Diamond_Jim

Big night for the Pies... are they the real deal. Should be a great game... Is it a sellout? West Coast and GWS is another game to watch closely.

so who is Lockhart replacing ? No one saw that one coming I believe.

Joan of Arc to the rescue ?

depends a lot upon whether you back yourself to win the clearance

suspect the weather (cold and windy) and the lack of a second ruckman for Geelong will go against Keilty's selection. He certainly should have played against Port. His inclusion would come at the exclusion of a mid/half forward or perhaps Fritsch goes down back and Sparrow or Hunt dropped to allow his selection. Certainly will be a difficult selection meeting

just saw that reported... very sad...RIP Bruce Coached the Sri Lankan team and did many things for cricket after his retirement from playing

the problem is that in these days of multi platforms etc fault diagnosis becomes so hard. Just bought a fancy new soundbar... can get it do everything except play from my TV which is the main reason I bought it. And of course the TV is wall mounted with cables in the brick wall so just changing plugs is almost impossible. Have been learning about HDMI Arc but so far no luck !!!

interesting comment on AVB Goodwin: Aaron vandenBerg is progressing nicely, but his foot is something he will need to manage throughout his career. Perhaps all is not lost

when you stream to your TV are you getting 4k quality (where the show is shot in 4k such as F1) and do you have buffering problems. And one more.. what is your broadband speed. Many thanks

weird but fascinating thread: Werridee..would you like to try for best 22 in round 1 of 2021 Thanks

it matters. Example... training facilities are not within the soft cap although some of the staffing of the training facility is. WB got massive hand outs from the Federal and State governments to develop/upgrade Whitten Oval.

you can subscribe to watch AFL the international service and then get it via a VPN. A clumsy and not cheap result. Would only be marginally cheaper than Kayo. You could change your phone plan to Telstra and then get it free but remember you will be limited to watching on your phone/PC/tablet and no casting to your TV. The release of Kayo starts to make sense of why Foxtel was making such a noise about the Telstra product being cast to TV's last year. BTW the Kayo sub is easily activated and terminated so easy to get just get it for the footy season. (All finals are FTA so you only need it for the home and away season.) Find a friend to split the cost with and you are only paying $12.50 a month.

yes... we are an also ran. Watch out for Geelong.. as I mentioned in the thread re the Geelong stadium deal they are making serious money. Adelaide does very well also.

depends upon what is being broadcast. It does offer 4k but if for example it is the Channel7 AFL feed it may only be HD.

This post was recently made on the whirlpool forum. I am assuming it is quoting the Australian Newspaper Media section. "According to reports in today’s The Australian Media section, AFL boss Gil McLachlan has privately told the code’s top club bosses that he had been approached by (as yet unnamed) global internet and streaming giants that were keen to fork out big bucks to secure the game’s rights....The likes of Amazon Prime and Facebook have spent billions to secure other sports rights around the globe and it’s assumed they’d be the two most likely to make a play" It's long been suggested here on WP that Amazon – at least – would make a play. Besides having the money and the AWS infrastructure already in place, they could also easily offer to push the streaming into other countries. Maybe Foxtel can have the satellite rights and Amazon the streaming rights. Murdoch loves the free market. We'll see how much he likes that one" https://forums.whirlpool.net.au/thread/2791211 Fascinating to say the least and it would be naive to assume that these mega streaming companies aren't at least looking at the AFL. Perhaps we are too small for them to worry.

The electorate of Casey is relatively safe LNP but it has little to do with Casey Fields. It centres more around Belgrave and the Yarra Valley. Pakenham was in the federal district of Mc Millan which has now changed to Monash ( first vote in 2019) but I think only part of Pakenham is now in that electorate. PS.. seems that Pakenham is now in Latrobe... projected LNP margin of 3.5% https://www.abc.net.au/news/elections/federal-redistribution-2018/vic/

worked for a large American corporation. I asked one of the high ups in the States one day... why don't you have an office in Washington DC. Answer... no Senators in DC

you may joke OD but I am sure the number crunchers at Essendon, Collingwood and Richmond salivate at owning a stadium between them. It's amazing how the MCG has been able to dictate terms to the AFL and the clubs over the years.

And just to rub it in.. taxpayer funds funded around 75% of the cost of the upgrade to Kardinia Park

As we take the trip down to Kardinia Park this weekend it is worthwhile remembering that sucker clubs such as ourselves actually benefit the Cats by a lot more per crowd member than the likes of Collingwood and Richmond. This is a quote from Brian Cook in 2009 which probably holds doubly true nearly ten years later: Originally Posted by Brian Cook ...at Skilled Stadium when you have a capacity of 25,000, we make a net profit in that game of $638,000 per game, which is $26 per head. If we have a crowd of 85,500 at the MCG, which we did have against Collingwood in 2007, we brought home $771,000, which was $9 a head. Importantly,Telstra, now Etihad Stadium, with a near capacity of 46,000, we brought home $293,000, which is $6 a head. So when you compare a crowd at Skilled of 25,000 compared to Telstra, which is nearly twice as much at 46, you at Skilled bring home to the club $638,000 out of all revenue sources per game and only $293,000 from Telstra. Source Bigfooty thread; https://www.bigfooty.com/forum/threads/stadium-deals-what-how-when-why-we-need-a-new-one-and-the-sa-footy-paradigm-shift-happening.554729/

? was waiting for the first pun.... too easy though

Out of interest why does Stretch play mainly as an inside mid at Casey but then plays an outside role in the AFL? Or am I wrong... which is quite possible ?

that's what worries me too. Other than two or three bursts we were almost goalless if not almost scoreless for the match

would like to see the stats but I suspect you are on the money. Time to give Stretch a decent run of games and let Jack rest/get back his mojo at Casey. Why is this year bringing back memories of the up and down years under Daniher.

Viney was less than stellar yet his form in the Casey practice match was top class. Was there an injury or was it just a step up too soon.