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Having more legitimate marking targets up forward has to help (if we can move the quickly).

Levi, Harry, Charlie, SoJ, Garlett and even Crippa in spurts....

Should keep the opposition guessing and not allow Rance to roam where ho chooses.....

More like the coach woke up to the fact that he's a spud and was better off letting them play football unhindered by his input!

Yes, no doubt. But I bet other teams watched those games, and tried to repeat the dose, and failed. Even the Crows themselves couldn't repeat it. The sign of a good team when you can right the ship the way the Tigers did.

Te Crows had a major 'off' day in the GF.....

It's the age old question - did the Crows lose it or did the Tigers win it ? I reckon the latter.

So I see that the club has agreed to gate sharing with Nthmond.

I realise we have Liddle on board now, and that Nthmond are cherry ripe so an agreement probably seems apropos.

But on the flip side, it seems odd to me that there was no interest in gate sharing for a decade while we struggled, and now that we appear to be on the right track it's on again! Nthmond, lets not forget they are called Nthmond for a reason, have finished in the top half five or six times since 2009.

Am I too cynical?

Is this a concession from Nthmond that we are heading in the right direction?

I seem to recall the gate sharing agreement was cancelled roughly about the time we got rid of Greg Swann or maybe that was one of his last decisions??

We walked away from the gate-sharing agreement in 2015.

I think it is along those lines Kruddler... Richmond didn’t share the gate in a year we only played once, we then ended it the following year...

I think it is along those lines Kruddler... Richmond didn’t share the gate in a year we only played once, we then ended it the following year...

No, that’s incorrect.  We walked away in 2015 after sharing the 2014 gate.

Traditional rivals Carlton and Richmond will play each other only once in the next home-and-away season with the AFL abandoning a return fixture despite the two teams' record-setting attendances in 2013.

The Tigers will host the Blues in the first AFL game at the MCG for 2014 in round-two but will abandon the customary gate-sharing deal as that clash will be the only one between the two sides unless they meet in the finals.

This is despite the fact that the three Carlton and Richmond games in 2013 averaged almost 80,000 a game with the September crowd of more than 94,000 a record for an elimination final.

CARLTON will keep all the gate takings from its season opener against Richmond after rejecting a gate-sharing deal.

In the past, when the two teams have met twice a season, profits from the attendance have been shared.

However last year, when the teams met just once, Richmond took all the money.

"Carlton people would want the best outcome for Carlton and I think it is the right outcome for Carlton," Blues chief executive Stephen Trigg told Fairfax Media.

"By that I mean, I am aware of co-promoting and supporting and gate-sharing.

"While that is not part of the landscape where I have been previously, I am very supportive of that, and continue to be in the principle of that.

"But given that last year there was one fixture ... and the gate wasn't shared then, and the entirety of the gate went to Richmond, it seemed appropriate that it would transpire that Carlton takes the gate in round one this year.