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And Billy Frampton is better than Buckley

People underestimate the travel factor when discussing the concept of a Northern Australia team. If you have a team based in Darwin but play half their home games in Cairns, Townsville, Alice Springs and Rockhampton, that means they are on long road trips for 3/4 of the season. It’s going to be...

I’m pretty sure you’ve accidentally clicked miles instead of KMs on your Google search for Sydney to Auckland as it’s more than 2,100km (about 1,300 miles). It’s 2,645 from Melbourne to Auckland which is where most of the teams will be travelling from also. The difference is not big and would be...

Not sure where you’re getting your info but a quick google search confirms my plentiful experience of flights to Auckland. 3:35 Sydney to Auckland, 4:10 Perth to Sydney. Air New Zealand is as trash as the rest. Only airline I’ve had refuse to acknowledge cancelling my flight without informing me...

West Coast are the most mentally fragile team in the comp. Those are the types of sides which usually take out the spoon as a little bit of adversity (like being away from Perth for a month) and they crack the Sads for the rest of the season.

Auckland is almost the exact same distance as Perth is from the East Coast, and in addition you have to go through customs and immigration both ways so it’s a much worse flight.

Unpopular take: it’s no less unfair to reward teams for being crap with high draft picks than it is for sons of champion players to be drafted for unders.

Got to be Beveridge at this stage. There’s a few who would likely be sacked if they went backwards from results this year: Nicks - anything below 10th and he’s gone. Missing finals at all and they’d consider moving him on Hinkley - low end of the 8 would renew fan discontent and missing it...

NZ can barely support an NRL team, a sport which is arguable the most popular nowadays in Auckland. No chance it is sustainable for AFL.

lol boo hoo you've only won a threepeat in the last decade. Enjoy the good times as I think you'll be back up again in a couple more years too.

Haven't seen many McKay drop punts travel as the crow flies to be fair.

Lol @ tantrum. No one has complained as much as your club over a fair attempt to smother, someone tagging one of your players, pretty much anything apart from your star player being a junkie and your coach having the worst game day tactics in the league.

So only the supporters of the big 4…ie. the majority of football supporters in Victoria by a massive margin care?

A Agreed too. Any non Victorian over a non Collingwood Victorian. The only exception is the Dogs as I have a bit of a soft spot for them. Similar fan demographics of working class people.

Pies had the best percentage in the competition this year. We’re clutch in end of game scenarios but we also have smashed others…for example Port at the MCG and GWS

We play worse at Marvel than almost anywhere else. I'd rather we played our non-MCG home games at Adelaide Oval given our record in SA.

Only interstate team to beat Port at AO in the home and away season. Beat the Crows at Adelaide Oval too. As was said elsewhere, don’t let facts get in the way of your saltiness though.

I slightly prefer a day Grand Final over night but not massively fussed. What is far more annoying to me regarding the corporate dollar is corporates taking a significant slice of the GF tickets. I could live with a night GF if it meant 10k more members' tickets made available.

Surely this is a record. What would the other contenders be of lowest combined winning margin in a finals series?

99% of broadcasting issues with the AFL would be solved if any other network than 7 had the rights. They’re terrible.

https://www.afl.com.au/news/1020146/western-bulldogs-fremantle-fail-to-capitalise-as-collingwood-magpies-feat-made-more-impressive

Reread my post. I said Adelaide had the second hardest based on who they played twice.

Once again get an easy draw? Lol what? We statistically had the hardest draw of any team in the league. The only team that could claim an equivalent or harsher draw is the Crows who had the 2nd hardest statistically but got a lot of off the beaten track away games (ignoring their 12 home games...

I’ve always found the “gold” AFL logo for defending premiers very underwhelming. It just looks faded. Wouldn’t it be much better to have a Premiership Cup logo in the top middle of the guernsey (under apparel maker logo) or under the AFL logo? If not that, then at least put the AFL letters in...

How can someone smother Cox by taking two steps and not be in the protected area? Asking for a mate who thinks Bailey kicked a goal from the resulting non-50m penalty to Cox. How did Brisbane kick a goal that kept them in it in the 3rd quarter? Oh, a dodgy 50m penalty resulting in a shot on...

Let us lose today before writing our obituary for next year lol

The really amazing thing is that we beat them 3 weeks earlier in the QF.

We were favourites leading up to the 2003 GF but go back and look at those team lists and tell us with a straight face we were better than the Lions. Any team than had Richard Cole, Matthew Lokan, Tristan Walker and Ben Kinnear as walk in starters was nowhere near one of the greatest teams of...

Both those sides were better than Collingwood that year and Brisbane are more talented than Collingwood this year so no. Geelong was the one where we were about equal to but were carrying A lot of injured players in and were wrecked by the internal stuff of no one wanting Malthouse to leave...

Why did the merger with Melbourne not work out? In 1994? wasn’t there talk of the Melbourne lions? I know the main details of the 89 dogs one and the 1996 one with North but it seems that since Melbourne members were willing to vote their club into a merger with the Hawks, being the dominant...