Big Col

I don't know, but not in this game. Do you mean 50 in a half? That would be Rd 7 vs Essendon, two weeks ago.

Should come up with a decision soon ...

Harmes for sub IMHO. With the VFL the game before the seniors, are players withheld in case of an injury during warm-up? Perhaps one of the other emergencies get pulled out of the VFL game at half-time in case we end up needing them as a sub, and the player who was supposed to be sub, gets promoted?

With 20 teams could you have 2 divisions of 10 with promotion and relegation? *18 H&A plus another 5 games against teams in the other division (ensuring there's always a crosstown game eg Crows vs Power and other 'traditional' games) * Final 5 in Div 1 and Final 4 in Div 2 with Div 2 finalists playing off against the lowly Div 1 teams for promotion/relegation (eg 2nd in Div 2 plays vs 9th in Div 1, 3rd in Div2 vs 8th Div 1, 4th vs 7th, with the respective premiers and wooden spooners promoted/relegated automatically). The promotion/relegation games at the end of the season would be huge. * Div 1 teams have higher salary caps/lists allowing for the better players to move there. Highest draft picks go the newly promoted team(s). eg winner of Div 2, gets #1 pick. wooden spooner in Div 1 gets #20 (and is relegated).

A 19 team competition fixture can work if you do away with the concept of 'rounds' and have more mid-week games and more erratic breaks between matches. Season length could still be 23 games - or any other length. eg Season opens on a Wed night as Carl vs RICH Between Thur and Sun, there are 8 games between 16 of the other teams On Monday night Carl plays the remaining team, say StK 2 nights later on Wed night, Rich plays one of the teams that played on Thur (say Coll) and so on, with StK playing Sunday and Rich playing the Monday night game. If you run games Wed-Mon and are prepared for lots of 5 day breaks, it could work. Perhaps it could also be coupled with a reduction in playing times (17.5 mins) and extended benches to make it more tolerable for players. I'm not really proposing this, just answering about how it could work with 19 teams.

I want to see a replay. Did that really happen?

May was back in form after the caning he got in the media this week

Tigers first pick goes to GWS so they won't be tanking

I'm in the multiple picks within top 10 category rather than the all-in for #1. Here's an experiment I did looking at drafts since 2012. Yes, lots of flaws in my methodology and on any given year your picks could bust, but here goes... Would you rather have pick #1 and #40 or #4 and #10? (3429 draft points) #1 picks Most of these are pretty good players - in particular Walsh and Rayner atm. #40s Tom Stewart is the standout with Neale-Bullen the next best. Most have been delisted after less than 50 games or are only just starting their careers. #4 and #10 Imagine a team with Bontempelli, Oliver and Daicos kicking it to Coleman medallist Mckay or maybe Max King? LDU is having a breakout season this year and Tom Green is pretty handy. Phillipou is on track for a rising star nom this year. And to top it off, this team could be captained by Jimmy Toumpass /s

Legal online betting in the USA only starting become available (outside of Nevada) in 2018. There's a huge market there that's 20 years behind Australia. It's only going to get bigger. I'm not sure how much a game held in the USA would increase betting revenue for the US but I'd be surprised if it didn't (given decent marketing). If the NRL trials this and it makes $$$ then the AFL will be soon to follow. GWS vs GCS seems an appropriate match up.

Very happy to see Josh Schache get his chance. Played a great game 2 weeks ago in VFL and was the resting emergency last week so will be fresh legs. Harmes should get the sub role. Laurie unlucky but if he was sub again and got only 5 minutes play it'd be bad for match fitness (although I note that Casey plays on Sunday - are subs still permitted to play VFL and AFL on the same round?)

I'm with rpfc on this. From the outside it's hard to tell who's beat up the most and would benefit from a break, but we do have some fresh players: *Schache who didn't get to even play VFL this weekend after coming off 4 goals for Casey the weekend before *Laurie, who as sub, played all of 5 minutes on Monday night after a BOG in the VFL the week before The VFL team will be coming off a 6-day break so it's not a such a huge "freshener" as we might be thinking, but nonetheless we have Harmes, who was never actually dropped, who has had 2 outstanding games for Casey in the last 2 games, and 2 weeks off w/o actually being injured. That's before we even think about BBB and McD and others.

I came to the same conclusion!

While Bompt plays for the Bulldogs they'll always be a Premiership threat. He is a champ for sure.

I wondering if the 5 day turnaround (vs 6 for Casey to AFL) is playing a part in selection? Brown, Schache and Harmes (8 coaches votes in the VFL last week, Laurie got 10) are almost on standby to come in and be 'fresher' than those with a 5 day break, especially if their VFL game time is limited/managed.

I'd love to see how he would go as HFF/small forward

I'm barracking for soft tissue injuries by Tigers and/or 1 match suspensions

He went #2. I'd pick Kozzie above him, but he'd definitely be top 5 in a retrospective draft

Anderson is a gun. We have a game!

Big comeback by Freo but Gold Coast with the breeze last Qtr. Personally I'm finding this fun to be so invested in another game. I tell people now that my second team is whoever is playing Freo.

Pretty sure I just spotted a Demons scarf!

If you're a Freo fan the game started at 3pm Perth time. They'd never schedule West Coast at that time.

With Brown back in , do we think Petty will be down back again?

Oh this is good. LOL. It appeals to my inner trollness.

It's not cool to claim someone else's joke, rpfc. Next you'll be saying you're high on potenuse.