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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.

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.)

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

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.

The Satyricon Demons?

Crikey!

Whack. (Hopefully this Tweet, including the video clip is inserted properly- but if not, the text says it all...) News Breakfast‏Verified account @BreakfastNews 8h8 hours ago More "I haven't talked about #AFLX much because I don't consider it to be a genuine competition," says @paulwkennedy. "I'd suggest that @aflwomens is way more important to the overall focus of Aussie Rules than some dodgy preseason competition that hardly anyone I know cares about." Visit facebook.com 4,266 views 0:00 / 0:41

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.

Perhaps the target market is "older kids" - that is, teens and older - for whom a Friday night should work well. Or it's for the masses of international tourists without anything to do on a Friday night.

Is permission needed because he's apparently over 18 (an earlier poster said he turned 18 in May last year) or for some other reason? (Or both?)

Is it possible to pull a hamstring as a response to hearing your name called out by Eddie Betts?

Are you referring to players or spectators?

Will we get to host it next year?

For those posters who have children or grandchildren who this product appears to be targeted at, it would be good to get your feedback on this site after the AFLX event (competition? tournament?) as to whether your children/grandchildren enjoyed it. It would be especially interesting if you were able to form a view as to whether it piqued any interest in those who previously had not shown much or any interest in AFL.

career-ending for its proponents wasn't one of the synonyms in your thesaurus? Pity

It was made clear in the same news story, sorry, puff piece, about Jetta designing the jumper that he wasn't fully recovered from shoulder surgery to be available.

We could be beneficiaries from this information. Infiniti should want to increase sales and therefore may up its marketing spend.

"FREMANTLE superstar Nat Fyfe says he has avoided serious damage to his troublesome elbow after being forced from the training track at Cockburn on Monday." Phew. For a moment there I thought they were training at a place called Elbow and he had an injury of a different sort.

They missed a couple of opportunities with those rule changes. If the game really is intended for foreign markets such as Europe and the USA, obviously they should change to a round ball because the traditional shaped ball is too hard for the inexperienced and not readily available in those markets anyway. And given those northern hemisphere winters, it should be played indoors, in which case traditional goals would be no good, so put a ring on top of a pole at each end of the ground. They want to remove the bounce at the beginning of each quarter, so lets just throw the ball up at the start.

To be fair, if Roos had pruned the list to get rid of all the dead wood he inherited, he would hardly have had enough left to field a team.

I thought that was Jack Watts

I know it's only early February, but I can't see how anything else is going to surpass this comment for post of the year.

Make Melbourne Great Again (but in blue letters instead of white on a red cap).