Diamond_Jim

If he'd kicked 2 of those 3 shots on goal most would be screaming his praises

Will we look back on this team selection and say it cost us our finals series a la 2022. Time may tell

I can't recall the last time when 5 games out from season's end that the performance of teams below us were almost irrelevant to our long term position. Port and Brisbane are the main games in town Let the others scrap....

Tigers have put the cue in the rack. Martin and Cotchin out.... Managed Lucky Bulldogs

No problem with the old VFA clubs in the comp. It's the byes and the reduced number of games that kill the comp. Given the absence of WA and SA from the comp there's still room for at least 4 non aligned clubs

It's bye 2 that I have difficulty with. You have 18 games for all clubs and you have completed the fist bye. Then you have five games in which to complete the second bye for all clubs. You could accelerate the second bye for some clubs but then you would have a ladder for a lot of the year where some clubs have played 2 games less than others. Of course if you drop the last five clubs out of the comp after the completion of 18 games you don't need a second bye.

fibre to the premises and mesh wifi https://www.tomsguide.com/us/what-is-mesh-wifi-router,news-24580.html Google nest is cheap Orbi is the Rolls Royce

I remember my younger days along the River Spey. Had a chat with a guy about the cost of fishing. Even then it was phenomenal with a big extra charge if you caught one. Reminds me of an old contract for friendly navies using the US Naval gun firing range off Hawaii. So much per day but an extra $200k if you hit the target !!! I guess you were supposed to just miss

Now that Lance F has retired and assuming Sydney can't make the 8 there will probably be little interest in our match. I like Saturday early afternoon but we'll see

Kayo is a great service but it's dying as sports are cherry picked by other streaming services. My guess is that F1 will be the next to go when that deal is up for renewal. For those having difficulties with Kayo blame your ISP or more likely your home wifi. Unlike movie streaming services kayo buffers only about 30 seconds of program. Movies might buffer 2 minutes or more. If your wifi suffers a minor outage which you would generally never notice while browsing or streaming TV the impact on a live sports stream is almost immediate. The answer is FTTP and a mesh router. You'll never have a problem with buffering again

Sorry the trigger for the first test is a simple visual check of the TV footage. Even if not clear the duty of the health professional is to err on the side of caution. It's medical care 101... not brain surgery (deliberate pun)

Wow LH Holidaying in Glasgow... Not sure what to say Bloody hot here on the equator..... ice in one's vodka and tonic quickly disappears and the local whisky is terrible Enjoy yourself

that's a good discussion point and relevant to teams like MFC ever catching the big boys. There is no doubt that North of old were an entertaining and successful team. Why did they not catch on whereas Hawthorn did ? Was it simply the weight of premiership numbers or was there something else

weather for Hobart on Sunday is light winds (15-20kph) Of course last Sunday there was little wind at the MCG and it blew a gale at Casey

If Collingwood won't pay their approx 300k per year I doubt there's a trade. No ones offering Grundy $1M per year and if you are Grundy are you prepared to forego $1M (the Collingwood subsidy) over the next 3 years

In NRL the NRL can call a player off for tests using footage at the bunker. Not sure if there's a doctor in the bunker but it's an easy system in the sense that the trigger is a simple visual assessment of head contact. Not exactly rocket science

yeah but half of them could have barracked for the Suns... not to mention all those people camping on the Tweed Heads border

There's talk of a $50k fine out of their soft cap. If so that's light. IIRC we got a $50k fine for Harley Bennell leaving quarantine camp in 2020

125 to sub 30 would be a great outcome

WCW Could you possibly work an elephant into the banner somewhere https://www.thechronicle.com.au/news/national/arden-st-elephant-mystery/video/54c54fe08c42ff187859ea2e3789539b Perhaps the elephant rider puzzle will be solved

Not sure he's big and strong enough. I thought he was more a Lever type player. Injuries to him and D Smith make it hard to get a consistent feel for their form at VFL level

For years North were our bogey team. When we were notionally strong and they were mid table it was usually a loss. I'm not feeling much sympathy but I can understand their pique with losing Horne Francis

True but (is there not always a but) we might need to find a new May as well for 2025. At the same time Bulldogs desperately need new key backmen. It could be a hard search

Think ahead W.... 6 weeks from now is when he's needed at his prime You have a $1M per year AA ruckman in the Reserves

This post is quite reasoned but has that touch of despair that we MFC fans know so well.... I can't take the blatant cheating, it's too much. It was terrible coaching and team selection. How JR8 can continue to play is beyond me, he is offering nothing. Why wasn't Cumberland selected after kicking 6 last week? We are screaming out for goal kickers and he is not there. Banks made too many errors, we need to give Hugo a run of games. Pickett needs to go back to the wing, Ross on the other wing and I would play KMac as a forward he would be 1000x better than Jack. Cotch can retire himself now he has been average It's season over, I can't see us winning many games from here on.