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    AFL Silver Membership Waitlist Number

    You'd assume the AFL would have to tip in to the funding of the new stand for that to happen.
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    Jumper clash fails

    Taking this to its logical extension, if Collingwood's home kit is black then that is the one colour that should be ruled out of the clash/alternate. Pretty simple.
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    MCC Members - Campaign to re-instate walk-up seating to all games

    All well and good until you miss out entirely due to being at the whim of Ticketek
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    MCC Members - Campaign to re-instate walk-up seating to all games

    My biggest concern is that they will try to remove walk-up completely, especially for grand finals. Anyway, starting a petition is a better solution than the 20 people I saw queued up complaining at the club office about 15 mins before the start of Melbourne v Hawthorn. The poor girls on the...
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    Toast Types of people at the footy

    The guy who loudly announces the attendance like breaking news when everyone in the ground can see it's just come up on the big screen
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    Rules Is AFL club "membership" merely a marketing gimmick?

    I don't mind the distinction that Collingwood make. I am an MCC member and pay MFC club support to also make me an MFC member. At Melbourne that does classify me as a voting member, but if the MFC constitution has a similar provision to Collingwood it would be hard to disagree with the fairness...
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    First club to 17 premierships?

    Melbourne do tend to win flags in clumps...
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    Opinion Is it time for some clubs to re-name their Best & Fairest awards?

    Would that change what he contributed to the club?
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    Port Adelaide vs Geelong - rivalry brewing?

    Earliest I can see on a quick Trove search is 1879 https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/198002819
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    Melbourne FC $1.8M Hole - Woe Is Me

    Gary Pert is thinking miles ahead of you. What brings in the most $ for clubs? Premierships. Where is the grand final played? MCG. Where does the MFC CEO want the club to play as many games as possible? I'll leave you to connect the dots from here.
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    Fixture Thursday night footy

    Sick of broadcasters using footy talk show talking heads to try and push their point of view on the fixture. Embarrassingly transparent that they're not really concerned about what's good for footy (for example the fan who might want to attend a game never comes into it) but instead are solely...
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    VFL to merge with NEAFL, under-18 comps revamped in massive changes to AFL’s second tier

    Naive to think that clubs will adhere to new salary caps when plenty weren't even playing by the old ones
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    Won A Brownlow Medal but not club B & F in the same year

    In 1946 Melbourne played three finals and Mueller was probably best on in two second best on in the other. Meanwhile Don Cordner was not in the best in any of the three. So Cordner could conceivably have been ahead of Mueller in the B&F after the H&A season. Cordner was named "Most Brilliant" by...
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    VFL to merge with NEAFL, under-18 comps revamped in massive changes to AFL’s second tier

    Oh when you were talking about the second tier you meant this hypothetical AFL reserves not the WAFL/SANFL? I agree that flying reserves interstate every weekend will cost significant $ but if the AFL is already saying they will pay travel costs for the 14 Eastern clubs' reserves plus...
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    VFL to merge with NEAFL, under-18 comps revamped in massive changes to AFL’s second tier

    What would change in that situation? If hypothetically WCE and Freo had their reserves playing in an AFL reserves comp rather than in the WAFL, would that negatively affect the WAFL? I'd think the WAFL would operate much as they are this season with 9 clubs. And someone like Tim Kelly would have...
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    VFL to merge with NEAFL, under-18 comps revamped in massive changes to AFL’s second tier

    If you're going to have 14/18 clubs in what will essentially be a reserves comp you may as well get the other 4 clubs and make it an AFL reserves competition. The fixturing will be easier that way too, you just match up to exactly what the senior AFL team is doing that weekend.
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    Dream Time game in Darwin a nightmare for locals

    Can the government not just compulsorily acquire the rights to the flag? Waiting until 70 years after the guy has died and it goes into the public domain doesn't seem like a great solution. I would have more sympathy for the creator / owner if he wasn't on-selling said rights to some...
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    Rolling All Australian Team 2020

    Robbo was very stiff to miss AA in 05. Kicked 70+ and came I think third in the Coleman.
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    Leon Cameron - is he the man?

    Why do they so often push up a forward so they have an outnumber at the contest? It means whenever they win it the opposition always has a loose in defence. It might make some sense if your midfield is weak but theirs is stacked. Seems like a basic coaching issue and a big reason why they...
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    Analysis Is Melbourne in a proper crisis?

    You're right about when the Leighoak Club was sold. From memory, it was profitable for the club but only because of pokies and the decision was made to exit from them. I think the profit was generally between $500k - $1m per year. So with pokies it was a good business, without them it would not...
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    News Mitch Cleary stood down indefinitely - AFL have really stepped in it this time

    While I agree with you, I think many in the media who have been asking the question have been doing so in a rhetorical manner to emphasise how farcical it is that "AFL Media" has been trying to portray itself as independent (in a journalistic or editorial sense). This is simply a good example...
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    Who would you bring back from retirement?

    Norm Smith. Gun key forward, plus he comes with the added bonus that you could sack Goodwin and have him coach as well.
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    Should I have the right to a club membership refund?

    No information yet from the MCC
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    Benny Gale to the NRL

    Phil Kearns is surely a lock to be the next permanent CEO of RA. There might be an interim CEO for a few months while he exits his current roles.
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    AFL Evolution 2 Club Rankings

    Melbourne underrated
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    Roast Gillon Mclachlan - Get rid of this tool, please

    This is true and it's the AFL Commission's fault. Firstly because they select the CEO. But mainly because they don't incentivise them (and other execs at AFL House) correctly. You can tell that the big ticket items for their bonuses are media rights $$ and participation numbers. To the...
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    Roast Classic Tom Browne Moments

    Hard to believe the author of this powerful piece of hard-hitting journalism didn't attach their name to it.
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    Best player to never play in the finals?

    Played finals with Port Adelaide in his final season.
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    Some MCC seats to be avilable to club members Prelim & GF - Caroline Wilson

    Yes, the club had to increase what is essentially guaranteed yearly revenue in order to secure such a large loan at a decent rate. The same thing happened around 2005 with the redevelopment of the northern stand. It's also why the upgrades to full membership have slowed to a trickle over the...
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    Some MCC seats to be avilable to club members Prelim & GF - Caroline Wilson

    The Southern Stand cost approx $150m. The AFL tipped in $1m per year while it was being built. The rest was financed by the MCC as far as I'm aware, not sure if there were also some government grants. To claim that the AFL members paid for it is a stretch.
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