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Buttifant is developing nicely. 91% disposal efficiency today and some good moments.

True, though Berry's poor kick from defence cost us badly.

Ahrens is a substantial loss but I'm happy with these changes. Ferres has fallen off a cliff from being a solid defender and I suspect will get delisted at season's end. Gavelas has been a major disappointment. She has had very limited impact, appears unfit and her kicking is meh. McKee looks...

With GC you never know.

Grant played only played 5 matches in his last season in 2007 and was suffering regular shoulder injuries. He turned 35 at the end of that year. He was cooked.

No, our club is owned by us members not the AFL. We are not the Giants, Suns, Swans, Crows or Power. Having said that, we do get $3m less each year in variable funding than the Lions, Saints and Roos and $9m less than the Suns and Giants and we should expect the full support of the AFL if we...

Hasn't improved much 30 minutes later.

Can't blame him. How Gallagher and Harmes were selected in the 22 ahead of him on Friday was mind-blowing.

In response to a poster talking about the $1m+ benefit to the club you simply referred to the City of Ballarat component. If we are low balled by both governments, we should be prepared to walk away. It will have to happen soon though as the club will be shortly selling memberships, corporate...

Visit Victoria are a premier partner of the club which includes ground signage at Mars Stadium. It is untrue to suggest that the state government has not been sponsoring the Ballarat matches and we have only been receiving monies from the council. Despite the state's finances, the state...

The club must think that the financial returns are significantly greater at Ballarat due to government sponsorship than playing at Marvel in front of 20-25k fans. We have not had a home match at the MCG against a big team this century. We had a number of home games at the MCG from 2004 to 2009...

The Ballarat matches are against low drawing interstate teams which would be poor options for MCG games.

The Giants fans should be given a few bays only for their members for these SCG finals.

The AFL is only contractually obliged to play 45 H&A matches at the MCG and have 10 of the 12 highest drawing games there. It is not required to give 7 Vic clubs the overwhelming bulk of H&A matches there and give the other 3 sweet FA. The AFL controls where all Vic teams play and they...

Our 2025 fixture request should include a photo of the Hawks' "Our House" banner from last night for our "home" final.

Yep, gifted an additional home match again this year (which they won by 69 points). Go Home JHF again their best player. It's unbelievable that there are Port supporters on this thread whinging about how supposedly disadvantaged they are.

Those 3 NRL matches in the top 20 FTA by reach are only there due to being played when Channel 9 was showing the Olympics and people selected the channel expecting to see it.

I was at the VFL and sure as hell won't watch the replay but 9 tackles to Grigg is at least something to take out of the game. Early days maybe, but Gavelas getting just 4 disposals and Farquharson not being able to get a gig in this extremely weak team is further evidence of why our list...

0.3 to Brennan. Great to see her cost them the game with her set shots.

Geelong have probably the best draw each year in the AFL. Nine home matches on their own home ground coupled with six matches at the MCG where the GF and all Victorian finals are played.

My above figures are only for sports club participation and for NSW and Qld it is 1.2% for each but the smaller other 3 aren't apparent in that category. Overseas born: NSW 29% Qld 22% Tas 15% ACT 29% NT 22%

The latest Ausplay State and Territory Participation report showed that the percentage of the population participating in AF was 5% in SA, 4.6% in Victoria and 4.2% in WA. A lot of this is probably due to the number of overseas born in each state (WA 33%, Vic 30%, SA 24% according to the 2021...

It should be noted that the Titans' averages listed here are inflated by playing "home" matches at Lang Park on triple header days during Magic Round. The Suns are ahead of the Titans this year on the GC with the latter averaging 15,933.

In round 12 of 1983, a top of the ladder NM were beaten by Fitzroy by 150 points. North still finished first at the end of the home and away.

Roxby Downs is clearly in Port's zone.

Our record in Perth against the Dockers and Eagles is 14 wins, 1 draw and 35 losses. This is why they want Vic clubs to play "home" games there. It's a very bad option for any team and the AFL was right to end the practice of clubs buying matches.

Your experience of Lou is similar to what I've heard from others who found him to be a rude prick.

391 days, sigh...

The former was played during school holidays too. A lot of people aren't going to go to a night match if it's a school day the next day.

I suspect having around half a dozen away games that they can also easily go to in their home city might be part of the reason why member and reserved seat member attendance is lower than for the teams outside Melbourne.