Diamond_Jim

Out of curiosity what's the benefit to the racing club of having the MFC in the middle of the track. They're not a charity

And that's real US dollars or A$1.2 Billion !!!

That's Deep Water methinks

Reid is signed until the end of 2026 which is when Tassie gets picks (I think)

Have they seen the Gary Ablett saga (hope they have a clawback clause)

$$$ always worry me but unless Eagles are being stupid we should be okay. Prefer a 3 year deal rather than 4 for the usual reasons Eagles appear to have not been very good at attracting the talent back home unlike Freo

Not great seeing McAdam in rehab... from what I wonder

Thanks for the wonderful reports. Gives Baseball Spring training camp vibes where the cost of tickets reach A$100 for a spot behind the dugout or the plate. And we get it for free... long may it occur

Max could improve his centre bounce connection work. (Sticks head beneath the parapets but our centre clearance work has not been clean for a while. To some extent it's also Oliver's decline in form that he has the ability by hand to turn a crowded possession into an attacking move.)

An excellent example of a player who deserves a second chance in a premium competition. If only we had one

Just got an email from AFL asking me to update payment credit card. Logged in and they have a current credit card. Anyway deleted the card and put it back in and all ok. Fills you with confidence about their data management systems

With Pickett out for the first three matches our season may well turn on how well he fills in. His second half of this season at VFL level was sub par for one of his supposed ability. Fingers crossed

Would be a nice first. Quick search suggests there has never been a 7ft AFL player. (213cm) Tallest are Mason Cox and three other players at 6ft 11 (211cm) https://www.topendsports.com/sport/afl/anthropometry-tallest.htm

As you say you have to overlay the talent paths with the private school AFL programmes operated by Hailebury and the like. These don't exist north of the Vic border. Not sure they exist in Tasmania either to the extent of Vic. Your point on SA and WA is interesting. In both of those States the potential draftees are playing in the senior WAFL and SANFL comps. Perhaps they are the school equivalent? Would be great to hear from those living in WA and SA. One idea which I like is increasing the draft age by three months each year until we reach 20 as the minimum age. This allows kids to have a life outside football post school and puts less emphasis on the 16 year old "finishing schools" that we now seem to have

Does that exclude leasehold improvements at Casey and AAMI Park

Strange thing with the Gus write down is that it will increase profit in the out years as we forced to operate under a reduced salary cap. A nice financial up but terrible from a team structuring viewpoint

I like that idea. Langdon is a valuable player but I'm not sure the modern game suits the boundary line play which is his specialty. Bringing him infield and slightly forward could result in much faster and centred transition

Profession sports people including AFL players are excluded from workcover. The premiums would be enormous I suspect if they were

The AFL wants to discourage long term contracts. Concussion aside a player almost always has a long term injury as they age. If the final year payouts were outside the salary cap it's a neat way of avoiding the salary cap. You may recall that the AFL said to Sydney when they recruited Buddy on the ten year deal.. "Don't come asking for salary cap relief when Buddy retires injured in seven years." Luckily for Sydney Buddy lasted the ten years and a little longer

From today's Age.... Outgoing Demons chief executive Gary Pert said the Demons were in a strong financial position, underpinned by a future fund of $23.7 million, while there are $9.5 million of funds available for investment in the club’s training and administration project. https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl/exercising-with-demons-christian-petracca-returns-to-training-track-20241122-p5kssh.html First time I've seen that figure of $9.5M. Personally I'm glad we're not putting future fund money into the training facility

Fritta was a special case in that he had a back injury and took a few years off football. Not sure he even put himself into the draft at 18. He also starred in his year as a Casey player from game 1. It's a hard ask to break into the AFL if you miss out on the 18 year old draft. Not impossible but very rare

Undoubtedly they get the tech but will they use it. Much cheaper to have an identical world wide platform serviced from a low cost country. Merging the DAZN Australia content with Kayo content in the short term will be a challenge especially in setting subscription charges. Watching the 4K cricket yesterday was a real pleasure.. other than our batting

Another potential buyer has appeared on the scene for buying Foxtel. Company is DAZN, a big player in the Europe streaming market. From Wikipedia... The DAZN platform was founded in 2015 and broadcasts live and on-demand sport in over 200 countries worldwide with a strong domestic presence in Italy, Spain, Germany, Japan, France, Portugal, Belgium, Taiwan, the United States and Canada, where it has key domestic broadcast rights.[7] It is considered to be Europe's largest digital sports broadcaster with over 75 programming rights.[8][9][10][11] As of 2023, the service has 20 million paid subscribers globally.[7] Hard to say what it would mean for Kayo. One suggestion is that they could ditch the Kayo backend and replace it with the present DAZN platform. Content would not change due to geo restrictions but the actual screen quality etc might alter. Cannot see it being a good thing for Foxtel's local staff including productions and commentators if DAZN goes on an efficiency drive that favours a light touch global platform. https://mumbrella.com.au/potential-foxtel-buyer-revealed-857377

Perhaps but Bell delivered that

mmmmm We seem to have a pattern with picks of this nature Good luck to the young man but.............