AFL 2018
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@mariner4life said in AFL 2018:
@kiwiinmelb said in AFL 2018:
It’s looking like Tom lynch , Gold Coast captain and full forward will be joining the tigers next year as a free agent , so Richmond get him for nothing .
As a tiger supporter I’m pumped , but I reckon the afl will be thinking why did we agree to introduce free agency ?
Free agency absolutely works for teams in Victoria who are challenging for flags. It does not work for anyone else.
Lynch is a gun, but it will be interesting to see how he fits in to Richmond's system.
The thinking was at the time , that teams at the top of the ladder would struggle to keep all their stars , and cashed up teams near the bottom could benefit as the top sides struggle with the salary cap.
But they didn’t take into account , players in those bottom sides , who might want to chase some success
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Is he a restricted free agent?
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@kiwiinmelb said in AFL 2018:
@mariner4life said in AFL 2018:
@kiwiinmelb said in AFL 2018:
It’s looking like Tom lynch , Gold Coast captain and full forward will be joining the tigers next year as a free agent , so Richmond get him for nothing .
As a tiger supporter I’m pumped , but I reckon the afl will be thinking why did we agree to introduce free agency ?
Free agency absolutely works for teams in Victoria who are challenging for flags. It does not work for anyone else.
Lynch is a gun, but it will be interesting to see how he fits in to Richmond's system.
The thinking was at the time , that teams at the top of the ladder would struggle to keep all their stars , and cashed up teams near the bottom could benefit as the top sides struggle with the salary cap.
But they didn’t take into account , players in those bottom sides , who might want to chase some success
North throwing huge money at everyone and getting no one proved it doesn't work. Players will sacrifice a decent wedge of coin to abandon a dumpster fire of a club. Suns are boned for ever.
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@act-crusader said in AFL 2018:
GWS has a terrible injury toll and it will take a huge improvement from their bottom 6-8 players to really impact the finals.
Here's hoping the Dees can keep chalking up wins vs top 8 sides now, including GWS this weekend.
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@act-crusader said in AFL 2018:
GWS has a terrible injury toll and it will take a huge improvement from their bottom 6-8 players to really impact the finals.
Here's hoping the Dees can keep chalking up wins vs top 8 sides now, including GWS this weekend.
haha 1 win and exectations are through the roof.
GWS. Jesus, they just can't keep players on the field. Two years in a row hammered by injury.
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@mariner4life said in AFL 2018:
@act-crusader said in AFL 2018:
GWS has a terrible injury toll and it will take a huge improvement from their bottom 6-8 players to really impact the finals.
Here's hoping the Dees can keep chalking up wins vs top 8 sides now, including GWS this weekend.
haha 1 win and exectations are through the roof.
GWS. Jesus, they just can't keep players on the field. Two years in a row hammered by injury.
Momentum
I'm really hopeful such a good win can be their springboard to bigger and better results.
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@mariner4life said in AFL 2018:
@act-crusader said in AFL 2018:
GWS has a terrible injury toll and it will take a huge improvement from their bottom 6-8 players to really impact the finals.
Here's hoping the Dees can keep chalking up wins vs top 8 sides now, including GWS this weekend.
haha 1 win and exectations are through the roof.
GWS. Jesus, they just can't keep players on the field. Two years in a row hammered by injury.
Momentum
I'm really hopeful such a good win can be their springboard to bigger and better results.
mate, I'm with you. I would love Melbourne to be the fairytale of 2018. three droughts broken in a row
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If they get past the first round, I think I'll have to head over (unless they're off to Perth). One of the very best sports experiences I've ever had was a finals game in 2002 between the Dees and Crows at the MCG. It was nearly full I think, the score swung back and forth including some wide margins, the crowd was in full voice ('you're going home in a divvy van' etc) and despite losing the game, I had a very cool time.
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Finals in AFL are a great experience , went to 2 in 95 I think it was against the bombers , won that then lost the prelim to geelong , 2001 went to a win against Carlton
Ive had a few not so good ones , losses , think it was Carlton , Port , North in consecutive years more recently , went to all of them ,
Then last year the 3, quarter against Geelong , prelim against GWS and the GF , went to all 3 in 4 weeks ,
What a ride that was .
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I'll go to the Lions grand final in 2020
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@mariner4life said in AFL 2018:
I'll go to the Lions grand final in 2020
is the AFL running another comp that year?
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@antipodean said in AFL 2018:
@mariner4life said in AFL 2018:
I'll go to the Lions grand final in 2020
is the AFL running another comp that year?
stranger things have happened.
For instance the 'Dogs winning, Richmond becoming more than a laughing stock...
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@mariner4life said in AFL 2018:
Richmond becoming more than a laughing stock...
That was a long term plan. We're now focusing on long term dominance.
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@mariner4life said in AFL 2018:
I'll go to the Lions grand final in 2020
The ones from South Africa?
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@act-crusader said in AFL 2018:
@mariner4life said in AFL 2018:
I'll go to the Lions grand final in 2020
The ones from South Africa?
St Kilda fans are in absolutely no position to throw shade at anyone
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@mariner4life said in AFL 2018:
@act-crusader said in AFL 2018:
@mariner4life said in AFL 2018:
I'll go to the Lions grand final in 2020
The ones from South Africa?
St Kilda fans are in absolutely no position to throw shade at anyone
When you get beat by the Eagles and we cough cough defeat the Kangaroos this weekend, we will finish above the lowly Lions.
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Nothing would surprise me in AFL ,
Who had Collingwood as a contender this year ?
A real one at that .
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@mariner4life said in AFL 2018:
@act-crusader said in AFL 2018:
GWS has a terrible injury toll and it will take a huge improvement from their bottom 6-8 players to really impact the finals.
Here's hoping the Dees can keep chalking up wins vs top 8 sides now, including GWS this weekend.
haha 1 win and exectations are through the roof.
GWS. Jesus, they just can't keep players on the field. Two years in a row hammered by injury.
Momentum
I'm really hopeful such a good win can be their springboard to bigger and better results.
That's two wins on the bounce VS teams in the top 8 with a resounding victory against GWS today. Now we get an elimination final VS Geelong. We're due a win against the Cats and we go in ranked ahead of them, but these are the sort of banana skin games a side such as the current Dees with minimal finals experience - and none as a group - could drop. Or the momentum, hype and some youthful exuberance might keep them surging forward. Of course I hope the latter!
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And so the regular season is done. Richmond easily the top side, everyone else in the 8 is pretty even i think.
Would anybody be surprised to see Clarkson come up with a plan to beat Richmond in their final?
Biggest Surprises of the year?
North not being awful
The Eagles finishing top 2. Actually you could stretch that to the rest of the top 4 after Richmond. Not sure many would have predicted any of them finishing that highBiggest Disappointments?
South Australian football. The Crows played the GF and were possibly the best team last year. They were out of the finals race with 3 weeks to go. Port recruited mature guys to have a crack at a flag and got worse.
St Kilda were tipped for a run at the 8, but were rubbish.
The GWS medical department
Perhaps Geelong only scraping in to the 8?For the Lions? well, we won 5 games. We lost another 5 by less than a kick. There was a definite, tangible improvement in the team this year. We have a heap of young guns, but our best players are still the older blokes (Dayne Beams is a deadset gun). A percentage close to 90 is not bad for a team that lost that many times. The goal for next year is 10 wins, finals in 2020.
Richmond, West Coast, Sydney and Melbourne to win their finals.
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@mariner4life said in AFL 2018:
And so the regular season is done. Richmond easily the top side, everyone else in the 8 is pretty even i think.
Would anybody be surprised to see Clarkson come up with a plan to beat Richmond in their final?Not at all, he's had basically all year after we beat them in round three to come up with and practise a plan. Stop our contested possessions and slow the pace of the game down. Easy to say...
To have any confidence he'd have needed to show his hand already against teams that play like the Tigers, to see if the plan worked.
