off the crowd but i'm going to presume it was sam maclure, again?

i was thinking the crowd would be ~40k so ~45k was slightly above my expectation

footscray don't draw crowds at the mcg; they barely draw crowds at their own dungheap at docklands