Diamond_Jim

Franklin's contract moved the goalposts by a massive margin.What looked like a stupid play was quickly lauded as a masterstroke due to increases in the salary cap(media deals).The AFL is a very small bubble and the mantra turned into its own echo chamber. Now that bubble has burst big time. Will clubs learn from it. Probably not as every bad decision can be justified at the time it is made. It's only hindsight that makes them look poor. MFC has made a few of its own.

The Tullamarine funding is to upgrade the AFLW facilities.No different to what we got at Casey. The Essendon facility is also a high performance centre for Paralympics participants.

Just sat down to watch the replay of today's Vic match to see the new wunderkind and he's out for his lowest score!! Timing is everything

Has two more years on his contract. Looking like one too many.

Has not justified a four year contract. Underperformed for the Giants in the 2019 finals and was uninspiring for us in 2020. May plug a hole going forward but you have to wonder about his recruitment.

He was killing it at Casey. Remember a game against Essendon at Windy Hill in 2018. Marked everything plus kicked a few goals. Good luck at GWS

Age running with a story that lists may be reduced by two and salary cuts of 10% according to briefing given to players by AFLPA https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl/afl-lists-likely-to-be-cut-by-two-but-no-guarantees-following-meetings-20201110-p56dcx.html

surely there is someone who'll take him at a bargain price.

Goody will Fritsch him probably

Agree... add in Fritsch who plays tall and you have five... Mind you we haven't excelled at the Richmond style either

at $350k they might be happy to take a chance. Let's face it he's now a fringe project player at best.

My reasoning is that he sits behind Weid, Ben Brown and Jackson at MFC as far as forwards go plus arguably Fritsch. Similarly no room in the backline and his game style even when fit probably doesn't suit the present gameplan. In another team he might not have as many players in front of him. North for example. Still haven't heard anyone mention the contract term for Ben Brown. At $550k a year sounds good but hopefully only three years.

Interesting but inconclusive article on third party candidates in US presidential elections. I'm sure many are crunching the numbers for running a spoiler candidate in 2024 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/nov/08/libertarian-jo-jorgensen-donald-trump-joe-biden A Black lives matter candidate would have easily taken 5% off Biden for example. I'm sure there are other single issue parties one could come up with that would cause absolute havoc. One thing holding them back are the campaign contribution laws that favour the mass parties.

Barely a pass but not all his fault given the reluctance of Goodwin to select him in the first part of the season. Has to deliver in 2021. Contracted until the end of 2021. Negotiations could be interesting.

He's only punting 200k of his own money that he continues his career under my formula. he still gets $1.2Modd and a chance to get one more contract. Stay at Melbourne and he most likely plays at Casey in 2021

The deal I would be pushing is: Tom takes $100k drop We pay $250k New club pays $350k No use having him on the list and the above frees up $450k of our salary cap. For the recipient club it is a 2 year risk on minimum money just like us with KK and Bennell etc etc. For those saying why should Tom take a drop the answer is simple.At Melbourne he wont get a game and in two years his career is effectively finished.

The issue here is not the government grant for the stadium. No club has paid for the construction of its game day stadium. The issue is that all the other clubs pay ground rent each time they use the stadium whereas Geelong doesn't. Ground rents come in multiple forms including share of gate receipts,advertising,catering rights etc. Transparency in stadium deals given that they are taxpayer funded would be a good start. There's no reason for them to be commercial in confidence given that there is no alternative provider/customer.

No...that's the biggest seller of all... artificially created scarcity and why it's a great money spinner in the form of reserved seats. Adelaide have mastered this art. Geelong probably need a crowd of near 85k at the MCG to match what they could get from 40k at Kardinia Park

That would be very foolish You can't sell a training base on land you don't own. Have a look at North's books if you want to see a perfect example of technical insolvency combined with relatively useless assets. Sure use a little of the money say 20% like the Hawks were planning for Dingley.

We are now moving into the next phase and perhaps once again those of us that apply traditional logic need to be wary. The next phase is the spin and fake news coming out of the White House and Republican machine in support of the "voter fraud" line. We may know it's BS but for many Trump supporters which make up half of America's voters they actually believe it. I doubt that he will get much comfort from the Courts. The Gore v Bush arguments were very real by comparison whereas the Trump contentions are ephemeral and isolated at best. The real damage is that he will leave at least 25% of Americans believing that the Presidency was stolen from them in the worst sense of the word. Such beliefs will legitimize Republicans stymieing the Democrats at every turn including that now well known tactic of limiting/rejecting money bills. Do we want to see a return to Government services being stopped simply because they cannot pay the wage bill.

Decent question. Football is a business and Geelong gets a very good return on that stadium. Sure there's community benefit but that pales by comparison to the business returns to Geelong.

Trump supporters turning on their own. In defence of Fox their election day coverage was reasonable. Not to be confused with that of their regular hosts which was out there to say the least.... https://www.theguardian.com/media/2020/nov/05/fox-news-sucks-trump-supporters "On Facebook, on a now-deleted group for Trump supporters that claimed Democrats were trying to steal the election, dozens of commenters described how “totally betrayed” they felt while watching Fox News on election night."

In fairness the most documented rigging was that of Democratic Mayor Daley of Chicago and the Teamsters Union. JFK owed his presidency to the deals done by his bootlegging father with the boys from Chicago as did Truman and many others. The Republicans appear to have more relied on gaming the system (voter control/racism) for their wins. One thing bought up in this election was the concept of vote harvesting where a middleman is paid to deliver completed postal votes. Not really sure how it works and who pays but certainly a worry. I'm sure many dead people have voted for both sides in Australian politics. Not sure we have ever done much to deter the practice if it is still occurring.

The Fox election day coverage was quite good with a balanced panel and a decision making backroom panel etc. Over the last two days they have moved back to their normal commentators/hosts and boy is it biased. Watching this morning as a guest complained about scrutineers not being allowed in etc and the host nodded and then expressed vehement agreement. (Neither mentioned that it was all about the Republicans wanting MORE scrutineers)

Georgia,,,, Biden 1800 votes down with 50k (1%) left to count