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Yeah the last game between Freo and Geelong was the best of the round - more open play, more kicks and handpasses finding targets. The Moorabbin game wasn't bad either although obviously the Dogs experience told there. I get the feeling the league likes the 15 minute quarters because it means they can schedule the games into 2 hour slots, but they're definitely too short for my liking.
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# ? Feb 9, 2020 09:18 |
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# ? Apr 26, 2024 09:54 |
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Id imagine starting in february is a factor too. Playing a full length game in 40+ would not be good
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# ? Feb 9, 2020 09:33 |
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As a spectator, I quite like the 15 minute quarters. It's a really comfortable length to go and watch a game for.
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# ? Feb 9, 2020 16:40 |
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Only 2 teams in conference A won their first game, compared to 5 teams in conference B. Kangaroos are in the top 3 for conference A despite losing and Dees are 5th in conference B despite winning.
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# ? Feb 10, 2020 02:36 |
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Conferences are going to kick out teams with more wins again.
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# ? Feb 10, 2020 03:08 |
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Melbourne gave Harley Bennel a contract
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# ? Feb 10, 2020 08:10 |
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snaeksikn posted:Only 2 teams in conference A won their first game, compared to 5 teams in conference B. Now where have I heard this before? At least this time there are three teams from each conference going through to the finals.
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# ? Feb 10, 2020 12:00 |
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https://www.titusoreily.com/afl/man-s-meltdown-over-aflw-enters-fourth-year A great article from Titus. One of the comments is particularly ironic!
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# ? Feb 11, 2020 09:43 |
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Forum Joe posted:https://www.titusoreily.com/afl/man-s-meltdown-over-aflw-enters-fourth-year Not just one I think
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# ? Feb 11, 2020 11:17 |
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at the guy complaining that men don't do synchronised swimming, netball or beauty pageants. Mind you, I honestly can't work out whether that comment was parody or not given that it ended with this: quote:Some Russian friends of mine saw some videos of the AFLW and thought the players looked terrible and the game was shocking to watch and when a bunch of hairy armpit Russian sheilas think the game is undignified of woman you know its not a good international look.
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# ? Feb 11, 2020 22:52 |
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cmndstab posted:at the guy complaining that men don't do ... netball That son of a bitch better take that back.
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# ? Feb 12, 2020 07:31 |
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So kicking people is not allowed then? Also, how has St. Kilda won jack poo poo despite being a foundation club? Nissin Cup Nudist fucked around with this message at 08:05 on Feb 12, 2020 |
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Nissin Cup Nudist posted:So kicking people is not allowed then? I mean they've won 26 wooden spoons
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# ? Feb 12, 2020 08:50 |
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By being exceptionally poo poo
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# ? Feb 12, 2020 08:52 |
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Nissin Cup Nudist posted:So kicking people is not allowed then? They weren’t a foundation club When they did join they took like three seasons to win a match and that was after requesting a count back on the scores.
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# ? Feb 12, 2020 09:09 |
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Solemn Sloth posted:They weren’t a foundation club Huh? Yeah, we were.
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# ? Feb 12, 2020 13:45 |
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Nutsngum posted:Huh? Yeah, we were. Welp, my bad. For some reason I thought there were a couple of years of a six team VFL before you joined.
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# ? Feb 12, 2020 13:48 |
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Solemn Sloth posted:Welp, my bad. For some reason I thought there were a couple of years of a six team VFL before you joined. Well there may as well have been.
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# ? Feb 12, 2020 13:54 |
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I was just going to look up whether the Saints have won more wooden spoons than made grand finals in my lifetime and I have just found out that St Kilda won 5 of 6 wooden spoons between 1983 to 1988 which is frankly impressive in its own right
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# ? Feb 12, 2020 14:00 |
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snaeksikn posted:I was just going to look up whether the Saints have won more wooden spoons than made grand finals in my lifetime and I have just found out that St Kilda won 5 of 6 wooden spoons between 1983 to 1988 which is frankly impressive in its own right Makes Pluggers goals record even more impressive
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# ? Feb 13, 2020 01:58 |
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8 clubs in the first VFL season. Richmond and University joined in 1908. Next intake was North, Footscray and Hawthorn in 1925. Actually found this decent chart on the Wikipedia article. We felt very sorry for the token Saints supporter in primary school.
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# ? Feb 13, 2020 07:37 |
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Saints and Carlton were invited to join the VFL to boost the number of games per week. Splitting away from the VFA. Hotham is older than some of the foundation VFL clubs, now known as North Melbourne. Back then they were the poor clubs. Carlton didn't have a permanent home and were nomads, playing games at the MCG, Royal Park and just open parkland at the southern end of Princes Park. A stipulation of joining the VFL was that grounds needed to be fenced to tickets could be sold. This spurred Carlton to set up a proper home ground at Princes Park, where we remain. Saints just remained smallish, Junction Oval being home, but only 1km away from South Melbournes homeground at Lakeside Oval, a larger club with more supporters. Anyway, looks like the AFL is actually not grabbing every dollar possible. quote:Footy fans are set for a big free kick, with the AFL to axe unpopular transaction fees for sporting events at its Marvel Stadium in Docklands. Of course, they announced that the centre circle will be a coles logo this year, instead of the toyota one. So it'll look like absolute garbage painted red. ugh.
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# ? Feb 13, 2020 13:41 |
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drunkill posted:Saints and Carlton were invited to join the VFL to boost the number of games per week. Splitting away from the VFA. Hotham is older than some of the foundation VFL clubs, now known as North Melbourne. Isnt the coles logo just a word?
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# ? Feb 13, 2020 16:06 |
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Sadly, no. Centre circle is painted red. It is blatant and crass.
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# ? Feb 13, 2020 21:11 |
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drunkill posted:Sadly, no. That looks worse but before it was also the logo of a car company...? It’s not like it’s replacing a blank space or the AFL logo, it’s an Australian retailer replacing the largest automaker in the world. It does look worse but it’s not much more or less commercial.
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# ? Feb 14, 2020 07:00 |
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It is more. It is solid and in colour. All advertising on the ground is awful and should only be inserted digitally on tv like the stats are.
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# ? Feb 14, 2020 07:38 |
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So yes Irish players are real loving dumb, but in what universe does the umpire not say “straight to her” and point in that circumstance?
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# ? Feb 14, 2020 09:50 |
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Bonnie Toogood is still the best name in footy
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# ? Feb 14, 2020 10:05 |
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Maybe if Kate Hore keeps getting the ball she will start getting it between the goal posts
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# ? Feb 14, 2020 10:21 |
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Being up 10 scoring shots to 1 halfway throughh the third and losing would be an extremely melbourne thing to do(apart from the being up in the third part)
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# ? Feb 14, 2020 10:45 |
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Welp injury to Kemp in the last 30 seconds or so leaves us with zero fit players in reserve? Positive win though, hopefully it pisses down rain every week because we looked really clean disposal and marking in the conditions
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# ? Feb 14, 2020 11:20 |
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The girls looked really good. Defence looked really strong tonight with interception and Downey didn't even have her usual influence. I think the Dees look really dangerous when Hore and Gay get ahold of the ball at half forward as they're both natural footballers and create a lot but the finishing just isn't there yet.
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# ? Feb 14, 2020 11:33 |
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Swapped my tip to the doggies in the arvo when it pissed down with rain. I don't know why...
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# ? Feb 14, 2020 14:00 |
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Haven't had much guernsey chat for the dudes this year, mostly because most clubs haven't messed around with things too much. - Essendon have gone to Under Armour. The new stuff looks fine, maybe a wider sash. - Carlton have gone to Puma, which sees Nike exit the AFL space. - St Kilda are being supplied by ISC but Dare have taken up the collar space normally used by the manufacturer. I like the white clash at least. For training jumpers they've used the 90s designs (both the red and the yellow Pura Milk version) - Gold Coast seem to be doing something similar with the space ISC didn't want to buy. Honestly their jumper could use a major do-over anyway, maybe it'll change their luck. Maybe something with myrtle, rose and yellow... - Collingwood are doing commemoratives - home is a throwback to 2010 which wasn't the best design but hey they won a flag in it. The away on the other hand is a rehash of the 1990 jumper and it looks gooood. Like, they should go back to the white as their main anyway. - Brisbane have gone to Classic (who mostly do RL stuff) who have apparently botched the jumpers and had to do a do-over. Also a new clash design which is a maroon vee on white with the lion overlaid. - Adelaide's messing with their clash again (which was one of the better ones out there) and have gone with a design that won a people's vote a couple of years back - basically the tricolour but shrunk and with a white crow on top. - Port Adelaide are going the whole hog for their 150th, so of course the Prisonbars are coming out for their "home" Showdown and the pale blue and white hoops are getting a run as well at some point. Along with their usual black with the vees as well as the grey clash (now with the white panel) - North have decided to do pinstripes but from what I've seen they're wider than the traditional 70s look, and they look kind of... bad. Will have to see how they look on the field I guess.
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The Deadly Hume posted:- Adelaide's messing with their clash again (which was one of the better ones out there) and have gone with a design that won a people's vote a couple of years back - basically the tricolour but shrunk and with a white crow on top. It's from the infamous rigged fan poll, where they picked the winner in advance and had it in production already, and had it starting the fan poll with a 500k vote lead. They hoped nobody would notice, but they were wrong, and someone built a vote spamming bot that proved it. If memory serves, the 'winner' before they had to reverse their decision was one with a giant rendition of our ugly rear end traced Baltimore Ravens logo, that to this day the club still insists looks nothing like the Ravens logo and is tremendously popular with the kids so they won't be chjanging it. One of the fine legacies of the Stephen Trigg years. NTRabbit fucked around with this message at 15:14 on Feb 14, 2020 |
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How does Collingwood have a throwback jumper when they’re too loving up themselves to ever change it?
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# ? Feb 14, 2020 21:05 |
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NTRabbit posted:It's from the infamous rigged fan poll, where they picked the winner in advance and had it in production already, and had it starting the fan poll with a 500k vote lead. They hoped nobody would notice, but they were wrong, and someone built a vote spamming bot that proved it. Anyway the AFL itself has commissioned a new/updated logo which should come out sometime this year apparently so that's going to be FINE.
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# ? Feb 15, 2020 00:07 |
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Goalcoast. Good match against Richmond and a pretty decent crowd up in the banana republic.
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# ? Feb 15, 2020 07:41 |
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This Gold Coast Richmond game is pretty good. It's a fairly even matchup with good skills without a howling wind. edit: anyone know how to stop the website from refreshing every couple of minutes and breaking the stream? monolithburger fucked around with this message at 07:55 on Feb 15, 2020 |
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monolithburger posted:This Gold Coast Richmond game is pretty good. It's a fairly even matchup with good skills in decent weather. Dumb telstra design, the page autorefreshes for score updates, killing the video stream. Sadly this isn't a channel 7 match so you can't swap to the 7plus livestream. I'm watching via kayo.
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