Diamond_Jim

F1 in Melbourne will get 400k through the gate over 4 days. Not bad for a race that most can't see and which only goes for 90 minutes

The GF is losing its event mojo compared to Tennis and F1. Time to think about the build up plus if we're going to stick with a daytime GF the evening entertainment

North will fold first unless it does a deal to sell a few more home games. Their balance sheet is papered over by leasehold improvements which have little value in the real world. My fear is that the big clubs are just salting away their dollars each year and incrementally they will pull ahead. The money goes somewhere if it can't go into players...marketing, media, exec salaries etc Of course we could be saved by their stupidity ie. West Coast

It started at 3:30pm San Francisco time where sunset was at 5:42. The half time show was roughly at sunset.

I thought Richmond was going there while they "redeveloped" Punt Road With the AFL purchasing Waverley Park off Hawthorn Football Club earlier this year, Richmond is seriously contemplating renting it off the League to move both football programs to train in Mulgrave from October 2026 onwards until the Swinburne Centre – which will maintain its naming rights once the redevelopment is complete – is ready. “Waverley Park is a live option for us. With the AFL purchasing that now, we have certainly put a stake in the ground with that. We have multiple options, but that is certainly a live option,” Dunne said. https://www.richmondfc.com.au/news/1878506/tassie-sydney-waverley-tigers-consider-temporary-move-of-games-home-base

It's a hard one. A bit like the mid year draft. Do you take a chance on an undrafted player on a minimum contract that at best has a one in five chance of making the firsts or just save a few dollars. My guess is we save a few dollars and the spots before drafting at years end. As I understand this will be the last draft before the Tasmanian experiment. Casey could be challenged this year to say the least.

I've been reading recently about these messages. Seems they are sending warnings but doing nothing. Needless to say that will change. Hopefully they go the Netflix route and allow the secondary user at a substantial discount. PS: Targeted advertising a la Google is the new buzzword for streamers. Not sure how they will get the info. I hate the invasiveness of Google. Search a product and bingo it's in your youtube feed for weeks.

Other than F1 Kayo don't have a top line exclusive sport. If you were a Collingwood or West Coast supporter with most of your games available on FTA would you continue to pay. You really have to wonder about its viability longer term

I posted this in the VFL fixture thread. Pay peanuts etc......... "Apparently the salary cap for an aligned VFL club is around $110k with a non aligned club at around $250k. The salary cap in the GNFL is $120k but I suspect only a few players are paid. VFL is not really the big time or anywhere close to it for most players. The SANFL salary cap for a non aligned club is $360k." https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl/more-than-20-000-people-live-in-this-town-outside-geelong-its-footy-team-just-folded-20260203-p5nz9g.html

Apparently the salary cap for an aligned VFL club is around $110k with a non aligned club at around $250k. The salary cap in the GNFL is $120k but I suspect only a few players are paid. VFL is not really the big time or anywhere close to it for most players. The SANFL salary cap for a non aligned club is $360k. https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl/more-than-20-000-people-live-in-this-town-outside-geelong-its-footy-team-just-folded-20260203-p5nz9g.html

Politics is about optics and perception. It will be described as an $Xmillion gift to an elite sporting club that reduces public access at a time when the budget is stretched and State taxes are the highest in the land. There is zero benefit to the Allan government unless you can tie it to community benefit. BTW get ready for the Casey backlash or as they say... why should we get more money when we already have Casey which at least is a growing area

Grrrrr those Magpies always win !!!! An attraction to moving to accommodate tennis’ growth would be a new income stream from the significant short-term rent, but also the scope for the club to have facilities built by tennis for the Open which could then be used by the club for the remainder of the year. That could include enhanced infrastructure for fans and viewing around the training ground.

Has been stable for many years for me. If your internet is prone to micro drop outs you may have a problem. This is simply because unlike Netflix where you are downloading and caching say 15 mins in advance of what you are watching live sport is more like 15 seconds. If you have NBN FTTP and ethernet connection you should be fine. Even with other connections you should be good. It's a monthly contract which is easily cancelled so why not try it for a few weeks before cancelling your Foxtel.

Tennis wanting Gosch's paddock may be the best thing that ever happened. The State will fund it to the hilt and will throw us the bones necessary to establish Caulfield. Moreover it will make everyone move at light speed. I wonder what Old Scotch got for their oval in exchange for moving to Camberwell.

The existing comp comes out of a meeting between the AFL and the AFL clubs. The Sydney and Brisbane clubs complained that their "reserves" didn't have adequate competition. I'd prefer a relegation system with two divisions of 12 teams. You might see the various teams taking it seriously as they chase promotion or fear relegation. The other view is just scrap it altogether as it's going nowhere but to oblivion as presently structured. BTW... why would a player want to play as a supplement to an AFL aligned club when you know that you will never train as a team and that you could be dropped in favour of an underperforming AFL listed player

Not to worry you OD but a ban on password sharing is almost a certainty in the next two years. Then they will offer a version with ads and another more expensive version relatively ad free. Kayo simply cannot make a profit in Australia given the cost of rights that the AFL and NRL have become used to. In years to come we will look upon Uncle Rupert as a great benefactor by comparison.

Tennis Australia want Gosch's paddock for the tennis. Makes sense... close off that section of Swan Street to vehicles (terminate the trams either side) and suddenly you have a lot more event space. I feel a deal coming our way !!!! With more than 1.3 million people through the gates for this year’s Australian Open, Tiley said the event needed more screens, shade, seats and space. “There’s an oval on the other side of Gosch’s Paddock, AAMI Park, the MCG, these are good pieces of land and property, which we would look at and expand into,” Tiley said. https://www.theage.com.au/sport/tennis/we-need-more-space-tiley-s-radical-plan-to-expand-the-australian-open-20260201-p5nymj.html

There's not enough money. VFL runs at a loss based upon gate receipts. The non aligned clubs rely upon unpaid labour and the modern equivalent of chook raffles. Would be useful if the AFL clubs came clean on what they want from a VFL competition. It was they in conjunction with the AFL who came up with this Frankenstein like model we now call the VFL. Give me a Burra Burger please.

Ah the VFL fixture. So we take extra players to Perth who won't get a run and then have a VFL bye the following week. Such a useful competition. Not as though it's a new occurrence

Does Kayo have VFL games? They used to have them but I haven't noticed them in recent years

Ch 7 have reportedly dropped their VFL coverage. Hopefully the AFL will permit streaming on the TV from the AFL site. Why it's not available now I'll never understand. Same with the WatchAFL website. (Dark Ages)

Remind me please What is the name of our ex basket ball player and how is he going? Many thanks

I went to both of them with an esky complete with fine wine and delicacies from the David Jones Food Hall. Such memories. Like others though I also remember wandering dazed around the Waverley carpark the following week. The silence was eerie. Unlike others I measure our turnaround in the 2021 GF from Hannan's fluffed play on handball at the 13 minute mark. Had he connected and they had goaled things may have been different. The 2021 GF is a thing of beauty but it's getting harder to watch as I realise how we failed in the following years

We've been at Casey now for 17 years and it's not really demonstrated that it adds to the supporter base. The VFL and AFLW attendances are rarely over 2k. Could/Should we do better. Perhaps but financially we're stretched. Bulldogs haven't shown any signs of capturing the massive growth in the Western suburbs so perhaps we're not alone

Was always madness to have this occur. Should have been alternate years. You could do it by phasing the change over across say three years and sharing gate receipts in accordance with a pre-agreed formula. Time to re-visit the Alice game. Either it's promoted by the AFL and Channel 7 as a special event or it's over. Years ago Ch 7 put a lot of effort into promoting the game. It was looking great and now it's buried in a dead time slot on Fox