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Spedman
Mar 12, 2010

Kangaroos hate Hasselblads

quote:

The team is basically Cow Dude and a random bunch of gronks at the moment

That made me lol

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Spedman
Mar 12, 2010

Kangaroos hate Hasselblads
Learnt nothing from the BIG BIG SOUND

Spedman
Mar 12, 2010

Kangaroos hate Hasselblads

Forum Joe posted:

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!

Not just one I think :whitewater:

Spedman
Mar 12, 2010

Kangaroos hate Hasselblads

cmndstab posted:

Better to win ugly than not at all I guess!

Didnt get to go to the game because my second daughter was born earlier this week :3: So trying to spend lots of time with my first so she doesn't feel left out.

Congratulations!

That’s your new job, making sure kid 1 doesn’t feel left out, currently in that role myself with our #2 being 6 months old.

Spedman
Mar 12, 2010

Kangaroos hate Hasselblads

drunkill posted:

Bulldogs pride guernsey is wild.

It doesn't even feature one of their main colours, white.

https://twitter.com/7AFL/status/1229993943762255872

snip

Spedman fucked around with this message at 06:02 on Feb 20, 2020

Spedman
Mar 12, 2010

Kangaroos hate Hasselblads

drunkill posted:

Bulldogs pride guernsey is wild.

It doesn't even feature one of their main colours, white.

https://twitter.com/7AFL/status/1229993943762255872







Don't late night phone post tired kids


Spedman
Mar 12, 2010

Kangaroos hate Hasselblads

The Deadly Hume posted:

At least we don't hear much from Basil in the east these days because of his commitment to the local racist breakfast show.

Just be glad the eastern side of the country wasn’t subjected to Basil’s own footy variety show in the 90/00’s. Think the footy show but with Western Australian “personalities”, on a Sunday afternoon.

https://youtu.be/10JANEbillo

Spedman
Mar 12, 2010

Kangaroos hate Hasselblads
They had an important person from Champion Data on SEN this morning, interesting to hear them defend their garbage analytics.

They have the Tigers at the top and Geelong near the bottom of their defensive rankings, and were asked to explain it. The reasoning is that they rank the defence in an individual basis, and don't take into account a team defence style of play, so the Tigers get ranked high as they run it out of defence and don't kick backwards, while the Cats get "penalised" as they are more structured out of their backline being happy to kick backwards/sideways if needed. The CD guy basically just said, the Cats backline is bad according to their algorithm, and wouldn't admit that maybe the algorithm is a bit poo poo instead.

I somehow have less confidence in CD stats now than I did before.

Spedman
Mar 12, 2010

Kangaroos hate Hasselblads

drunkill posted:

nice touch to put the states on the back of the all stars players jumpers.

that coles logo is loving horrible, at least it is projected and I won't see it in season at games.

I’d be a lot more okay with the logo if it was just white text, also their putting ads in the forward 50 too

Spedman
Mar 12, 2010

Kangaroos hate Hasselblads

drunkill posted:


edit:

Ed Curnow with the dentures

https://i.imgur.com/Qd3MSIP.mp4

lol

Spedman
Mar 12, 2010

Kangaroos hate Hasselblads

gay picnic defence posted:

A Dockers player is getting tested for coronavirus. That would really rip through a footy club if someone went to the gym with it or something

Came back negative, so all good.


However, Sam McClure went and named the young player anyway before the negative announcement was made, what a dickhead.

Spedman
Mar 12, 2010

Kangaroos hate Hasselblads
Feel really uneasy watching this

Spedman
Mar 12, 2010

Kangaroos hate Hasselblads

monolithburger posted:

Commentators sound like they're at a funeral.

Need to get VFL WAFL SANFL commenters in who are used to calling games with no crowds

Spedman
Mar 12, 2010

Kangaroos hate Hasselblads

Windmill Hut posted:

No we just need Coronavirus to gently caress OFF

:agreed:

Spedman
Mar 12, 2010

Kangaroos hate Hasselblads
I hope they're giving those water bottles a quick clean between players :whitewater:

Spedman
Mar 12, 2010

Kangaroos hate Hasselblads

realbez posted:

Bulldogs???

Bulldonts

Spedman
Mar 12, 2010

Kangaroos hate Hasselblads
AFL still better than NRL

https://twitter.com/nrl/status/1241616628015480834?s=21


As for blood blokes, Rodger Hayden and Shane Parker

Spedman
Mar 12, 2010

Kangaroos hate Hasselblads

Quantum Shart posted:

We'll take a 50% haircut while you sack entire football departments

Average salary going from $371,000 to $185,500 (mean is obviously more meaningful)

Spedman
Mar 12, 2010

Kangaroos hate Hasselblads

Solemn Sloth posted:

Rookies from $70k to $35k

Brutal


You would think they would do it progressively with a threshold

Spedman
Mar 12, 2010

Kangaroos hate Hasselblads

Quantum Shart posted:

:golfclap:

Also, roo been drinking too much of that yank neoliberal juice
https://twitter.com/RalphyHeraldSun/status/1242310173890244608?s=19

Well he is married to a Texan

And lol thinking we’d have 18 people wealthy enough to own an AFL team and have it survive a season shut down

Spedman
Mar 12, 2010

Kangaroos hate Hasselblads

Solemn Sloth posted:

A lot of emergency service workers seem pretty loving worried about it, but of course you wouldn’t expect kane to understand that

lol

Spedman
Mar 12, 2010

Kangaroos hate Hasselblads
https://twitter.com/freodockers/status/1245110664495947776?s=21

:allears:

Spedman
Mar 12, 2010

Kangaroos hate Hasselblads
One of the worst / most 2000’s jumper in history, but a heart warming result nonetheless

https://twitter.com/freodockers/status/1245514802010533888?s=21

Spedman
Mar 12, 2010

Kangaroos hate Hasselblads
I was itching some footy last night and found the Freo vs Geel round 3 2010 game on my NAS, cracking game, 117 vs 124, Pav and GAJ in amazing form.

Spedman
Mar 12, 2010

Kangaroos hate Hasselblads

Solemn Sloth posted:

Caught the 2008 Freo vs Melbourne game during the week, 50 points down at half time and won by a goal :toot:

God I remember that game, and just having that sinking feeling during the second half.


Wonaeamirri had a day out if I remember rightly

Spedman
Mar 12, 2010

Kangaroos hate Hasselblads
I do enjoy listening to Liam Pickering defending players pay cuts with a straight face: “Dusty has gone from 1.2M to 600k, that’s a big haircut”, then getting absolutely berated by the next 10 callers. Some footy people’s lack of understanding of their own privilege is breathtaking.

Spedman
Mar 12, 2010

Kangaroos hate Hasselblads

Brown Paper Bag posted:

And in drag for some reason...? Theres a photo doing the rounds on twitter

It's on the front page of the Herald Sun website

Spedman
Mar 12, 2010

Kangaroos hate Hasselblads

Solemn Sloth posted:

That sure as gently caress wasn't the Sam Newman take I was expecting

https://twitter.com/Origsmartassam/status/1257098528427401218?s=20

Not being able to play golf has radicalised Sam, he's gone full libertarian

Spedman
Mar 12, 2010

Kangaroos hate Hasselblads

realbez posted:

30 new posts! Maybe they’ve announced that footy is coming ba— oh

Spedman
Mar 12, 2010

Kangaroos hate Hasselblads
The concept of a hub isn’t a bad idea per se to get footy happening again. However, you can’t enforce those kinds of workplace conditions on someone with a months notice, especially for a job where that has never happened for the profession. People in the army, FIFO workers, and international sports people know what they’re getting into and can arrange their lives, and their families lives to prepare and deal with the extended separation.

If the WA and SA clubs are going to be expected to make a long term “camp” in Melbourne, then the AFL need to be prepared to bring families and the necessary support to make sure the disruption can be minimised as much as possible for everyone involved, players/coaches/trainers/doctors/physios/etc. Melbourne is full of nice, empty, Airbnbs at the moment.

And getting sand in your jocks about it being a disadvantage for SA and WA teams, as a Freo supporter I don’t really care tbh. I’d just like to see some footy. And who knows, maybe being isolated together as a club in Melbourne might galvanise one of the 4 sides and produce an amazing story in a really weird season.

I think from memory, Gil has said he’s happy for AFL grand final to be played up to and including 31st of December.

Spedman
Mar 12, 2010

Kangaroos hate Hasselblads

Largepotato posted:

They have no stadiums in December.

MCG & Docklands are both locked down by BBL. Kardinia Park also has some BBL.

You could play matches at places like Arden St, they’ve got immaculate surfaces and don’t have any cricket on them. You don’t need a stadium if no one can attend.

Also, international cricket probably won’t happen, which will also massively effect the BBL as you will be missing a large number of players.

Spedman
Mar 12, 2010

Kangaroos hate Hasselblads
Whateley was calling for the docking of 4 premiership points

Spedman
Mar 12, 2010

Kangaroos hate Hasselblads

teacup posted:

You really think this?

In terms of getting the competition back up and running again, yeah very much wrong. The AFL are desperate to show that the rules they impose on the clubs are followed to the letter, as the Federal/State Govs basically don’t trust the AFL and it’s teams to maintain distancing/quarantine rules. If the Govs don’t trust the AFL, we’re not going to see a season happening for a long time, if at all this year.

Spedman
Mar 12, 2010

Kangaroos hate Hasselblads

Largepotato posted:

It's kinda sad that anyone here thinks it was anything more than dumb footballers being dumb footballers.

Hart getting 6 weeks for not properly supervising his children is more fair enough.

I think I also heard Nicks was interviewed the day before the little “camp” saying they had nothing like that planned, it would suggest players/Hart just being dumb independently

Spedman
Mar 12, 2010

Kangaroos hate Hasselblads
Wouldn’t have happened if Pav was still in charge of the AFLPA :colbert:

Spedman
Mar 12, 2010

Kangaroos hate Hasselblads

NTRabbit posted:

More new cases of COVID in Victoria, but sure let's start the AFL up again entirely based in Melbourne, it's totally safe

Wot? The SA, WA and Qld teams aren’t going to Victoria, and Vic teams are staying put

Spedman
Mar 12, 2010

Kangaroos hate Hasselblads

NTRabbit posted:

Victoria and NSW in their open border pestilence zone while the rest of the country looks on in horror behind closed borders and says "Keep the gently caress away from us"

If you go by cases per head of population, SA is worse than Victoria

https://twitter.com/COVID_Australia/status/1264648566888214528?s=20

Spedman
Mar 12, 2010

Kangaroos hate Hasselblads
https://twitter.com/sirswampthing/status/1264859446846480386?s=21

Spedman
Mar 12, 2010

Kangaroos hate Hasselblads

realbez posted:

Gary Ablett and Wayne Carey should not be considered for AFL legend status, now or ever. I’m sick of hearing about them.

I still can't believe channel 7 had Carey commentating a Friday night game that was dedicated to domestic violence victims



I'll just quote post my self:

Spedman posted:

I still can't believe channel 7 had Carey commentating

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Spedman
Mar 12, 2010

Kangaroos hate Hasselblads
https://twitter.com/aamer_rahman/status/1270515143529697281?s=21

Really interesting thread, Collingwood, Peter Helliar, and Waleed Aly are terrible, water is wet.

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