Recent content by Howard Littlejohn

I soime ways, so long as the ball hitting the post and coming back into play after the siren still counts as a point I would agree. But the game has had this scoring system for a very long time. I know the AFL loves to throw rule changes around twice a year and "interpretation changes" mid-round...

We could have suspended him for the year, instead of 18 games, which may have entitled the club to trade rather than have him go to draft. And would have meant having to pay out his full base contract (which is quite probably the case anyway, though reports are a reduced payout is happening)...

Richmond v Melbourne, MCG - 52pts, 74k Essendon v Collingwood, MCG - 31pts, 96k Greater Western Sydney v Brisbane, Manuka - 20pts, 12k Port Adelaide v St Kilda, Adelaide Oval - 35pts, 37k Bye v Adelaide, Bellerive - 52pts, 4k. Glenorchy v Kingborough is looking a much more interesting match for...

Don't know, but they may as well announce it now.

With the very early picks, always take the best player available. If that's another midfielder, then another midfielder. We'll be bleeding players that want to play a final at some stage in their career anyway, so another mid won't hurt; or someone might become tradable that otherwise wouldn't...

Its a huge problem when the guys that need to be doing the on field leadership, providing the poise, the hardened bodies, etc, are lost. But its possibly not the biggest problem. It seems pretty clear that the constant hammering have been dispiriting to the players almost as much as the fans...

Simpkin and McDonald need a dropping this week. And Corr, * it, I'd bring Pink back in ahead of him on form. Sure, they aren't 200+ game players but they are supposed to be leaders and have been on the wrong side of tripe much of the time.

I'm surprised West Coast are still that low. I said last year, I wanted the AFL to simply get rid of priority picks entirely (well, unless there is disaster that wipes out half the club's list or something). I still say that. Just drop the cap floor, as a percentage of salary cap, so all s**t...

No. Not even Carlton at their worst were this bad. I had started to think there was a way out earlier in the year, and that maybe in three years time mid-table was possible. The last few weeks, especially this against a very very bad side, has proven there is very likely not a player on this...

I'd rather not tank than tank.

That's certainly an unusual take on the situation. Give it three years, maybe some of the North side of the equation will be true.

Maybe. I guess its just too disheartening watching goals against every couple of seconds.

For neutrals, I would have thought maybe around 2006 some games might have held some interest. As a North member, a few games in 2021 before reality hit hard.

Improvement is almost tangible, just a little longer