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Counterpoint. Toby Greene is both cool and good to watch lose grand finals. *Edit, just read the thread title and it has never been more true that there is only one slight ray of enjoyment in this terrible burning land and that is the oval ball (but not THAT oval ball).
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Max Gawn may have done a knee. Book your ski trips now fellas!
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Jan 31, 2020 08:33
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Feb 5, 2020 13:55
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drunkill posted:Wow, they purposly downgraded their themesong to below Freo and the Suns. Good job weagles. Why even bother with a body double? Its not like it makes photoshopping Scott in any easier and you can get the lighting off dangerwood there.
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Feb 5, 2020 23:16
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NTRabbit posted:Shorter quarters contributes, but also a lower combined level of skill across the field than the men's teams due to the elite pathways being only brand new, so most current players came straight from amateur leagues. Means more scramble, less precision passing, which is what the amateur level is for both men and women. I would genuinely like to know if the smaller ball contributes. Having now watched it live the biggest takeaway for me is a large portion of the players have "adult learned skills" where its just not as natural to do a lot of things. Basically it reminds me a lot of my own skills playing footy as I came to playing really late, in my 20s. This is going to change considerably once you have a lot more women come through who have played since juniors all the way through. Saints vs Doggies game was good, particularly the last quarter even though it was all done and dusted by half time. When are they going to increase the quarters to something reasonable? I run out 25min set quarters all the time in the ammos and I am not nearly as fit as most of these women players.
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Feb 9, 2020 08:38
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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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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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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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Basil "PM deserves a holiday" Zempalis is a colossal fuckwit.
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Feb 21, 2020 14:25
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harperdc posted:If the NBA and others are postponing things instead of going behind closed doors, I can’t see footy going forward with closed-door games of their own. I don’t think it’s the right solution. Why not? The entire issue with this is the crowds providing greater infection chances. Closed games will have likely a hundred or two people working in what are effectively huge stadiums. If players come down with it well then you cant do much about that.
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Mar 13, 2020 05:21
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Windmill Hut posted:I'm still having a hard time trying to wrap my head around COVID-19 and how this is going to play out. Surely there is zero chance we'll have a season this year. Other sports are completely shutting down and we're already closing AFL games to crowds when only 250 of almost 25,000,000 Australian's have gotten the virus. Surely this is only going to get worse and there is no chance this just "blows over" in a few months? Im still trying to figure out how people think we can just shut everything down for the several months that would be required without basically ruining tens of thousands of people's lives due to sudden lack of work for months on end. I mean just in general, its going to effect hundreds of thousands of people in the service industry who are already vulnerable. Probably not the right thread for it though.
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Mar 15, 2020 05:11
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I expect them to push the start of the season back 7 weeks. Honestly, if we cant get things back to a working society in that period of time we are going to have a lot more to worry about then the footy.
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Mar 16, 2020 09:10
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Hey guys, remember that awesome thing you went to on the weekend you can talk to your friends and family about? Oh wait that was cancelled. But its okay theres.. oh no thats cancelled as well. There is just about nothing loving going on for anyone to really look forward to for potentially months, stop loving bitching about the footy being a bit different and be loving grateful we have even this distraction from the virus poo poo.
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Mar 19, 2020 16:00
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I know Eddie Maguire is generally a dickhead but it is good him calling out Pell on his bullshit "woe is me" garbage Bolt has come up with.
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Apr 15, 2020 13:51
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teacup posted:I can’t see what you are talking about can you link it? It was from his breakfast show with Luke Darcy. It comes from the catholic upbringing and having been part of the whole schooling system is pretty aware of the abuse that happened in those places so I think its a pretty personal thing. Also his brother is a labor state senator so he is a pretty labor leading. Basically Maguire is a pretty stock standard Australian. A bit racist and sexist but has the ability to not be a total prick all the time.
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Apr 16, 2020 14:24
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Missing footy so decided to splurge $25 on The Suburban Footballer's book but hosed up my address in the order form. One email later that was sorted but he did decide to leave a personalised card in it.
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Apr 22, 2020 11:46
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harperdc posted:How feasible would it be to have the Victorian teams basically each host one of the interstate teams for practice facilities? Hosting games and which stadiums host is one thing, but limiting the number of places the players go and limiting the need for non-AFL facilities would be important too. Just jam them all into Seaford and pay us for the privilege.
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Apr 24, 2020 17:32
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Solemn Sloth posted:That sure as gently caress wasn't the Sam Newman take I was expecting I must have misread it earlier as I thought he was going on about people having goes at the cops in the first place. Odd.
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May 5, 2020 14:26
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All this "Vic bias" garbage is starting to get a bit loving old. How about the rest of the clubs give up their homeground advantages first and then we can start talking.
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May 6, 2020 14:07
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Solemn Sloth posted:I’d rather the whole season get cancelled than players and their families be pressured into some garbage hub idea where they don’t see each other for weeks/months on end. This is a pretty garbage way of thinking mate. If you accept that then why ever bother with the football again? You literally just hosed off one entertainment industry whilst going on about signing up to another. As one of those pricks who is in an essential service and still gets paid shitasticly I say bring on the loving football. If there is an actual feasible method to do this that isnt actually risky then I dont see an issue. Meanwhile, there are thousands and thousands of jobs out there where people dont see their families for months and months on end. If the individual players want to opt out, fine they can cut their pay further and sit it out.
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May 7, 2020 17:25
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but people need something to look forward to! 
Buy a Netflix account instead of expecting families to suddenly go single parent for you to get your rocks off on sportsball. Football is about as far from an essential service as you could get
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Go gently caress yourself you sanctimonious rear end. There are dozen of loving industries that go through much harder loving times and issues then footballers being asked to perhaps do 18 weeks if they loving want to. Your entire life right now is based around raising a 7month which no doubt takes all your time. How about you think about the hundreds of thousands of people out there who have no family nor friends to see and are otherwise living in total isolation and slowly getting more and more depressed with their situation where just perhaps the football may be one glimmer of breaking this poo poo loving cycle. So basically gently caress off you rear end in a top hat.
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May 8, 2020 03:45
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Punishment should be Tex walker having to be captain again.
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May 10, 2020 15:17
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gabensraum posted:The AFLPA has consistently showed they represent the top players more than the journeymen so this would not be a surprise. They're like the Shoppies of sport. The union you have when you don't have a union. I was going to say the AFLPA aren't making hands over feet money like the SDA does then I remembered Dangerfield is on the board so you're actually 100% right. What a loving joke. The initial contract players shouldnt have had their income touched at all.
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May 23, 2020 02:55
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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 The point of restrictions was to reduce transmission rates to a point where our hospitals can cope and keep the death rate down to flu like levels as opposed to cataclysmic levels. We cant just continue to hole up or a lot more people are going to perish just from the social and economic fallout.
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May 23, 2020 14:38
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BrigadierSensible posted:I completely agree. Much like the Brownlow is best AND fairest, there should be some character element, (with don't sexually assault anyone at the very least of it), involved in stuff like Hall of Fame/Legend status. When was Carey accused of sexual assault? He's a gently caress who glassed his girlfriend and hasnt shown a hint of real remorse but I dont recall any sex pest stuff?
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May 26, 2020 10:11
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teacup posted:He groped a woman’s breast at a club in Melbourne, when she protested at it iirc he said to her “why don’t you get a bigger pair of tits” What a gently caress.
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May 27, 2020 00:48
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Well in good news actual legitimate good bloke Lenny Hayes is now a Hall of Famer!
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Jun 1, 2020 13:25
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Get in the bin richmond. Also hawks.
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Jun 18, 2020 12:54
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Does this mean Collingwood is also bad? 
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Jun 18, 2020 15:07
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Well that's awesome. VAFA has just cancelled our season entirely, most likely due to the recent outbreak. loving assholes, it wasnt THAT loving hard to not throw parties and not loving act children who cant keep their fingers to themselves.
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Jul 1, 2020 11:36
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Memento posted:Well maybe fascist is too harsh but there sure is a lot of Ben Shapiro, Rita Panahi and Dana Loesch in his likes on twitter. You know, if you're gonna be a conservative right win poo poo bag why not at least aspire towards memorable right wing bastards like Reagan or Howard as opposed to third rate gently caress knuckles like those three.
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Jul 9, 2020 11:02
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This new holding the ball rule is absolutely atrocious. They have completely ignored the whole "prior opportunity" part of it. The AFL are a bunch of morons.,
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Jul 11, 2020 04:06
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Deserved to lose that. Just deplorable.
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Jul 11, 2020 06:00
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The amount of absolutely wrong calls this weekend really makes me re-think if the AFL should be honestly investigated by an independent body. If you had fifa/cricket umpires actively misinterpret the rules like they have been doing they would be investigated for potential match fixing. Its always been in a somewhat grey area with poor umpiring but Ive never before seen them actively ignore the rules as written before. Either someone is negligent with all this or they're on the take.
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Jul 12, 2020 10:11
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cmndstab posted:It's almost as if the game has become needlessly complex and could only possibly be officiated by full time umpires who are expected to do a good job and are paid accordingly. Are yOu INSAne??? For the record I dont actually think there's literal match fixing going on but it seems to be the umpiring "fraternity" is full of egotism and big heads who think they can dictate the game at will and have no issue in "punishing" people like Clarko who criticise them. The rule book needs to be re written to remove as much grey area as possible in my opinion. Also, Eddie Betts!
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drunkill posted:Carlton in the 8 with a percentage over 100 while eddie kicks a (small) bag? All this talk of "well the amount of teams that change out of the 8 from round 6 is blah blah blah" just seems crazy to me. This season is utterly unpredictable and with no double ups I think the top 8 could change considerably over the next 6 weeks. *edit. I really think that article posted before about how the footy media and commentary is its own worst enemy in how it portrays the game doesnt go far enough. The AFL itself is rife with it. I know its only a small thing, but the "9 things we learned" on the AFL site is an awkward photo of Carlisle either getting falconed or copping the rebounding football in the face. The AFL is meant to be representing each club fairly and equally, not showing embarrassing photos that arent really going to be taken in good humour by a hurting fan base. I get it, i'm obviously still annoyed over a loss and it is a very minor thing, but the last thing I really enjoy is going onto the league's own website and being made to feel worse by it. Why not actually attempt to support the fanbase instead of belittle it? Nutsngum fucked around with this message at 14:17 on Jul 12, 2020 |
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Periphery posted:Which is even more hilarious when you consider that it's in the AFLs interest to not undermine the small clubs at every chance given they funnel $10s of millions into those clubs each year. That one really rubbed me the wrong way. At what point were we pretenders? By winning some games? thepokey posted:In before we give Adelaide their first win Had we beaten Freo I would think that Adelaide would be a real danger game as it would just be perfect for us to catch them on a good day and they beat us but the players should have an absolute rocket shoved up their rear end after that embarrassing display. Ive been super happy with all our recruits for this year but Hill has just been so loving lacklustre. I wouldnt drop him but gently caress me he needs to lift.
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Jul 13, 2020 11:12
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harperdc posted:Apparently that post-game rocket was a derivation of “I’m not mad, I’m disappointed,” (Ratten’s words were apparently “Who do you want to be?”) which we all should know is the real one that cuts deep. Its a really hard one. These kind of losses can either be character building or destroying. The fact is we still fielded the 3rd youngest and the most inexperienced team as far as games played, those kind of players are just inevitably going to be mentally inconsistent and well, weak at times. Getting fired up and angry I feel doesn't really work in this respect, you have to be introspective to really get any kind of result out of it.
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Jul 15, 2020 17:15
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I feel like 4/5ths of all the games have a scoreline of +30 at some point at the moment.
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Spedman posted:Josh Bruce was on SEN crunch time today, I can see why he is still well liked by St Kilda fans, they do a podcast of the show if anyone is interested. Is he? He was kind of poo poo talking our training when he moved to the dogs.
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