Diamond_Jim

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

Not our time. Not playing well enough. Perhaps later in the year. Last week and next will be more important season wise Happy to take a win though

Would have preferred Mitch Brown to Weid frankly

Agree and then both forward vaccinate and 7 day forward quarantine at designated foreign airport hotel. Massive reduction of risk and not that expensive in the scheme of things. Plus allocate local hotel quarantine by risk levels. Anyway...here we go again ?

Let's hope Anna doesn't offer "to save the AFL" again

Yep was heading off on Monday for a roadtrip to Alice. Had my tickets for the game. SA border closure has put an end to that