Diamond_Jim

Storm had a "miracle" win over Penrith last night. Raiders have the bye this week and play Penrith next week. If Raiders lose Storm could go to the top of the ladder if they beat the third placed Bulldogs.

My thoughts also. Using this route Eagles might even sweeten the deal for McVee. My guess is a third rounder which given the Eagles ladder position is almost a late second from most clubs

What a cop out on the Shiels case One match suspension for pushing O'Connor into a situation where injury might have been done to O'Connor. Nothing for endangering Lual !!!!!

These long term deals which lock in the player's salary are now becoming the norm. So much for the AFL trying to rein in contract lengths. That aside this is serious money. Will anyone bite?

What no one has mentioned re Buckley is cost and contract length. Both may be too rich for us to swallow especially if he wants to bring his nominated assistants. That soft cap is rather tight to say the least

Game slipping away

Horror movie time

With Tassie election fall out we're the only game in town at present

And we thought we had training ground problems In the NRL the Roosters and Rabbitohs are having an all out war it seems.... South Sydney have now asked the NSWRL to reconsider its position and believes the Roosters junior representative program is an extension of the junior league. The Rabbitohs are arguing that their juniors are being enticed to join the Roosters because of the convenience of having the training facility in their area. The Roosters have provided $200,000 of funding to provide lighting and improve the school’s sporting facilities. The Rabbitohs have submitted a formal application to have the Roosters banned from training in their backyard and are awaiting a response from the NSWRL. The references are to the junior teams https://www.theage.com.au/sport/nrl/turf-war-rabbitohs-want-roosters-thrown-off-training-ground-20250809-p5mlnk.html

Not excited by a retread coach most of whom will be happy to collect $1.2M a year for 3-4 years and leave us mid table. On the other hand it will calm the membership exodus and give us a short term media bump. As Dickens wrote in David Copperfield .... Tell MFC that Bucks is willing.... Hopefully I'm surprised but MFCSS runs deep in most of us

Could and probably should have been a lot worse for Essendon. Geelong are still a chip chip team in a corridor world

22-2 final score and for the moment top of the ladder (table) Storm are a consistently great team

Storm (2) play Broncos(6) at the Rectangular Stadium. (tonight 7:50pm) A big game in the context of the upcoming finals Panthers to continue their winning run after a bad start to the season

Pick 20 is effectively first round. Even 40 is bottom second I'd be amazed if a "project player" goes higher than third round unless some club wants to push us away from our second round choice so that they can get that player in the third round. My worry is that we dilute our second round choice with swaps to lesser picks in fear that someone will take him second round. We always seem to overpay one way or the other

Aka Schache, Billings etc You'd think we might strike it lucky once JC... if he makes it we can nickname him "Super Star"

Fair enough post. His last three or so games at Casey showed a strong uptrend though admittedly against middling opposition. Next season he and MacAdam will probably be vying for the same spot. Hopefully one of the two grabs it and makes it their own.

It has been said. We have all heard the platitudes but it was never going to work. I didn't mind driving there as the traffic got progressively lighter as you got nearer. The other way was hell and I imagine it would be even worse after a hard session on the track

Interesting and radical. I suspect it would require an exceptional two people without supreme ego. Another left field is Daisy Pearce

Agree Not interested in a recycled coach. A new "cheap" coach on a short contract (longer with strong KPI's) surrounded by very good (well paid) assistants. It won't be an easy job. PS: I'd like to see a little more attention paid to the VFL coach

To trade Petracca or Oliver we would probably need to pay 20% of their salary simply to offload them. 35% gets a second rounder and 50% a first They and we are stuck with each other unless they agree to reduce their contracted salaries. Of course if they have a stellar year for MFC in 2026 the equation could change at the end of that year as it would with increases in the TPP cap and the length left on their contracts

Agree My problem is that too much of the stadium is reserved with no clear indication as to where GA seats are available. A simple app these days or a digital board would fix that. When I enter the AFL members there's a board which tells me the unreserved areas that always includes half the reserve unless it's a very big game

Will be interesting to see how we approach a multi week finals series (if we get that far). The issue is the end date and the compulsory break to the start of pre season training. Then there's the added factor of the younger players starting earlier

GCS are an enigma They could do an MFC Win the lot or out in straight sets

True He started showing something in the last three or four matches. He has a strong body and is very solid in the marking department. Not sure he has the speed to make it longer term but worth a look

It's at this stage you'd be saying.. take off X Y and Z and rest them for next week. Nah... play em all to the end is my new mantra (Perhaps rest Max)