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The ump didn’t say that. It was a commentator.

I'm staggered that the AFL cannot think of someting related to footy to entertain the spectators at half time (apparently the match itself is not worth discussing). Whatever musical act they choose, many won't be interested. But everyone who is at the footy (maybe excepting some in corporate boxes) would like to see players from all the other teams competing in kicking competitions, handballing comps, races etc. Maybe some old stars (I mean footy ones, not pop stars) competing in something. Surely those overpaid AFP execs could use their imagination to think of a few things to occupy 15 minutes. Or they could even outsource to some mates to do the thinking.

Just because the burden of proof is reversed there is no justification for inordinate delays in justice. And particularly in cases where a career is age limited. I can just see it, found guilty, 3 year suspension applied retrospectively, but he just happens to be 48 when they deliver the sentence.

The lions would find him as indigestable as I find the AFL.

Has the AFL made any comment about the state of the ground?

I read a few comments earlier in this thread about the surface at Geelong and thought there might be a few puddles that posters were making a fuss about. I didn't look at it till late in the game. It felt like I had entered a time machine to the 1960's.

Tom Green has put the boot firmly into the MRO/AFL in a now deleted podcast. Article in Canberra Times has excerpts from it. https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/8701721/tom-green-slams-afls-crackdown-on-dangerous-tackle-toby-bedford/?cs=14329 It's firewalled, but not hard to get around.

Based on my experience of trying to lght fires, there's often plenty of smoke with no sign of fire.

Thanks, but keeping oppo guessing can make sense even for a few hours because they have to finalise their team at the same time as we do.

Do club's make a fuss about players who have played for another club in the AFL? Or only for a kid getting his first game in the big time? In any case, why give that info to the opposition given our current ruck situation.

If those saying a player can't get properly fit during the actual season are correct (I don't doubt they are), then the obvious question is why did the club play him early in the season. WOuldn't it be better to put him on a pre-season regime during early rounds to prepare him for playing late in the season. I can only guess that was because of lack of alternative players or helping with personal issues he might have had.

Given the umpires have a 9m marking in fornt of the goal square yet frequenly allow the kicker-in to run more than twice that before kicking the ball without penalty, I doubt the 50m lines would be helping them elsewhere.

The 'we should have won more cups because we had the best list' argument looks to me like self-flagellation. OK, if a club has a list 10 times better than any other club, they should be mortified that they only won one cup. But no club has ever been in that position. Even if a club has a genius coach and an arguably better list than any other club, so many things have to go right to win multiple times that all you can be is disappointed if you don't. Rending garments in grief serves no purpose. Self-flagellation is ridiculous.

Generally Kayo works OK but a few times it has frozen and nothing can be done until I reload Kayo in the browser I am using (on a Mac). Nothing else is putting pressure on my Wifi at the time. A problem at their end I am pretty sure.

I think the rain forcing centre square throwups must or should have been a great advantage to Draper. The bad bounces are so random it takes away some of his natural advantages.