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Okay, we are clearly on track to fail to win a game this year. The last team to fail to win a game in a season was Fitzroy in 1964. Hence the title of this thread. Say no more. Please feel free anyone and everyone, to nominate a team for me to switch my allegiances to. Maybe I can stitch...

No this is not about Big Benny Brown as most of you probably thought. I will say this though, I think he might be very close to the end of his career, but that's another story. Instead this is The BRING BACK BOOMER thread. Ridiculous I hear you all say and yes he is probably finished as a...

And good riddance. How anyone could think it was a good idea to shut out fans, because it helped "build a better atmosphere" by filling a ground which has limited viewing options, is beyond belief. Idiocy. You will only grow the game by providing more than enough spots to accommodate everyone...

With the retirements of Jack, Cunners, Hally and Howe, plus Goldy's (incredibly stupid decision to play on at *essendon. Apart from port adelaide, any other club would be okay), those 5 alone equate to 70 years more than our 5 draftees in age terms or roughly reduce the age demographic by...

As I understand it, Ben Cunnington is contracted for next year so unless he decides to quit at the end of the year, he will be on the list in 2024. Not sure what the situation is with Liam Shiells is but his form has probably been good enough for an extension. Potentially none of these may...

Once again Cornes, on the Nine Footy Show, has got stuck into our club when speaking about JHF and last nights game against the Bulldogs. His hatred for North Melbourne builds weekly and is way over the top. I've had enough so rang Channel 9 and complained about his performance. I told them...

I loathe them both with a passion. Is there something wrong with me?

This question has been running through my head since we got the wonderful news today. Thank-you Sonja. Then I saw KIA34's post on the Clarksonss thread, copied below, so to me that provided the perfect segway. KickItAnywhere34 said: (Ok - I just wanted to take a moment - I was 6 years old...

Wow, the powers that be here, must be struggling for cash, to introduce the new format I'm seeing here today. Its hardly worth coming on if we are going to have to put up with this. And no I'm not interested in forking out some cash to get rid of the ads. Or chatting to the "Beautiful women...

I am sick to death of them. GET RID OF THEM. Bye Bye.

If my memory serves me correctly, we started 2020 fairly well with a couple of wins, before covid-19 turned football upside down, just as it did everything else. In Round 2 that year, with Rhyce Shaw at the helm, we sent the following team out and beat the GWS by 20 points. B: Macmillan...

Normally, at this stage of the year, I can't wait to get to our first game of footy for the year. This year, though, with omicron and the arrival of the apparently more contagious version of it, leading to rapid rises in the number of daily cases here in Melbourne and particularly Sydney, I...

Dreadful news https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-03-05/shane-warne-dies-of-suspected-heart-attack/100884710

Reliable sources within the football media, believe that after this round of matches, the AFL will announce that the clash between Adelaide and North Melbourne in Round 23, will be renamed "The Jason Horne Cup". This decision is based on modelling commissioned by the AFL and conducted by a...

Now I'm reluctant to raise that name again, given all the angst we suffered when he preferred the Swans over us in his Draft year, but I've watched, admittedly with little interest, how his career has gone at the Swans. I think it is fair to say it has not really taken off like many expected...

I was watching AFL 360 tonight and more or less the first topic on the agenda was the travails of the Pies and the future of Nathan Buckley. I think it was Robbo who suggested that they are on the brink of civil war down there. And I thought, that's great, let's hope they tear themselves apart...

With Ed's delisting today, on top of the initial 11 de-listings, as well as Will Walker's move to the Rookie List, I got to thinking about how list sizes are so much lower than they used to be back in the 1980's and earlier. Back then clubs used to have around 55 players on the list, so as to...

I may be alone here in my thoughts, but feeling very flat at the moment, now that it is official that Higgo is gone. In another 24 hours, Benny B will be gone as well, who knows what will transpire with Jed and I have an uneasy feeling about Polec and what might also take place with him in the...

Well it works for me. What a year it has been so why not document some wins we are at last seeing. Not going to write down all the losses because I don't have enough ink in my typewriter to do that. So here are the wins. I saw the AFLW girls play some very good footy at Geelong and I've...

I’m rather troubled by the apparent decision of our List management people to tell Higgo that they can’t guarantee him a spot on our list when his current contract expires at the end of next year. I know there is a caveat insofar as we have to get a good deal out of a move to another club and...

Fox has started a series with the above title and last night they had on our game versus Brisbane in 2003. It was a ripper game and I could not recall the result so watched it to the end on the edge of my seat. It turned out to be a draw with Michael Voss kicking a ball that went through for a...

Yes I know this is the North Melbourne board, but oddly enough that last win in Round 8, 1996 had quite a connection to the NMFC. The game was on Foxtel today and Fitzroy beat Freo by 31 points, 16.11 to 10.16. I still remember it well and the excitement in the terribly small crowd of just...

I just hope the boys get the job done both times this year against the *bombers. Just re-watched that last loss from last year and the way *they snatched it in the dying seconds still burns inside. *they are a hateful outfit as far as I am concerned.

Well if people can start a Sack Brad Scott petition, I can start a petition to appoint Shawry as the man to coach us. I say appoint him because: The team is playing a new invigorated tough uncompromising brand of football. On his own admission he is a defensive minded coach and the players...

don’t spend much time here these days, partly because of work matters but mainly to try to divorce myself from the increasingly hysterical ranting about our club and our coach. That doesn’t mean that I haven’t spent a lot of time thinking about our current predicament and so in the following, I...

https://www.theage.com.au/entertainment/i-inherited-my-mums-whiteline-fever-says-aflws-emma-kearney-20190228-h1buf5.html Thought this might be worth posting.

I thought I might start an off season thread, to highlight my (and hopefully some other posters) ability (or lack thereof) in making predictions. I'm hopeful that some of my "better work" in the future, will help bring some "good news" somewhere. For examples of my "better work" in the past...

Both the Pies and the Eagles go into today's GF with injury concerns among their line ups. Howe at the Pies and McGovern and Shuey at the Eagles. In my opinion last week the Tigers made a huge mistake playing both Dusty and Astbury. Astbury should never have played coming off a virus when...

Well I'm going to say it. What a joke it is when footballers like Wallace and Neitz get in and yet Carey and Ablett, much and all as they stuffed up off field, still can't get in. Surely it should be judged by on field exploits not off field misdemeanors.

Now this might have been covered elsewhere so Mods please move it or delete it if so. I just went on to the Ticketmaster site to try to purchase a couple of tickets to our game against the tigers on Wednesday night the 7th of March. To my absolute astonishment the AFL is asking us to pay $30...