Diamond_Jim

Not sure how you arrive at that view. Practice games play an essential part in the pre season build up. They give exposure to fringe players by using extended benches and allow older players to ease into the season. Playing for points removes all of these benefits

SA Premier needs to up his bid. Crowd attendances are irrelevant to the AFL as the whole thing is paid for by the "winning State" I suppose the fact that it's an extra round softens the usual screaming by clubs about losing a home game. Going by the Shanghai fiasco competing clubs were asking for $1M plus expenses to be Port Adelaide's dance partner/bunny. TBH I hate this idea but as usual... anything for the money

Much cheaper than USA OD but more expensive than what I'm used to in Asia... Beer is cheap though One funny thing is that they think I'm American and expect massive tips. A few grumbles when I don't tip (locals only leave a little loose change) Heading up to the US in just over a week. California has sales tax, (8%) employee health levies (5%) and tips(20% minimum) added to the already exorbitant listed prices. AU$ decline does not help either

Thought he might have gone to another club over the last few years but surprisingly no interest. VFL form was always steady but just lacked that final piece of luck. Debuted before Petty IIRC

did you know OD that in the north of Vietnam (Hanoi) Ban Mhi is served warm by putting the roll in a steamer whereas down south it's cold like we see in Melbourne Presently in Mexico. Hard to really crack the street food scene here without Spanish but I'm trying. I've been to some out of the way countries and never had a problem by using observation and hand signs. Everything here involves multiple choice to make up a combo which complicates life. I'll keep at it!!

We revived the massive Jesse Hogan thread a couple of months back. This one might have another lease of life in the future. Even Voldemort got a brief re-opening PS.. well well....300 pages !!!

That's not a great deal. It's the one every club rejected when it was floated over a month ago

Little doubt that MacDonald going down and Weid not stepping up spooked the coaching panel. Surprised we did so little this trade period to rectify the problem. I assume Gunston was too expensive or the contract too long

No other club saw value in the deal... even to the extent they got into discussions/negotiations Anyway let's hope it works

How many $$$$ is the question ????

Says a little about Freo if they don't let Meek go. It seems an unwritten rule that if a player cannot get a regular game at a club and is offered an opportunity at another everything reasonable is done to facilitate the move. Witness what we are doing with Weid. There's no upside for us in letting him go a year early but it's happening

Almost non existent is my guess About ten years ago when we were playing twice a year up there I was at the MCG. Near me was a group of boys from NT who had come down to play in an under 16 carnival. I asked them if MFC had much of a following in NT. They looked at me as if I was an alien. No one in the group plus their friends followed Melbourne

well I think you've answered the question All the Grundy related deals will be embargoed so they can have their TV event

Funny because there is a news feed called Mint(Live Mint from India) ... very busy during the time of the pandemic and vaccine production

The only minor positive I can draw from this debacle is that the MFC was spared the difficulty of matching the mega salary offer made by Freo. Will it prove a wise decision by Freo .. who knows. History tells us that mega offers made to younger players fail as often as they succeed

O Doggies......how did you not goal Loved the big smile on the Bulldogs player when she pulled down the packmark A decent crowd by the look of things

Motoring along now Some impressive corridor play

Good to see that the 26 point zone of indecision has not affected the women's team. Percentage is all important in this competition... need to score a few more and not let them goal

You must like a good walk

What is the rationale for Geelong trading around pick 60 to GCS? Is it part of the required trade process for them to give something in exchange. Thanks

Ellison is interesting Has now been in the VFL system for four years. Badly impacted by the covid closures of 2020 and 2021. Certainly a very consistent performer at VFL level in 2022. Overlooked in the mid season draft

Has an amazing ability at VFL level to find space in the forward line to take a relatively easy mark (think Gunston). Unfortunately he couldn't bring that skill to AFL level

Tomlinson for Bruce seems like a no brainer. Will it work for either or both clubs... who knows... but Dogs need a better defence and we need a better forward line

This is the issue Despite the wins there were rarely if ever days where a player took the game apart. The system of boundary line play does not lend itself to eye catching runs. If we replace the practice game with the "Magic Round" it will be just that little harder to see what some players might add at senior level. VFL to commence at round 3 is the norm

Strangely enough we could easily have taken Langdon through the PSD but we gave 22, our 2020 second rounder and 79. Reasonable for an 11 -15 ranked player PS: They gave us 26 so it was cheap in retrospect Wonder who they took with our 2020 second rounder (it would have been around 26 I suspect)