Diamond_Jim

No Tigers are Punt Road is limited in so many ways. Take a trip down there and you'll understand Collingwood will move to Fairfield within ten years

Good point We need to be far more aggressive with our positioning at VFL level. It's not just about winning at that level

Not sure I agree completely. I'm expecting him to be in the mix post bye 2024 His 2023 season showed real glimpses. Far more than I can recall from Weid at a similar time of his development. With TMac down back and Brown as the main decoy forward he should get a good try out at Casey

Have we missed out on a big opportunity at Port Melbourne.... A highly sought-after piece of industrial land in Port Melbourne will be turned into open space and sporting grounds after the local council won a bidding war, quashing the state government’s plan for a new primary school on the site. City of Port Phillip Mayor Heather Consulo announced on Monday the $38.8 million purchase of a 1.54-hectare site adjoining North Port Oval – also known as ETU Stadium – at 509 Williamstown Road in Port Melbourne and the wider Fishermans Bend precinct. The land was the site of an Australia Post warehouse. https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/school-v-sports-clubs-the-future-of-this-port-melbourne-site-decided-20231218-p5es6q.html

Ah,,, the old volenti argument Discredited about 100 years ago A bit complicated for this thread but in simple terms either the player broke the rules and volenti doesn't apply or the sports administrator has allowed a sport to be played with inadequate rules

In fairness.. we've had a number of false starts. This one sounds promising but it has so many ifs and "stakeholders" that I'm not quite excited as yet

MRC are not known for gift horses... won't they want a commercial return on the land we are using. Annual lease fees against the already owned facilities of other clubs could be a big financial drain in future years.

Ah the deetails Careful.... the Devil may demand our soul !! Wither the VFL ??

Melb v Bulldogs at the MCG It was a long time ago with my father (not a footy fan)... 1962... I believe we won The next was Hawthorn v Melb at Glenferrie in 1964. Age 9 went with a few grown ups (11 and 12 year olds). Things were different in those days. Can recall a game at Princes Park in 1965 perched on the roof of a tin shed. Barassi's first game against Melb. We won. A few weeks later the Saints beat us and 57 years of failure began

Assuming the VFL still exists by the time Caulfield is built I wonder if we will play VFL games there

wrong answer... of course we go there unless Geelong asks to play them in one of their home MCG games. The real question is should Geelong be able to pick its opponents at the MCG.

The problem is not the list per se but the quality of the players on the list. A big chunk of talent and salary cap. Hopefully January sees them all off the list

Are you telling me it's an arranged wedding Bollywood.... here we come

Agree it's a big year as it is for Woewodin but I can't see Bill making it in the present gameplan. Perhaps if we moved the ball faster and more directly he could be a useful player. Hard to tell

But are you sure? I suspect that one of the reasons for our closed sessions is that deep down under the Casey Snake Pit we are cloning players only to release them on alternative game days. Secretly the match committee meet and decide which one of our clones will play it's obvious... why else would we be training in secret half way to Gippsland !!

I'm warming to secret plays. Spargo to mark the kickouts perhaps ? And then to Schache who just slips off the bench

Suspect it's as basic as not paying for cleaning/opening of public toilets but I like the theory of secret plays better. Kick out to the left to Gawn is of course in the top secret drawer

I laughed when I read that sentence. Perhaps we should ask the current players what they think their grandchildren would prefer?

If they need these things then it is perhaps better to target the delivery. The big bang approach represented by the old style Olympics/Comm Games is extremely inefficient at doing so. The temporary swimming pool was straight out of Rob Sitch's Utopia. Optus Stadium in Perth reportedly has the highest build cost per seat of any stadium in the world. (It was built in competition with the mass building of mining infrastructure.) The Gabba rebuild cost per seat looks like being even higher

I cannot see why AFLW rules have to slavishly follow the men's rules. Anti-pack forming rules would be a great addition to AFLW IMO both from a participant and spectator viewpoint. The free flowing running style of the Demons at their best is a pleasure to watch. Left field but would allowing players to throw the ball open up the game for example

In the light of the Princes Park lockout for last weekend's AFLW final there's talk of the need for a 30k stadium. Strikes me that Kardinia Park is a perfect solution. Docklands is too big and soulless for a crowd of say 25k. Speaking of Docklands the AFL have gone very quiet on their plans to upgrade the inner city stadium

What do people think are the chances of the AFL kicking in $20M plus to do up the Ekka grounds as mentioned in the article. AFL isn't known for giving money to State Governments after years of being on the receiving end. Be interesting to know if the GC ground was ever discussed? Flip it and imagine we and Geelong were the only Victorian clubs. Would we go down to Kardinia for a few years while they rebuilt the MCG

This is heating up. Definitely a few buckets of popcorn required........... Brisbane’s lord mayor, Adrian Schrinner, has quit the Brisbane 2032 Games delivery forum, saying the Palaszczuk government had “completely lost its way” on the road to the Olympics. The Liberal National mayor has also withdrawn his support for a $2.7bn Gabba rebuild, insisting there must be better options than demolishing and rebuilding the inner-city venue. On Friday the government announced it would chip in $46m for a proposal to upgrade Brisbane’s showgrounds with a temporary 20,000-seat stadium to act as the city’s home of AFL and cricket while the Gabba was rebuilt. The government requested the remaining $91m cost be shared by Brisbane city council, AFL and cricket authorities and the Royal National Agricultural and Industrial Association of Queensland, which runs the annual Ekka show at the venue. https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/dec/03/brisbane-mayor-resigns-from-2032-olympics-forum-calls-it-a-dysfunctional-farce

Sounds like the old system and they're getting rid of the bundling of cheap lower round picks. This is where it's tricky.. is it that round or the next pick. If it's that round the lower clubs would scream blue murder. You could in theory have the premier with pick 18 saying to the bottom club... use pick 1 or we will take your F/S. In the old days the bottom club is allowed to use pick 19. TBH it's time for F/S to go. The comp is simply too close to allow this advantage. Academy choices are perhaps harder but the present system certainly doesn't work unless you accept that non footballing States should get an advantage. And then there's North.... Enough said

Numbers not published but one can expect that 8k tickets are pre-allocated if not 2k more. None left My guess is a crowd of 75% but of course all tickets are sold