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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

agree but it was Hogan at low salary with kickers.... not a bad deal For GWS it's a much better deal than say Patton or Bennell. Do we yet have insight into the money and contract length offer?

In the case of developing countries democracy is often a brake on economic development as it results in the inefficient delivery of resources to satisfy elements of the constituency. It's all about trade offs. Most of the so called democratic countries outside the West are rife with corruption and cronyism. Iran is a democracy but it has been perverted by a religious overlay. Turkey is fast going down a similar path. Vietnam seems to have achieved a decent balance but who knows it could do a China and crackdown on everything. Then you have many of the former Soviet States which are all democratic to some extent and in the main are basket cases from an economic viewpoint. Australia lucked into compulsory voting, preferential voting and a mainly two party system. It delivers a largely workable system and fingers crossed it continues. The recent border closures shows however how fragile the Federation is when faced with major challenges.

My popcorn is in danger of going stale. I'm still floored by the fact that Trump increased his vote. I have applied varying attempts at logic and they all fail. Could it be that democracy as we know it is perhaps not the most efficient form of government when in so many countries it can be manipulated by religion race and sheer ignorance. Problem is I can't think of a better one. What is even more worrying is who will the Republicans put up in 2024.....Ivanka Trump perhaps. If you've never seen it watch Game Changer an insider version of Sarah Palin and John McCain in 2008. We all laughed at it but it was a true portent of US politics. Mind you the Democrats are not free of fault when they put up such tired hacks as candidates.

The getting of sponsorship is his job... a drop of 10% is easily attributed to on field performance...not his job. The re-signing of sponsors in 2020 given our 2019 performance and the virus was a decent performance. MFC has many problems IMO but Pert is not at the top for now.

came across this .....deserves to be framed !!

Arizona fast going back into the doubtful basket. 500k votes tobe counted. Although they are pre polls they were the ones delivered on election day and are expected to favour Trump as the Biden pre pollers favoured voting early. Could be a potential game changer.

2% of votes around 90k still to be counted in Georgia with Biden trailing by 30k Biden would need to take over 70% of the remaining vote to win Close