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They just need to hope for another “prosecutor” who has zero interest in a succesful prosecution. The review system needs a complete review.

Best news from those reports thanks WCW and Demonland was that Petty appeared to have moved, run and kicked without problems. As has been suggested maybe he will be the sub and if not needed earlier replaces BBB in Q3

No. No. Not so. However most agreed that Spargo wasn’t ready. Many feel the same re Petty.

One needs to have culture to have a culture problem. As long as that little stager has a bad day Saturday. 3066

0-3 How sweet it is. Now the question is are the Saints good or the Pies really that bad?

Why to Collingwood get an away game at their 'home' ground when Saints' home is Docklands??

Not so sure - the Saints could well cough it up Looks highly possible And I thought Ross Lyon was the master of locking games down

I just hope that this sent a repeat of the Spargo fiasco - hopefully the FD will have had "learnings" from that. Maybe Sicily will give it just a gentle kick - that is OK now it seems.

Question is, given that debuting as a sub isn’t kosher, whom will he replace? Emergency would offer him recognition, though I can’t see him playing.

Agree 100% - Alice is a great climate for winter footy - yes, last year we endured the wettest coldest week on record for our game - usually warm, dry, and sunny. But Darwin, where no doubt the majority of games would have to be played is frankly a friggin nightmare - hot, humid, wet. I understand (but am happy to be corrected) isn't their major competition season the summer? Of course these concessions, and the further worsening of the disgraceful schedule iniquity (quaintly refereed to by some as the draw) would be mitigated by transferring a Victorian based team in toto to Hobart, like South Melbourne - Sydney and Fitzroy Brisbane, leaving 18 teams (which for those mathematically inclined is an even number meaning no regular byes as we endure in the VFL) That would have to be IMO one of North, StKilda or Hawthorn, all of which have already dabbled into the Apple Isle. In fact amalgamating the three aforementioned into Tassie Devils would get us back to a far more manageable and equitable 16 team competition - pipe dream only I know.

OMG - but do they actually have to fly interstate this year?? They would feel right at home - will their president be on the plane too?

Totally agree .... but then someone selected Spargo in round 0 despite not having had a match sim, so who knows what the selectors will do.

But, your honour, kicking is surely a football action.

I guess it will tweak all it can now to benefit one and only one far southern state.

And what for practical purposes does that even mean? We can find it but can’t benefit from it?

Wait for the inevitable AFL last minute rule change that, having set up Collingwood Geelong and Carlton with multiple FS, we find it harder it to draft our FS - like the academy change that denied us Mac (though I am not so sure that I am as peed off as I was at the time). MFCSS kicking in here.

Which was why I suggested resting BBB after two. Petty hopefully will be ready by then - not ready this week by all accounts.

Will the bloody bye thanks to the Tassie team count as an extra round?

Intestiing - a friend of mine has a similar question 🙄 Clash jumpers - more marketing for the AFL. Exactly - and of course who gets the bye round 1 (after 0) and in the last round? Compromised beyond belief.

Feels like 💩 because he is 💩 Agree 100%. Exception of course is M^&*$#ard Hopefully the Magpies won't even make finals Presumably they enrol under multiple names.

DD - I like most of your observations, except Sparrow who has done his job - do we Know exactly what his tasks have been? Certainly wasn't centre bounce attendances on Sunday. I would be actually fuming HIS decision to lash out with his foot Nonetheless it is a deliberate kick.

Thanks WCW. You said that the Kolt was doing extra runs - he, and Woey also did a lot of running after the game on Sunday on the vacant MCG, and I must say they looked super impressive and enthusiastic (as much as one can determine from 150 meters away). Did Jake Lever have any sort of limp - though it was reported as cramp on Sunday, it is not unknown for clubs to play mind games.

Is there any footage available?

Thanks jnrmac - I did go through the rule book and found 18.11.2.d and that does appear a very unreasonable rule, particularly if the ball up was closer to goal, though then reading 8.2.4.c I guess the ball up would rarely be closer to goal unless I guess there is an unresolved scrimmage near the behind post. All a bit confusing as I am sure I have seen ball ups within a few meters of goal near the behind line. However it does seem that they did ball it up in the correct position, which is crazy. It was actually on the behind line, so th umpire was technically correct. A very unfair rule though.

I wonder if Petty's "quiet game" in VFL combined with BBB's good game makes selection easier this week. Even if BBB has a "just reasonable" game this week and Petty shows decent form then BBB gets a rest and Petty goes to Adelaide. Is that a new rule? The ball was in the outer ⅓ of the behind space, yet it was balled up in the midline? Did the umpire not call high contact on McDonald because he thought it out of play, or because he doesn't know the rules? Maybe both.