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I don’t think it, check it out and you’ll find it is 100% correct.

How about a brand new house?

Would be an absolutely heart warming story, if it were true.

The season is over now, doubt the hub will bother to hassle the club and if they do I’ve been assured they will be told to get lost. By the way I’m not having a go at Sandhurst or any club when I say the salary cap is a joke. I’m sure Castlemaine would be over as well. I see it as a Lance...

From what I hear you are completely right, he wasn’t on close to that.

It’s just status quo though, every club is currently spending whatever amount they like at the moment. AFL Vic has no investigative powers. They can’t access players financial records or compel them to participate in an interview. I think we’d all have heard what Fergus Greene’s deal is but...

Salary cap just needs to go. AFL Vic can’t enforce it anyway and I’m not sure they would want to if they could. As I understand it, the only clubs ever sanctioned have been as a result of self reporting. If they were fair dinkum about it I suspect there wouldn’t be many flags without...

Exactly.

A kid returning to his home club isn’t really a good example I don’t think. The individual nuances of a player leaving don’t really matter here, it’s the broader policy I’m interested in.

No one is tied to anywhere, there just should be a logical level of protection for weaker clubs. After all when was the last time a gun player in the Bendigo comp left a strong side to go to a weak one? If we want a competition where any side is capable of contending then there has to be some...

Three of the starting 18 on Saturday were pinched from Castlemaine so I’m not sure they are operating all that purely. You are correct about the points allocation and that proves the point the system is broken. The best teams should be struggling to fit everyone in, just like a strong AFL club...

Maybe instead of whinging about me whinging try reading the board. If you did you’ll see I have posted several times about ways the points system could actually be effective. Here’s the summary: 1. To be a one pointer you can only ever have played at the one club from juniors to seniors. (Or...

Exactly, so we get the farcical situation where Gisborne can poach a former junior from a struggling club, and he is the Michelson medalist and carries a single point into their games. Anyone with half a brain can see that is an abject failure of policy, it’s just unfortunate it’s half too...

I agree wholeheartedly but not in the case of a club going into recess. How Gisborne can be allowed to have three Castlemaine kids playing in the Grand Final team and get points discounts for them is why the system is a joke and doing squat to change anything.

No idea but if history is a guide there’s a few standout clubs when it comes to picking over the bones of the struggling ones, my money would be there.

I think the decision has been made internally long ago. I’m told by people who attended their last home game that it was pretty clear what was happening then.

You couldn’t have two clubs in that boat, it would make the fixture ridiculous.

Talks about every club in the competition except Castlemaine. Guess Bourkey is a keen reader here, one thing is for sure, we will be around a lot longer than your declining rag is. How many told you so moments have there been and yet they still don’t get it. Went to every finals game bar one...

I’m not critical of the individuals out there having a go, there are systemic issues with the umpiring association that are well known to the board and the hub. They’ve turned a blind eye to it and as a result umpiring has suffered. Pretty much Hub management 101, ignore everything and do...

If Larry held a sportsman’s night I’d buy a ticket.

One and only time I’ve been happy to see Sandhurst win. Sometimes there is justice in football. Now bring on the ever rigorous salary cap inspection.

From the very outside, Maiden Gully strike me as a bit of a rudderless ship. Maybe that’s because they are taking advice from the morons at AFL CV but whatever the reason I can’t see them being a Bendigo option until that changes. I’m no fan of Strath but you can’t deny they were organised...

That’s small picture thinking. It’s created a massive boost in playing registrations and teams at every level that any sport would kill for. When you create more participants in a sport you create more interest in it, which in turn creates more money. Female footy has been the best thing to...

I’ve heard he may be coaching them as a prelude to a merger next year when they have had more time to sort things out.

Have I? News to me!

We all have different sources and the truth is likely somewhere in the middle, but I happened to be with a couple of prominent Gisborne people the day Kyneton left. The call from Hayden Evans came to one of them and he told them they were out. Their immediate response was start the countdown...

I think those days are gone. It used to be that the best players would have a crack at the major comp at some stage in their careers, especially when they were a chance to get picked up by an AFL club from there. The advent of things like the Pioneers killed that so now major league generally...

I think you guys might be underestimating how many players there are out there who are too soft, scared, uncommitted etc enough to want to play in a major league. Have a feeling if Maryborough dropped back there would be plenty wanting to play for the big club at the best ground.

From the moment they botched the handling of Kyneton, Gisborne was always gone. As I said at the time it might be this year or next year but there’s no doubt it will happen. They are not going to wear a huge financial loss like that and just carry on like nothing happened. It’s not so much...

I’ve previously posted population data that shows Maryborough has many less young people than somewhere like Strathfieldsaye. I saw on the news recently that it was being pushed as a retirement town. Castlemaine is the same, not so long ago we had our own junior league with three Castlemaine...