Hearing from extremely reliable sources that the MFC is looking to get out of the Darwin part of the NT deal.
Club has no issue with the Alice component and was very happy with this year's 'Heart of the Nation' game.
But the humidity of the Darwin match and the flow-on effects the following week is considered too high a price to pay.
The AFL is apparently - finally - willing to schedule us for a bye after the Darwin match, but this would mean the Darwin game needs to be played earlier in the season (in these middle rounds), which ruins the whole concept of the Doug Nicholls / Heart of the Nation / Alice game, which both club and league are backing to the hilt.
MFC and AFL have already met on the issue, with more talks to come.