Diamond_Jim

Brown didn't leave the ground but that looks like at least two weeks https://www.afl.com.au/video/1121301/mccartin-down-after-browns-brutal-bump-mro-scrutiny-looms?videoId=1121301&modal=true&type=video&publishFrom=1714797449001

North Melbourne is unique in its structure, because from 1986 to 2006 the club was privately owned and limited by shares. The club was floated in 1986 through a membership vote led by then chairman Bob Ansett. At the meeting, members were encouraged to buy into the club by purchasing shares. The float ended up raising over $3 million and helped to keep the club solvent through the next decade. In 1991, the John Elliott-led Carlton Football Club attempted a hostile take over North Melbourne by purchasing a large parcel of shares formerly owned by Bob Ansett. The Blues acquired 20 per cent of the capital but that stake was eventually bought back in 2001 by John Magowan, the former head of Merrill Lynch Australia. The resulting melodrama saw the formation of B-Class shareholders who had the effective power of veto over any attempt to merge or relocate the club. Further takeover attempts were made in the first decade of the 21st century by the Southport Sharks. Then chairman Allan Aylett knocked back a proposal from the Sharks that would have seen them gain a majority stake in the club in exchange for an injection of capital. In early 2006, another proposal from Sharks to underwrite the Kangaroos' games on the Gold Coast, in exchange for a slice of the shareholder structure at the club was knocked back after AFL intervention.

Interesting to say the least. Hope it's just a load management issue but it certainly throws doubt on his selection against Carlton Our game after Carlton is the Eagles in Perth. Perhaps he and Bowey are being set for that one.

MFC is starting to have Australian cricket team vibes. Harder to be dropped than get in. In his defence Casey due to list imbalance, retirement of Casey listed players and injury has almost become dysfunctional. Hopefully we kick straight and win tomorrow night but as a team we aren't clicking. Against Richmond they played all over us in the last ten minutes of the third quarter and the first seven of the last but kicked only behinds. Post the two Adelaide games something is not working

Kick Straight and Prosper

Hope they rest Brown Absolutely no reason to play him at Casey at this point. McAdam is a tough one as he could be in line for the Carlton game. I'd give him three quarters. Need better input from the midfield or it will be a wasted game for the forward guys

Very good point. Many posters lauded May for keeping Franklin goalless without realising that Franklin was merely running May to the flank out of the hole and thus opening up their forward line. Hope we play smart

No it we've had much higher crowds... Round 21 2000 = 76,059 ( I was there) Round 8 1963 = 83,518

Agree... the MFC band wagon is not rolling and Saturday night is not a big crowd night. 50k will give us a decent return but 70k would be so much better. Looking like a cool but low wind and no rain evening

Money and length of contract.... Ask Jackson and possibly Petty The upside is that even if you fail you hobble the existing side with a higher/longer contract

Another draw would be nice

Excellent point. Security of tenure for assistant coaches is very low. On this basis alone they should be paid extra to allow for the time to transition to another job

In simple terms you have to look at our best 26 and say who is bottom 10. Then you ask is he a better player for a particular role than someone in the bottom 10. If yes... go for him I'd be disappointed if the recruitment team have not got a secret spreadsheet where this exercise is applied to every bottom 10 across the league. You can easily add in the "gettable" factor when you've identified your targets to determine the prime targets.

If you want that then you offer North the deal they should have got for Tasmania. All home games played in Darwin and all away games in Melbourne with Melbourne based NMFC members given normal members entrance rights. Training facility in Melbourne for five years before team and admin relocated to Darwin. Long term location to be reviewed at say 7 year point to consider cancelling Melbourne away game advantage based upon finances, crowds in Melbourne and on field performance. This is how the Tasmania team should have been introduced. Given North played 5 or 6 home games in Tasmania anyway the introduction of a hybrid approach was a great intermediate step. Not sure Darwin would work given airfares and limited connections but longer term who knows. If you want to think outside the box a soccer team based in Darwin competing in the Indonesian League might also be viable. The other SEA leagues are relative minnows

Membership numbers are so fudged these days they often mean nothing. Free 3 game memberships given to Tasmania for example in return for Tas Gov't money. (We probably do the same with NT). Child members etc. The only true guide is attendances. Corporate box use is another guide. Many companies elect to close their box for a lesser game.

The big clubs make big money and are getting tired of being held back by the competitive balance issues tailored to low earning clubs. Say for example they upped the soft cap by 100%... not unreasonable. North could not raise it. It would require AFL money

Had not thought of that but obviously true. Of course they could introduce another Mickey Mouse Round.

Adelaide, Carlton and the Suns winning (along with us) would put a nice break on the 7-12 group. GWS may as well beat the Swans given that the Swans will be in the mix for positions 2-5. Tigers could upset Freo but I doubt it. If Dogs lose to the Hawks Bevo won't see the season out I'm prepared to cede top spot to GWS for the present. They do us little harm if they are a break away number 1. The next 6 weeks will see some important positioning for the post bye run home.

Whatever slight niggle Chandler has with his knee doesn't seem to be going away given his personalised training program

Definitely worth listening to... Thanks for posting

the interesting thing is the seeming acceptance that the VFL is not an adequate space for gaining match fitness by best 22 players. Really need to question the continued dumbing down of the VFL as a competition. I've no idea of the solution but post pandemic when the competition was eliminated it has gone downhill. Is it time to scrap the VFL?

Detroit got 700k visitors for NFL draft week. No wonder the AFL salivate over how to hype it up. I wonder why the NFL fans attend? Watching grass grow or a long dental appointment spring to mind but obviously I'm missing something https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2024/apr/27/nfl-draft-day-three-attendance-record-broken-saturday-detroit

Geelong have the Suns in Darwin on Thursday 16 May. A brutal game. Knowing Scott he'll rest half his team. Very sensible

Now it's AFL owned that deal is not a requirement any more. Just an excuse

They carry on about servicing their Melbourne supporter base as well. Mind you a few MCG games against GWS would see them saying we can no longer cater to that base. Geelong have for a while carried a lot of clout at AFL headquarters