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A new sneaky tactic: They could explain all that to oppo players during the game. The opponent would be so confused they would lose all concentration on the game.

Cool down - I understand you have good reason to be sensitive given some of the crud you get thrown at you. I enjoy and follow your posts, but I wouldn't remember whether you said you didn't ask Judd or if he volunteered it or whatever. I'd guess Ethan T didn't remember either and I think you may be reading too much into the use of the word 'you'. I

GW responded to my request for a list of nicknames (and player names-numbers, since the AFL in their wisdom have yet to allow clubs to publish that data) so that I could follow who was being talked about in this training thread. I thank her for that. I don't think it has affected the rest of this thread much and the odd reference to nicknames is surely part of almost any thread. But it would be good though to have a nicknames thread as DD36 suggests so we don't have to search for that info when this particular training thread is out of date.

I'm lost. If anyone could provide a list of players by number, name, nickname(s), and abbreviation(s) I'd be very grateful - especially for the new players.

see Adonski's post about 6 posts back

Surely that says something in itself.

makes you wonder if the MFC's drafting policy shouldn't be based on assuming the Devils will scoop all the talent in the short term. https://archive.md/https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl/a-footy-club-meant-to-unite-tasmanians-is-bitterly-dividing-them-20251024-p5n50t.html

While I might disagree with the odd point, @waynewussell makes a lot of sense. If they are going to penalise players for not standing on the mark, how about making it clear to players and spectators where the mark actually is AND stop the player with the ball from playing from a position miles inboard from a reasonable line of play.

While I am a long time critic of the bounce, I cannot for the life of me understand why the AFL would not retain it for the start of a match. My only reserv ation about doing it at the start of each quarter that in a tight game a bad bounce at the start of Q4 might have too much infkluence on the outcome.

I wonder which other club squads would send such a nice note to another squad. How about a poll?

I pay a substantial sub for an on-line version of a newspaper that I trust to have fewer axes to grind than the Herald Sun. On the rare occasions I want to read something in the Herald (always MFC footy articles pointed to from here) I have absolutely no scruples about stealing it. I'm not ever going to be tempted to ever take out a sub. So Mr Murdoch loses nothing when I get to read the words of wisdom from his footy journos. (That's the only downside.) And as DeeDee says if a library puts a paper on pressreader, they do that with permsission and may pay untold amounts of $ for the priviledge. Journalism has more problems that this.

You obviously have a different threshold on your cringometer than I have Dr G. I saw it as a tongue in cheek comment. But c'est la vie.

I think not and no

Where's the "All of the Above" option?

Given all this, much of which will be known to GWS, you have to ask how is GWS planning to manage things.