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Didn’t miss a beat with Dunstan in last time. It’s an awesome to be in a position where we’ve got AFL quality backups ready to go on every line.

Harmes is out for at least 2. A defender will come out for Salem, most likely Rivers. Unless Melksham is beyond terrible or gets injured, he’ll play #200 next week.

Exactly my first thought too: probably the closest like-for-like option available. I don’t mind it. Good luck to him, hope he gets to 200. He’s been an excellent servant of the club since coming over from Essendon.

That sounds like one of those stupid things that football supporters say because they saw it once. It's a bit like Ed LaNgDoN iS a BuTcHeR from Freo fans when he came here - sure you don't want him attempting laser passes to a teammate who's swamped by 4 oppoonents, but by and large he is competent. At ground level, of course you'd prefer Kozzie, but it was never sensible to call him "useless", and he hasn't miraculously improved since coming to the MFC.

This is my take too. Chandler verdict regretfully correct. Ryan verdict a ridiculous under-reaction.

Lol. The prospect of maybe receiving a $500 fine would be weighing pretty heavy.

The argument that Hawkins or whoever would be let off because they’re a big name player or some other reason is a red herring. Other players being incorrectly let of is not a justification to let another player off incorrectly.

I think there’s an argument that if the tackle occurs in a manner that causes the player to hit his head on the turf without being able to protect himself, then it can’t possibly have been a safe or legal tackle, the two conditions are mutually exclusive. The fact as argued by Redleg that Chandler let go before Foley hit the ground is a technicality, which is not relevant to the case. If he let go, it wasn’t early enough to prevent the result that occurred, and it is self evident that if the player could have softened his own blow, he would have. I think Chandler will serve time, and I think that’s right. I feel sorry for Chandler as this was an accident and he was clearly upset by it, but I believe there is an ongoing need to incentivise players to take as much care as practicable when tackling.

I felt terrible for Kade Chandler. You’re frequently right on the very edge of the team. You come on with 15 to go and the result well beyond doubt, you have to make every chance to state your case count. He was trying to aggressively defend and he almost got it right, but ended up injuring the player. It was an accident and he seemed shaken.

Some harsh views on what was a total pummelling. I don’t agree that it was ugly, or that we were in a second gear or whatever. There are no teams in the AFL that are bad at the game, just teams that can’t sustain a 4 quarter effort. West Coast had two quarters of solid effort that matched ours and still couldn’t make any inroads. We completely destroyed them in the two quarters where their effort dropped off. It would have been nice to convert better, but other than that I’m really not sure what else we need to do before people will be happy.

Out: Harmes In: Dunstan

Not much can be said about that. West Coast played in the second and third quarters. They’re no good.

Ah, that sounds like the MAIB component that is rolled in to ours (in Tasmania) then. I just happen to have a rego due, here’s what the breakdown looks like: The MAIB component is about half the cost. Other than this I don’t believe I am required by law to have any other type of insurance.

I’d believe that. I had an at-fault car accident without insurance in my early 20s, however your counterpart at the time didn’t have too much trouble finding me, they just had to get the police report (my car was totalled so no getting away with it). Reason for not having insurance: couldn’t afford it. Now you can argue if you can’t afford insurance, you can’t afford having a car, but reality is I needed to work and study, and I lived a considerable distance from both places from the places I needed to be (because poor) with limited public transport. People with less means unfortunately often feel they have to take more risk to get by. And like Mr Daw I got the privilege of a couple of police charges too just to rub salt in to the wound. Anyway I was “only” up for about 3k for the other party, plus obviously the loss of my own car. Had to take out a personal loan to cover it all, I made sure I borrowed enough to grab a year or two worth of insurance too. Haven’t ever gone without it since, although I’m in a significantly better place financially now so it’s a (privileged) no-brainer. In any case, it’s the personal indemnity insurance you get from your registration that is the issue. It’s why “unregistered” charges always come with an “uninsured” charged. As far as I’m aware NSW is the only state that enforces compulsory third party insurance, but I could have that wrong.

Current top 4 is us, Freo, Brisbane and St Kilda. About as inoffensive as it could be.

Where’s Dean Kent? Injured as usual, or just not getting a game?

Eat dirt, Cats.

I’m not actually advocating for a Tassie team. I don’t have any need for one, as like I said, I have a team, and so do most others. Just saying that if “we” did get one, I wouldn’t want it to be Norf.

I’ve got to admit I don’t hate the idea of aligning a team with the Jack Jumpers brand of the new basketball team, which was a big success in its inaugural season in both crowd and on-court success. Certainly beats the tired, cringy old cliché of all our teams being Tigers (obviously not available) and Devils. Having been bitten by a jack jumper more than once, I can confirm they are nasty little bastards!

It would feel like the AFL have dumped their problem on us and would be proof they clearly don’t give a crap about us. I and many others would consider supporting a brand new team, as a second team (I already have a team), if it feels like ours. A rebadged North Melbourne, it’s a hard no thanks from me.

Yes, Tassie have obviously really embraced the Kangas, judging by the seven people in the crowd today.

I don’t think so, they’re an experienced team team with a solid core that is underperforming. Could be a Daniher in ‘98 type scenario with a fresh voice reinvigorating the old list. The WCE job of embarking on a ground-up rebuild would be the more risky job.

You remind me of the kid in primary school who would call you a dobber (my kids would say “snitch”) if you told the teacher that the kid was giving you grief. As if exposing the behaviour of others is a greater crime than the initial behaviour itself. Lumumba would have recorded that conversation as a result of his belief that he was being consistently mistreated. He wouldn’t have just randomly started doing it out of the blue. He would have thought nobody would ever believe him if they didn’t hear it for themselves, and he was absolutely correct. I agree that recording private conversations is extremely unpalatable and I’d be horrified if I learned someone was doing that to me. But put yourself in his shoes. What other choice did he have?

I view the Yze thing the same way I do when I lose a good member of my team to a promotion elsewhere that wasn’t available with us: we’ll miss him, but our overriding emotion is we’re stoked he’s got the opportunity that we know he deserves. I don’t believe in stifling people’s growth so we can selfishly keep them on our team.

Give away tickets to Freo fans who can send in a photo of themselves in a Dees scarf from last year. West Coast fans will stay away in droves, so we can pack the place and they can play in front of a hostile crowd on their own ground. Seriously though it’ll be great to go back there for the boys I reckon. Happy memories there. Doesn’t feel like that long ago that a trip to Perth meant pencilling in the loss and just hoping for the best. Wonder if I’ll ever be able to see bang… bang bang bang without getting a lump in my throat?