Diamond_Jim

Our man Smith is last man standing in the backline

come on dees.. let's end this by half time for once

let's hope they don't find form next week

Tiges without Dusty = Ninthdom or worse

Is he still injured. The original report was a mild strain and the rest was precautionary. Given no VFL tomorrow I suppose we will never know.

With 19 cases today hard to see this being lifted on Tuesday. Will go the rest of next week at least is my guess. What a mess.

cannot see that happening....even if we are no crowds

it is now

He's calling it from Melbourne off the television so a little slack is deserved.

Other than the kick to Chol Dusty has had no influence. Lynch has been hardly sighted. Daniher going for the easy ball out the back. Hard to see Richmond hanging on but it's entertaining with lots of corridor play. Go Tiges..........

well done but we're still around 10th on the membership lists and around 7th of the ten Melbourne based clubs. It will be a hard task to climb the ladder. Looking at the numbers from Big Footy We should easily stay in front of the Saints next year and probably the Dogs who are 5k behind us. The teams within striking distance are Geelong, Hawthorn and to a lesser extent Essendon. Carlton's figure strike me as rubbery so they could be within range. North have 45k members which is more than we had in 2020. https://www.bigfooty.com/forum/threads/2021-afl-membership-tracker-figures.1259510/

you have to read between the lines. The AFL makes more on 50k in Perth or Adelaide than a 50k crowd at the MCG simply because the other State governments kick in money. That's how Ana did it last year. I smell an attempted squeeze on the Victorian government here but the AFL would want to tread warily

Well the Freo v Geelong game certainly did us no favours. Tigers v Lions on a comparatively balmy evening at the Gold Coast. Hipwood out.. Go Tiges !!

Most if not all of our losses this year have been during the day so it could favour those few vampires on our team.

Have posted before there is minimal incentive to increase crowds at VFL matches. Crowds cost money... attendants, toilets cleaning etc The direction givien to the working party on the redesigned VFL was to save money and as part of that to better integrate the VFL schedule with the AFL schedule (playing the same teams on a weekend etc). The real question is why did they include the old stand alone clubs and in particular the interstate stand alone clubs. Was it part of a government funding package perhaps. I have no idea and it makes no sense. If I was a conspiracy theorist you could say that they have set up a competition that must fail so they can close it down. The reality is that it is probably another stuff up. FWIW other than the number of byes the old VFL/AFL comp while not the best worked reasonably well in my view.

why not play it today and just put it out on delay... we 'd never know these days We could even have alternative endings to stop the leaks like they do with some reality shows. Strange times

the centre corridor must be a covid infection zone judging by the way both teams are avoiding it

They don't come much bigger than this round in a top 4 shaping sense. Starting tonight with the magnificent Freo Dockers against a slightly injury depleted Geelong. A Geelong and Lions loss (with a win by our goodselves) would go a very long way towards securing top 2. Go Dockers !

not in Adelaide I can assure you and even Brisbane these days isn't exactly boiling

what is it about AFL players travelling on planes in winter in footy shorts. Noticed MFC last week travelling to Adelaide and other teams today to Brisbane.

At least two mainstream media reporting likely lockdown. Dan Andrews press conference shortly

Prescient Macca 3 cases just announced in Brisbane

Rumours (no more than rumours) that an MCC transmission has been found. (A 16 year old boy)

Odds on we'll be on the plane to Brisbane Sunday morning Casey V Box Hill could be collateral damage

Vaccinations run at around 4-5M per day which is less than half the required rate for a population of 1.4 billion. Testing is comparatively low. The deaths of the most vulnerable have occurred. Masses of people from the cities have returned to the country villages Think mild hiatus rather than turn around. The first step is to up the vaccination rate to well over 10M per day.(China with a similar population does 20M doses per day.)