Blake Lawrence

@DanielGarb In 8 games of football one of our key backs 4 tackles for the entire season.

That’s inexcusable from the Eagles. And it does puts Andrew McQualter under big pressure. There’s no doubt he knows the game but the culture is broken and they need a strong enough leader to repair it. He’s got a lot to do heading into his final year to prove he can #AFLEaglesTigers

@DanielGarb For a player bought in for experience in two games 100% time spent in defensive half 1 tackle for the entire season 🤯

@DanielGarb 0 tackles for a player selected for experience

@DanielGarb The biggest issue onfield currently is the poor form and standard of our leaders.The co captain is currently averaging 1.8 tackles a game 14 for the entire year playing an average of 83% in the back half. The team is ranked 18th in defending ball movement “coast to coast scores”

@TheNestWCE @DanielGarb It starts with the leaders on-field effort very questionable

Losing with the youngest list in the league is one thing. We should not be losing to St.Kilda like this. It’s fair to ask questions about the coaching staff’s ability to inspire as it stands. Failure to beat Rich next week and those questions should grow louder #AFLSaintsEagles

The HEAT should never pay big money to a player who can be hunted. Ever again.

@AFL @NathanSchmook 🐐 Kennedy

West Coast's all-time leading goalkicker Josh Kennedy is among those helping mould the club's young forwards 🤝 @NathanSchmook takes a look at how the Eagles are shaping a powerful new attack: afl.com.au/news/1484550

@TheNestWCE Still have my og ochre jersey 😍

You didn’t really think we weren’t dropping a pod after that on the weekend did you? Back with a bang 💥 *recorded post Milan hammy and Ochre jersey drop. Share your thoughts as always 🦅 podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/the…

@Sammy__Edmund This is a lesson to never take fans for granted they are the most important stakeholder in all forms of sports

The AFL will now work closely with home-game clubs to declare games fully-ticketed. Fan fury has erupted over the practice, which requires members to pay more $ on top of annual fees. The three fully-ticketed games this year have fallen short of forecasting. The declaration of fully-ticketed games has been the responsibility of the hosting club, but the league now getting involved. No fully-ticketed games to come over the next fortnight.

@EaglenationPod Tom Cole and Liam Duggan out for anyone

In round 2 against the Roos - Who comes in? who goes out ? And why?

@TimGossage @WestCoastEagles Liam can wear the arm band in the wafl next week also

@WestCoastEagles: players /staff are wearing black armbands today in honour of WA Football great Bill Dempsey and iconic broadcaster Dennis Cometti following their recent passings. Vale. Liam Duggan is wearing a second armband for a family member who passed away late last year

@AFL Nick daicos rule

From 2026 onwards, field umpires will be given access to statistics immediately after each game to assist their Brownlow Medal voting. Details: afl.com.au/news/1469148

@WildcatsMark 😂🤣

When I’m asked what owning a professional sports team is like youtu.be/5fmHCNfowbQ?si…

@mcuban Great idea mark we have built it our platform can connect local and national sponsors to individual players and allow one-off or continuous payments from business transactions.

The crazy part, is that no matter what the WNBA does with salaries, every star college player will take a pay cut to play in the WNBA I asked a few ADs what the going rate is for the star player on a power conference WBB team -$500k to $1.2m. And, you are always a free agent with the portal. You get your room and board paid for. And you can get a good education if you work at it. It’s all subsidized by donors and shared school revenues. Which makes it more similar to Europe, where companies subsidize teams , than to the WNBA In the NBA, a team can’t go to a sponsor and negotiate a direct payment deal for a player. In college they effectively can with NIL money. When I have written checks to IU, I knew which players were trying to get with the money (although I never tie the money to specific players. It’s up to them ) The WNBA needs to look at allowing the same thing. Let the teams go to local sponsors and work out payments to players as part of sponsorship packages. The big name players have agents to do this. The rest make minimal amounts. With or without an agent. Let WNBA teams pay “NIL” money to its players. It’s counter intuitive for NBA folks, but here is the issue. WNBA teams don’t have the margin dollars from tickets, sponsors and shared revenues like tv to pay bigger salaries using their own cash flow. With help from the league , they could create NIL deals with sponsors that go directly to the players. From the sponsors. Make it legal. Create a cap per player, based on years of experience. Yes, some teams will suck at it, that’s where the wnba comes in to help. They will suck at it as well for some period. But like collegiate NIL, the sponsorship packages will supplement player salaries without undermining the economics of the teams and league itself. The next question will be competitive balance issues. The big markets can do this better. They have a great addressable market for sponsors. The wnba could require that some percentage of the NIL money deals go into a pool for a version of revenue share. This is effectively what happens (or did ) with jersey ads. I remember advocating that the jersey ads be split with all teams, because the greatest value to sponsors comes not from local tv or games, but from national tv, playoffs and jersey sales. This would be similar. Obviously I’m just spitballing this , but if they came on shark tank , that’s what I would suggest ! What do you think ?

@Gatty54 What a dream team Jim Chalmers and Katy Gallagher a $54 billion blowout in the medium-term budget bottom line since the election and MYEFO will now be no budget surpluses for a decade

If you thought the LNP couldn’t sink in lower, they instal this imbecile as shadow treasurer. Chalmers will eat him up.

@mormorlady @Gatty54 @CaroDiRusso Not willing to sell your property or properties and gift a 5% deposit to your grandchildren ?

@CaroDiRusso What idiotic crap. I’ve had three grandchildren take up the 5% deposit scheme and they are all so grateful to be able to enter the housing market. But what else would we expect from a walking lnp talking point churner

The 5% deposit scheme only works in the underdeveloped minds of the student activists in Labor's ministry. Back in grownup world, we can see this policy is an inflationary disaster, luring first home buyers into financial hardship. #auspol

@iuindy_jaguars @iuindy_mbb Go jags !

MBB: @IUIndy_MBB 82, Cleveland State 74 - FINAL Five Jags finish in double-digits as Jags snap CSU's 5-game winning streak D'Augustino - 16 pts, 6 ast Edwards - 13 pts, 11 reb (3rd double-double) Woodward - 10 pts, 8 ast, 5 reb #HLMBB #LetsGoJags

@HeatvsHaters @JakeLFischer @HeatCulture13 And a first round pick plus Jimmy 🤣

“There’s absolutely some type of framework that’s being discussed and has been discussed between Golden State and Miami to send Jonathan Kuminga to the Heat and bring Andrew Wiggins back to the Warriors” (via @JakeLFischer, h/t @HeatCulture13)

@HeatCulture13 Where do I sign ?

Yahoo Sports Ja Morant to Miami trade idea Grizzlies receive: Tyler Herro, Nikola Jovic Heat receive: Ja Morant Yall doing this? 😬

@TimjboAU Internal Polls are down for the pm hence the backflip Albo is renowned for never switching off political mode Great leaders accept mistakes and take responsibility not the first time the pm has shown his true colours unforgivable considering the recent tragedy. Weak waffle albo

Credit to where credit's due, the ABC's Michael Rowland destroys AlboPM with his lacklustre Royal Commission announcement today. "This backflip, and it is a backflip, are you worried that it will change perceptions of you as a leader?" Watch him waffle, relentlessly.👇#auspol