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With an ageing midfield North would be crazy not to take that deal, not that I want to lose Tyson. If the fb post is true, maybe our offer was Tyson plus a draft pick and North baulked at that? Just realised Preuss is in contract till end of 2020. So we must really want him to effectively trade him out of his contract, so maybe it is a simple player swap... ...North will want overs...

http://www.melbournefc.com.au/news/2018-09-11/rawlings-named-vfl-coach-of-year "The Casey Demons senior coach was named head coach of the best 2018 VFL team on Monday night". Congratulations! Great to see more recognition coming to the Demon family. Jade may get a well deserved senior coaching gig in a few years on the back of this and earlier AFL experience. Reckon Roosy would give him a pretty good reference as he is the only pre-Roos coach kept on by Roos. (Mahoney moved into admin which he has also excelled at).

Didn't a poster with generally good info say Sam W would be asking for a trade to Geelong as he couldn't get senior games? The next week Jesse was injured. After Sam was selected the poster reported it was up to Sam to decide if he still wanted to go. Let's hope not. Garry may be barking up the wrong tree (nothing knew for him) for Geelong. As an aside, with Sam's recent performances Geelong don't have enough picks/players to trade for him or Hogan!

Don't really disagree but would like to give an alternative view: Re MFC members: There are many reasons why people can't get to games regularly. Some stories that touched me in the last week are: @Deebymistake who is a member and her story is in the 'First Finals' thread. She can now go to the Semi ?. Then @Neitz the Greatwho lives in Brisbane and buys an Armchair membership just to support the club. Brought his Dad down for the Elim. Finally, the delightful story and video of young Sam (son of @Demon Spofforth) who lives in Queensland. I'm sure there are many, many others who can't get to games but still support the club as best they can. Are you referring more to MCC members who have suddenly come out of the woodwork in droves? A friend expressed sympathy for them as they 'pay all that money for membership' then have to queue up or can't get a seat. I couldn't share the sympathy as they are go to MCG Away games for free, are able to get finals tickets for free or a nominal fee. Whereas paid up MFC members have to buy them at AFL prices. Even paying the $200+ per MFC membership for the Grand Final Guarentee only gives the right to buy a ticket; they still have to pay $xxx to buy the ticket. So after spending something like $400-$500 for a membership with GFG they still have to pay around $300-500 to go to all finals. No Guest passes for them either. Last week in the local Ticketek queue I met a 70+ year old lady whose family had been MFC Trident members for 38 years. That is some coin! But she was there in the queue just like everyone else. The real bandwagoners for me are those that don't buy an MCC or MFC membership of any sort, don't volunteer, don't donate, don't go to games but come out at finals time. Have little time for them. This is a long winded way of saying there are varying degrees of merit for priority purchase of finals tickets. Not sure game attendance is the best one. But I don't know what the answer is, either. Finals ticket purchases will only get worse as our membership increase (Great for the Club Revenue).

I wonder if North have told him there is no room on their list or their are other players ahead of him for senior selection. Then his reason of 'wanting senior games' is fair, especially if he will be their 3rd in line. Why choose us? He will be 2nd fiddle to Max, the best ruckman in the league and the player voted Best Player in the league by coaches. And play for a team that is going places. For us, we need a back up ruckman. Win/Win.

Ticketek allocate tickets Bays to members for the teams eg I have tickets in the Pontsford stand bay N31. So there will be demon bays at the opposite end to our cheer squad. A scan of the last few pages of this thread will indicate where those bays are. I've noticed others on DL are reporting tickets in Ponsford stand Bays, so you may still me among friends. Last week I sat in a predominately Cats stand but there were a few demons around me so it wasn't too bad.

Don't give up Sparkle! I just checked Ticketek website and they have seats. Also, I was able to get extra tickets for last weeks game a few days beforehand. I think the AFL mysteriously finds more tickets to release. I would try Ticketek every few hours/days. And if that fails kindhearted DLers have made spare tickets available in this thread. See @Wells 11post above. Goodluck.

Well done, Deebymistake! Last Friday was awesome, not only because we won but the atmosphere was special - red and blue everywhere. The roar and the noise was huge. Really rapt for you to see us in a final. Enjoy!

Very good points, rjay. As we know the AFL works in mysterious ways. No logic. LOL about assuming Richmond will win the Preim. You are so right - it seems a foregone conclusion in most people's minds. I fell for it as well! As has the scribe at AFL House. From their media release: Auld also said Richmond has been given what could be an extra day's break heading into the Grand Final as a reward for finishing top in the home and away season.

The Cheer Squad will be @ M3. From the Cheer Squads twitter feed:

No email from mfc yet on ticket numbers... This is on Hawks website: ON-SALE TICKETS PER MEMBER TRANSACTION LIMIT Competing Club Members 9am – 1pm, Monday September 10 2 8 General Public 2pm, Monday September 10 N/A 8 AFL Members 9am, Tuesday September 11 2 guest passes per member Level 4 16 The same would apply to us but it would be good to get it directly from the club or mfc website.

His plan is what has put us where we are. He quietly went about implementing it by getting good people into admin and football roles. He delivered on what he promised: Finals in 2017 (we almost got there). Win one in 2018 (nailed that one!) As he said "We've knocked one over and we've got three to go...Anything's possible for this team," So happy the team has had some finals success during his tenure and he can directly participate in it; be the 'face' of it. So richly deserved.

????? Not me. My post was putting some perspective on Saberfang's worry about the run to the GF. I'm a one week at a time person ?

The schedule is set to give Rich the extra day before the GF as reward for finishing on top of the ladder. As for the other Prelim the start time isn't 'locked in': " West Coast v winner of first semi-final (Hawthorn or Melbourne) at Optus Stadium, time tbc ." http://www.afl.com.au/news/2018-09-09/who-plays-who-in-week-two-of-finals AFL policy is Grand Finalists be back in their home state by Saturday night of the Prelim. They will start the game in time to ensure that. They may even start at the traditional 2.10pm which is twilight in Vic and players will be home well before midnight. We have a really good 2018 record of winning after difficult road trips: Alice, Darwin, Perth. Lets wait and see what time the game is and if we make it before worrying about turnaround time. Whatever time it is I'm sure the club and players will manage it well, be it the Hawks or Demons.

Incredible artwork. Wouldn't mind Jetta and Tom Mc popping up somewhere as they have also been thru the really tough times and are champs in their own right!

That is what the club website says but it was put up yesterday. Yes it will be on Club website and members will receive an email. Edit 1) Club website has been updated to be the same as AFL,see below. Edit: 2)From AFL Twitter just now: Ticketing sale info: #AFLHawksDees Competing Club Members – 9am–1pm, Monday September 10 General Public – 2pm, Monday September 10 Thankfully, the Pies/GWS tickets don't go on sale until 10.30 which should make it easier on Ticketek website. Hawks/Richmond members could only get one per because of the combined membership/supporter size. Our membership base is relatively small but Fri night showed we have a lot of supporters. So it could be 2 but may be just 1.

Info is starting to trickle thru on AFL website: http://www.afl.com.au/tickets/finals

Roughly the same as last week. AFL will set price categories, seat availability, #of tickets per member, selling times etc etc. The only difference if we make the Prelim, is that tickets will be sold thru Ticketmaster and not Ticketek - a blessing really.

I just checked the Ticketek website and they have taken down any reference to AFL games! No ads. Nothing. Very, Very Odd. Something is up! Get ready for another ticket fiasco! Edit: Ticketmaster also has no info for AFL finals and they will be selling WCE Prelim tickets.

Nothing on AFL website yet on pricing, ticket selling times etc etc. Very, very poor by the AFL. Its not like they didn't know there would be two Semi's next week. Staggered they didn't have a template for each of the 4 possible outcomes from this week and just lift off the relevant ones and post on Friday night and last night. Kudos to MFC which had its act together: an email arrived before I got home from the game. I assume they are waiting on the AFL to email to members details of ticket purchasing, not the least of which is how many tickets per member and the price. Thanks to the AFL members now won't have much time to work out their ticket needs. Pity if people need to book flights and accommodation but don't know if they will have tickets!! AFL: It. Is. Not. Rocket. Science.

vs Hawthorn Round 4: Players: In: TMac, Viney, Tyson, Vandenberg, Weideman, Spargo Out: Lever, Vince, Hogan, Bugg, Garlett, Kent, Wagner Game Plan/Tactics Players were played out of their normal position eg Salem in the middle; and in the name of flexibility mids became forwards and forwards became mids. They looked like Brown's cows and were getting in each others way. Now players are in their best position making the most of their strengths. Forwards are forwards and mids are mids. Forwards have developed their craft and work as a cohesive unit rather than confused individuals. We had no midfield that day: Jones tagged Mitchell all day which took him out of the game. Without Viney and Tyson we had no real grunt. It was Gus' first game so it was pretty much Oliver playing a lone hand. Now we have a master tagger who also gets plenty of the ball: Harmes. And our midfield is close to the best in the league. Then we had players off the back of the square. For the last month we have played mainly 6 x 6 x 6 and we no longer allow them a spare in defence Then we played a very high press and left their fwds behind us with lots of easy goals out the back. Now it is much more man on man and we stay behind their forwards and/or keep a sweeper down back. Other More belief and confidence in themselves and each other. Players and coaches have developed with 6 months experience. Much more team oriented Our tackling has become ferocious. Lots and lots of reasons for optimism folks! We simply aren't the same team. The Semi will be very different to that game! I reckon for the first time in many a year the Hawks will genuinely fear us. If not it will be at their peril.

How embarrassing were the Swans? 4.6.30 losing to 10.19.79. WOW! 10 scoring shots to 29. So, two recent AFL 'heavyweights' now out of the finals race. Up to us to eliminate the remaining 'heavyweight' next week. Very confident we will get the job done.

I note that @Dante has two tickets lined up but wonder whether that applies only to MFC Foundation Heroes as last week Hawk/Rich members could get only one ticket per member because of the combined total member numbers. The prices will be here (when announced): http://www.afl.com.au/tickets/seat-pricing-guide As tickets go on sale at 9.00am Monday I assume the club sends an email to members in the next 24 hours on the rules. On a related note. If Pies win, our game vs Hawks will be the only one for Ticketek. If Pies lose I would hope the AFL stagger the ticket selling times for the two Semis. Edit: I just noticed this on the Ticketek website: When do tickets go on sale? 2018 AFL Finals Series - Week 2 CLUB MEMBERS: Mon Sep 10 9am Game 1 10:30am Game 2 MCC MEMBERS: Mon Sep 10 12noon Game 1 12noon Game 2 GENERAL PUBLIC: Mon Sep 10 2pm Game 1 3:30pm Game 2 AFL MEMBERS: Tue Sep 11 2pm Game 1 2pm Game 2 It looks like ticket sales for the two Semis will be staggered. As our Semi is Friday night I assume it is 'Game 1'. TBC.

Seeing the crowd last night and how we played, all I could think of after the game was the corny, jingoistic Monkey's song "I'm a Believer'! The lyrics are: I thought love was only true in fairy tales Meant for someone else but not for me Love was out to get me That's the way it seemed Disappointment haunted all of my dreams Then I saw her face, now I'm a believer Not a trace of doubt in my mind I'm in love I'm a believer, I couldn't leave her if I tried I thought love was more or less a giving thing Seems the more I gave the less I got What's the use in tryin' All you get is pain? When I needed sunshine, I got rain Then I saw her face, now I'm a believer Not a trace of doubt in my mind I'm in love I'm a believer, I couldn't leave her if I tried Oh Oh, love was out to get me Now, that's the way it seemed Disappointment haunted all of my dreams Then I saw her face, now I'm a believer Not a trace of doubt in my mind I'm in love I'm a believer, I couldn't leave her if I tried Yes, I saw her face, now I'm a believer For those who don't know the song: Such apt words for the ever faithful demon supporter. After so much pain and heartache. In Goodwin's words: we have a team everyone can now believe in. Last night was epic - one for the true believers!

From the 1.30 minute mark. Great Roosy chant! https://www.foxsports.com.au/video/afl