Diamond_Jim

scrappy game... understandable with the conditions shame about Hawks 2 easy misses... in the end that will probably be the difference

was hoping for a decent downpour... the gardens certainly need it. Seems like the rain belt is going around the edge of town.

So many possibilities.... four games ... all relatively line ball or 60/40 at best.

not at all unlikely and remember the recipient club needs a lot of salary cap space. I suspect the top clubs are very good at keeping the salaries paid to their bottom 30 players well under control on the basis that they are given a chance to be in a successful club. The simple lesson from all this is that GCS should have traded Lynch last year. They would have got a player and a very good draft pick. That's the lesson we need to appreciate re Hogan albeit he is a restricted free agent. ( The compo will be paltry under the free agency system.)

it's time

great shots... many thanks

in his defence... I did have a look and when you go into the details of what is available GA it says "single seats only." Dod you find more? Mind you AFL members is still showing reasonable availability with an option to purchase two guest passes for level 4 and GA on the night. You would think it would be easy to come out with a simple statement from the AFL updated say twice daily.

the article quotes a salary of more than $500k a year... not exactly Gaff money by the sound of things.. wonder if the Boyd contract is starting to bite at the Bulldogs. One can never tell with the amount of front and back loading done these days.

still showing plenty of availability in the AFL Reserve including General admission

Not quite the flag but..... http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-09-04/test-your-afl-finals-predictions-against-modelling/10195136

Fascinating little exercise The computer result is encouraging http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-09-04/test-your-afl-finals-predictions-against-modelling/10195136

yep... life was different.... I can even remember articles being written about taking your own picnic on long distance plane flights instead of relying on airline meals. All that ended that day in September 2001...

Remember going to the '87 first final.. sat in the Ponsford stand... had an esky with a nice french rose, pork pies and a good cheese from DJ's food hall. Good glasses of course.... Those were the days !!

needs to be trialled in the lower leagues for a few years and allow some momentum to build (if ever). Last year was a gimmick and got a few along but this year the novelty factor will have gone... Here's a left field idea... $500k to the winner and play it amongst the teams who miss the 8 in the end of season bye week. Move the carnival between the four AFL cities each year and have the Brownlow on the Monday or whenever suits that weekend. Make the players accessible when not playing the games and turn it into a "fan celebration" or similar.

I agree but who kicks the 2-3 goals that we would have hoped Kent would kick... I think that is why Hannan comes in the place of JKH or as some suggest... bring in J Smith and allow Fritsch to roam forward. Either way it's most likely JKH out... but then again I think most of us have been wrong when it comes to selections this year ?

Not Spartacus... please Pompeii ... remember what Ptolemy did to you!

if we are serious as a team this "should" be a good solid win on Friday.. 30 points and then who knows. The odds of four on the trot are low given our performances in big games this year and our inability to stop run ons but I am relatively confident of a win on Friday night (one caveat... we need to nail the set shots).

Little doubt that they will flood our forwardline and rely upon their midfield to cut us up on the rebound. We can either apply forward pressure and maintain ball control or relax the press a little. What we cannot do is bomb the ball to the 30 metre mark and then watch it come sailing back over the defensive press thus putting the likes of Hawkins etc one on one. The problem with our game plan is that it only takes two 15 minute bursts the other way to undo all our good forward work. And of course we need to kick reasonably straight on goals..2 goals 6 and the like for a quarter will kill us. PS: Against WCE our midfielders got caught a few times disposing the ball into the 50 as they were lowering their eyes. Didn't mind this at all because it gave us a chance to reset downfield from the resultant free kick rather than bomb inside the forward 50 and watch the ball come out in an uncontrolled manner. Not sure I put much weight on the GWS game as other than controlled ball movement in the first 15 minutes GWS were not on their game. (Lovely to see the win though.)

The next two games will be Friday and Saturday nights for TV purposes. We have to be playing in Melbourne so I assume it will be Friday against Hawks or Richmond. The other game will be in Melbourne ... Collingwood v (a Sydney based team) or in Perth .. WCE v (a Sydney based team)... as they all play on Saturday this week and particularly because travel is required they will get a Saturday night or if in Perth .. very late afternoon (6pm approx) game

Tim Smith ... relieved by Pedersen.. Tim could have been nearly BOG but he missed several set shots.. has kicked something like 11:23 for the season according to the Casey radio commentators

still showing guest passes and general admission available for AFL members as well as reserved seats https://membership.afl.com.au/week-1-qualifying-elimination-final

about time there was a foxtel equivalent for newspapers... don't mind paying but the idea of paying a sub for each (used to love occasionally browsing the NYT for example) means that one naturally gravitates toward the free on line portals such as The Guardian

lucky they didn't kick straight ..... PS... was wondering why it was played so early in September but of course that was the year of the Sydney Olympics