Diamond_Jim

The GF is a bidding war between the States (ie how much they pay the AFL). Included will be things like free hotel accommodation, share of ground receipts, signage and cold hard cash. I'm backing WA simply because they will pay more and the Govt will see it as a celebration of their covid strategy. Qld will be bidding for the NRL and State of origins and will have less appetite for a second multimilion dollar sweetener No chance of Victorian fans being allowed. Perhaps some expensive and complex (movement limited) air bridges for other States. As to the lead up finals that's a bit harder.My guess would be three hubs for the first two weeks and then locate in Finals city for the Prelims and GF. If however one city offers to foot the bill for all the finals and underwrite crowd numbers/stadium revenue the AFL may blink as the costs of maintaining teams in unsubsidised hubs is enormous. Even a final between say Saints and Collingwood at Metricon is a probable loss making proposition. Finally there is the unknown of whether fans will pay on average $200 to attend the GF not to mention the usual corporate excess. 2020 is a different era.

Agree. Have a look at how they beat GWS. Constant scragging and push the game to the boundary. Denial of the corridor has become a feature of this season and has contributed to the low scores.If a skilled team such as GWS can't break into the corridor we have no chance. The way to beat North is rolling maul about twenty metres inside the boundary with Footscray like handballs/throws

may it continue

Other than umpiring I have not seen much analysis of why we could not better a winless team with multiple outs for the first three quarters. Was it Adelaide going for a win in that last quarter that gave us just that little bit of time and space. The last quarter blitz papered over some concerns I suspect. IIRC at 3/4 time inside 50's were close so it wasn't the usual ping pong problem.

Clarkson has shown that public commentary gets results. Not every club has an Eddie that can change hats like face masks. Of course we will probably be fined. It's the lot of the MFC.

snake oil we used to think Misson was the guru The drover's dog could tell you Gawn needed a rest. Stupid me thought that was why they played T Mac against Port but no MFC only know one style.

Brayshaw.... won the game (His last quarter performance was why he is in the team... it was a little more than putting in an appearance) Tomlinson.... why draft him

Come on... live dangerously everyone loves a close game grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

Suppose we can say goodbye to recovering some percentage tonight???

Should have been rested... gives them an easy target... think bear baiting

Hard to believe given how difficult it is to even pay out permanently injured players eg KK without impacting the cap. Of course it could be like GCS where the pay out to Eade was effectively AFL money and thus the soft cap tax is going in and out of the same pockets.

AFL to move to fixturing one week at a time. Guess who will come out badly as a result The league will only release details of the remaining fixture in weekly instalments and not in a block of rounds due to changing state border restrictions and COVID-19 quarantine rules. https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl/afl-in-a-fix-taking-it-one-week-at-a-time-20200804-p55ijd.html

Losing to Essendon in their suspension year was one of our worst. Breaking the Crows duck would be up there. Hopefully the game is decided by half time. A 2019 GCS result would be hard to take.

Spot on LH and that is why we can't pay him out unless we take on a rookie coach who is prepared to work cheap for the first few years. This is what Norf did with Shaw and Scott I suspect but there it was only a one year pay out whereas we face two plus for the first year Shaw was temporary IIRC.

Any island in mind. Perhaps scrap the footy and have them all in an island based reality TV show.

ok the Hogan trade (not the May recruitment) worked out ok but, like Hogan, Oliver is a generational player. Prefer to get rid of Goodwin a long time before Oliver and others are sacrificed to save a mediocre coach We've almost wasted Gawn .... lets burn another

How was this not in breach of covid rules. The start date for community contact sport was never reached I thought. https://www.afl.com.au/news/480707/-this-was-an-oversight-powerful-player-agent-fined-for-draft-camp-breach "POWERFUL player agent Paul Connors has been sanctioned for running a camp for prospective players against draft rules. The AFL Players Association Agent Accreditation Board slapped Connors with a $7500 fine ($5000 suspended) on Tuesday night. As reported by AFL.com.au, more than 20 players eligible for the 2020 and 2021 NAB AFL Drafts completed a two-day camp in Sorrento during the school holidays last month."

Agree.. the backline was starting to look stable other than one spot (Jetta/Rivers etc) Perhaps the problem is that they aren't getting any drive off the backline from the existing bunch and thus Tomlinson

Can someone remind me what position Tomlinson was recruited for? Very short sighted not to rest Max

No unless the something were a low first round... (wait a minute we had one of those ??)

No way for Oliver... Brayshaw as you say will get you around pick 25 or as a trade an 8-16 ranked player in another team. The latter is more likely if another team has a need. There is also the problem of his salary. Performance wise he's overpaid. Although I would hate to see it Viney might get us more

the median looks around 17. To be an outlier (27) to that extent is as usual damning. While we may have lost to also give a leg up to first year talent....

Obviously need to rest players. Seriously if we can't beat the Crows with a few players being rested we are worse than I think we are. North and Collingwood are the tests for those who think there is still life in this season.

Yep I have come to accept that Goodwin isn't going anywhere. My fatalist acceptance means he has to reinvent himself. Snagging a few wins this year doesn't excite me. Would prefer to see a path. That doesn't mean not winning or simply playing the kids. Rather it means pushing this list to see what we have. Anyway there's a lot more to concern ourselves with this year than the perennial failure of the MFC.

we have known that for the last 12 months and it was re enforced in Round 1 after which he had a three month break and then in rounds 2 and 3 etc he doubles down with his small forward line. Not sure this guy is capable of learning If you want to look at two contrasting examples look how Hardwick played with a young team by slowing the game down against the dogs and keeping his two key talls deep forward. Against Port (ladder leader and fast team) we just go business as usual.