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snaeksikn posted:I only had room for one nickname per player and I felt the schoolgirl diddling out ranked his amazing tattoo This is fair.
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hiddenmovement posted:Toby 'Ironbar' Greene That’s funny, I keep hearing from family and friends back home there that there’s a massive homeless problem and it just keeps getting worse. Enjoy Portland though 
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International Watch AFL app is conveniently making GBS threads the bed. Sigh.
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Hodge rushing one behind, it’s already started
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Spedman posted:This was my impression of professional US sports too, just physically train until you don’t know how to gently caress up. obviously depends on the sport but usually it is just training, practice of plays/sets, and small-scale team bonding. I'm pretty sure the NFL fall camps aren't as brutal as they once were as well thanks to changes in the labor agreements between player's association and league, used to be a lot more training time and contact but that's much more limited. Ditto for university football. sounds like this stuff in pre-season was an extension of the "team building" idea, but taken to a farcical extreme. I would think the AFL Player's Association would have more to say on this than we've heard...[edit] okay so it's still kind of a developing situation, meaning they can't get upset at this quite yet. and from the way he's defensive you'd imagine it's all Tex's idea too 
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Such poo poo kicking again, never change Saints
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Diet Crack posted:The citation also says he pinned his arms: yeah, and if arms got 'pinned' it's surely by the ground. NicNat's just guilty of a hard in the back. also I still have a ways to go in learning the game but I'm with any other Saints supporter who just wants to play the kids and get games into the younger players this year. don't have much to lose, to be honest.
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I no nobody else is watching the Shanghai game but a Port player just kicked a goal lying on their back
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boy undead posted:I bet we'll fluke a win against a good team in a manner convincing enough to leave everyone scratching their heads. Something like last year’s pasting of the Tigers just out of nowhere. Watch it be West Coast in Perth for maximum WTF.
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that Saints comeback was something else. It's good to see them put the intensity and ball usage together, but also get the feeling "well why can't they do that for all four quarters of the game?" Ah well. I'll take the improvements as they come.
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drunkill posted:Yep, crows fans have lost the plot Saints fans aren’t even the worst at being mental 
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That was a hell of a goal by the Doggies
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Solemn Sloth posted:It’s going to be a bullshit free to Selwood after the siren isn’t it Close!
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ssmagus posted:13 disqualifying fouls, 4 Australian. Sobey, Golding, Maker, Kickert. 9 Philippines. Romeo, Cruz, Castro, Abueva, Blatche, Pogoy, Rosario, Aguilar, Wright. 1 chair thrown, about 3 flying kicks, a whole team beatdown, alot of head punches. The streamable is up a few posts, so watch that. One of these things is not like the other. I’m also 1,000 percent sure this will be discussed on High Noon (9 am Pacific) after their vacation week, because Pablo Torre was all over it on Twitter.
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Largepotato posted:Sounds like the injury wheel is turning. It just ran over the Saints
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Sounds like former Hawthorn player Brian Lake has found himself in trouble after playing at a tournament in Osaka, Japan last weekend. My club didn’t wind up going, so we only have scuttlebutt to go on so far, but it sounds like something happened in the small hours of the night. Edit: https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2018/jul/09/former-afl-star-brian-lake-arrest-japan-Some basic details confirmed harperdc fucked around with this message at 08:25 on Jul 9, 2018 |
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What I’m hearing is he (tried to?) punch a cop, so most likely the Embassy will get him out early onto a flight or the 23 days will pass and he’ll be making his way out of the country.
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teacup posted:I don’t like Adelaide but that’s good news. I’m really torn on player loyalty poo poo. One one hand you don’t want it to be like the USA where players have no affiliation with clubs and move all the time, but on the other hand it’s a job- people should be able to make decisions for their career. There are plenty of one-club/team players in American sports, even with free agency.
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teacup posted:Gaff shouldn’t have been let back on. I’m really not up on the whole “red card” debate, how many sports don’t have some ability to immediately kick a player off for something like that? All of the major American sports can (ejections in baseball and American armor ball, two technical fouls/particularly egregious flagrant fouls in basketball, I think also in ice hockey, and red cards in soccer). Pro basketball hasn’t had anything nearly that bad in a dozen years or so (the Malice at the Palace) but through the 1980s fights and brawls happened somewhat often. Think your average jumper punch handbags, even that has been stamped out (which meant the Philippine vs Australia brawl recently brought out some “back in my day”-ism in the US sports scene).
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Yep. Absurdly late hip and shoulder. Handbags!
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Chairchucker posted:Good. This is good. not sure who I'll be pulling for next week but if  Cox has another strong performance I'll be leading U-S-A! U-S-A! chants and singing "Real American" at the top of my lungs
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drunkill posted:Yes a few of them will be signed up by tommorow afternoon (final list lodgement for the aflw) probably 3-5 all up andsome others might get a callback next year. The USAFL Facebook page was pointing out two women from Seattle’s club, so I don’t think it’s the first time with a footy for all the women invited. I’m sure there’s a bunch of Gaelic football girls involved too.
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Was a bit worried it would be another crappy match after the first quarter, but West Coast clawed back in and absolutely deserved to be close and in the lead. Bit of a flat Finals series this year but absolutely saved by a scorching Grand Final. I’m glad Cox got to play a big part, but not too unhappy that the Pies lost.
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Periphery posted:Here's a good article on the NFL and how trading picks and how teams will trade up the draft for a single high pick even though the data says it's actually better to trade down the and diversify your risk (talent evaluation and development is flawed). While I'm not sure how well it translates to AFL, it's particularly relevant given the current trade period (nobody send this to port or the Crows. Thanks). Yeah, and only one team really did that trading down and gathering picks well for the last 15-20 years, and that's New England but gently caress the Patriots sideways. building a roster is somewhat similar comparing the AFL to the NFL (because they have 50-plus member rosters, and college American football is probably a similar level to VFL/SANFL/WAFL/etc by now) but there's one big difference, and that's NFL contracts are worth approximately tissue paper. They can and are often ripped up regularly, players get cut by teams mid-season (it's allowed) and the players have zero power. That's why this year's stories about Seattle's Earl Thomas and Pittsburgh's LeVeon Bell is absolutely unique -- the only position that GMs/owners regularly cave to the demands of is the star quarterback. Rosters for the NBA are smaller but AFL contracts are much more similar to NBA ones. If somebody signs a max deal in the NBA, that thing is either getting passed around the league or getting bought out at some point. The length of contract (Buddy's ridiculously long deal) is somewhat similar to what you see in the ice hockey NHL. -------------- Also, this weekend is the USAFL Nationals too. I don't think they're broadcasting on YouTube, but they have gotten onto ESPN's streaming platform for live coverage which is pretty  in all honesty.
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ESPN3 is/was the name of their streaming site in the U.S., so it isn't an actual channel, but part of their OTT setup. Looks like ESPN3 was carrying four or five hours' worth of the Nationals grand finals (and it sounds like my old club lost in their GF). Barrish is apparently "media director" for USAFL, for what it's worth. the other notable invitee was Razor Ray heading up a group of umpires for the USAFL umpire training, which resulted in entirely predictable jokes on the Facebook page.
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News: St Kilda taking over from Gold Coast as the partner for Port Adelaide’s games in Shanghai. Views: that’s a lot closer for me to see in person
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Schneider Inside Her posted:I hope Rupert is immortal but spends eternity trapped in the vacuum of space Where the only thing he gets to hear is American NPR. Have they cracked down on using VPNs to get access to the international Watch AFL pass?
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Spedman posted:The AFL equivalent is the NFL in US sports, they play 17 game seasons and a 4 week final series, exactly what the AFL should do NFL is a 17 week season, each team gets one bye. Four pre-season games too which is at least one too many. Basketball is fine, it expanded to 80 games or so a number of years ago. And the bigger issue is having seven-game series throughout the playoffs once more, I was happy with five-game first rounds.
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