Diamond_Jim

I'd send Fritsch and a trainer to Canberra today for daily goal practice. IIRC Manuka used to be a similar size to the MCG. Is that still correct?

without wishing to get political it's a Greens dominated council who believe that their number 1 challenge is global warming. I believe in global warming but somehow I think the council's bigger challenges might be closer to home. Charging by reference to "inclusiveness" is a new concept. My son played his junior football finals at the Brunswick oval. A lovely set up

actually it's a lovely 27 degrees predicted for Sunday with a 15-20k northerly. Should be perfect around game time. Wouldn't it be wonderful if we win each quarter by say 16points. I think the last stress free game I can remember was the 100 points win against Carlton

Eagles and Port have 12 home games....(including the derbies) add to that four away wins and they are top 4. Hard to see either missing this year. Tigers will definitely be in the four unless one or both of their two forwards are injured. Who gets fourth....

There's two types of premiership teams. Those who are great teams and would include the likes of Birsbane, Hawthorn WCE and Richmond in their prime. The other is those who are lucky on the day. Dogs and Port come to mind. We are definitely in the luck case. The top 4 is almost sewn up between Port, Tigers and Eagles. Hard to see us being the fourth and you definitely need luck from outside the 4.

Brown used to play forward ruck at NM quite often. If and when he gets on the park will be interesting to see if he is given that job like Geelomg use Hawkins.

blame the algorithm would work a lot better if seats were allocated the night before a game as putting them on sale a week beforehand means the IT people have to guess the total attendance to apply the spread. In reality I suspect there's a lot of smoke and mirrors but perhaps I'm a cynic.

All those night games... a sponsor's dream

it's 4 weeks away minimum Unless one of the existing bunch has a form drop off or injury Weid will play at Casey for a few weeks. Brown will probably have one Casey game as well. Who will go out? LJ in the first week and then perhaps a rotation/rest system for a few weeks between the four talls. If Weid shows form at Casey and no one drops off it would be a nice problem to have.

the AFL needs to have a think about how it communicates on ticket sales. Many people have assumed packed stadiums and stay away. 25k for the first home Saints game after a successful season was strange to say the least

Given that it is an Easter Sunday game I wouldn't think the crowd would be huge by any means. It has a seating capacity of 13.5k and another 2k standing (if allowed) and the ACT allows 100% capacity

Just looked at our run home.. horrendous to say the least would be good if a few of those 7-12 teams were out of the running early. GWS is one of them. Loss today and fingers crossed another loss next week would severely dent their chances. Who are the others.... Hawks and Sydney come to mind. Freo perhaps along with Carlton

a very disappointing crowd.

Salem Oliver Langdon Pickett Petracca Jones PS after the first two very hard given the all round team performance. Had Fritsch kicked straight he would be 2 or 3.

No change Probably the best team performance in the last 4-5 years. Not one passenger

yep.... what's more the behinds score gives me big hope for improvement !!

mmmm not exactly straight kicking Woweeeeeeeeeeeeeeee Upside

perhaps we could offer Anna to save Qld football !!

does roof shut = masks?

Hope Goodwin has a plan. Last year he didn't and luckily they missed some easy ones giving us a one point win. We're two decent forwards short of a working team. A win would be a pleasant surprise

The Privacy laws are well intended and necessary to prevent many abuses but boy have they made so many aspects of daily life difficult. On a more practical note the QR code has nowhere near the same info that the ticketseller has so you would think a small amendment to their T's and C's for football admission would solve the problem.

Since '64 MFC have never had a season where we have done it easily. Eevn in the relative glory days (87-2004?) we would always require a late season surge to make up for an earlier slump. Have often wondered what it must be like to barrack for a team where your greatest concern is whether you will finish 1,2 or 3. I supsect I will continue wondering

For a crowd of 50k my TV observations were that the crowd was well dispersed around the ground so the algorithm worked well. Will be interesting to see how the often empty Medallion area is used for our Saturday night game

Prefer a draw tonight but if not probably a Pies win Could not stand a Carlton bandwagon Bulldogs and Eagles could be interesting... in a non covid world I would probably have gone along... nice 32k crowd at Docklands

It doesn't change much 14 gets you well into the 5-8 group 13 gets you into 6-8 12 gets you 7-10 Frankly I want 17....