Diamond_Jim

Essendon were vying for 5th until the wheels fell off around Rd 18. WC membership and reserved seat holders almost notionally sell out Optus each week so it doesn't matter much attendance wise. Similar with Adelaide. Sure you might not get the last 20% but you now get a bigger base crowd at each stadium. Then there was Gather Round (an extra round) and the luck of sell out Melbourne finals. Pre covid even PF's rarely sold out

With the increased capacity in SA and WA this is not a surprise. Combine that with Essendon and Pies having good seasons plus Carlton's late run. By % of population, crowds are way down from the VFL days of the 70's. (You can skew figures anyway you like these days) GCS and GWS are attendance failures and don't look like going anywhere. AFL is a very long second to NRL in NSW and Qld. Let's be honest television money saved the competition

Perhaps he can assist us by seeing the dark moon rising so as to keep the good wheel turning (Boy this is going to be a long few weeks)

Read the post please Bedford is a Laurie type who we drafted The Hibberd comment was a separate point lamenting the fact that we knew Hibberd was slowing down 3 years ago yet we did little by way of recruiting for that position. The six Lauries are: Spargo Laurie Moniz Wakefield Woewodin Chandler and Bedford (now gone). 6 players in a similar mould. Sure there are minor differences but they are all from a similar bowl of vanilla ice cream

Can he part time ruck and would he move to the East on a one year contract. I'm all for one lottery ticket but don't want to tie up too much

How did we end up with so many Laurie "type" players. If you include Spargo and Bedford we probably have 6 of these players of the same type, height and skill level. Did we come up with a Hibberd understudy.... can't think of one

Agree Not too much joy for viewers either. Watching the same gameplan at VFL level is even worse

Time to drop Alice... Used to like it but no more I live in fear of being GCS' bunny in Darwin. Bulldogs lost to GCS this year and lost the following week in Melbourne Bulldogs also got an SA team in Gather Round (and lost)

too small we need a tall

The boundary line game is finished. Ask the Lions who are probably best suited to play the style with multiple fit high class experienced forwards. The strange thing is that when two corridor teams meet (GWS v Pies for example) the corridor gameplan often falls down as well

You simply can't carry two injury prone under performing aged forwards. If we had no salary cap and a list of 60 then maybe.. but in the real world something has to give

Take a look at the third quarter Last quarter only marginally better (put the scores out of your mind as that was the thing that kept it interesting)

Lions played slow boundary line football like we do. Collingwood probably should have won by around 20 but they didn't really take the game on either. Not sure I would call it a great game. Tentative close game more like it

Lions kind of deserved that Have played conservatively all day

Lions need to attack... not hug the boundary

Slow play that quarter by both teams

Go hard for whoever missed their finals team if they fit the bill.

With deals like they have given to North and the entry of Tasmania plus the inevitable 20th team a year or two later the future draft landscape is a minefield

Had the same thoughts yesterday. Cannot continue the same error in 2024. One year contract for a makeshift forward. Perhaps a Melksham type if no talls available (McAdam is a decent start)

Watching the 2021 GF again. Before the game Fox had a segment on Bulldogs smothering. Not one looked like Maynard's uncontrolled leap forward into a player... Football Act !!!!

Only a row.... In the AFL members I could have a section. If on level 4 one got most of the stand

Robbie Williams got a million which was considered a bargain

Would it be healthy or maudlin if I watched the 2021 GF witth Dennis Cometti commentary. This one hurts even more than last year... What a waste

Tend to agree.... there's not much else available. (Save for a back up ruck of the Preuss type) We may even not take up all our list spots if TMac and BBB also retire

Umpiring living up to the men's standard but we'll take it