Dr. Gonzo

Well said Nasher - I think some people think it should be like playing a video game sometimes. Absolute destructions do occur but there is often reasons for this rather than a team just deciding to put the foot down (as well we know). This game was killed off by quarter time and we cruised to a 74 point victory in the end despite the Eagles having a real crack for half a game. What else do people want?

Kept them to 1 goal and that was in the first minutes. I'd be happy to see that continue this quarter.

Dogs have a very hard run home (2 d half of the season). This stretch of matches is their easiest for the year, I don't see how they make finals.

Not saying that Collingwood would've won but that decision made sure of it. The game was finished after that.

Maybe they need to hire security for local games or ensure a police presence.

I'm always amazed to hear these stories, obviously just angry people with a few screws loose. But I've been to plenty of local footy games in the NFNL and EDFL in recent years and haven't seen or heard any of this. Maybe it's just the club's/grounds I've been at

And besides this nuffie rule what are the AFL ACTUALLY doing to support umpiring at community level?

I think that was exceptional circumstances with the GF in Perth (no MCC, no AFL Members, fewer club members accessing tickets)

Looks like it's rule of the week again. Two paid tonight that I saw which are laughable including the one against De Goey just now which pretty much iced the game. That's what we want to see I guess, games being decided by petty umpiring decisions.

I don't think the general public has access to GF tickets (unless you're talking about the $2k packages they have with a breakfast and footy record included?)

Fantastic initiative

Dying minutes of our game last week, Hill called HTB by Harmes. Hill first disputes the decision then gestures towards the scoreboard after viewing the replay. No 50. This is the problem, umpires will rarely pay it now because it is a stupid rule but it is in the book so at some stage some over officious umpire will pull one out and it will cost a team points (and hopefully not a final!) Same with the protected area rule there would be 50 each round that are missed and one or two paid across 9 games. It's amateur.

It was hilarious reading while stuck in bed sick on Monday morning, loved it 🤣 Some seriously delusional people on that board.

They can get stuffed. West Coast are easily one of my most hated club's right up there with Essendon. Perennial whingers the lot of them.

I've been following Melbourne since the late 80s and we've always had a decent ruckman (O'Dwyer, Stynes, White, Jamar, Gawn, Jackson). Hasn't been a weakness of ours.

Why is it inevitable?

You're not wrong, the overwhelming majority of footy supporters want a day game at 2/230pm. The AFL again is selling out it's constituents for a few extra pieces of silver. Disgraceful especially considering this issue gets brought up every year and is continually knocked back due to the lack of support amongst its key demographic. But they'll just keep bringing it up again and again until they get the answer they want. Hopefully the Commission tells Gil to stick it but I somehow doubt it

I know his brothers at Freo but the rest of his family is in Vic so what's the lure? His parents are here and famously have had many Demons players boarding with them over the years. Would that stop if he decided to leave?

That's the Demons board GameDay thread - each teams board had their own one plus one on the main board. Some of them are great reading.

A couple of Richmond players did 😂

Exactly and we haven't been resting players since Burgess came on board. The philosophy seems to be around getting players match hardened and fit rather than resting them with niggles.

And their full-time score was still less than our halftime score.

Weid was 2nd ruck against the Hawks when Dogga was out. Weid played as 2nd ruck either last preseason or this preseason (can't remember). He is the backup for the fwd/ruck role so you'd say Jackson to 1st ruck and Weid in as fwd/2nd ruck

Yep you can already see it rubbing off on Petty during games, directing traffic around him. Invaluable to have that kind of onfield leadership.

The goal eventually will be to have fully reserved games with vast majority of seats allocated to reserved seat members as happens in SA and WA (and Essendon games at Docklands from memory). Scarcity may make it more valuable and people may then feel more compelled to turn up for games and use their reserved seats. At the MCG that is about 55k seats once you exclude MCC and AFL Reserves.