Diamond_Jim

Thought Crows were in with a chance there. Will be nice to see Tiges and Bombers play next week over in the safe safe west.

combine that with the sub optimum crowd on Anzac Eve and this season is looking grim money wise when in a normal world we would be raking it in.

Gave 10 votes to the coaching staff in the Demonland poll. The coaching dynamic has clearly changed. In years to come we may know why but in the meantime keep on with whatever they are doing. TBH I was amazed that the Dogs with their supposedly brilliant and quick midfield played into our hands by going wide so often. They have obviously bought into the impassbale MFC backline wall story. On the other hand Adelaide never read the book.

maybe... certainly no other State will let people from Melbourne in for at least two weeks. NSW.. who knows the present rule for NSW is that you can go in but you have to isolate for the period of the Melbourne lockdown. Lot of rules are now based on the premise that your "home rules" travel with you. Would you go to Sydney and be the only one in a mask? This was the rule for Perth people going to non metro Perth during their recent lockdown. If it was school holidays I think you would find Qld being a lot more accomodating. Another missed tourist period would not play well in the Sunshine State.

and Carlton if they manage to knock over the Swans

I have always found organisational politics fascinating. CW was for years the only one who specialised in this area re the AFL. As she winds back it will be interesting to see who assumes the mantle. Don't underestimate the desire of the AFL to completely control the message. And then there's her interactions with Eddie

Agree but there's no reason why Brisbane couldn't relocate to Melbourne for a few weeks.

I assume the problem is that he does not know when he will have the opportunity thus putting the midfield etc at a disadvantage.

Looks like a complete knee jerk response. Play a couple of games interstate for TV revenue and a bye for the rest.

On the theme of predictability I noticed two pleasing unpredictable moves from Gawn on Friday night. First was taking the ball out of the ruck and pivoting with a kick forward. The other was a hit of twenty odd metres along the boundary line.

Wagga is the centre of the Riverina league (Carey's home town ) and has a very good Aussie rules oval. Have not seen the Albury oval but why not. No way will "normal" Victorians be allowed in NT next Friday. Cancelled my flights and accomodation on Thursday

memories of our darkest days when we sold multiple home games to Brisbane. No thanks Even going to Sydney costs us over $500k in lost revenue from the NT. The virus couldn't have hit us at a worse time. I'd prefer Wagga oval tbh

Noticed that Essendon were allowed into WA. That's a big change from last year Will be hard barracking for the Bombers but I will try

6.Oliver 5. Harmes 4. Petracca 3. Lever 2. Fritsch 1. Spargo (mainly for his first quarter tackling) 10 votes to the coaching staff

the last couple of weeks have not been good to us in the "other team stakes". At least Port play Geelong next week which will help. Beat Brisbane next week and .............

the Storm game from Thursday night is worth a watch. With their injuries they were playing their back up players in most of the key positions.

North would be a perfect swap if we play next week with zero or say 50% crowds Normal revenue plus we still get the NT money by playing them later in the year

The best outcome would be a game swap. Move a future game against a lesser Melbourne based club to next weekend. First question is who has the bye next week and are we scheduled to play them twice.

Tend to agree. Tonight would not have worried me if not for last weeks loss. The run to the bye is very important. Need to win 2 of the next 3.

we'll just have to muzzle them ?

Ideally you would play a guy like Joel Smith as your medical sub. If a mid goes down you can cover through rotations but if a KPP goes down it becomes harder. When Tomlinson went down it was Jones that came on. IIRC he played well but he certainly didn't cover the Tomlinson loss. Who would I pick.. hard to say but perhaps Baker or Daw ..... (if only they were a notch or two better)

so.. where do we want to play Brisbane next week NT is almost certainly off and I suspect that Qld won't allow Brisbane to come to Melbourne So that leaves Sydney (SCG or Giant ) and as an outsider Manuka oval in the ACT. The other possibility is that if cases over the next few days are low AFL may go for an all team (or close to it) bye in the hope that things will be easier the following week

anyone know if the Casey v Bulldogs match at Whitten Oval on Sunday is going ahead? thanks

apparently yes... at the SCG as I recall I assume the Hawks were not allowed by Ana to go to Queensland

Giants and Freo wins would be nice not to mention a ten goal win to the mighty magpies