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Any suggestion of divisions in the men's game is laughable because it would drive second rate teams to the wall, but given that AFLW teams are subsidised and they're hell bent on expanding to 18 teams despite having the available depth of a fish pond, there must be an argument for two divisions of nine. * Teams get competition at their own level * Added promotion/relegation excitement instead of dead rubbers galore * Semi-pro players perhaps less likely to run straight towards a top flight team the moment their first contract expires * Bye weeks offer a break to players who are often putting their real lives on hold to participate Adding four new teams is laughable. If anything they should have less, the best players in the comp are very good but there are some dreadful/nowhere near ready players being gifted games at the bottom end just to make up the numbers. On the topic of changing the season dates, what about playing it straight after the men finish - then you can season new draftees in the state league for a year before they play AFLW. Even if the first couple of rounds lack buzz due to people being burnt out after the men's comp, it would land the end of the season and finals right around the point where people are getting jittery to watch footy again. Realistically - nothing will change, the AFL don't really care. If they knew it was going to get them good publicity they'd expand to Fitzroy, University, South Melbourne and the Brisbane Bears as well.

Gerard Healy, Scully and Scott Thompson then play them at Casey. (Turns out the flag didn't do as much for forgiveness as I thought...)

I'd go for this + Petrevski for Parry.

Interstate teams came along.

There will be one nuffy in the middle who complains about something ridiculously minor that only they're interested in.

I reckon he's confusing half-hearted talks with North and the potential Fitzroy merger in 1986. Age 26/06/1986 Age 05/08/1986

This was a hard one, I didn't feel anyone was outstanding so about 10 players could have snuck in for a vote. 5 - Hanks 4 - Harris 3 - Paxman 2 - Lampard 1 - Pearce

Still haven't come to terms with singular glory, I might end up in traction if we start repeating.

Anyone know if the top-up player Zanchetta in the emergencies was the ex-Brisbane player Jordan?

I don't expect him to remember everything about his career but I will 100% stake everything I own on him playing for Casey that day. Firstly I was there and saw him play, secondly Tom McDonald was walking the boundary in the breaks of the seconds so I suspect he was the emergency, and most importantly Max was named in the best players!

Gawn played in the seconds. They lost by 130 points. What a red-letter day for the organisation. As of 25/09/2021 I was over it.

Like all the other awful things that have happened to us in my supporting life that game no longer haunts me. Still can't be comfortable unless we're that far in front at three quarter time. P.S - It almost got a new version in 2013 when we were 38 points up 15 minutes into the last quarter against the Dogs and fell over the line by three points. Would have been the Jeremy Howe line, which is also the statistic for screamers followed immediately by turnovers. P.P.S - Enjoy the memories

Back online now!

Thank you all for your concern. Like Melbourne under Neale Daniher the site regularly goes up and down, usually it's fixed before anyone notices but this time I thought I'd give the hard-working technical department the Christmas-NY period off without harassing him for a fix. All data is safe, and hopefully in 2022 I'll fill in more of the many information gaps.

You are remebering correctly. Sadly I think the whole thing was a five second jingle and there wasn't a full power ballad version.

If it was Round 7 at 3.20 on a Sunday fair enough. It's a Grand Final, just call the bastard. Brayshaw a good example of dialling down the usual antics for a big occasion.

I yelled things at my TV that could get me arrested when he cracked his earthquake 'gag' when we were on 5.9. Buffoon.

I'd generally rather have my ears cut off Chopper Read style than listen to Taylor, but I will not hear a word against GEE GOD BOY WOW.

JKH seemed to lose the hyphen in his name at some point and just become Kennedy Harris.

Between the adding of random interstate teams that meant you weren't supposed to play every team once, byes randomly dotted through the fixture, COVID issues, and a team pulling out at the end of the season, this could be one of the most shambolic seasons of any state-sized sporting competition ever in Australia - and think about the ground that covers.

Somebody else can do the 2078 version.

There was also a Pringle, so you've got plenty of variety to choose from.

Second place Tim Ruffles, the least popular AFL player named after a chip.

Dwayne hardly the best judge, he'd go off like a pork chop for Clayton Hinkley.

What an [censored]. Did it and forgot to press save. Lucky I can fix that at the click of a button and... done! Everything else from this year should be updated as well.