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Tippet would be a great get at a reasonable price. Would you rather him or Spencer as a backup? He's proven to the league he's no guaranteed starter in a talented team but as a backup he'd be useful. Probably prefer Reid, though.

Sorry I should have been more specific. 35-50 year olds living in East Melbourne, Carlton, Parkville and Albert Park, owner occupier, drive a VW Golf, work in either government or creative industries, earn 150k+ and vote Greens. Nothing wrong with that but it's a small target market. In all honesty though when I was studying I saw research conducted by the MEAA that looked at audience figures and journalists. Journalists were more like to be less than 35, vote Green, white, male, and live inner-city. It's no surprise that papers like The Saturday Paper (which greatly inflates its readership and relies quite a bit on government subsidies) pop up in Collingwood of all places. Imo there is a very clear trend. The Guardian is losing millions. Fairfax is on the brink. Small publishers rely on social justice "gotcha" journalism to amplify their message across social media, enhance reach and maximise profit. You're either tradional and failing, or new age and grubby. The irony of the Age's "independent always" tag is that its self righteousness killed it in an Era of online self gratification.

The Age has been garbage for years. It's bad in a way different to how the Hun is bad, which is tabloid garbage. The Age has been a holier than thou, "do as I say not as I do" rag for a number of years. Appealing to inner city elites tends to alienate your previously working class audience. I didn't mind Rohan but politicizing entertainment and sport stands to be a career killer. Sports coverage in this country is quite bizarre when you compare to the US and even the UK. Age journos appear to blame everyone but themselves. Fairfax management had been fighting an uphill battle for years. It's the only media organisation that hasn't really changed its reporting strategy for the digital age. It's not feasible to pay one journo $60k a year for one article a week. The work output vs value has been killing that company slowly for years. Rohan is probably a symptom of that. His "voluntary" redundancy suggests either they wanted him to take a pay cut or boost his output, neither of which he wanted to do.

Nice one. I remember that Charles goal against WC like it was yesterday. '93 I think it was? They were flag favourites and we were struggling but we smashed them that day. Beat the Bombers as well that year...but lost to Sydney lol Typical Melbourne!

Yes, I know. I was simply highlighting the nature of the situation. Either Melbourne purposefully understated the significance of his injury, or Trenners fluffed it. We know the latter isn't true.

I think that even though we're similarly placed at this point as we were at the same point last year, those above and around us aren't as good. Freo's percentage is shocking and they will drop down, even if they win today and go 2 games ahead. Eagles are incredibly shaky and imo we need to beat them in Perth. They're average imo. Richmond appears set for finals but they can go on long binges of average football. St Kilda still gets belted when they lose, which hurts their percentage. Essendon Collingwood and North aren't playing finals, although Bombers could push. Sydney still worries me but I think them along with the Hawks are shot. We are in the box seat and it would be so disappointing if we missed. We could certainly push and finish top 4. Maybe I have the red and blue tinged glasses on but I can see us finishing ahead of every team in the 8 bar the top 3. How good would it be to go up against GWS first up and beat them in Sydney?

Woey vs Port in 1998? Around 0:32 in.

Martin is a lot smarter than people dare admit and he has an exceptional football IQ. He's a rough around the edges kind of guy but he's a diamond in the rough. The public perception of him is based on media coverage, which is fixated on him due to his appearance and deamonor. He is the complete opposite of the kind of guy his aesthetic projects.

That was weird because the club must have known his status. Either they banked on him passing the medical on any given day, or Trengove fluffed it which is extremely doubtful and not in his character. That said we'd have gotten pick 12 or whatever for him, which would have been AMAZING and a typical Richmond trade. May have been the best for both parties though so in hindsight it's probably sad for Trengove that the trade didn't go through.

This has been long established. I'd love nothing more than to knock them out of the finals.

Origin will never happen. It thrives in Sydney because the NRL is mostly an afterthought, and union and representative rugby reigns supreme. In the AFL, team rivalries and cultural boundaries are much more refined and defined, and the competitiveness is established in the battle for the flag. In Sydney and Qld, it's all about which is the better state. That doesn't exist here. We already have SoO in the form of "Victoria vs everyone else".

Was this against Brisbane in 94?

Salem vs Essendon?

Toumpas is awful. Threw the ball onto the foot and went straight to Hawthorn. His positioning is awful and his teammates blatantly ignore him.

IMO it wasn't even that good a moment, hardly representative of what made the wiz the wiz. It was a free kick in front of goal...hardly "Wiz" material. I get that it was against his former side which gave it preference, but still. He had a number of really great games at Freo, pity that was the one they those to use.

My knowledge of golf starts and ends with Everybody's Golf on PlayStation, which is a fantastic series and one I highly recommend. But anyway, good work OP (I think).

What a spud! Green and a lot of his mates almost destroyed the club. Schwab and Co did a lot of bad things but all it takes is a game like that to really burn [censored] to the ground. It was an insult to fans and long term supporters who had say through 40+ year of garbage. The sooner we got rid of that core, the better. And I'm still of the belief that we won't be 100% free of losing culture until every player on the list in 2011 is gone.

Wonaeamarri was the full package imo. Had the personality and drive to be a captain of the club. I remember hearing someone call him "Mother Mary" because they couldn't pronounce his name wrong. IMO he always had a brighter future than Jurrah.

Very much this. I hope we are never factored into these "*club* is throwing millions at *player*" news reports. Essendon is throwing a million at Dusty because they're desperate. I don't believe for a second that they're finals-worthy or have the depth that their fans seem to think they have. They're going to start feeling the pinch of last year for a number of years yet. They need to recruit and draft very aggressively. Their current list can't cut it. North seems to be putting all of its eggs in one basket. It knows it can't afford to crash and draft slowly so it's going for the big guns. Richmond will be regretting having thrown so much at Prestia and Caddy. They will lose Dusty. No chance he stays if they can't get to at least within 80% of the best offer.

Carlton is actually alright. A lot of upside imo and I think they're well coached. I hate Norf much more than Caaaaaaarlton.

IMO we're the fourth-best side in the comp, performance wise, behind Adelaide, GWS and Bulldogs (who are actually having a very similar season to us). We're one game off fourth. I still don't rate Geelong, beyond Selwood and Dangerfield they have a sizeable gap of talent. Adelaide can plug some holes and they had a bad fortnight but you can't write them off, and they're probably the best-performing interstate side on the MCG. Richmond are pushovers, the Perth teams won't last into the season, and the gap between Port's best and worst is probably the largest in the league (yes, greater than ours). Their percentage however keeps them are likely finalists. We're 5-5 without KP players. IMO, Freo and Richmond will drop out of the current top 8. Possibly WC as well. From last year, North, Sydney, Hawthorn are out. Port will take one spot. That leaves 2 additional spots. I know we lost to them but in the long run we're better than both Perth teams and Richmond. We'll play finals.

Spot on for me.

84-13 since the 7 minute mark of the third.

I got KFC at half time bevause I was depressed. Thinking a family pizza post game to celebrate.