Diamond_Jim

Jefferson putting together a solid body of work over the last few games. Looking forward to seeing his elevation post bye 2024

Not good that Box Hill won by a point Top 4 is hard

California,,, Here I come

Don't miss their theme song !!!

A little snippet from the Commonwealth games fiasco. The article is about the infamous temporary swimming pool but it has this gem... The original plan was for the swimming to be held at an existing aquatic centre at Kardinia Park. This is why, on March 1, 2022, Dame Louise Martin and Katie Sadleir from the Commonwealth Games Federation, Ben Houston and Craig Phillips from Commonwealth Games Australia and Visit Victoria chief Brendan McClements – the person who had pitched Victoria’s bid three months earlier – travelled to Geelong with senior government bureaucrats to tour that site. This is the plan the City of Greater Geelong council supported. At the time, Games planners had a new gymnastics venue pencilled in next to the pool. This would have established Kardinia Park as a central Games precinct and, after the event, given the neighbouring Geelong Football Club access to a high-roofed, indoor training centre for use on wet days. https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/how-victoria-s-commonwealth-games-ended-up-the-creek-20230721-p5dq4h.html

Difficult keeping them both and English plus they wasted money on Lobb

Money he'll command close to $1M per year

Is corridor football the equivalent of Bazball

JUH to the Eagles is my guess They will land a very big one in the next two years Dogs can't go anywhere with their defence

A dog does play a part in Ted Lasso The fictional Richmond FC has a greyhound as its mascot... no more spoilers... fantastic feel good show

Left for overseas yesterday so will miss this one Pirhana Park, Coburg is a lovely well located ground. If nearby get along. The local craft brewer used to have a tent there for those who like a beer. Parking should not be hard either in the car park or in the side streets and a short walk to the ground.

The sub rules in 2021 required as I recall a medical opinion before activation. Sure some clubs were very lax about the threshold but if JJ had come on someone would have spilt the beans thus impugning the medico. I like the May replacement theory though. Continued play when we had the game won was outweighed by the medical risk (albeit a slight risk) of severe tendon damage

He's number 1 on the depth list at present. How do you retain such a player? The same conundrum as Bedford/Chandler at the end of last season.

Law of marginal returns A good key forward rewards more than a $700k second ruck who has limited ability in another position If Max was retiring end 2024 it might be different but he's contracted until end 2025 2023/24/25 is our window

If a player develops a career ending injury post contract (contrast with aggravation of an existing injury) the AFL rules allow a negotiated payout if approved by the AFL. The amount of the payout that is outside of the salary cap is part of the negotiations with the AFL. Doubt that it could be used for TMac but it might be a possibility for BBB.

The report from Ch 7 that the Collingwood salary subsidy was only payable if he played for MFC is worrying if true. Substantially reduces the benefit and viability of a trade

Not the place to discuss Bailey Laurie but we simply have too many of the same type of player (small half forward) with no one of them being a standout. AMW is another. Laurie form at VFL level seems to have plateaued but it can sometimes be hard to judge in that comp. List decisions are still several weeks off though

Doesn't sound too bad on Petty from the video but perhaps a rest for next week's game "recovering well from sore ribs which were hit again last game and will be re-assessed later in the week" paraphrased

Lots of good points but your best is the relative benefits to the teams finishing 1-6 and in particular the lack of a sufficient advantage to the top 4. Interstate members of the top 4 get a real advantage from home ground advantage. For Melbourne clubs..sorry it's what happens when you have 10 local teams

I like it in the sense that 7th and 8th in an 18 team comp is not a great season result. These 2 teams would get home ground advantage against 10th and 9th respectively. Realistically 7th and 8th rarely kick on so it gives interest to the nothing weekend. At the same time I would be happy to reduce the season length by a couple of games and put in a 2 week mid season break. I'd even support a Qld gather round in the colder months

I think top 4 is locked this weekend if Brisbane and ourselves win. We would need to lose 3 or 2 (by a percentage damaging margin)of the remaining 5 to be catchable by a team that wins all 5. You could argue that we can catch Brisbane but if they win this weekend they are still one game plus a big percentage in front. The 5-8 spots are almost impossible as the margin between 5 and 14 is so close

On pinching songs/tunes some of the younger ones may not realise how slack copyright laws were even in the 60's. In those days the local Australian music studio bosses/radio DJ's would get the latest singles from the UK and literally allocate a song to local artists for recording. Royalties, permision etc were unheard of. Life was simpler back then with your FJ Holden

Chandler is fighting young Taj for a spot not Spargo. We are presently going one tall short in the forward line. When that tall returns whoever he is that's when things get interesting

Buckley coached Grundy either as assistant or head coach for Grundy's entire career. On Fox he was skeptical about him playing forward. Sure... it's one opinion

Interesting....from the web The original music is from the Gendarmes' Duet (the "bold gendarmes") from the 1867 revision of the opera Geneviève de Brabant by Jacques Offenbach (1819-1880), which debuted in Paris in 1859. On the Grand Old Flag Written by George Cohan of Yankee Doodle Dandy fame.... The original lyric for this perennial George M. Cohan favorite came, as Cohan later explained, from an encounter he had with a Civil War veteran who fought at Gettysburg. The two men found themselves next to each other and Cohan noticed the vet held a carefully folded but ragged old flag. The man reportedly then turned to Cohan and said, "She's a grand old rag." Cohan thought it was a great line and originally named his tune "You're a Grand Old Rag." So many groups and individuals objected to calling the flag a "rag," however, that he "gave 'em what they wanted" and switched words, renaming the song "You're a Grand Old Flag".