Rogue

'I'm mostly only happy to trade guys who can't get a game in a bottom-8 side, although I'll trade the 21 year old #4 pick who has stalled a bit or the 30-year old captain who was AA last year but is struggling big time now. However, despite adamantly refusing to trade someone who actually gets a game most weeks and plays in a position for which we have a plethora of players, I want someone like Goddard'. This is a good example of why I avoid most of the trading discussion

I just don't want to see Demonland denigrate into a slanging match full of personal attacks, which seemed the inevitable outcome of the political threads I saw you and others wage on Demonology.

...and so Demonland becomes Demonology.

I think you missed the MacDonald/McDonald...

I wasn't.

Good move for Lyon to jump ship now, IMO. I thought the same thing about Eade before this season.

No.

Far from the finished product, but I'm as excited about Blease as I was when we drafted him (and that was a fair bit).

Horrible.

I disagree with the idea that the marketing department shouldn't take into accout the likely - note: not actual - on-field results of the team. Each to their own, though.

When? When you're coming off the back of games versus teams you've already beaten earlier in the year, rather than top 4/5 Here are my two premises. First, that the on-field environment matters; that this campaign is likely to be received better if the team is doing better. I'm not sure this is a controversial point, but here's a MFC example. Lapsed members responded more positively to calls regarding membership renewal after decent performances, rather than after bad losses. Second, that we're more likely to have better performances versus teams we're around or above on the ladder and have beaten earlier in the year. Again, I'm not sure this is a particularly controversial point either. We've been pretty consistent in smashing some teams down the bottom, getting smashed by teams up the top, and putting in average performances against teams around our level. I'm not suggesting it's guaranteed that we'll have a decent performance versus teams we've already beaten, but I certainly think it's more likely. Even announcing it later in this week, closer to the Richmond game, would have been better IMO. Does the utility gained by having announced the plan a little earlier really outweigh the fact it was put out there at a time when fans are ranting that players aren't putting in 100%? I can't see that it does, but perhaps that's why I'm not running marketing at the Club

Would it have hurt to wait a week or two?

Beaten:

We'll see. Their fans were thinking they wouldn't win another game this season before the Swans game.

Definitely let one of the mods know if something like this occurs.

Good to see Bail back. Didn't DB get smashed for starting Jurrah on the wing v Geelong?

Hahah. Are you serious?

Seems like they have a soft spot for out footballs, hangon.

Two quick points: 1) Leaving priority picks up to the subjective determination of some AFL commission sounds like a bad way to go. Even if this means there's initially no hard and fast 'line' you need to fall under to get the priority pick, there'll soon be precedents that Clubs and the public will demand be followed. Furthermore, I find the subjectivity intrinsically objectionable. 2) If you don't care about whether you finish 12th or 16th then the lottery system still gives you no incentive to try to win 'meaningless' games at the end of the season. It might reduce the incentive to finish 16th, but then so does removing the priority pick or making it less valuable, both of which avoid situations where teams on the bottom fail to get rewarded in the manner we expect from a draft aimed at equalising the competition.

They decided weeks ago to close level 3 for this game.

Good to see Blease and Morton named in the best. I'd really like to see Blease play for the Dees again this season because I think that he'll be a very handy asset for us if he makes it as an AFL player.

I suggest using the private message function to contact Demonland directly.

14K.

There are some significant differences between Tasmania and Darwin. Heat/conditions and commute are two major ones.

I can't imagine Thompson or Worsfold are going to move. I can't see Thompson coaching again [at AFL level], ever.