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It's all in the timing. He seemed to be too slight when he was an AFL player presumably incapable of building body mass.

Your love for Goodwin knows no bounds!

Based on those names, St Bede's has great ethnic heritage diversity.

We're in the fortunate position of having all of Bowey, Rivers, McVee, Howes, Salem and May as excellent distributors out of the backline. (Lever and McDonald, not so much). Take your pick from those, apart from May. I agree that we don't usually make structural changes when things are going well. However, moving Rivers to the midfield is just going back to what seemed to be intended before both Bowey and Salem were injured.

I hope you are wrong. Too much football (meaning spread over too many days) will destroy the product. Someone needs to explain to the AFL the economic value of scarcity.

I was at the game on Saturday and have subsequently watched it on the TV on replay, too. I can't see why Billings is so unpopular here. Yes, some of his kicking was substandard - but he wasn't alone in that. I accept that he's in the bottom few and with players coming back his position isn't secure. I thought all seven defenders played well with Woewodin now looking like he belongs at this level. Nevertheless, if Bowey is available, he should come in which means either Woewodin loses his spot as a defender (although not necessarily in the side) or we use this chance to move Rivers to the midfield. My preference would be to move Rivers midfield and wing (to take up the 30% DeeSpencer referred to earlier). So, if Bowey comes in, unless someone needs a rest, I'd move Billings to sub and Laurie misses out. Which would be a shame.

6. May 5. Lever 4. McVee 3. Gawn 2. Petty 1. McDonald Unfortunately, I couldn't find a way to sneak all seven defenders into the votes, nor Langdon, all of whom were worthy.

Well, there's a thread idea. Max Gawn as Chewbacca, Simon Goodwin as Yoda, etc

Didn't Carlton own 20% of North Melbourne at that time?

Things I like about this photo (apart from it being a Melbourne FC team): black boots long socks wool jumpers no sponsorship logos no mullets or other silly hairstyles no visible tattoos

For Carlton. I wouldn't be upset if North made a Grand Final soon.

I've PM'd a correct answer. Whether it's the answer Demonstone is looking for is another matter.

I guess they're all better than doing a Tom Bugg.

No player should be selected as the sub unless they can play a full game. You never know how early in a game the sub role is going to be activated to replace an injured player.

Not so crazy when Hawkins takes the rucking duties for boundary throw-ins in the forward line. Hawkins will be far too strong for van Rooyen. (I realise that van Rooyen will be rucking when Gawn is off the ground, of course, so we won't actually have a choice).

It's normal for teams that Channel 7 wants to broadcast in prime time.

You should probably change your name to "Démon fanatique" to fit in properly. Bon voyage.

Saturday night football used to be the second most important timeslot for AFL games. It's arguably now been pushed to third by the AFL, presumably to satisfy the free-to-air broadcaster's wish for Thursday and Friday night games to take precedence. I know that my own interest in Saturday night football has waned because there have already been two night games and usually two earlier games on Saturday before it.

I really wish O. Henry played for us. Just so Demonland could call him by his real name of William Sydney Porter.

That's an explosion in a fact factory!

"layers" (as in AFL, VFL and equivalent, AFLW, suburban, Auskick, etc) or "players"?

Do you mean size by area or population? I have always assumed - perhaps incorrectly - that Carlton had a significantly bigger population than North Melbourne.

The difference between Richmond and St Kilda on the one hand and North on the other is that both Richmond and St Kilda (and probably every other team in the competition) can survive some periods at or around the bottom of the ladder because of large and/or wealthy support bases. North does not have the same cushion to fall back on having always been a club with a relatively small number of supporters who are not generally considered to be wealthy. The AFL can only support a club like North Melbourne for as long as the other clubs want it to. And that's Eddie's point...will there come a time when the remaining clubs decide enough is enough? While North remains at the bottom of the ladder, it acts as a handbrake on the health of the competition and puts itself at risk of irrelevance and eventually demise.

Perfect expression that everyone can agree with. It can be read positively, meaning that GWS and GCS are certain to remain, or it can be read negatively, meaning GWS and GCS are hopeless and not making any headway.

You want to play Petracca on Cameron? Has Petracca ever played in defence before? Wow...that really is rolling the dice.