Diamond_Jim

I always have a second team in which I take an interest. At the moment it's the Giants. Over the years it has included Collingwood, North and the Eagles. The team has to be exciting and offer a genuine premiership chance. While it doesn't help with dealing with the frustration of being an MFC supporter it enables me to maintain an interest in AFL when our season comes to an early end ...which is often

Quite enjoyed the Austrian Grand Prix over the weekend. The countryside surrounding the track was jaw droppingly gorgeous. Oh to be having a strudel in Vienna

It's melancholy times and following the MFC does not help. Did not expect our season to be effectively over so quickly. Was it wrong to be quietly relieved when our game against Essendon was cancelled. Like the virus there seems to be no way out until we find the magic vaccine. Quietly planning a trip to Tunisia and Pakistan for when times are normal. Whenever that might be

We may well beat the Suns but it will be a false dawn. Weideman in for someone and O Mac in for Smith Care factor is pretty well zero May as well get Jones to 300 and improve Bennell so we can offer him a fat contract and... well we know what will happen

You beat GWS by scrapping and playing the boundary.... see North v GWS If you take them on they will take you apart Every line packed with skill

The signs were there last year with his handpassing. In the irrelevancy of the second half of last season a good coach would have worked on that but ... well we don't have a good coach

Well I did open the changes thread last week with the comment that we should not play Lever and Smith in the same backline. I got howled down Time to find an interest in another sport for the season

1-4... we are alive..just 1-5.... no chance

The bright side is that because our Essendon match was postponed this is not season ending.... yet

Richmond checking out for the day after our regulation loss

Unfortunately there is little transparency by any of the clubs in how their membership numbers are calculated. To a State government it makes little difference whether they pay money or buy memberships so many clubs would be in the same boat to some degree. For businesses it gets a little more complicated due to fringe benefits tax and non deductibility of entertainment expenses.

no way six on the bench unless three were subs The key is trialling it in lower level comps(and of course the AFL defunded the VFL) Must say I liked the Suns colours. Absolutely clear from Geelong. Even the North Bulldogs contrasts were not as clear distinction wise

you can just see that bus warming up outside the MCG so they can hightail it to Albury. I hear there's a local Council there that loves Victorian It does have a certain air of ridiculousness about it On a more serious note my heart goes out to those people in heavy lockdown. They are among the most socially disadvantaged people in our community. It will be a frightening experience on so many levels

the general employment rule is that you cannot be asked to go interstate. Many employment contracts have clauses saying you may be required to travel from time to time which varies this. Few contracts have a compulsory relocation contract. Five weeks in a hub would almost certainly be a breach of contract so the player would be entitled to full payment.

West Coast saving its season against the Swans Back in WA for the next 4-5 weeks at least on front of home crowds could see them firmly back in the eight.

Thanks.... perhaps it just removes the ads There is perhaps room for some young wannabes to provide commentary off the TV via digital streaming. Cannot see that describing what you are watching on a TV screen would be in breach of copyright laws.

mmmm that is because it's coming via the AFL website which causes further delay As you say Kayo seems like the only answer. You can get the foxtel commentary on kayo by using a Kodi add on. It's discussed on the whirlpool forum but I haven't tried it. Share your distaste with the FTA commentary

Ah Blacktown.....site of one of Australia's most famous political speeches. It's Time by Gough Whitlam at the Blacktown Civic Centre Very appropriate location for the MFC given that we have spent longer in the wilderness than the Labour Party had in 1972

The radio signal is analogue (much faster) while the TV is digital. The difference can be anything up to 20 seconds and sometimes more. There is a fix if you can be bothered. Buy a digital radio or connect to the radio through your phone. Using the pause button on the radio you can synch the radio commentary to the TV visual. As the digital radio signal is slower than the analogue you may just luck into a reasonable synch anyway. A cheap bluetooth speaker can be added to improve the audio quality of your phone if desired.) Each time you turn off the radio you have to do it again unfortunately. (In the summer I listen to the cricket on a portable analogue radio with the TV muted. You only have to look at the screen if something interesting is happening as you potter around. The difference in the timing is enough to allow a fast bowler to do a complete run up and bowl the ball. For a spinner you can even be two balls in front of the picture.)

It was a round robin arrangement. AFL pay MCC ground rent and then MCC pay clubs. Now ... no ground rent to the MCC and AFL still have the money. Was a weird deal..memories of Alan Bond and the eighties

Pies over handballing due to having nothing in front of them. Cox will be dropped Jamie Elliot ( post contract season) Pendlebury not his usual wonderful self... could he be slowing down

The money was a strange round robin in that the AFL paid the MCC for leasing the MCG on the condition that the MCC paid the home clubs. As the MCC will be used less I assume the AFL will pay less and the money is still there.(how we get it is the question)

I suspect that a lot of those 15k were three game memberships bought by NT Govt as part of their deal for us to play 2 games in NT. As we were only playing one this year it would have suffered anyway.

I often do OD. Will probably watch a practice F1session tonight rather than the game.

Loved this comment from the Guardian article.... "On Channel Seven however, they cannot decide whether each football game is the biggest sporting event since the Thriller in Manila, or a bit of a lark, a bit of a [censored]-take. They often go from hyperbolic to bored senseless in the space of a quarter, sometimes in the space of one sentence. Every game is boiled down to talking points. The banter, the banality and the blokiness is a major turn off."