Dr. Gonzo

Apparently their worst since 2004 vs Freo (wooden spoon year)

There is some GA available it seems but only in the Ponsford. Seems theyve blocked off level 4 at least in the Southern Stand which is ridiculous considering the weather and chance of rain. I wonder whether it's a club, AFL or MCG decision.

The lack of communication around how this will work for members and people with kids is extremely poor. As an AFL member it doesn't impact me too much cos I have to reserve tickets through Ticketek anyway but I feel for people in @wonnabeeri situation. No wonder crowds are down, it all gets too hard and with the weather forecast as well it just becomes easier to stay home with the heater/fire going. Not blaming MFC by the way, the communication should be from the AFL as it impacts all club's.

It's the same as any team really. If you're not on and the other team is you can lose to anyone, the Kangas taught us that surely. The key is to snuff teams out early so they drop their heads and then cruise for the last 1-1.5 quarters. Give lowly teams a sniff and they'll be up and about thinking they can pinch a win. The Cats were the masters of this in their glory days, they would obliterate teams out of the blocks and then cruise to easy victories.

Hawks have had enough success to last several lifetimes but the club's I want to see down the bottom for an extended period are the Blues and Bombers. Blues havent won a flag for 25 years, Bombers for 20 and if it extends for a few more decades it would be just fine by me.

Go the Pies!

AFL will use it as a bargaining chip at the next media rights agreement. Why give them TNF for free when you can make them pay for it?

Tell that to Brisbane, playing in Melbourne on Saturday then have to back up with a Thursday night game against the Cats.

It was round 1 2006 that I left disgusted. Carlton won 3 games for the season, 2 of them were against us! It cost us top 4. We also lost to them late in 2004 at Princes Park after topping the ladder in round 18 against Hawthorn. I was working that day and remember being in utter shock when I checked the scores.

If the line is MFC -38.5 paying $3 it means Melbourne has to win by at least 39 points for you to win the bet and it will pay 3-1 odds (so you win $3 for every dollar you bet) If Carlton is +24.5 and paying $1.90 it means for you to win your bet Carlton has to either win or lose by 24 points or less and your payout is $1.90 for every dollar you bet

They usually play the TNF games over the bye rounds for some reason (ironically when there's fewer games on)

On The Couch ripped Liam Jones apart the other night. Great one on one defensively but if he refuses to adhere to the structure again this week we will walk goals in.

Cats Swans North Lions Giants Port Bombers WCE

Round 15 v Essendon Saturday night at the G (their home game) another prime time game as well as obviously Queens Bday in round 13 (bye in round 14) https://www.afl.com.au/news/612566

I'm worried to the extent I'm worried about every game. If we turn up like the 1st half vs North we will lose. If we bring the defensive structure and system we've applied most of the year we will strangle them. Still yet to concede more than 73 points in a game.

I like Thursday Night Footy as long as it's not us playing

No updates this week? Still stuck on 46896

And in 2018 we won by 90 points

Perhaps Jeff needs to take a leaf out of his own book as Premier and start selling off assets to fund the Hawks shortfalls. Their premiership cups will shortly be up on eBay, starting bids $1.

And then they whinge when club's like ours, Saints, North, Dogs need extra funding from the AFL.

That was crazy, it's like he's stuck in the 80s. Yeah Teague is at home thinking "gee whiz look at that a footy side with a defensive structure" - what does Robbo think footy club's do all week? Circle work and 100 X 100s?

WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEED

I assume a lot of contracts would have clauses in it that contract would increase proportional to any salary cap increase?

It's pretty amazing how many Melbourne podcasts there are. There's a couple of other general AFL podcasts I listen to as well, Lace Out which is hosted by a Melbourne supporter (and his co-host a Port supporter) and Lystics AFL Podcast hosted by a Melbourne supporter and an ex-Collingwood now Freo supporter. The Bulldogs don't have any podcast as far as I can tell although apparently the comedian who used to do their banners is working on one - he has a podcast with Lehmo called They Came To Play. Another one I listen to is Junktime which is a comedy footy podcast which comes with an *extreme language warning*. Funny guys though they've done writing for a couple of different AFL comedy shows, I think one of them currently works on The Front Bar. Another great podcast is the Kick to Kick podcast which is an AFL history podcast hosted by an Essendon supporter and up to three Melbourne supporters (they don't always appear on each episode but usually at least 2 of the 3). They go through each AFL season an episode at a time and are currently up to 1959 so a good time to jump in