Diamond_Jim

Must agree... Saints rarely had clean possession but they managed to kick some goals. Makes you wonder about the surface. Have not seen so many unpressured fumbles for a while

Meanwhile, Victoria’s public health assessment panel has told the AFL to spread out its fans as sporting crowds grow in the state. Chief Health Officer Professor Brett Sutton said the bunching of fans in certain sections, as occurred when Geelong hosted the Western Bulldogs at GMHBA Stadium, was not too risky but the league and other sports were told to spread out crowds. Took them a while.... https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl/fixture-shuffle-swans-set-to-play-home-game-against-eagles-in-geelong-20210625-p5848h.html

Three infected hairdressers working in a Double Bay salon in Sydney. Around 900 clients impacted. Good luck Sydney

not sure who's kicking the winning score wouldn't have been surprised if they used Mitch Brown to give them some firepower. He did kick a relative bag in the last VFL game against Geelong Anyway fingers crossed the Pies game was an aberration

Agree Hate to say it but a Geelong win would be good for us. A Bulldogs loss is intriguing however.

Essington from Reddit.. Basically when we play really bad footy for a prolonged duration, we are referred to as Essington by our supporters. I believe it was an in joke that started on BomberBlitz during the Knights era.

Nice to see Thursday night football back. That Friday night fixture is underwhelming to say the least. Port v Swans, our game and Eagles v Dogs are all way better

It's increasingly looking like the best mix is one of both so you may both get your wish.

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It's been changed Here's the original fixture stating quite clearly it's an Essendon home game. The venue and time may not have been fixed but it has always been an Essendon home game https://www.aflq.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/AM-7554-0221-VFL-Fixture_Full_FA1-1.pdf

good question It's listed as an Essendon home game. Perhaps the issue is security at Windy Hill. When I was there in 2019 it was just walk in as it's a community park. A nice place to watch football but a very strange portable scoreboard. Preuss took them apart as I remember. With the Saturday night game the emergencies will be available and I expect a few senior players will turn up to lend their support. Hopefully Saturday is a big win

Not sure how our guys rate but last week with the Coca Cola incident they revealed that Ronaldo makes more off social media than he does from playing football. In the influencer world you need around 100k followers before you're at first base. Even then you are not a great earner. Of course this can change if you have a specialist following (highest paid youtube ads for example are for financial products). Then there's personal merchandising and cash donations such as Patreon. It's certainly a space to watch. If you were a star player for say the Crows or the Eagles it could be a goer. In Melbourne I would think it much tougher. Perhaps 4 or 5 star players from different clubs doing a Front Bar type show on youtube might sell.

Assuming there's a Casey game you might be right. Playing Mitch Brown is the conservative play or even Bedford. On the other hand Brown has now "been building" for 11-12 weeks so you wonder whether another week makes much difference.

not exactly T Mac, Wedemand and Ben Brown groupings Most if not all of those groupings include a Fritsch like player who we also have.

The issue has always been that you can't have three highly paid forwards on your list. Long term I would prefer Weideman to stay but increasingly it seems he is the one to go. That he is out of contract at year's end makes it relatively easy. He may elect to take a one year deal with us or somewhere else in the hope that he can show his wares and demand the big mid career contract. Doubt that any club would offer him more than $400k per year on his present form. We're probably going to need some spare money to keep Jackson at the club at the end of 2022.

Sorry Kev the earliest for no quarantine from Thailand is April and even that is optimistic. The zero crowd would metaphorically lynch any politician who got in front of the herd. International students in January under some hybrid Hotel quarantine scheme is the best we can hope for. Good luck in the land of smiles. I see the vaccines have just started to be rolled out. Slow I know but at least they have started. Interesting to see how long the Phuket sandbox lasts. (India jabbed 8.5M on Monday... their previous reord was 4.5M. If they can maintain 10M plus per day thorugh July and August that would be great.)

was happy for a moment there when I read because of Sydney covid issues, GWS may have to play their game against us in Melboune. Then I realised it was our home game anyway ?

Is there a Casey game at Windy Hill this weekend. Could be a pleasant diversion

Of course... very similar to herding cattle or sheep Perhaps a few kelpies to keep us all in our places may not go astray

Game is on the Sunshine Coast. They have really embraced the Storm. Understandable as Broncos have barely won a game. Mind you it's only around a 10k stadium

Kappa man aka Woolert was from Adelaide and he kicked us off the Delta strain was all ours OD and surprise sursprise they lost the HQ CCTV footage Don't worry mate by the time the Feds ever let us out of this country you will have had a booster and maybe even two. Some States in Canada have also scrapped AZ for the second dose but mainly because they have so much Moderna etc Reading the other day that many of the older Singaporeans were queing up to get the China vax instead of Pfizer because they trusted Chinese traditional medicines. My mates in Thailand are pushing for AZ in front of Sinovac and in Malaysia people are taking anything they can get their hands on. China hits a billion doses in the local arms in the next day or so

that and the China fiasco could do with some scrutiny

North v The Lions Twilight game in Hobart Max 13 with light winds and perhaps some light rain. An upset would be nice

Nothing like rolling outbreaks. Melbourne almost has theirs under control and Sydney starts up. Adelaide or Brisbane next.

Bulldogs lucky to be still in it. Geelong the cleaner team but not quite clicking in the last 70 metres Rowan showing the advantage of a third forward. Why is Hawkins being allowed to ruck against the lesser ruck in the forward line.. just a matter of time