Diamond_Jim

Not quite Jaguar

Excellent video. Strong editing skills on show Congrats to the media team

It won't be easy but NOW is the time. This club is close to its knees but these young women could light the torch that shows us the way from the gloom. Whatever happens they have won our respect. Go Dees

Not great to hear. One of the big things AFLW had going for it in its early days was the welcoming family atmosphere. Seems to be in danger of going the parochial hardcore way of the men's game. The Matildas are the model

It would not surprise. Our season depends on beating Essendon twice plus Eagles, Tigers and North. Perhaps we're even with Port and not too far behind the Saints but every other game would be an upset. How did we stuff it up post 2021 so badly

Next Friday is the start of the Ashes in WA so who knows. The second channel 7 station is used for swaps etc during news time. Not a great crowd today.

And that could be the sealer !!!

The cream is rising Could we do it ?

The game is afoot Watson

You can sense how this game is going to unfold. It's the norm against the better sides

It's D day

The cemetery (aka Lygon St) is pretty dead at that time of day and parking is unlimited after noon or thereabouts

The draw is both a sponsor's nightmare and not that great from a winning chance viewpoint. Hell our time in the lime light was short. Hard to recall a team that was banished so quickly. You could argue for the Eagles but they are so popular that they somehow still thrive. Very hard to see us breaking out of the bottom four next year

Correct not a double header. They tried that the first time. It was a sell out but no one turned up for our game as Crows supporters IIRC were only interested in their own team

Ah the early leg of the double header that is no longer a double header. It really does cut into the long lunch

I'm starting to love AFLX In hindsight it was better than what they've rolled out... State of Origin, Indigenous game, Opening round, Gather round, Wildcard round PLEASE STOP meanwhile country football is dying... AFL Victoria announced on Monday that its “regional administrative centre model” – brought in based on recommendations made in 2011 – would be scrapped after AFL Barwon decided to exit the program and go it alone. Barwon joined AFL Sunraysia, AFL Gippsland, AFL Goldfields, AFL Western District, AFL Central Murray and AFL Wimmera Mallee in quitting the program, with leagues under those six regional administrative centres (RACs) returning to self-management. Now AFL South East, AFL North East Border, AFL Barwon, AFL Central Victoria and AFL Goulburn Murray will make the same transition. https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl/burnout-lack-of-support-high-turnover-the-problems-brewing-as-country-footy-gets-biggest-shake-up-in-years-20251111-p5n9dc.html

A favour for Benny G perhaps

His year to break out was 2025 but he went backwards. The injury before the VFL finals didn't help nor did having too many tall forwards in the VFL side

The real question is why don't we use the VFL to try fringe players in two or three positions. At the very least you increase your depth. Tom Fullarton is a case in point. NQR as a forward but was starting to show something down back when put down there for the last half of 2025.

Was that a line in Monty Python 😎

Oh happy days !!!

Hope so but that European group can be an absolute minefield What do you think they need to do to bury the curse. A good Strega is needed perhaps

Not quite,,,, The final tournament format since 1998 has had 32 national teams competing over the course of a month in the host nations. There are two stages: the group stage, followed by the knockout stage... This tournament (2026) will be the first to include 48 teams, expanded from 32. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_FIFA_World_Cup

I follow some travel sites etc for World Cups. Many of the big team supporters are saying they will give most of the round robin games a miss due to time and cost.

The opening round, Gather Round and now the Wildcard round seem so far to have been given to the TV companies for nothing. Next step is to monetise those games. Opening Round in Perth or Brisbane is an easy one if the WA or Qld governments are crazy enough to pay what SA does for Gather Round. If like Gather Round the participating clubs got $1M you'd see clubs queuing up to play in the round.