Diamond_Jim

each to his own but have seen it too many time times before.. Used to hang our hats on individual cameos for 30 odd years.. wearing very thin these days

sorry.... but I don't rate a 16 possession game as a great positive. Good for him. Gawn... how many hit outs to advantage ?

We've all heard about "coach killing" games... well we just saw a "fan killing" game. There was not one positive from that game

As the great man Forrest Gump once said Think I'll go home now.....

We mark and stand flat footed. They mark and there's always a spare player running past

I think we can safely forget finals. They are actually playing off Jones...he is so slow

Well if they had kicked straight it would be over Have they turned up the ground loudspeaker Can't hear myself think

Preuss or Lewis in I could understand but .

THE AFL will reap a major financial windfall after striking a colossal new six-year, $2.508 billion broadcast rights agreement. The new deal will see Channel Seven, Foxtel and Telstra continue as the League's broadcasters under the new deal, which will run from 2017 to 2022. https://www.afl.com.au/news/2015-08-18/afl-on-the-verge-of-signing-new-tv-deal The NRL has reportedly signed off on a record $1.8 billion TV deal for seasons 2018 to 2022. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-11-26/nrl-tv-deal/6976996 Cricket Australia has put a tough couple of weeks behind it with a massive new $1.2 billion TV rights deal, which puts ODIs and T20 Internationals behind a pay wall for the first time. The joint bid between free-to-air operator Seven West Media and pay-TV's Foxtel divides up coverage of all forms of men's and women's cricket over six years and is double the previous $600 million rights package with the Nine Network. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-04-13/cricket-coverage-shakeup-with-seven-and-foxtel-winning-rights/9652964 Of course the unknown in all these deals is the amount paid by Foxtel and the figure paid by the FTA channel. Most media pundits have suggested that the foxtel share is more than half. It has been used as a loss leader by Foxtel but my point is that the Kayo play is evidence that Foxtel has given up on this ploy. Conversely to make money on Kayo they need to reduce the cost of content.

yep... Sportsbet.....a bit like the 20 point up rule in AFL. It was declared as done and dusted a couple of days before the election day https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-48327159

anyone in mind ? Last time I strolled past Arden street which admittedly was twenty years ago it didn't strike me as being overly large.

sorry NRL

The figures don't lie.... As Kerry Packer once said an Alan Bond only comes along once in a lifetime and there will not be another streaming service that is prepared to lose A$300M a year in Australia alone.

Good result with the Eagles winning If we could win the next two there would be a case for optimism. Need Richmond to belt the Bombers

if every fifth person in Australia subscribed to Kayo that would give a gross revenue for Kayo of $1billion per year. Present AFL rights are $400M.. NFL $250M and cricket $150M .. per year. The sums will never add up.

Foxtel losing money hand over fist... and little chance of growing revenue dramatically plus FTA ad revenues being slashed by digital marketing,. Well reported in the financial press that we have seen the top for the lesser sports and AFL on a global basis is a lesser sport

twenty teams... nice idea and a non compromised draw of 19 rounds. Won't happen. The TV money will soon max out in real terms which leaves eight teams unable to compete without AFL money. Cannot see how they would add another two to the "little 8". Bad crowd at the Hawks match in Launceston. Looks half full at best.

Of course they didn't play us there for a long time. We did give them their first win on the MCG... something we have been kind enough to do for many of the expansion clubs

you're right OD re the move but that is not to say the position of North is not chronic. I suspect that their followers are moving towards their latter years with little regeneration amongst the younger demographic. Mind you St Kilda and to an extent ourselves are in a similar trough. A move to Tasmania if done properly would retain 2/3 of their Victorian supporters and then add another 20k at least Tasmanian full members. The TV money is about to max out so the pressure will be on the clubs themselves to increase their revenue streams. The big 6 or 8 will find ways to spend their money which will leave the others in their wake.

Scott has done a wonderful job and will get a senior role either as coach or football manager. The bigger question for North is whether it takes that last chance and relocates to Tasmania. Eight home games in Tasmania (the Hobart v Launceston issue is a problem) and five at the Docklands. Means the Melbourne followers would get around 10-12 chances to see them. AFL pump money into them along with a mega training facility courtesy of the Federal and Tasmanian State governments. This would be ready in say three years at which time the club would move all its admin etc to Tasmania. The deal is there to be had and the only people who would complain is Hawthorn and well... who cares about them !!

not sure it matters much but I think we need say 6 teams to pull away that then leaves say 8 teams vying for the last two spots. The top 4 seem to be pulling away but who are 5th and 6th in the formula I'm not sure. My enthusiasm may return after the bye if we win two out of the next three. PS: On further thought Richmond is probably the fifth team but not sure who is sixth.

I think Spartacus has a big future although I am worried by his "mentor" Caleb Daniels being played down back this season. The spot for the smalls these days IMO is around centre half forward with the skills and smarts to position themselves relatively unopposed for the receive and then give off to advantage.

I'm reasonably sure we will see Preuss in the Alice next week win or lose this week. It's a real pity that the weather for Sunday is windy and that Casey plays at the same time as MFC. Weid, Preuss and T Smith are vying for the one maybe two spots in that forward line. If we had been in some reasonable form perhaps we could have played Preuss this week but as it is GWS will run rings around us speed wise so the selection of a slower player against the smarts and pace of the GWS backline was not a real option. Hawthorn beat GWS two weeks ago by slowing the game down and using pin point passing. As we did when we beat them last year the Hawks were great at crowding the packs and preventing that accurate handball out the GWS use so well to start their attacks. To win tomorrow we need to kick accurately and GWS need to miss. Even when we beat them last year in round 23 GWS had 3 relatively easy shots just before half time that would have seen them in front. Instead they missed and we went in at half time with a small buffer. We blew them away in the third and everyone rested in the last.

That's what will happen. VFL allows for a 23rd player who is only allowed limited game time so if the AFL emergency doesn't arrive until quarter time it still works out fine.