Diamond_Jim

Teams and numbers if available would be great.

open a separate topic thread and we can have a chat

As I advance in years OD I become increasingly of the view that democracy is not for everyone. Imagine a football club truly run by members.. we could extend it to team selection. My complaint about football clubs and the AFL is the lack of transparency. Why for example is each club's deal with the AFL over the use of Docklands confidential. Same for the MCG.

Very difficult to project VFL performances into AFL these days. Geelong seconds had 30 scoring shots to 13 last night winning 15:15 (105) to 7:6 (48) Sydney seconds are 2 and 2 with all games against AFL seconds sides so they might give a good match

Strange selections Hopefully there's some logic but for those thinking Weid is a better bet than Brown.... Nah There's something more and I will leave it to each to paint with their own palette. Melksham for Chandler?.... I'm lost

you have to wonder about the match preview when the writer has Nathan Jones as a likely inclusion.

the AFL site even has a countdown clock. I thought there might be a game tonight but it's only for team selection Not sure about VFL

I'll kick it off from the match preview on Big Footy: Getting this game called off due to Covid and labelled a draw may be our best chance at not losing... https://www.bigfooty.com/forum/threads/face-off-adelaide-crows-vs-melbourne-demons.1268738/ PS Not many posts on Big Footy at present. Does anyone know of other forums?

Preusmably we fly over Saturday morning. Not ideal but that's the way these days. If the same rule applies for the interstate clubs bar WA it must be hard for them.

the usual deal is that the emergencies hit the next plane out (say 6pm) so they should be right to go at Casey. The sub.. who knows Even catching the 8am flight means you arrive Casey at around 11am Possible

that's the beauty of Demonland. We haven't had a discussion of Ancient Greek terminology for some time. Eg Does Goodwin use the Socratic method? Perhaps 17th century poetry

That's where the interesting discussion is. In this era of cyberhacking is blockchain the answer to computer security. The power useage to recovery ratio used in bitcoin mining is obviously an issue. As I understand it every so often (annually perhaps or is it value driven) another link is added to the blockchain thus making it harder (more expensive ) to mine.

Sounds right Nasher A hard decision

the real problem with Bitcoin is that it is so volatile price wise it is not a great medium of exchange

it's no more dodgy than gold if you think about it A metal with no real value other than scarcity

After reading the book about the Winklevoss twins I told my kids that a small part of a portfolio in bitcoin was sensible. At that time is was $15k and most thought it overvalued. Pity I never listened to my own advice and nor did the kids.

In 2019 there were big drainage problems. I chatted with a local who was of the opinion they were never installed correctly. I assume they have now been fixed.

saw that company on the boundary ads there's money in mining great book on the Winklevoss twins of Facebook fame who went big on cryptocurrency in its early days Bitcoin Billionaires by Daniel Mezrich https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/may/16/bitcoin-billionaires-by-ben-mezrich-review

not cheap http://www.jolleysboathouse.com/content-pages/menu_88_2072542313.pdf

the strange thing is that kayo is probably being paid for streaming the product. the real issue is that the AFL controls the media rights for ALL AFL related content. If it was club controlled I suspect you would see more innovation from some of the clubs Contrast this with the EPL where say Liverpool has its own channel that shows a lot of content save for live games (replays allowed)

Hardwick now arguing for elimination of prior opportunity. My cynicism antenna is saying but "don't you have the best tackle breaker in the game." Just cannot understand a push to punish the player who is actually making the play https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl/get-rid-of-prior-opportunity-in-holding-the-ball-decisions-hardwick-20210519-p57t6k.html

I think we are also taking the risk with the kickout of not going so close to the boundary. This makes it harder for the defender to knock the ball out of bounds and brings Oliver etc into play if the tall doesn't take the mark Makes sense because the pack position is now almost 80 metres from goal thus making it that bit harder to be punished on the rebound

and then occasionally we go fast straight up the middle with Hunt etc... I like it

would be interesting to know if Gawn, Brown, Weid, T Mac and Fritsch were ever all on the ground at the same time on the weekend.

Against North, Max acted as a decoy forward by propping and stopping the run of the back thus allowing the likes of Brown and T Mac to fly from behind. It seemed to work well. Against Carlton the positioning was all wrong even without the intercept drop in the first quarter where Ben Brown was perfectly positioned for the grab. I'm sure the brains trust will be looking closely at it this week but you have to wonder whether with 3 other talls plus Fritsch does Max have a role up forward. Perhaps a true decoy forward that drags a backman away. Just positioning him say 70 metres out for the rebound seems a waste given how well that role is played by Lever and other backmen