Diamond_Jim

A perfect day for football. With the outs I'm not expecting much but perhaps AJ can find his goal radar. K Brown is another one who like Woey must be wondering about his future

SWYL Get with the modern game... It's about risk, turnover and getting an easy goal. This is the way

No Petty, no Viney no Melksham a young raw forward in Jefferson. O Boy this season is so joyous

Stan CEO announced yesterday that they would be seriously bidding for F1. If Kayo were to lose F1 and NRL its future would definitely be questionable. The only certainty is that subscription prices will go up or we will see more ads. Perhaps both Here's an ABC News article on Kayo's new owner. Made his initial big money buying distressed aluminum smelters when the Soviet Union collapsed https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05-08/len-blavatnik-dazn-warner-foxtel-nrl-afl-soviet-oligarch/105253268 "Over the past decade, Blavatnik has been working towards his dream of creating the "Netflix of Sport" through his sports streaming service, DAZN (pronounced "Da-Zone"). Today, it's becoming a major player in the global sports scene, with around 20 million paid subscribers and 300 million monthly users across more than 200 countries."

Unfortunately a Magpie win is in our interest assuming we win. A few 50/50 games from our perspective in Ess v Sydney and Saints v Blues. The same could be said for suns v Dogs and the SA derby. This weekend could shake up the ladder in several ways. Need to remember that Essendon and the Suns have played one game less.

One of the big reasons for the revamp was the NSW and Qld AFL teams complained that their local competition was not strong enough to develop their AFL players. The mistake was to allow the Sharks and perhaps the Vic non aligned clubs to participate without any detailed plan as to how the competition would develop. Byes and relegation would have been on the table if it was a genuine competition. Ironically it's now failing as both a competition and reliable training/development environment.

None of our team have replicated that five minute period since. Why... No idea... I watched 2022 desperate to see it again but no

Argued to get Hogan back after his first lukewarm period at GWS. Shut down completely on this forum. Jackson.... nah... unless he agrees to a few KPI's. I thought he was generational at MFC but something has happened. The De Konig twins are better but Jacko should have been better again.

The 70 metre kick could revolutionise the game. Where's those guys who can kick over the proverbial wheat silo these days. Don't laugh the three point shot in basketball has dramatically changed that game. Why when players are so much stronger and fitter and records tumble in most sports have we not seen longer kicks in AFL. NFL punters and kickers probably have increased their range by 20% since the eighties. Same in rugby union.

If you would like to see how umpires can impact a game look no further than Storm v Raiders tonight

Agree As much as I hate to say it ... we need to play the old gameplan for most of the game. We're not very good at four quarters of the new gameplan

the push of the player into another is the flavour of the month. We may be in luck given the furore over last week's suspension. In short who knows

Not our style Hard to think of many games where we have gone on a last quarter roll since the 2021 GF. Luckily our percentage is sky high

We're home but....

One quarter effort doesn't win many games

7:5 to 2 straight Let's do it again with less behinds

the pyre is almost ready for lighting

$31M from the State Govt to upgrade Mars. Dogs have done well when you add in the Whitten Oval upgrade Of course Geelong is "gold plated".

City of Ballarat subsidise the game. The usual rate is $1M but Dogs are getting under $500k for a couple of games per year. My guess is that they are trying to turn it into a break even mini stadium longer term. Makes sense but definitely a gamble The new partnership between the City of Ballarat and the Western Bulldogs will see two AFL games, one AFLW game, Sons & Daughters of the West Health Program, Youth Leadership Program and Bulldogs Read Program. The three-year partnership contribution from the City of Ballarat totals $1.375 million. https://www.ballarat.vic.gov.au/news/strong-value-western-bulldogs-partnership State govt is separately pumping in over $30M to upgrade the ground and surrounding Event space

Port dropping away. At least we had 2021. Must be horrible as a Port supporter thinking of those missed opportunities

In this day and age (liability etc) it costs money to open the gates, security, clean the toilets etc. A pity it's not at Gosch's or another permanently open venue.

On reflection it's strange that Guerra hadn't done more homework on the "Caulfield plan." If I had been preparing for an interview I would have anticipated a hypothetical on how I would advance the training ground. It's a simple SWOT exercise. Not a biggie but odd

Agree with your general criticism of the VFL but my guess is that AFL clubs have requested a bye when they travel to WA. We have four travelling emergencies together with staff that would have supplemented the VFL side. Our injury list is not too bad and we could probably have fielded a reasonable team but as the travelling emergencies are your key fringe players have we really lost much? Of course if it was a bona fide competition my thoughts would be very different.

This week just gets better

No back up for Max (not even JVR) Shortsighted IMO