La Dee-vina Comedia

It's not my fault. I demand a "joke font" be installed! (I had thought TRIGON was interested in the price of the fuel, for some untold reason.)

Just a simple Google image search. I didn't worry about dates. It wasn't the currency of the price that mattered, just the currency of the currency and the way it was displayed.

The MFC article says he was drafted to the rookie list in 2018 and played his first game in 2019. Unless my maths is faulty, that means he was a rookie for 4 years. I didn't think that was even possible. Congratulations are in order as much for persistence as anything else.

Nice mix of imperial and metric measures. Reminds me of US gas station pricing where they weirdly mix decimals and fractions.

I wish the AFL had made the tougher decision to say that every player subbed out of the game cannot play for the next 12 days. That would have got rid of the problem of misuse they were trying to fix. Instead we're back to the red vest/green vest situation (whether they use the vests or not) that nobody seemed to like when it was in use. However, the AFL does have a chance to redeem itself somewhat if they include with this change an additional change of reducing rotations further, say to 60 per club from the current 75. You'll know if the AFL has made the decision the fans want by the reaction of the coaches. If the coaches whinge, the AFL has probably made the right decision.

I know it feels wrong, but it's better for any player who wishes to go into coaching or any post-playing career football role to gain experience at other clubs to improve their skill set. I don't begrudge him taking the opportunity at Collingwood, a club which has recognised a significant deficiency in its relationship with its indigenous players.

And I can perhaps take the credit for being the first (possibly of many) to spell his name incorrectly on Demonland. (I wrote Faris-White). Apologies to the young man.

Pic #24 in the training gallery released by the club is one of those perfectly timed photos which seems to show something that it isn't. It looks like Petracca and Schache are holding hands.

This is more challenging than the quiz itself. What has Richards, Taylor, Wood and Jones got to do with it?

Smith running laps...and also absent. I then realised we have two Smiths on the list. So, which one was running laps and which was not there? Great report, by the way. But my heart skipped a beat when I read someone had something "infectious". Thankfully, it was a smile and nothing more troubling!

Remember when this was the best day of the footballing calendar?

All I've got is that two are named after Prime Ministers and two after US Academy Award winners...and two are named after each other. Can't think of anything else.

Worked this time. Answer duly provided.

For some reason I'm not able to send you (Mazer) a message. The system tells me that you're not accepting messages. Either that's a cunning ploy to extend the quiz or we're never going to be able to resolve this quiz in the usual way. I have the answer, by the way. As evidence, you could have included this very short forward line of A. Maric V. Cattoggio R. Owen

I'm fully behind the recruitment of Category B players, but I'm not sure about the economics argument. All category B's are highly speculative. But, taking great risks can reap great rewards. It makes me wonder about success rates with category B rookies. I'd count Joel Smith as a success. Who else have we had as a category B that's made it? (I recognise that if this scheme had existed when Jim Stynes and Seam Wight joined us, they would clearly be categorised as a success.)

What do we reckon Faris-White's shoe size is? If you put those shoes on me I'd look more like a clown than I already do.

If flight risk is a nationwide issue, surely Victorian clubs will be the main beneficiaries? For every player we might lose there must be more wanting to return to Victoria. Of course, there are 10 Victorian clubs then fighting for those players, but I just see that as another reason for the club to make sure it is managed in a way that makes us a desired destination.

According to today's Herald Sun, Neville Jetta is one of 800+ people who have nominated for the national draft. I'm curious as to why. Does he expect a club to take him, perhaps in a coaching/playing role?

I've always been troubled by what professional full-time umpires would be expected to do all week when not actually umpiring. However, perhaps there's room for a hybrid model with one (or maybe two) professional umpires as senior umpires in each game with three (or two) non-fulltime umpires making up the full complement. The full-time umpires program during the week could include teaching the non-full time umpires, visiting club training to educate teams and work with other leagues (VFL, suburban, country) to help their umpires.

It's not a big a change as it sounds. There are already 4 field umpires at each match. It's just that the one who was designated as the emergency umpire now joins the fray. If an umpire gets injured during the game and can't continue, the remaining three will continue to do the job. To me it makes sense. Firstly, because the emergency umpire has been an under-utilised resort. Secondly, it allows the ground to be divided into four quadrants which is a much better design than thirds, whichever way you cut it. As a result, there should be fewer instances of umpires being blind-sided and missing things like throws and high tackles.

I'd very much like to see Tarni Brown and Tarni White given the nicknames of Stevie Wonder and Paul McCartney

I find it hard to believe that the bookies would have been that concerned about Oliver's prospects at Round 13.

I didn't want to start a new thread, so will post here as it seems somewhat relevant given his former club. Can anyone explain how Conor McKenna can be signed by Brisbane instead of being available to all clubs through the draft?

I'm trying to argue the alternative. It's a very, very long bow to say the Brownlow medal process might have been corrupt because Mihocek was awarded the three votes.

Reading through this thread, it's not just me. But, on the other hand, there are also many others who find gambling advertising annoying and invasive. Each to his or her own, I guess.