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And have we ever had a Blake? I'm confident in saying we've never had a Taj. (Hardly going out on a limb, there).

If Belgium doesn't exist, where does Belgian chocolate come from? The Democratic Republic of the Congo, perhaps?

I expect the AFL will split the mega-VFL into two conferences to see how that system works. If the AFL believes the AFL men's senior competition needs eventually to be split into two conferences, I think they'd like to see how the mechanics of it might work in a lower level competition first. (At least, that's what I would do.)

Grazie.

I love Demonland and the education it provides. By the way, it's spelled "capisce".

Not sure there are many players drafted these days who aren't from private schools. We've done alright with that cohort recently including Salem and Hunt (Brighton Grammar), May, Langdon and Spargo (Melbourne Grammar) and others I'm sure others will know.

Given the Afrikaans are descendants of the Dutch, through settlement in southern Africa by the Dutch East India Company, I would have thought the Dutch link is highly relevant.

I would have thought all clubs have had protocols in place for years to keep people with highly transmissable diseases, such as influenza or even the common cold, away. That Covid can be more dangerous is without doubt, but the procedures in place to keep infectious people away shouldn't have to change.

I have a problem with the debate around whether ruckmen and key position players should be drafted early. The discussion always seems to focus solely on risk only rather than also considering the potential reward. It seems to me that while midfielders are important, they're also relatively easy to find. On the other hand, Premiership winning teams seem to need dominant key position players as much as they need onballers. Given key position players are harder to find, the rewards from recruiting the right ones are immense. I know there's an argument that says a club can always trade for a key position player, and notably that's what we did with Ben Brown, Lever and May. But many teams have been successful because they drafted wisely for key position players such as Hawthorn with Roughead and Franklin, Richmond with Reiwoldt and Geelong with Hawkins. In other words, I think the argument that drafting onballers early is a lower risk option is true, but it ignores the other half of the equation regarding reward.

The unvaccinated paying higher premiums for health insurance is now happening in some instances in the USA. However, their health scheme and funding of it is so drastically different from ours, no conclusion should be drawn from this example as to whether something similar will follow here.

This t-shirt is not just about Covid. It's also a metaphor for AFL gameplans.

Have you considered the possibility that the omen went the other way? That is, if you'd bought personalised MFC number plates with, say, 48 MFC, we wouldn't have had to wait so long between Premierships? Mind you, a 48 year wait would have meant a Premiership in 2012. Even a good omen wasn't going to help us break the drought that year.

As a matter of interest, how many times do you have to watch each goal before you're qualified to comment on your favourite? I've watched each of them about 30 times. Is that enough?

Actually, they are (unless they are girls). They just might not be the football prodigy that we might have hoped for.

This deserves a thread of its own: Who are the ten posters that faultydet wouldn't place on ignore? I expect I'm in the ignore group.

Ross Dillon's reputation suffers from playing in a terrible team for all his career. On the other hand, he did get to sit with the Queen, Prince Phillip and Princess Anne. (It's a bit sad when that's probably the highlight of your career.)

The difference being, of course, that St Kilda "missed on Petracca" by choice. It's not like we stole him from under their nose.

Thankfully just a Merc. Makes me wonder whether a Jaguar in blue with red touches added would be showing loyalty to the club beyond what good taste should allow.

No need. Darwinian theory should come to the fore.

Is Pickett's surname actually Kropinyeri-Pickett as described in Luci's List? And if so, would that mean he has the longest surname of all players who have won a Premiership in VFL/AFL history?

The maths might be right, but I don't think the English is. Does the expression "more than 236 times lower than..." actually make any sense? Do they mean, perhaps, the the lower number is 1/236th of the higher number?

I like the Singapore model. In that country, if you've chosen to remain unvaccinated, you have to pay for all your health care costs associated with catching Covid. However, I can't see that happening here. Instead, I would support an additional Medicare levy being imposed on those who remain unvaccinated by choice. That levy would help defray - but probably not fully cover - the health cover costs for the unvaccinated who we know will be more likely to contract Covid and if they do, be more likely to require hospital treatment. I realise that the above is a stick, not a carrot. I'm not sure we need any further rewards to encourage the late adopters. I think the model whereby exclusion from things such as entertainment, non-essential retail and events should be sufficient.

i hope you decide to add a gold "(1)" after relevant players' names to indicate how many premierships they've won.

Keep in mind the context. BT was describing the difference between Petracca's two goals quite rightly pointing out that the first was like something Dusty would do and the second was using a style that no-one had seen until Daicos came along. And for what it's worth, on their complete body of work I think Daicos and Dusty still have Petracca covered. Petracca does have time to overtake them, though, but to do so he's going to have to maintain his 2020 and 2021 form for the rest of his career.

As a matter of interest, do you think requiring people to be double vaccinated to be able to particiapte in everyday events such as going to the football is a positive incentive or a threat? I see it as the former.