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Don’t bother, you can spot them a mile off, get their views from the Herald Sun. “At the pub every afternoon!!” Lord give me strength 🙄

Halfway check Doncaster East are a flaming plane wreck. The biggest underachievement of a season in a very long time. Berwick… well it’s them or Norwood SB sitting second but somehow don’t seem to have been that impressive? New coach I guess, might be getting better Mooroolbark a shit call...

The solution starts with not relying on people who are basically volunteers - the pay doesn’t even cover their costs. Footy got away with this for decades but the jig is up. Wages are up across the board and there is no way on earth many sane people are volunteering to spend their Saturday...

If he wasn’t injured then he shouldn’t be umpiring full stop. You need a modicum of fitness.

Interesting stories doing the rounds on this one. For starters one of the umpires can’t even run - he walked around and didn’t leave one of the 50m arcs for the whole last quarter. If injured I totally understand, if not then he can’t be umpiring. But the other umpire accused him of simply...

Appalling selection this week, no getting around it.

It will happen at some point soon, just a matter of when. The AFL will 100% give it a go. The days of sports broadcast rights automatically going up and up and up are gone. Sports are having to innovate to squeeze more money out. We’re up to 23 matches now and that isn’t increasing. 19 clubs...

You’d hope to see Donvale promoted, talk about bashing the door down… 2021: East Burwood promoted - Donvale were level on match ratio and 4% behind on percentage 2022: Lose the GF by four points 2023: Drop one game for the year, win the GF by ten goals, no promotion. To think Oakleigh...

Really rate this attitude This is a great little chapter of history, would love to see it explained further. How good is the name of the game. No marketing back then. Rumours that Footscray convinced Essendon to throw the game to make it a demonstration of how strong they were, to boost...

It just struck me as such a great example of the amazing culture of performance that Vermont built over many decades and shows why their club should be celebrated and revered. Just from their own commentary in this side we have Stevan Jackson from Richmond David Morrison from 3x AFL clubs...

I think we should get the Collingwood treatment and never have to travel. We’re the bigger club, after all.

I’m enjoying this thread. The fact that somebody sat down and made this is just… sad Imagine feeling this much feeling about an admin guy from a football club that you’ve never met. It’s the definition of “touch grass”

Courtesy of Donvale Facebook, the 1996 Grand Final… the good old days when some D1 clubs simply hoovered up AFL, VFL talent and just plundered the best players from other clubs around them. Still goes on but times have changed for the better, hopefully authorities keep it up with further tweaks.

The one thing this thread has taught me is the pain and misery of being a Swans supporter.

Without knowing the details, can’t say I’m surprised. The whole umpiring situation (all local leagues, it’s not an EFNL problem) is a powder keg. The standard of umpiring is appalling as there just isn’t enough of them and the experienced umpires have left. Umpires are officiating way above...

Actually not hard at all if they’ve signed it - it would be very hard for them to get out of it. Generally you would just let them go… but to a club you’re playing against? No way. You can sit the year out son.

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“If your team loses they’ll be shit” Epic burn

It’s a pretty shit one if so. It shows Essendon as 9th of 18. Not good, not shit. Precisely average. Who would argue they are anything but?

Four mercenaries coming in after Round 10. Imagine trying to sell this as a coach

1987 is the real date of the modern AFL coming into being. It was the first time in over 60 years that the league had expanded and new clubs from two more states were added. If you want to talk about the national competition, 1987 is the year that makes most sense.

The only correct answer at this point is Collingwood. They’ve already won a flag and are right in the mix for another. They’re miles ahead in the race for a “dynasty”. Anything else is just guessing.

If you play five or more games for a club you get a point off for them the next year

Would’ve been a six pointer last year. Loses a point this year due to one year of service.

If we’re serious about building this side then he needs to play ahead of Goldstein.

What you’re describing is a better fit for the FBI profile. Of course, these profiles have been wrong before. https://www.theage.com.au/interactive/2016/fbi.pdf

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Pretty easy for Essendon I think. Home kit Red kit (with red shorts) White kit (with white shorts) Away versus… Adelaide: white Brisbane: white Carlton: red Collingwood: red Fremantle: red Gold Coast: black GWS: white Hawthorn: red Geelong: black or red, depending on Geelong’s shorts...

Pretty hard to argue against that - the Eagles are dysfunctional and have been for a number of years.

It might be an even playing field, but logistically and financially it’s pretty much a fantasy. What’s annoying is that for the purposes of reserves football, it would be an inferior system to the use of state leagues. State leagues are the superior model in terms of cost, benefits and the...