bashfulfax

So, I now live in Melbourne.

This whole 'being able to go to the football' as a non member is a bit foreign as a Perth native.

How does one go about buying tickets to say, Collingwood and the Bulldogs on Friday? Do you just rock up?

Is he like commercially viable fusion, or just good roast lamb?

Like, no joke, I'm trying to work this out.

Two astonishing non-journalism pieces here:

http://www.afl.com.au/news/2016-09-20/trade-to-eagles-good-for-both-parties-ballantynes-manager

http://www.afl.com.au/news/2016-09-20/manager-says-torn-hogan-unlikely-to-leave-melbourne

Context: a few years ago, before work+kids really caught up with me, I was a Fremantle member, which means 11 games a year at Subiaco.

For 2017 I'll be living in Melbourne. I'm quite keen to take up Fremantle's "Melbourne membership" option, but that's like four games (if that). I married into Footscray (and 2016 Doggies remind me a lot of 2012/13 Freo) so I could tolerate Bulldogs membership for a year or two.

What's not clear to me is how "AFL membership" works. Do you need to be a club member already? Anyone here taken it up or recommend it?

I'm pretty sure it's been since about 1996, or 1997.

So, with the particularly depressing injury to Apeness (can the boy not get a bit of luck?) one lingering question in my mind is why, exactly, we haven't promoted Tanner Smith, Morabito, or Uebergang in the absence of an abundance of long-term injured.

Much as I've never been sold on T Smith, he's had a pretty darn good year for Peel so far, flipped back and forward depending on Apeness/Clarke/Pearce's availability, and marking pretty consistently.

Morabito has had a nice steady year at half back, and that seems like a hole worth filling.

And Lyon has plugged Uebergang pretty hard in recent weeks (although he always does this).

Does anyone have a word on why this would be the cas