Diamond_Jim

What kind of fixture gives a team an away game followed by a home game at Ballarat as their first two matches? (The same one that gave us two consecutive games in Adelaide against SA teams.) I should no longer be surprised

Straight up the middle rebound with the occasional angle Turnover and rebound is how we win plus accuracy on goal

Very impressed by BBB's ground coverage against the Dogs. Took some marks on HFF and I saw him competing on the defensive goal line. Saturday is much cooler. I was disappointed in Fritsch's game until I noticed that he was taking the number 1 defender. Wonder how the Hawks will approach the allocation of defenders

Many people here assuming the AFL want to help this team be successful/competitive in the short term. This team is not an AFL lovechild such as GWS or GCS

Perth or Adelaide makes sense... (Canberra would be an interesting business case) The NT business case made far less sense than the Tasmanian one but perhaps they could play a few games in Singapore 😅

Yep I thought they'd got rid of "victim evidence" a long time ago given the usual player code of saying "I felt nothing"

See we are up against Qualifying on the F1 GP on Saturday

The draft concessions will drive the early recruitment. Add in first pick of all Tasmanian juniors. Both the new club and the AFL have been very quiet on this side of things. I get the feeling that the AFL are not committed to the success of Tasmania in the open cheque book/ draft concessions which has shaped their approach to GCS and GWS

100 inch is fast coming down in price. 75-80 is the new cheap standard

Took them 27 years, multiple priority picks,an Academy and multi millions of AFL support

If you can build a roofed stadium for $750M I would be very surprised. Has any developer actually offered that price. Does Tasmania have the workers Based on cost per seat which is a good way of comparing build costs Australia had the highest cost in the world (Optus stadium in Perth) and the Gabba estimates are even higher

Dogs are a 6-10 side. Hawks are a 10-14 side. If we are any good needs to be a regulation win in what is looking like a pleasant day

Petty didn't even play four quarters of the VFL Scratch match and was relatively statless against a team that went 0-18 last year. Not sure he's quite ready

Agree it will have to be something like that but what a mess. Imagine the arguments over whether that final section of byes should be alternated/random or fixed. Remember the AFL loves to manufacture tension not to mention blockbusters and if you get rid of the pre-finals bye you have the issue of teams playing interstate.

Agree but then again I'm a start in April guy and 17 rounds. I've certainly not witnessed a great fan demand for more games. Still waiting for the AFL to explain how the season will work when we have 19 teams. Sure you have a rolling bye for 18 weeks but then you need multiple byes in the last 3/4 weeks to even up game numbers. The ladder will become impossible. I'm not adverse to a pre-season under 23 comp or similar using some VFL players to make up numbers

I'm overseas so I've not had the chance. Pity me on WatchAFL at 720p Watch for the ball in the air. Can you see it clearly in the long shots?

My guess is JUH will command 6 years at roughly $1.2M Could even be offered 10 years but without kickers I doubt he would take it. The incoming Tasmanian team will completely skew the market in so many ways It will be okay for the Dogs. Like when Hogan left us they'll get two first rounders and with luck they'll pick up a key back which they desperately need

Brisbane's big problem is the Suns. In two team cities the norm is for one to be up and the other down. Lions play the Suns twice... lose both and top 4 becomes hard. Same for Swans and GWS

I assumed he got rubbed out for kicking the guy in the shins from the video

Lever's disposal has never been one of his strengths. Kicks the ball in a rainbow trajectory I'm surprised we don't have a player running by for the handball.

A poster yesterday used the name "Pork Barrel Park". I quite like that

Obvious from training reports that BBB has a light program. If we can get him up for next week that would be great I see the weather is dry and 23/24 which is not too bad

Jack Billings has only once had more than the 20 kicks he has today. The last time he had more than ten score involvements was in Round 4, 2021 with the former Saint having a big impact today for Melbourne. From the AFL site

Was expecting a tough last quarter in the heat ... but wow Very nice

Could and perhaps should have been a day out for Fritsch