Re: AFL 2008 thread

by PearlJ Fri 12 Sep 2008, 13:36

The Pies are the only bottom 4 team left now. When was the last time a club outside the Top 4 won the flag?

by embee Fri 12 Sep 2008, 13:40

Adelaide

by ten years after Sat 13 Sep 2008, 01:58

embee wrote:Irony

The interchange free kick that was introduced after the Swans got caught cheating ...gives the Swans an advantage ...

It certainly changed the momentum for a while. Higgins had a reasonably easy shot at goal which would have put them 10 or more points ahead. Instead the Swans kicked a point and then a goal right after the kick in and took the lead.

The offence offence committed was not important enough to get a free kick at goal, this should occur only when a team has had 19 players on the pitch. The line markings in the interchange area should be placed so as to make it very difficult to run out in the wrong place.

by ten years after Sat 13 Sep 2008, 02:23

The first time since 1995 that the 2nd last weekend in September has had 4 Victorian teams.

by skully Sat 13 Sep 2008, 05:10

Out of interest, do Vomit supporters generally despise out of town teams more than Victorian sides, or would Viles rather see Brisbane or Sydney win the flag instead of Collingwood or Carlton?

by ten years after Sat 13 Sep 2008, 05:47

skully wrote:Out of interest, do Vomit supporters generally despise out of town teams more than Victorian sides, or would Viles rather see Brisbane or Sydney win the flag instead of Collingwood or Carlton?

I associate with the Victorian teams more than the others as i spent my first 7 years in Oz based there. Probably because i wasn't born and bred here i don't despise any team (the way i do Arsenal for instance), not even Collingwood.

Of the Melburnians whose opinion i am aware of i would say that those who hate Collingwood or Carlton tend to be happy for them to be beaten by interstate teams with the exception of West Coast. This wouldn't generally apply to the other Victorian teams.

A lot of Fitzroy supporters suddenly decided that they could support Brisbane back in 2001 and there are still some South Melbourne die-hards who support Sydney.

The same question might apply with regard to Port Adelaide/Adelaide supporters. I don't know many South Australians but I get the impression that those who don't support Port seem to hate them with a passion.

by skully Sat 13 Sep 2008, 06:44

Cheers tya.

by embee Sat 13 Sep 2008, 10:22

Go Saints

by Nath Sat 13 Sep 2008, 10:54

skully wrote:Out of interest, do Vomit supporters generally despise out of town teams more than Victorian sides, or would Viles rather see Brisbane or Sydney win the flag instead of Collingwood or Carlton?

I have no problem with this

by skully Sat 13 Sep 2008, 11:24

WTF is going on with free-to-air (analogue and digital) coverage of the Saints-Pies game? Farkin 10 Digital has some sh!t kid's movie on and 10HD has Before The Game on.

FMD, this gives me the sh!ts. I feel like a farkin Wozzie.

by Nath Sat 13 Sep 2008, 11:59

sounds like "ratings". on 30 min delay here

by embee Sat 13 Sep 2008, 12:08

Wozzies are getting this one live

by skully Sat 13 Sep 2008, 12:10

Farkin stoopid Spiv channels.

by skully Sat 13 Sep 2008, 12:48

Judging by the live updates on Fox (FFS), Riewoldt looks like he's stepped up.

by Fred Nerk Sat 13 Sep 2008, 13:37

And we all fell arse over elbow for the 'you're only as good as your last game' chestnut yet again - the teams played 22 home and away games, and then the teams that finished third and fourth beat teams 6 and 8 respectively and we're meant to be surprised.

And as for all the whinging about Essendon 'tanking' to let st Kilda in in the last round: in the second last round Adelaide beat an equally undermanned Essendon by half St Kilda's margin, and a couple of weeks before that Collingwood played them and got their bums well and truly kicked.

Over summer, if Geelong don't fall in a heap sometime in the next fortnight, look out for 'they only won by ducking us' or if they do, 'we showed Hawthorn/St Kilda/WB how' from the Collingwood crowd.

by Mick Sawyer Sun 14 Sep 2008, 10:19

trumpet fanfare: I'm on the bulldogs bandwagon.

by Red Sun 14 Sep 2008, 10:37

I hate the Aints.

by Fred Nerk Sun 14 Sep 2008, 11:28

Take the human haemorroid called Aker out of the picture and we'd all be on the Bulldogs bandwagon..

by skully Sun 14 Sep 2008, 12:17

Watched him on Before the Game last night (which was on when the farkin game shoulda been on live) and he was pretty funny. Clearly a showboating @rseclown, but funny.

by Nath Sun 14 Sep 2008, 12:28

could Malthouse be any more up himself?

by skully Sun 14 Sep 2008, 12:36

Silliest question since silly questions were asked in a silly manner.

No.

by freddled gruntbuggly Mon 15 Sep 2008, 12:25

Gotta love those Saints.

by skully Mon 15 Sep 2008, 12:27

I thought the Hawks were the new Hobart?

by freddled gruntbuggly Mon 15 Sep 2008, 12:29

Of course.
But I love anyone who beats Collingwood. Especially in the finals.

And when it's St Kilda it brings back memories of that Grand Final, which was one of the greatest results in the history of the game . . .

by Ross Tue 16 Sep 2008, 00:46

AA team named last night:

B: Dale Morris, Matthew Scarlett, Tom Harley
HB: Luke Hodge, Nathan Bock, Sam Fisher
C: Jimmy Bartel, Joel Corey, Adam Cooney
HF: Steve Johnson, Nick Riewoldt, Brent Harvey
F: Brendan Fevola, Lance Franklin, Paul Medhurst
Foll: Dean Cox, Chris Judd, Gary Ablett
Inter: Corey Enright, Matthew Pavlich, Matthew Richardson, Aaron Sandilands

I called 20 of the 22 named correct.

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