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Last i checked, giving up a 4 goal lead at 3qtr time, as well as conceding 10 of the last 11 scores of the game, isn't going into overtime with the momentum. Nor was Geelong a shoe in against Freo, who beat them on their own home deck just a couple of weeks earlier.

Hopefully we can smash the Cats this weekend. For Hodgey.

Hopefully this win is the start of things looking up for you mate. Best of luck for the interview!

Say what you will about affirmative action or what role her gender played in getting the job, but i'm not sure anyone could listen to her press conference and not be confident that she is a fantastic choice to lead our footy club. She comes across as very switched on, very motivated, and someone...

Just embarrassing. It's one thing to get belted by a better team, but we just seemed to give up, as we've seemed to every game this year.

Let's not blame it all on the injury. He's still obviously getting back form and fitness and getting used to the speed of the game. He's also still learning the Hawthorn game style, and his ability to burst from packs is somewhat reliant on being in the right position, and being in the position...

And what do you think would have happened if the rest of Australia embraced women's footy and Tassie just ignored it? A state league with 5 whole teams?! Are you serious? How few teams would be acceptable to you? 2? 1? Maybe just two women playing kick to kick? There is demand for women's...

Surely not even you could argue that Tassie football even comes close to women's football in terms of importance or flow on effects for the general population.

Once again though, why would we get rid of the smaller Victorian clubs only to replace them with an even smaller Tassie team which also won't come close to matching the growth of the bigger clubs? That quote was in regards to bringing in two extra teams and having 10 games a week. Replacing a...

This ^ My point is that while $45m revenue might have been the threshold for a Tassie team this time, in 10 or 20 years the average club likely will have grown which may push that threshold up to $60-70m+. Whether you consider those arbitrary requirements or not, the fact is that clubs are...

Sure, but 10 matches instead of 9 simply dilutes the pool of interested viewers. Don't get me wrong, there would be some extra viewers as a result, but it would also mean less games between fierce rivals, and more prime time games played by teams that have fewer fans and ultimately less care...

Sure, they would put money into it, but it's a question of how much is necessary. Keeping two stadiums at the required level isn't cheap. And they'd have to do those upgrades for very little return in order to give the Tassie club as close to a clean stadium as possible to keep them solvent...

I wonder how much extra TV money would actually come in with a Tassie team. I'd imagine many of the footy fans down there already watch a fair amount of footy, and if there were 10 games each week instead of 9, what are the chances that the extra game goes on FTA? I think the important part of...

If Tassie could support a mid level team then the $45m revenue should really not be an impossible hurdle for them. The jump from 6 to 11 games is significantly larger than you give credit, especially since those 6 games are spread across 2 clubs that have had ~100 years to build supporter bases...

But there needs to be a line drawn somewhere right? What about NT, or ACT, or Ballarat? Tasmania cannot currently provide the support required to be even a mid-range team, and given the trends in their population and economy, it's unlikely they will be able to in the future. Outside of...

Why would we want to add more poor clubs with almost no chance of being self-sufficient?

If you add one of us to this texting group, we could transcribe it to BF for you

They're two unrelated issues. Try and take away veto rights and you open up a legal can of worms that nobody wants to open.

Players being able to veto trades has nothing to do with free agency

I don't think it's completely useless, just limited. Just as BnF's are often extremely limited due to who is voting and how that team performed for the year. When you consider AA's (as well as making the squad and/or being in the convo for AA), BnF's, actually watching them play, etc., you get a...

Wingard was rated as elite, not TBD, but for the other two it was more a case of longevity rather than current output. Neither has had a truly elite season or played at a high enough level for more than a year or two, and neither has made the AA team (nor really been in contention) or won a BnF...

You are underselling just how big of an issue this would be

Even if a Tassie team could get a clean stadium, they would need to eventually upgrade one or both stadiums. Do you think the Tassie Government is going to spend that money for very little return? If the Tassie members aren't regularly selling out the stadium, there is no way they will compete...

Would it? Most clubs aren't self sufficient and Tassie would be a long, long way behind even the smaller clubs.

Thanks Frank

Iirc, he had a few hamstring issues at GWS as well. Do you think it's likely he'll end up in a situation like Jed Anderson, where he just continues to have issues with his hamstrings (and back), or is it something he'll eventually get over and get that continuity in his game?

This is what i'm talking about though. In hindsight, it's easy to categorise these things. Hodge's ribs aren't that bad because he got through the game and starred. If he'd have had a poor game, or further injured them, would it have been a mistake? But the point is not about whether...

It's funny the way people interpret things in hindsight though. I wonder, was it a mistake to play Hodge, or Croad, in 2008? Was it a mistake for Sydney to play Goodes in 2012? Cyril in 2014? It's easy to point to players who didn't pay off, but there are also examples of players who ended up...

Not that it excuses what he's done, especially if it included driving under the influence, but i've read that his father passed away just a short time ago. Perhaps we should show a little empathy, especially when we don't know all the details yet.

Oh that statement was thoroughly wrapped in sarcasm. I think we all know free agency hasn't really been a net gain for us, but it's what the media has been spouting for three years