Diamond_Jim

being down a player in soccer is an enormous loss as well but they manage for far lesser offences

It would be 18 v 17 on the field

out of interest would you then restrict the team to 17 players on the field (this is what happens in soccer) or would you allow substitution ie use of the bench.

bit like Port last year

So you and the media as well are going to stick the responsibility on an 18 year old kid. Can you imagine the pressure that will be brought to bear on him to achieve just the outcome you have posited. Judge the perpetrator ... not the victim

ah ... we've won one game against a contender by a couple of points ... the rest were against the also rans....nothing special about our form as has been said all year. In recent games against the contenders we in one instance could not and in the other barely defended a significant last quarter lead.

wow ... not improbable scenarios any of those six. Will be very hard to win 2 of the next three based on our post bye form. So it could be good night Irene if we lose to the Swans given the odds of winning both the remaining games is very low. We really have stuffed up this season. ?

The club need to consider the following: Impact upon Angus Brayshaw Impact upon supporters Impact upon sponsors Impact upon wider image of the club Can he deliver at the same level playing wise Need for his skills Dollar cost Impact upon other players on MFC List If they do all that in a professional manner with reasonable transparency I will support the decision made. I trust it is not an easy decision.

The toxicity with the Brayshaw family would be enormous. I think his cards have been marked re coming to Melbourne. One also has to consider his reputation going forward. (Read sponsors) It's a distraction we don't need for the kind of money we would have to offer

the charging of Leigh Matthews in a court of law should never have occurred. Disclosure long after the event of what happened to cause that charge to be laid showed that it was wrongly motivated. On the other hand the tribunal should if he is found guilty throw the literal book at him.

what is the West Coast equivalent of Demonland many thanks

One of the best TV shows ever made. They could do a sports version .... it would be so easy ... can you imagine sending up Bruce and BT ?

Will be interesting to see how this plays out. Bugg was publicly hung drawn and quartered before he got to the tribunal. The club offered virtually no defence and many on this forum understandably were extremely critical of the act. Now we have a star player ( a possible Demon next year). How will West Coast, the media and this forum react? Double standards is my bet.

I did not realise that in the case of a restricted free agent if the "old" club matches the new clubs offer and thus forces a trade the old club effectively gives up the compensation pick. Could mean WCE don't match our Gaff offer assuming we make one. https://www.afl.com.au/news/2018-08-02/lynch-to-tigers-a-done-deal-says-one-list-boss "The Suns have the salary cap space to match any offer for the restricted free agent and could do so in a bid to force a trade. But they might opt not to given, on current ladder position, they will receive pick No.3 in the NAB AFL Draft if they let Lynch walk. "

Just laughable this rule. You can just imagine the scrambling that will go on the moment the ball is bounced. Think of the players now days on the edge of the centre square and multiply it by a factor of three. Twenty seconds after the bounce we will be business as usual. It'll be like the huddle times three. I think I'll call it the "unravelling" ...might catch on. Why they did not start with a significant reduction in the interchange and work from there.

Unlikely to occur but wonderfully worked scenario. I think we need to win 3 out of 4 to go into the finals with any sort of momentum. Given relative form lines, wins against GC and Sydney are a must and it's about time we won a 50/50contest. Anything less we are just making up the numbers. What I find even more interesting in coming weeks is the positions of the interstate sides and who has the home ground advantage.I know Bulldogs did it in 2016 but hard to see that replicated.

Have you done the maths on what is required to move the percentages at this time of the year. Last year we had one of the lowest percentages in the group vying for the 8. This year we have the highest percentage in the league bar Richmond. It's not a factor this year. Far more important is to practice a defence style that allows us to stop the run ons we have seen in the last two weeks. We're not going anywhere unless our defence improves.

thank you Chookrat for your optimistic prediction. Sadly we all know it could well turn out to be true ?

Well thats's one of the three we needed. Way off a given that we can find the other two. Need to play smart against GCS. Percentage is irrelevant (we are miles in front of everyone else) so a nice regulation 30 point win would be nice. Get a good break in Q1 and then just close out the game

Shows the problems of appointing an untried coach. We were his lab experiment. Hopefully the current coach doesn't repeat the exercise

so we win 4 out of 5....as the great man Kerrigan said..... "Tell em they're dreaming"

think they will win three of those... Essendon, Hawthorn and one other

you can't blame Richmond .. everyone wants to play them at the MCG.... funny that's what Collingwood always used to say ?

Hard to see where the three wins are going to come from. Gifts like Geelong gave us in the third quarter don't often repeat themselves. Combine that with our repeated failure against the better teams and MFCSS rules. I have the complete opposite feeling to last year when at this time I thought finals a relative certainty. Who knows

MFC really never benefitted from an historic home support base a la Collingwood and for that matter every one of the VFL teams. If we had one I suppose it was along the train line to Caulfield, ie South Yarra, Prahran etc. Simplistic but they were never your traditional hotbed of passionate supporters. The league of supporters posted I think by yourself LDC a few weeks back shows how badly we fare in the sheer number of supporters. Not sure the Irish catholic anecdote quite holds up as I think that table showed Essendon at or near the top. Not sure of the traditional demographics of the Essendon area but it never struck me as being Catholic, Irish or otherwise