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It is a fairly quaint tradition in Australian sport to go out to combat, give your all, battle hard and finish up by gathering in a circle and singing a jolly little song. Easy to mock - but it goes in hand with the extraordinary level of loyalty players have to clubs compared to athletes in...

LoL - we're talking illicit drugs, not performance enhancing. If you are not playing, then you cant exactly be accused of cheating. I mean if I were to go out at night, have a few bevvies, decide I'll drive home but first check my alcohol levels on one of those machines, so decide to taxi home...

Guilty of what exactly? - if you don't play then you cant be guilty of a match day crime. FWIW, any coach would be absolutely ropeable with any player who makes themselves unavailable in this way - one step closer to the exit door. The real story here is that drug culture at Melbourne seems so...

The next step is to remove speedometers from players cars so players cant "test" whether they are ILLEGALLY speeding and thus avoid the punishment by slowing down.

Big news - doctors conduct tests!

Obviously you think of malthouse as a coach, he had three very significant spells at three clubs plus Carlton. Each of those clubs could lay claim to this question. However I visualised him being in club colours, and only one team stood out, so Richmond it is.

Dont know what match you were going to but the season that year didnt even start until March and the match you referenced was in May, well into the regular season. And that was a major issue, teams couldn't play that much so they started putting in "under 19s" teams. They were trying to emulate...

8 subs, no interchange

I love stats. Throw me any team* and I will prove to you with stats that the AFL is being controlled by a cabal of shadowy parties determined to make said team win/lose/relocate *Dont

I think you are looking for something that isn't there. Questioning the integrity is about whether a team is trying to manipulate the results, or more specifically a loss, which was the alleged behaviour of West Coast. Sure - Geelong will be playing a weakened team - but we are going for a team...

Even so - I'd rather see compensation in the form of the losing club getting a bump in their salary cap. That way they can offer over-the-odds to a player from another team without condemning some poor kid to join a s**t-show of a team.

I believe the Cornes brothers were eligible to be selected under F/S - to Adelaide. And I also think James Hird was also tied to Essendon under the archaic rules of the time.

This should be the story - if Dimma is a dead cert to GC, why are the AFL funding a jolly for Mark Evans to get a sun tan on the Riviera? I can only imagine the most awkward of meetings as Dimma goes running against the bulls only to have poor little Mark Evans chasing him with a contract and a...

No - just a lazy 58 off Curnow and wont kick any more this year. Should have put money on it. But even putting injuries aside, Cotchin has so far kicked an average of .41 goals a game this season, compared to the .33 goals per game that Fyfe managed. It is genuine shame to see what happened...

Who is to say that West Coast wouldn't have won three flags if Judd had stayed?

Nah - should go the other way and have more teams. Ideally another six teams, but four would do. Then break the into two divisions. Come September you still have the finals, but you also have relegation/promotion matches. Everybody plays each other twice in their same div + finals. If...

Why would Channel 7 give the AFL any more money for a market they cant broadcast to and wouldn't even if they could? Will be 100 years before there is a NZ team

Joking yeah? - Hawkins is on SFA, veterans are like that - Reiwoldt is another who is on next-to-nothing.

That's not quite true - apparently CBA rules stipulate that you have to have two byes, so they have to factor in some sort of bye. Regardless though I dont mind it. 10 straight games is one thing, but finals are another step up. Winning 5 finals in a row is just massive. You'd know from last...

absolute rubbish - plenty of teams do well with only so-so rucks, Port and Collingwood for example. WCE won 2018 with NicNat sitting on the pine. Brown in a way, is an ideal sceond string. Really not good enough to be a first-teamer but fine for the ocasional chop-out for Gawn. If all Grundy is...

TBF - they did lose to WCE. Good team though, may win in first week of finals

So pendles has been a consistently high performer, but hasn't had the blistering good years of a Judd or Martin. The latter two who spent probably half their career worse then pendles and the other half better. Its really just a personal judgment, how well do you judge 'best' - consistently...

Its even stupider when you remember that Carrara was originally set up for the Brisbane Bears

gone - according to SEN

And if they had played extra time in 2011 and the pies had won, then they would all be saying extra time is best.

If Port of 2011 were playing WCE, Port would win by 12 goals. WCE are at whole another level of awfulness. Port at least managed to salvage 3 wins for the year. Sure they had a couple of massive losses, but they were against the top teams, not the bottom six teams. Its remarkable that WCE have...

I have one - it is that umpires are human and can have bad nights for any number of reasons, not all of them involving sinister underworld figures, could be as simple as a lack of sleep due to a young child that leads to judgement impairment.

Umpires decision doesn't go my way -> Game is rigged and I'll start a conspiracy theory to prove. Umpires decision goes my way -> Nothing to see, move along

Certainly the guy on the ATO board was a bad apple, but that isn't why Luke should be in trouble. The issue is that the information obtained was used by more than 50 other PWC consultant projects. One or two you might just say ok, well they made mistakes, but 50! These are multimillion dollar...

Steve Hocking wins!