North Melbourne

[Grantysghost]

Not to mention that no team with Marvel as a home ground has finished top 4 at the end of a home and away season since 2010. But the surface is fine, I’m sure.

Its a curse that joint.

[Dogs 24/7]

They are desperate at the moment. To sell home games like that shows they are in a dire financial position. Ralph's article clearly shows the impacts and challenges with this decision to grab money.

[Rocco Jones]

Not to mention that no team with Marvel as a home ground has finished top 4 at the end of a home and away season since 2010. But the surface is fine, I?m sure.

And the best part. Even if you are win enough games to earn a home final, it's at a joint you barely have played at.

[jeemak]

And the best part. Even if you are win enough games to earn a home final, it's at a joint you barely have played at.

But, jeeze it'd be great to see the Cats get more games at the MCG..........and the Blues.

[Rocco Jones]

But, jeeze it'd be great to see the Cats get more games at the MCG..........and the Blues.

Serenity now.

[GVGjr]

North has Darcy MacPherson training with them.

Delisted Gold Coast utility Darcy Macpherson hopes he can convince North Melbourne to throw him an AFL lifeline after beginning pre-season training with the Kangaroos this week.

Macpherson, 27, was delisted by the Suns in September after 97 games in nine seasons but believes he still has plenty of quality football left in him despite seeing limited opportunities under Damien Hardwick this year.

He finished third in the Suns’ best and fairest in 2019 and seventh in 2023, but featured only two times this year – both as a sub.

Collingwood and Carlton were among the VFL programs who came knocking for his services before he ultimately settled on signing with North Melbourne.

“(North) lets VFL players train a couple of times a week with the main group and I just thought, given the way I train and how I go about my business, it gives me the best chance to get back on a list,” Macpherson told this masthead.

“Melbourne is obviously my hometown and there’s a lot more eyes on me down here … and I just thought North, with where the list is at, I could definitely add something.

[jazzadogs]

I think his reasoning is pretty spot on. Norf need professional older heads, almost regardless of how they perform on field. Good luck to him.

[GVGjr]

I think his reasoning is pretty spot on. Norf need professional older heads, almost regardless of how they perform on field. Good luck to him.

It seems like a good fit for both player and club. MacPherson still has a bit to offer.

[Happy Days]

I don’t know how they’ve done it given there’s like 5 of them total in the AFL but North are going to be absolutely stacked for tiny half back flanks who kick it sideways 85% of the time.

[Axe Man]

Not exactly North related anymore but didn't want to start a new thread.

Tarryn Thomas harassed ex-girlfriend with phone calls while midway through men?s behaviour course

Disgraced former North Melbourne midfielder Tarryn Thomas was in the middle of a men?s behaviour program when he harassed his ex-girlfriend with a series of menacing calls.

Dressed in an all-black ensemble featuring a Louis Vuitton belt, the 24-year-old faced a number of charges at Broadmeadows Magistrates? Court on Thursday, where he avoided a conviction after pleading guilty to domestic violence offences.

The court heard Thomas? ex-girlfriend ended their year-long relationship in January.

But his lawyer, Sally Vardy, said after seeing her at a music festival in late-March it ?triggered in him a feeling of loneliness?.

The once promising midfielder proceeded to call her 34 times between April 5 and 29, with his victim only answering six of those calls.

She told police he would breathe heavily down the line, with no verbal threats made.

Some of the calls occurred while he was completing a men?s behaviour program, which started on April 15 and was a condition of his sanction from the AFL.

Despite multiple attempts to help Thomas, who is also known as Tarryn Trindall, following a series of court appearances for driving and intimidation offences last year, the football club axed him in February.

His contract was terminated and the AFL suspended him for 18 matches after finding him guilty of breaching its code of conduct.

Ms Vardy said her client?s mental health was in a ?period of deep decline? at the time of his latest offending after losing his job as a professional footballer.

She said he had reached out to the North Melbourne Football Club?s doctor in November last year with mental health struggles and was put on antidepressants.

?He remains medicated,? she said.

She said Thomas has a desire to return to professional football.

Asked by magistrate James Henderson if he had been signed up to next season, she said: ?Not at this point.?

?Mr Trindall received a sanction, which required him to complete a men?s behaviour program,? she said, adding how he had now finished that.

?Whilst it was mandated, it is something that he has done wholeheartedly.

?It?s ultimately a matter for the powers at be whether he is to return to the field or not.?

She said he was a changed man since undergoing the program, which focused on accountability, violence and cultural understandings.

He has ?genuine remorse? for his offending and has learnt to be ?less reactive?, she told the court.

His mental health is stable, she added, and he now sees a psychiatrist and psychologist, has stable housing and support of family and friends.

She told the court he also goes to church and has a strong connection to his culture.

Ms Vardy pressed His Honour to punish him with a good behaviour bond without conviction, saying he had ?very strong prospects of rehabilitation?.

The prosecution made no submissions as to what an appropriate sentence would be.

Mr Henderson told Thomas it was ?a serious offence? but took into consideration his early guilty plea, the supports and treatment he has in place, in releasing him on a 12-month undertaking.

Thomas made a promise to the court he would be of good behaviour for the next year, and continue treatments to better himself.

He made no comment as he left the court.