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1 minute ago, Nascent said:

I love jetta

playing well in his favourite position - centre-half-toughstuff. 

Daw is unfortunate to have Max and Dogga ahead of him. Winning in the ruck and around the ground in his best this year.

9 minutes ago, WERRIDEE said:

Brown kicked a goal off a 50 metre penalty 

Amusing. BBB good tackle rewarded. Goes back 25-30 metres for his run-up. Richmond infringe and BBB ends up running his 30 + ump' s 50 to kick the goal. One weird fitness program.

15 hours ago, Egg2883 said:

Has anyone received their email with barcode yet? I feel like I'd received earlier round emails by now but maybe I'm just paranoid at the prospect of missing Chunk's 300th.

HI Egg. The number is on your membership card just above the barcode

1 hour ago, Graeme Yeats' Mullet said:

 

That leaves Sparrow as emergency sub

3 minutes ago, daisycutter said:

yes but having a reserved seat doesn't work for "compensation away game". it's all "melbourne allocation"/ "reserverd general admission", 

Agree. Not our normal seats but reserved in the Melbourne allocation. Still have to be a jnr to avoid paying again.

Yep. Being a 71 year old junior seems to be the only way I can get the reserved seat I've already paid for :)

And 70 yr old Mrs B will be pleased she is attending with junior status

If it was Kozzie, the ump would have called unrealistic attempt.

1 hour ago, Colin B. Flaubert said:

Just as an aside, the grammar pedant in me would like to know when the noun 'failure' mutated into 'fail', which I was led to believe was a verb? 

As one pedant to another, Cambridge, Oxford and Merriam dictionaries were onto it before you. Can't be ...ed doing the eymological research; you're on your own for the date.

On 1/30/2020 at 9:16 AM, Mach5 said:

Eade would be a good one.

For entertainment value only I’d give Grant Thomas or Malthouse a go, but then you might as well go the whole hog and drag in Ricky Nixon.

Congatulations on the layers of meaning in the bolded phrase. Pig allusion, Ru Paul possibilities and RN dragged through the muck

18 hours ago, Tom Dyson said:

J. Watts: reliable and effective 

(three words that were never ushered in his time at MFC) 

Also - showed some mongrel.

Another 3 words neither uttered nor ushered in his time at MFC.

2 hours ago, Demonland said:

Sometimes they are quick in updating the podcast links. The other day when Pert was on with Andy Maher it went up straight away.

You are correct. It's there now - https://www.sen.com.au/programs/sen-afternoons/. 

46 minutes ago, Tim said:

Currently on now.

Should be available as a podcast from SEN or iTunes in a couple of days. Currently the Mitch Hahn interview from 19 March seems to be latest available.

31 minutes ago, roy11 said:

Who's up for some philosophical discussions about the NIETSCHKE drafting?

The philosopher had no 'K'. Possibly compensated for by drafting KK. The euthanasia advocate on  the other hand ……… Yes, I am just filling in time in the long wait for our next pick.

For giggles.  This from a post on webleedpurple - note the date:

3 minutes ago, DV8 said:

No way is that a pizza shape - they're either circular or rectangular.

288 pages later, nothing happened.  Could have been written by Samuel Beckett. Who would want to go to Freo and sing that song anyway? Happy to have him stay.

Now this is just weird. https://game-leaks.com/afl-trade-period-2018-trades-rumours-news/

Includes such gems as:

(Dylan Shiel )The dramatic presents to make the midfield gun one of many highest paid gamers in soccer headlines the trade news just some days out from the beginning of free company. and

The Herald Solar reported on Monday, ...

Russian cyberattack on the trade period????

1 hour ago, Smokey said:

All this tax talk has me thinking. To any people here proficient in tax: 

Could a player set up a company, have their salary paid to the company - and then pay themselves a modest wage over a period of time to save on tax? In theory that person could buy assets under the company too, like houses and cars etc. Hello 30%? 

Short answer - no. Long answer would be more boring than my last contribution.

24 minutes ago, Superunknown said:

For a start he pays tax at 49% and he pays a management company min of 2.5%. No one is dangling a $5m cheque.

At the risk of adding a boring factual component - the tax position is probably better than that due to sportsperson averaging, basically a provision that recognises the relatively short high earning period and allows spreading income over time. This is not advice, boring disclaimer, boring disclaimer that normally runs for 17 pages more.

Much more interesting - how do we use the 2 first round draft picks the deal would take?

3 minutes ago, pineapple dee said:

 I thought If  you played less than 10 games in a season for Casey or more than 10 games for Melbourne, that you would be ineligible for Casey finals. Either option makes Bailey ineligible.

Team selected by Casey shows BF on the wing and football dept said he and Bull would fly back to play on Sunday so I'm guessing he's eligible.

nearly half an hour but got there - Ponsford Stand

22 hours ago, Gorgoroth said:

Didn’t work for me, but thanks for the link.

Try this truncated version; the other was prefilled.  http://www.mcg.org.au/getting-around/find-my-seat

If that doesn't work I suggest a decent glass of red is a better use of your time..

4 minutes ago, 640MD said:

Many thanks  looking at this I usually sit in M29   so almost same   GO DEES !!!!!

http://www.mcg.org.au/getting-around/find-my-seat?bay=Q55&row=BB&seat=22  type your actual seat details in and it actually gives a reasonable idea of the view from your seat FWIW.

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