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there's no such thing as 'significant cap room' in the afl every club must pay at least a minimum 95% of their total cap, with an allowance request to dip down to 92.5% (afaik dogs are the only club to ask and receive this), and a tolerance to 105%, to a even keel over a period of time (i've heard recently it's 2 years, but i thought it was 5 year rolling period)

what a weird turn of phrase... "but players nonetheless" well, they weren't the accountants, were they? perhaps mick is alluding to them as 'playas'

i suspect our salary cap is in a 'good position' as there's a large bunch of players who are still on their 1-3 year rookie scale

tomorrow: pulp and bleak squad thursday: this is lorelei saturday: basement jaxx gonna be a good week

early dose of goal fever

yairs, that was my memory too as such, duke vs nas, head to head

laura kane will still be in her job this time next year

did they offer 8 years or less?

Who played on NWM before they were subbed out last round? They did the job from memory, before subs were done and then he was off to the races

Forum show? We were a rowdy lot 😜 Lovely to see em in gen admin rather than seated

Huge contributor to our successful period One of the best key defenders of his era

rick lever remains the daggiest demon dad

given the talls are where we are being hit hardest. ah-mu would make some degree of sense

imagine if that had been the name chosen give batman's relations with the indigenous of tasmania... batmania demons would have been an interesting team to barrack for against the future tasmanian devils, that's for sure

best guess at a side... B: Howes - Petty - Lever HB: Jiath - Turner - Salem C: Langford - Steele - Lindsay HF: Sparrow - Mihocek - Langdon F: Fritsch - van Rooyen - Chandler Foll: Gawn - Rivers - Koz Pickett I/c: Windsor - Tholstrup - McDonald - Heath - Kuz Pickett Emerg: Laurie - Taylor - Sharp unavailable (possibly 12): May - Viney - Culley - Bowey - Melksham - Jefferson - McAdam - White - Kentfield - Johnson - Henderson - Moniz-Wakefield that's a LOT of senior players injured / absent, plus a lot of 'next up' too if melksham is fit he might make the team ahead of mcdonald, but personally i have my doubts that he'll be right to go in a fortnight with such limited preparation it might also come down to a choice of only one of mcdonald or heath, with sharp in to add some more legs and zip or they might back culley in for that same reason it may also depends on whether mihocek is right to play after the concussion and limited preseason there's a lot of uncertainty as to who is 'right to go' in terms of the result, i suspect we'll run out of legs having had 6 completed quarters of footy in preparation as opposed to the aints' 8 plus a further 4 of an actual competitive game for four points - the fixture is a complete farce; nothing changes there from the afl anything can happen tho; i'm hopeful but not optimistic of starting the season with a win

not really, no still think we're a bottom 5 side, winning about the same # of games as the last two seasons, so 7 wins; would be pleased if it was double digit wins yet i might feel a lot better about the 2026 season than i did 2024 and 2025

who said i was writing them off from 2 practice games? cj has 76 afl games and i'd hope he plays in at least 5 more seasons with us, so could get up close to 200 games as he clearly has attributes to his game that are very good - they're just not his kicking, clearly, but he reads the play well and has speed and seems to have some strength in the contest laurie has been on our list since before we won the premiership; i don't see an afl-level player whatsoever tholstrup is a lovely long kick, a terrible short one, is not quick, doesn't seem to have much 'smarts' around him and is entering his third year at the start of 2021 i probably said the same of sparrow; at the end of the year he was a premiership player i hope to say the same of tholstrup at the conclusion of his third season too - like sparrow he's got a great attitude to his game, wants to bring his teammates into the game, but it think probably lacks the gut-running of sparrow at this point in time

yeah, he looks special let's poach him as revenge

i wouldn't have laurie anywhere near our afl side sorry to say it, but when we have the likes of him, tholstrup, cj, and others besides in our best 23 we will continue to be a bottom side - they're not skilled enough to make a good side, which is i guess why cj was let go by dingley and we picked him up i saw the frost comparisons earlier but he's more like a jayden hunt for mine; he has some good aspects to his game but his kicking is routinely up-and-under with not enough penetration and direction

6: gawn 5: windsor 4: steele 3: van rooyen 2: rivers 1: koz pickett

poor to average he's an honest trier but limited skillset and does dumb things regularly he should be in our 23 for rd 1 as we're so short of fit players and we need him to actually be a warm, fit body

no more injuries = winning

ahahaha lightning again call it off

proper forward craft from jvr - mark the ball, feel the oppo behind you, drop it, get the 50

i sense a theme in 2026 - cj mark, cj run, cj bomb to no one