Diamond_Jim

geelong playing it out and why not

the good news is that we won't see geelong again before the prelim and it's our choice of venue. The smart coaching move here is to experiment but are we smart. By the way the code for experiment is to protect the team's pshyce from a thrashing

quite happy to lose tonight but there are limits

Lions have little chance of getting top 4 need 5 goals to nil

Fascinating lesson in mathematics...

not going all the Lions way at present. Could be an interesting second half If game stopped now Lions would be fourth https://www.liveladders.com/AFL/

could you have scripted it.. It's a draw

In his defence he may have been 3-4 metres out.

or reports....

liked this one

The present rate of vaccines nationally is just under 3 jabs per second. The mythical 80% of over 16's will be reached at this rate in the last week of October. (likelihood is an increase in the daily rate will bring the goal in by a week or two). Of course you need to factor in the break between jabs and the two weeks post second jab for full efficacy. It's not just a simple function of jab rate but we're going well.

the smart move is to lose tonight and most of us know it. I'm sure Geelong's coach does. (Assuming a Brisbane win).

The trend is not our friend............

Well there's only one game (possibly two) that interests the MFC purist. Will the Dogs win tonight and if they lose can Brisbane replace them in fourth spot. Dogs are firm favourites to win at Docklands but they have lost their last two against Essendon and Hawthorn (this one was a very solid loss). Dogs to lose on the basis that their forward line will not function correctly (Where's Stringer when you need him). Which sets up the Brisbane v Eagles match at the Gabba.

No Weid in the emergencies or AVB

very strange team to say the least with Jordon and to a lesser extent melksham out. Playing Viney and Sparrow in the same team is a very strange move

Just for those who were wondering...what's next Two cases of Legionnaire's disease reported in Cranbourne. Apparently symptoms are very similar to Covid

aaaah....... Day 15 I believe and except for the 8 days in which we weren't able to visit another house... Day 30. So it's now almost 40 days since visiting another person was permitted.

Hitting almost 2 million jabs a week now nationwide. Not bad but as all my teachers used to say....could do better https://covidvax.live/location/aus

Interesting...must have been played after the AFL Sunday afternoon match (unless they got an exemption)

After ground rental costs the net revenue for a crowd of 20k would be zero. Most of the costs are for security and ushers etc so a closed ground would be much cheaper plus of course the ground gets a fair share of the boundary advertising rights.

10k max if not lower. The ground will have a 50% cap which limits the crowd to 16k only. Add to that the ticket price of say $40 per head and being limited to regional supporters. And of course who gets the game receipts, beverage rights, super box payments and sponsorhip rights etc. (Remember that Geelong controls all those things for Kardinia Park)

The idea of rent a crowd which is all that you will get interstate for the first finals round is laughable. Saints v Bulldogs drew 10,651 last year in the first week. In the second week Richmond v Saints drew 13k The GF and the prelims where States will actually pay money for a team to play there is another case altogether

A neutral final interstate in the first week would be lucky to pull 10k. The AFL are playing a political game and Geelong will be the beneficiary.

1 v 2 and still we can't get an exclusive Nationally televised FTA game. (Sydney will take the GWS game live FTA) Our sponsors must be pulling their proverbial hair out