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Further to that, there are some stories which will cover both men's and women's football. For example, it was pointed out (admittedly ad nauseum) during the Collingwood game that Harriet Cordner was the seventh member of that family to play a senior game at Victoria Park. That storyline was worthy of coverage yet doesn't fit neatly solely on the AFLW or the AFL men's boards.

Your view assumes that the club has struggled to find a BOJ sponsor. While that might be true the alternative view might be that Jaguar and potentially other sponsors struggled to meet the club's demands. In other words, the delay might have been because the club was in a strong position and didn't want to sell off the BOJ sponsorship rights at too low a price.

Late starts to training don't seem to have been a problem for perennial finalists such as Hawthorn, Geelong and Sydney. Anyone from the club who might want to use that as an excuse (and I'm not saying there will be any) should be asked whether they've looked at how these other clubs manage that same "disadvantage".

Not even to say "Don't call me Shirley"?

Unlikely. I think he's just pointing out that because we played finals, we started our pre-season later than in all those years we didn't play in September.

Demonland. It's to AFLX like Keith Dunstan was to the (former) VFL with his (then) AFL, otherwise known as the Anti-Football League.

I initially read this as "the cost of servicing Range Rover" and thought that the post was something to do with the site's administrators dealing with one of Demonland's posters who seemed to require significant amounts of moderation. (People who have been on Demonland for a while will know what I'm talking about.)

I stress I don't really understand the detail, but wouldn't this arrangement mean that Simon Goodwin is being engaged like most employees from top to bottom in any organisation? If that's correct, it would seem to me the alternative, traditional model of the fixed-term contract might be the model that is out-of-step with modern best practice.

And then Joe Gutnick and Don Scott came along and made sure the two stayed separate. Do I recall correctly?

I wonder how much of Jaguar's decision is about broad exposure to the masses through TV and how much is about access to the MFC database of members to allow for targeted marketing? I suspect in this instance the latter might have been significant in the decision.

Would there be many players (or, indeed any other player) delisted from one club and retired from another within the same off-season as has been done by Tom Bugg?

I support the OP. Essentially, though, it just proves I'm lazy. It's not that hard to go to the AFLW Board, but I don't do it. Having said that, I think having AFLW intermixed with the men's will enhance our women's team by increasing their exposure.

I'd like the challenge to go up a level and ask them to draw the logo as Picasso would have drawn it.

Why do you say this?

Of course not. They go with full arsed ideas only.

I noticed the effect of the "no goal square when kicking in from a behind" rule in the AFLW game. Many times the player kicking in was 20 metres from goal before kicking which really opened up the game. I think this might be a very successful rule change. (Of course, all it is really doing is getting rid of the need for players to kick the ball to themselves first.)

What, exactly, was going on in that Preuss photo? It lends itself to a caption competition.

I'm all in favour of replacing the free scarf with every membership with a free Jaguar.

Unrelated to that great mark and the discussion about photography, I saw in one of yesterday's papers that Shaun Smith is one of the players listed as being part of the concussion class action. I hope he's OK.

I actually see this as good news. Governments are showing preparedness to cough up if there's a legitimate project. All we need to do is get all the right ducks in a row and the dollars should be forthcoming.

So, either something to do with coffee or a product that launches. SpaceX? Starbucks (they do appear to be upping their interest in Australia)?

The Satyricon Demons?

Crikey!

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I also wouldn't be surprised if there are 8 or more interchange players. Also, as a minor point, I'd like to see Hore's name before Frost's. Reads better.