AFL 2024

skully wrote:Swans are going OK for once.

it's a marathon, not a sprint.

Indeed Nath, but happy for the Bloods to be going ok.

Yeah 'it's a marathon not a sprint' but teams that show good form at the start of the season generally show good form at the sharp end regardless of what happens in the middle - a slow start means you're chasing the season all the way to the finals, and if even you make it you're generally too shagged out by then to be any kind of real threat

Lions have an easy run over the next 7-8 weeks.  I know their opponents tonight were very poor, but they’re looking like finalists again.

Nath wrote:

lardbucket wrote:or Richmond … how far have the ‘mighty’ fallen

sounds them right for being "cocky P's" after getting a taste of success

Further still. That was lamentable.

163 v 44 - unless I'm very much Murray Walker that was also the final score in the 07 Granny.

Enjoy the flashbacks, Kane C

Fred Nerk wrote:163 v 44 - unless I'm very much Murray Walker that was also the final score in the 07 Granny.

Enjoy the flashbacks, Kane C

Now that was a great game! Incredible to think there were two Burgoynes and two Cornes on the receiving end of that. Like last night - Dustin Martin was barely sighted.

lardbucket wrote:
Now that was a great game! Incredible to think there were two Burgoynes and two Cornes on the receiving end of that. Like last night - Dustin Martin was barely sighted.

is this the final year of his contract? seems like he has lost interest, and no point in another club chasing him for a 1 year deal (even Gold Coast)

Last season on this contract apparently (9 million over 7 years); still the second highest paid footballer in the AFL this year.

I agree he’ll likely do a Franklin - finish there and be unwanted (at least for any substantial sum) elsewhere.

He could yet finish early, but surely he wouldn’t want last night to be his final effort.

Dusty is a few games short of 300

he is a free agent for next season

Dusty will play 300 in the match of Richmond's choice from the next 3-6 weeks draw, and there will be no 301. Last night was sad to watch.

dont know why anybody would have watched BL vs Tigs

we are putting out a VFL level side at the moment and the opposition are FTBing us

Dusty and ShaiBo dont see the point in putting in an effort

embee wrote:dont know why anybody would have watched BL vs Tigs

I watched the end of it - enjoyed Brisbane's display and yes, there was some schadenfreude at Richmond's plight after their incredible arrogance (even worse; that of some of their supporters) when they were at their recent peak

It was better than watching the Dishwater Cup between Lyon's current and former mobs of one-speed plodders.

dammit

RIP Barry Davis - Essendon Premiership player 1965, captain, coach immediately before Sheedy, North Melbourne's first Premiership captain. Mostly a defender and a glorious long drop kick who won WOS Champion Kick nearly as regularly as an O'Toole won the woodchopping.

RIP Bill Serong - Collingwood 'enforcer', long-kicking, high-flying defender from their 58 Premiership team, from whom the ranks are thinning.  Also apparently a bit of an academic who evantually became a lawyer. Also played a season at North.

RIP both.

Another draw! That’s three this season so far.

....and according to The Media the walls came tumbling down. Again

And GWS win at Greater Manchester Hamster Breeders Association Stadium. Again.
Providing yet more evidence that if you're half reasonable, and you get to play there regularly, you are whatever chance of beating Geelong at Cardigan Park that you are at Marvel or the G. Or that the Amityville Horror mystique around that venue s a load of hamster droppings

Cats just aren’t playing well. Nasty slump.

The umpiring is very inconsistent.

Red wrote:The umpiring is very inconsistent.

it's consistently inconsistent. 4 umpires doesn't work

Another round of unpredictable results. What on earth was that from Melbourne?