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For a national competition where fans will frequently be unable to attend games in person it'd be rediculous not to have every game be available to watch from home. Not to mention these teams are going to have a harder time drawing attention if their games aren't being covered live. This isn't...

Hard not to like Dom Brew after that speech. Sounds like a genuinely good bloke, seemed genuinely emotional over winning it.

Awesome to have three Dolphins (Murphy, Grey, Johnson) on the team of the year. Thought Milne was a bit stiff to miss out.

There isn't really a solution to it unless you either make it a fully-professional league or close to it (which will be a huge cost for the clubs involved) or find another place for the northern clubs (which would also be extremely costly as you'd have to establish a new league from scratch.)

Interstate travel in general is ****ed for a part time competition.

That's awesome to hear. Finding information on the VFA can be difficult sometimes and search results frequently give you V/AFL-related content so it's good to see more people document the VFA's history. I've got a copy of Marc Fiddian's book and I've heard that another book - The Football War by...

I believe 1999 was the first year that the VFL included reserves sides. To be honest the scenario you're describing sounds pretty similar to what the VFL was in the 2000s, when most of the non-AFL clubs were involved in alignments. I think that was even the preferred model at the time. I wonder...

I'm a bit confused here so sorry if I've missed something. Why would the AFL reserves competition have been abandoned if the plan was to have a state league full of standalone clubs? If the VFA was going to take the VSFL name then surely the reserves competition could have just been renamed...

Two players got sent off by the umpires. One of them was for repeated headbutting offenses, can't recall what the other one was.

Really surprised that Milne didn't make it. I rated him as certainly being up there with Grey.

Williamstown are playing right now. Leading by 14 points at half-time. As much as the wildcard has benefited us this year, I hope the AFL recognises these results as a sign that it's not a great idea. 7th and 8th aren't expected to be flag contenders in a normal final 8. Throwing in an extra...

I was bracing for a game like this. Always going to be hard to go up against a club like Southport in conditions like this. I think it's mainly the difference in composure between a team who's been in the finals for a few years and a team who's new to it. The composure under pressure hasn't been...

Hard to see Frankston getting up, but I thought the same last week. You never know.

The AFL scheduled a Hawthorn vs Gold Coast AFLW game for 5pm on a Wednesday. They could care less about promoting women's footy. It's just shitty fixturing.

It's incredibly stupid and a massive middle finger to 6 out of 8 teams who won't have their games televised. Might be alright during the H&A season but this is the finals we're talking about.

That's been a big priority for the club this year: being the first prefence for players on the Mornington Peninsula. In years past there have apparently been a lot of VFL-listed players living a stone's throw from Frankston Park and travelling longer distances to play for other VFL teams. Cearly...

I think having a full-time coach has absolutely been a big help, even if it's still a part-time playing group. Being full-time means that Jackson is far more accessible to playing group if there's ever anything they want to talk to him about. I've frequently seen him around the club during...

In your defence though, nobody was touting Frankston to be anything special this year. Even I was tempering my expectations once the likes of Szybkowski and Owens left and saying "maybe we won't be completely shithouse". At the start of the season I'd have settled for 6-7 wins. Not in my wildest...

We've done it lads. Ressie has been converted.

Hard to find words at the moment. I went into this game thinking we would probably lose, and at 3qt it looked over. Even for a lot of the 4th I thought there was no chance. That's going to go down as one of the all-time great games in our history. And regardless of what happens next week...

Is there a breeze going through the stadium? Seems to be a very clear scoring end today

Looks like I spoke too soon. Awesome quarter

Well you're winning now. Some awful decision-making has led to the game blowing out quickly.

Frankston have re-signed both Josh Smith and Matt Johnson for 2025. Brings our total number of retained players up to eight so far.

I haven't heard of any issues resulting from its use in the VFL, so I can't forsee any issues in the AFLW. Then again this is the first time they'll be incorporating it into the score review (which the VFL doesn't have.)

Apparently they've been trialling this in the VFL during the year, firstly with microchipped balls to ensure that the ball behaves the same way with a chip installed. At a couple of games I've been to this year they've had sensors mounted along the boundary which I think was part of the testing...

I can't wait for them to make an announcement just so these Hird puns can end.

Their start times might both be 3:05 but they're more than likely not going to start at the exact same moment. One of them is probably going to start a few seconds later than the other so the later game would be the 500th in my book.

Would pretty much lock in a Richmond vs Frankston wildcard final. Personally I'd be content travelling up to Punt Rd instead of going to Williamstown or Gold Coast.

Game day scenes of the MPFNL Division 3 Grand Final, including the post-match: