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10 hours ago, La Dee-vina Comedia said:

This is going to be a bit hard for anyone to answer on an online written forum, but how do you pronounce his first name?

Aloi see e o

That would be my guess.

1 minute ago, Redleg said:

Are you guys talking about Hibberd?  He is 26 turning 27 next January.

No, they're pointlessly arguing about Hanley.

Personally, I'd rather keep for his contracted final year and give him the chance over pre-season to fight back for his spot.

If doesn't he plays VFL and can do as he pleases at the end of next year as a free agent. Garland on the other hand, he's just finished his first year of a 3 year contract, I'd rather move him on rather than him sitting on the list for another 2 years without getting a game like old mate Terlich.

I wouldn't be surprised if the Lions go after someone like Michie as well, but considering he's a rookie I don't think we can trade anything for him so he'd just be a DFA.

If we do say good bye to Dunn, Garland, Dawes, Newton, Terlich, Grimes and maybe Lamumba over the next year I think we would have a bit of cash to lure a decent Free Agent next year, especially if we continue to make another positive step in right direction next season.

Theres another player with no luck, hope its not serious for Salem.

6 hours ago, Petraccattack said:

Praying the Crows get into the granny, the Cats and Swans have had enough success the past 10 years.  At least we are guaranteed one fresh team making it in (Gws or Dogs).

Crows vs Bulldogs grand final would be amazing.

Agree, when was the last time that two sides outside the top 4 played off in the granny?

3 minutes ago, Wrecker45 said:

He wasn't their worst.

Hard to be the worst when you're in the same side as Schoenmakers.

4 minutes ago, Is Dom Is Good said:

While it would be disappointing to lose Hogan, I think we would be well compensated and have shown we can win games without him.

The Hawks lost Buddy Franklin, possibly in the 5 greatest forwards of all time and went on to win 2 more flags.

It's all about the club culture and I think we are starting to get it right so I'm not worried either way. 

Edit: Plus the most important thing in today's game is to have a strong midfield, which we are on our way to amassing a very good one.

They also got about 8 years of service out of Franklin before he got an offer he couldn't refuse.

It would be incredibly disappointing to lose Hogan after 4 years.

42 minutes ago, Sylvia Saint said:

I will preface this by saying that YES I didn't want O'Meara but this whole business of 'nominating' destination clubs must be of serious concern to the head honchos at AFL house. Hawthorn will have to trade for him, sure, but it will be at a discounted rate. Only two clubs in recent history have tried the "[censored] you" attitude that Gold Coast are bluffing about presently. 1. Was St. Kilda with Luke Ball and 2. GWS with McCarthy. Both sides it backfired and would do things differently if they had their time again. 

People will say Hawthorn are on the way down but weren't we saying the same about Geelong last year? Nek minnit, they signed a raft of good players who 'nominated' them for next to nothing and here they are again the top of the ladder. I predict the same will happen to Hawthorn.

I'm going to play devils advocate on this one. McCarthy should have thought what signing a contract means before agreeing to stay with the club for another 3 years.

GWS have enough 1st round picks on their list and high picks to go the draft with every year so there was no real need to force a trade for the sake of getting a early pick for a talented youngster. Basically they've kept a talented player who was out the door from playing against them for an entire season, and they can do it again for another year if they wish, they probably wont though.

But if they did, a talented kid, 2 years out of the system and unable to even play in seconds league unless he went back to Sydney, that would be pretty hard to come back from. McCarthy on their list benefits them at the moment regardless of if he's playing for them or if he's sitting on his couch in WA.

6 minutes ago, Moonshadow said:

What do you reckon Beamer is thinking in the background?

"I hope no one saw me take a [censored] on the bar last night"

5 minutes ago, AngryAtCasey said:

I heard Saty maybe getting traded for Range Rover.....

Good depth option for Demonland.

Some of these posts make it sounds like we must have one of Vickery or Dawes!

We don't have to have either, one is on our list currently, the other is not. If we get rid of Dawes it doesn't mean we must now have Vickery.

15 hours ago, deefiance said:

While I am sitting on the MCC waitlist, membership of a reciprocal club is just as beneficial.

For example, I am a member of the Tasmanian Cricket Association, and have the same access as a restricted MCC member (albeit with a $35 fee per ticket). I can also access the member's reserve at SGC, Adelaide Oval, Gabba, WACA, Lords etc. Depending on the club, you can also bring in a visitor.

A perfectly good substitute for the next 15 or so years until the MCC membership comes through in its own right.

I'm in the same boat, South Australian Cricket Association member.

The caveats though, you have to hold an ID from that state, so while I've lived in Victoria for some time now I still hold a drivers license for SA purely so I can get into the MCC with my SACA membership.

I know that sounds incredibly vain, but my friends are members and I like to go to games with them. 

59 minutes ago, Dr. Gonzo said:

Might be sooner than that if you're lucky

 

 

Is anyone able to explain the difference between Provisional and Restricted Membership? Does it cost the same annual fee?

 

 

Provisional members are the "new" members that they're trying to get through. At the moment each year they review the list and assign people a "restricted membership" but as there will be people who have their name put on the list at birth are not looking at getting their membership till they're in their 60's they introduced a new tier which is approx. 20,000 people. The additional 20,000 people were going to be added over a 3 - 4 year period, I still don't think it will do much for majority of the people on the list.

1 hour ago, AdamFphlebeb said:

I think two important things must happen this weekend. 1) we take care of Carlton. Obviously, by more the better, but a win will do. 5-6 goals would be good enough. 2) a strong Sydney team peaking as they always do in the lead up to the finals with Tippet back in, spank North by 7-10 goals.

I think a Sydney win is almost a certainty. They're brilliant at this time of year. We just have to take care of Carlton, however that happens.

I'm a little concerned about the GWS game, but there's still 2 matches to get through this round before I should even worry about that. I'd be more comfortable if North had to play them over there. 

14 hours ago, DemonLad5 said:

Just did the ladder predictor. Tried to give us the best case scenario while still being realistic

I have us beating Carlton by 30 points this week, and Sydney beating North by the same margin. Among the other round 22 results I've got Hawthorn beating West Coast by 12, Collingwood beating GCS by 12 and St Kilda beating Richmond by 12.

This puts us 1 game behind North, with their percentage (106.3) ahead of our percentage (106.2) by 0.01%

The following week, I have us somehow edging out the Cats by 1 point at Simmonds. That leaves Saturday nights clash between North Melbourne and GWS. The Giants win a close one by 12 points. Meaning the Cats' consequence for losing earlier in the day is they have coughed up their top 4 spot to GWS. With a 1 point win we scrape past North Melbourne by 0.06% and play Geelong at the MCG in an elimination final

I had something similar, I did us beating Carlton by 30 points and the Cats by 12 which got us to 106.5%.

Then North losing to Sydney by 30 and GWS by 12 sees them finishing on 105.3%.

I then got curious and thought what if both our wins were by 12 points which sees us edging North by a mere 0.02%, dare to dream, boys, dare to dream.

Pathetic quarter, they better get a wake up call at 3/4 time.

Taken the foot of the pedal way to early.

How the [censored] is that not a mark?

PEDO!

45 minutes ago, praha said:

Riccuito special comments.

Kill me now.

Just awful to listen to isn't it!

12 minutes ago, faultydet said:

Bunch of alcos on this site.

How else were we to get through the past decade of football without it?

52 minutes ago, small but forward said:

Roosy was saying in the post match presser that we won't be playing finals, but to my reckoning we're three games out of the finals and North Melbourne in 8th and three games clear of us face Hawthorn, Sydney and GWS in the last three rounds - all tough games. Whilst they're 9% clear of us, three drubbings and I believe we're still a mathematical chance? Or am I missing something.

Amazing to be thinking this way at Rnd 20...

The problem is we're relying on North to lose each game, which looking at that is quite probable. But they also need to cop a few beltings because we're about 10% behind percentage wise.

We then need to win the final 3, as we've seen this year we're not very consistent. Hopefully yesterday was the start of something special, hopefully we back it up next week and beat Port, a percentage boosting win would be handy.

9 minutes ago, Cards13 said:

Trident or Redlegs ding? 

Legends, surely.

Pedo to put the icing on the cake!

Quality kick by Oscar, somehow we still got a goal.

Weideman on par to kick as many as Dawes for the season in his first game!