Tassie Devil

I still reckon watts was a line ball but a swan did it later lost control of the ball and was impeded by a demon. Not a tackle but still a free - another swans goal

In final quarter swan player tackled with ball and went to ground. The ball in his hands hit the ground. He then handballed to a player and a goal resulted from that play. That is a free to us! Umps have no idea how to position themselves or work as a team. Their costume clashed with at least 2 teams last weekend. AFL must fix this

Now sell them Jamar while he has currency and they are desperate for a ruckman - Jolly is nearing the end and they have Hudson as a back-up. Give them a double whammy and grab one of their mids in a trade in which we come out the winner.

It's a lot like our Grand Final. I was born in 1961 and missed '64. I was at '88 and 2000. Both had similarities to today's game in terms of result. We are a sad shadow of the team that I grew (was brainwashed?) to love. Again I apologise to my kids - but they know they have a choice.

Was impressive on "before the bounce" - think he was pitching for the job on a permanent basis.

Oi - I grew up in North Balwyn (as it was known before gentrification swapped it around to Balwyn North [wtf?]). I also played many years in Diamond Valley League before it became soft and changed to its current incarnation. These stereotypes do nothing to support anybodies argument. Just sayin'

If a player is reported isn't it automatically a 50m penalty? I may be wrong - but if not the umpire got it doubly wrong.

I have been one of JW's biggest apologists for some time but ..... Last game they said he was ill. This week some of his half hearted efforts made me ill. Pull your finger out son or get us a decent trade.

Early in #2's career I saw him roost a 65m+ goal from beyond the centre circle at Bellerive while paying for Sandringham vs Tassie Devils (that was some time ago!). It was a game sealing goal. Distance has never been his problem as far as I'm concerned. I have seen many kids improve their kicking - mostly through simple hard work. I believe it can be done if the player is prepared to put in the hard work. While our new #7's dad wasn't the best kick it did improve in later years as a result of his willingness to work on it. On the other hand, a few years ago I saw a former #48 (later #24) do a centimeter perfect pass to a former #7 (had a 'fit' wife and later became a Toige) - you can't teach that sort of kicking.

Two games in succession, against ordinary teams, and leading into a bye would be ok by me.

Former MFC top 10 pre-season draft pick NIck Gill (2000) has been announced as a marquee signing for the North Hobart Demons. This will be the North Hobart Demons last year in their traditional status as a club - one of the oldest in Tasmania but forced by AFL Tasmania into a merger.

Having worked at "the coalface" for many years I have seen the "cold hard face" of drug use - both licit and illicit - and I can still construct a sentence I'm also well aware of what a 'scoob' is - my reference was to a claim by a poster that their children had never used drugs - but had a 'couple of beers now and then but no drugs'. In my time in the sector I have seen many people use illicit drugs and live productive and (otherwise) law abiding lives. I have also seen young people's futures ruined by drugs - the blame is not always a result of the psychotropic effect of the drugs but the proscription of them. The point you make about medicinal cannabis is pertinent - the country that professes to be tougher than any other on drugs (apart from Singapore and Sweden perhaps) also has the most prescriptions for cannabis written by medical practitioners. Go figure! I can grow and process cannabis and opium in my backyard. They are, after all, weeds in the wild. The Tasmanian 'terroir' is perfect for their cultivation. ... but I don't have the science to produce 'measured doses' - that requires willing guinea pigs of which there is no shortage. Hardly a scientific approach but effective for some. Perhaps that's what the authorities want! I can't think of any other reason to explain the madness of continuing a failed response.

The US make no secret about their desire to control the world's drug supply - they even made Elvis a "special agent at large"

and we all know that beer is not a drug

You can hardly do that for ciggies now - let alone grog. Alarmist comments like this don't add credibility to your argument, they merely serve to underline the fact that your mind is closed to thinking about alternatives. I have always acknowledged the potential harms associated with substance use of any kind - but each individual is impacted differently. That's the science of pharmacology not the moral perspective. Far from only seeing one side of the debate. The trouble with supporters of the status quo is they can only see things in terms of an apocalyptic, misanthropic future - again emphasising their lack of faith in humanity and thinking everybody would go out and get sh!tfaced if we tried an alternative approach. Show me indisputable evidence of where the war on drugs has proven successful and upheld human rights at the same time. Milton Friedman and George Soros are hardly considered radical bleeding hearts but both agree that the war on drugs is futile. What's so scary about trying an alternative to an approach widely acknowledged as a failure?