Diamond_Jim

6 minutes ago, bobby1554 said:

Bulldogs about to go past us. West Coast are very ordinary

our percentage is higher and they are one round ahead.

The equation hasn't changed...need to win ten games which means we need to win the next three

PS a loss by the Eagles makes it almost certain that we would play them in Perth if we made the eight

1 minute ago, Hogan2014 said:

2 ruckman...  what’s the future for Tom Mac 

At $500k plus and contracted for another two years..... ?

2 minutes ago, old dee said:

Round about now I would have a hammy if I were a bombers player. You could relax and enjoy the weather on the gold coast for the next couple of weeks.

Sounds nice ?

Perhaps throw in day spa and a surf....not to mention a kebab or two

So mathematically let alone probability wise that's the end of the Bomber's season.

Assuming our final round is a dead rubber who would you pick ?

7 minutes ago, old dee said:

It is a 2 hour flight to Melbourne on Sunday 20th September.

Took me a minute to work out that cryptic comment

Very true but I don't think they'll be rushing back 

Has always amazed me how international soccer teams can deal with the two leg matches across continents.

In October 2017 I went down to Melaka to watch the Socceroos play Syria in a play off to make the world cup. Syria had based itself in Malaysia for that years campaign due to the war in their own country. Few of its players were playing in international leagues so they had been here a while.

Members of the Australian team flew in from all around the world 2 days before the game. As usual the temperature was 32-34 and the humidity in excess of 70%. The pitch was not lawn but more like very rough buffalo grass.

Australia drew that first leg 1-1 that night and then two days later were playing the return leg in a very cold Sydney. They won and were off to Russia.

AFL players have it easy

2 hours ago, daisycutter said:

think the whole 100k still comes off soft cap for fd regardless of who pays

the players can pay the club the 75k but the cap is still reduced

?

It's still a soft cap.. just a "tax" consequence

For a club like Richmond etc it's $1 per member

Take it out of the salary cap.... now that could be a penalty

Lions v Pies

Do we care?

Would be nice for some Magpie angst I suppose but they're looking rather safe

19 minutes ago, Demonland said:

I think the $25k was for **checks with AFL Media** Trent Cotchin's wife's Spa Day. 

Yep it was the suspended part of that fine

19 minutes ago, olisik said:

That’s all PR, AFLPA arnt gonna permit a player on 100k pay 37.5k back as a fine and Brendan Gale knows it.

Must say I was thinking the same thing

Reminds me of those old westerns where you are caught tried and hung in the same day.

And this lady is running their State........?

"I know the AFL takes these issues seriously and will take appropriate action."

Ms Palaszcuk

3 minutes ago, demonique said:

Yes I guess it’s planning on the fly . Are they charter flights ?

It was stuff up as the flight timing was cost neutral:

The costs of flying to Cairns would usually be paid by the AFL who would in turn be paid by Qld Govt for putting on a game in Cairns.

Swans would have had a half empty plane so no reason we couldn't go with them.

The plane carrying Freo would be half empty but the fact remains you still needed the two flights as presumably three teams cannot fit on the one plane.

Then there is the cost of an extra 2-3 nights accommodation...not that great in the scheme of things.

Only a little thing but it's little things that make the difference between winning and losing and we stuffed up again

At least we can take solace that nothing is open in Maroochydore at 3am.

Not sure about Cairns

6 minutes ago, daisycutter said:

AFL investigating two Tigers after fight outside Gold Coast strip club

afl site

just appeared... hours behind the other outlets

Perhaps they needed to run it past their "editor"

Interesting test of the so called independent journalists in AFL media.

Nothing obvious on the AFL website 2 hours after the story has broken

3 minutes ago, rjay said:

It's what happens when the club leaves the adults at home...and the kids in charge.

Agree... Balme in Melbourne and how many gaffs by Hardwick and his team.

Looks like they're gone.....

Should they be sent home to Melbourne, as seems highly likely, this would leave the Tigers without two players, albeit Stack did not play against Fremantle on Wednesday night. It is a situation that is more fraught for the AFL than even the Tigers.

https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl/afl-investigating-tiger-pair-arrested-outside-gold-coast-strip-club-20200904-p55ses.html

Given who the players are I'm thinking... out of the hub

Not sure if they can be sent back to Melbourne

Gil will want a public execution to satisfy his new mistress

PS why does "mistress" sound wrong in that sentence? Is master now allowed as an androgynous word

Gil may have to interrupt his poolside time to deal with this

Who are the two pictured players?

Punishment is inverse to importance as we know

Perhaps Jaguar is a fitting sponsor

Unreliability was their second name

The issue here is that the Swans had 2-3 days on us including training on the ground.

These are the things that you expect Pert and Mahoney to fix.

Picture what Eddie etc would have done

PS Gil probably needed the jet to fly his mates to Brisbane

Hell... we could have crowd funded the cost of the flight for the team!!!

1 minute ago, Clintosaurus said:

@Gunna’s I think Sydney have been there since Monday.

Correct... we are amateurs

Listen carefully to the words

May as well be our theme song....

3 minutes ago, RedButMostlyBlue said:

How so? 

But even then, even if no breeze, we kicked a solitary goal in a whole quarter, which is poor.

And I guess if the breeze has dropped, there should be no impediment to us kicking 4 in the final quarter, right?

Gusting to 45kph at start now down to 17kph

Northern trade winds always drops off with dusk