Diamond_Jim

Anna aka the saviour of the AFL is due to let us know later this week IIRC

the AFL are preparing for bubbles... we know they are coming... only question is when where and how long. Playing round 1 in WA on present rules will require and exemption for the visiting team if from Victoria. Luckily it's GCS so they are ok to visit at present. Giants in round 2 and Port Adelaide in round 3. Then there is the issue of the team from WA visiting the East

WA is the wildcard. One case in your State outside hotel quarantine and it's 14 day quarantine until you register 28 clear days. That date for Victoria assuming no more cases is 26 days away (Sunday of Round 1)

AFL trying to kick the can down the road but Tassie Premier not happy. Is he bluffing ?? https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl/afl-rejects-tasmanian-demand-premier-furious-20210219-p5745h.html In a letter to the premier AFL CEO Gillon McLachlan said a review of the taskforce’s submission stalled last year as a result of COVID-19 and would not be completed until late 2021 or early 2022, with the AFL to appoint an independent consultant to lead the review.

Murdoch has sold his media business to Disney. He's kept key influential assets. Sky news and the Australian are what buy him influence along with his local tabloids. Foxtel wasn't sold because of local Australian issues (Telstra was one of the inhibitors).... it's not core in any way believe me. Do some back of the envelope figures and you can quickly work out that with the amount paid for AFL and NRL rights Kayo can never make money with its present set up (advertising could change that however).

the season that keeps giving

So one can assume the Richmond scratch match is also a non starter. What a beautiful report and the outcome is so in keeping with being an MFC supporter

Already a member (AFL) and received an email from MFC today containing the following blurb.. The race to round one has started. 43,787 members by 20 March 2021 – an all-time round one membership record. Join the race and let’s make history.

If it's any comfort I suspect Kayo will be sold in the next year or so. It's a very long way from a Murdoch core business these days and it's no longer a subsidised hook to get Foxtel box subscribers. Binge and Kayo are now the products. It's also lucky that the present broadcasting rights have been extended for a few years as I'm sure Stan would have tried to buy a game (say Thursday nights) or even a team's coverage (eg Brisbane). Unfotunately split platforms is the likely future.

mentioned this a few weeks ago. Leave the mark unattended and the defensive player stands five metres back allowing full movement of that player

great so the original four weeks is now almost ten.

I'm with you but the business case for throwing money away is more easily made with GCS. You need at least $40M to field an AFL team without subsidy. Tas government money provides $10m but given the low Tas population and the Launceston/Hobart split it would always need AFL money. There's also the issue of weather plus at present it's a bit of a dumping ground in the sense that Hawks and Norf play the lesser teams down there. The ideal for many would be for GCS to fold and Norf to merge. A tasmanian team would be a wonderful thing but its forty years too late perhaps.

good luck Majak... not as much upside perhaps as HB but I'm always happy to have a feel good experiment. Hopefully it works out all round

no one wants a 19th team and there certainly isn't room for 20.

Governments have been funding travelling circuses since Roman days. Nothing unusual about funding a visiting sporting event. This is Tasmania trying to play wedge politics. Good on them but short of North (or less likely the Suns) relocating there's little financial appetite for expansion at present and probably won't be for the next ten years.

This is the real debate. How will North survive without the Tasmanian subsidy which I assume in a non covid year is worth around $5M annually. How will the debate be framed and who will be its protagonists. The problem is neither the AFL or North want to have the debate. Will the AFL call Tasmania's bluff and say it's staus quo or nothing. There's a deal to be done but I think inertia will win in the end. PS.. Kennett's stance is all about trying to get compo out of the AFL should his Tasmanian cash cow be slaughtered. Almost laughable in its lack of transparency.

Didn't get that email OD. If there is little evidence of the virus in the community I don't have a safety concern. On the other hand masks, zones, entry times etc takes a lot of joy out of the exercise for me so I will not be racing along. Hopefully the grassed slopes at Casey along with my comfy chair is an option for me as the year progresses. Doubt that visiting the 1/4 and 3/4time huddles will be permitted.

Williams was a good strategist. In their winning GF, Tredrea surprisingly played up the ground allowing the less famous tall Toby Thurstans to kick a decent number of goals. Won them the match without doubt.

If some termination to the services of the chief magistrate be not fixed by the Constitution, or supplied by practice, his office, nominally for years, will in fact, become for life; and history shows how easily that degenerates into an inheritance. Those were the words of Thomas Jefferson in the late 1700's speaking of the US Presidency. Almost 250 years later after FD Roosevelt was elected for a fourth term Congress enacted the 22nd amendment which limited Presidents to two terms. Increasingly in big businesses presidencies and CEO's have limited terms. Eddie stayed way too long and in the end he and Collingwood were indistinguishable. Six years is probably the right time and succession should be from an external source if possible. On the matter at hand Collingwood appear to be likely to get off lightly in the sense that the cost for identified systemic racism is bringing forward a resignation by six months. I await a positive response that is not just spin. Listening to Gerard Healy last night on 3AW eulogising Eddie it certainly appears that some in the media just don't get it. More importantly I hope the MFC takes a deep dive to see what it is doing wrong or what it could do better.

It was discussed on a radio show the other evening and the comment from the interviewee is that there may well be times when it is better not to stand the mark at all and instead that player moves to fill a hole or provide an extra man downfield. TBH why stand the mark and not be able to move when you can move 5 metres back and do what you like?

We have not maximised (easy pun) Max on so many levels. Is it coaching or is it simply that ruckmen are not that influential in the modern game? My thoughts tend towards the latter but rarely do you see an unusual play involving Gawn. The strategy just seems to be play him into the ground with the inevitable soreness and light injury.

agree there is a feeling of the second board over here Needs a discussion

how did it go

Agree about the improvement in kicking distance. In his first year you would wonder if he would get the distance from 30 mtres out whereas last year 45 was no problem. Wonderful report Many thanks

sorry I was on a usually very reliable forum (Whirlpool) which appears to be wrong. The official line is: Despite holding off introducing border restrictions with Melbourne, Queensland Chief Health Officer Jeannette Young has warned against travel to the southern city. Dr Young said as a result of the new case in Melbourne, anyone who had been in Melbourne since January 29 should come forward for testing and isolate until they get a negative result.