AFL 2019
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I think it’s pretty open to be honest,
Plenty of little twists and turns could happen over the next few weeks , Richmond have to play 2 sides above them on the ladder in 3 weeks , at the g which helps .
But 1 loss and they are out of the 4. Even Carlton won’t be easy this week in their resurgence, they hate us with a passion and would love nothing more.The perfect scenario for us would be to the top 4 to stay as it is and we get Geelong at the g first week of the finals. They get a bit spooked about playing us there .
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@ACT-Crusader said in AFL 2019:
@mariner4life the Bont is having a huge second half of the season. Probably is Brownlow favourite now.
He's a beast of a player, big, fast and skillful
Brownlow could be pretty bloody close. Cripps, Bont, Neale and a couple of others will be polling votes most weeks. Kelly would have polled heaps early. Can't say i watch enough West Coast, but one of their blokes must be getting a heap as well.
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@kiwiinmelb said in AFL 2019:
I think it’s pretty open to be honest,
Plenty of little twists and turns could happen over the next few weeks , Richmond have to play 2 sides above them on the ladder in 3 weeks , at the g which helps .
But 1 loss and they are out of the 4. Even Carlton won’t be easy this week in their resurgence, they hate us with a passion and would love nothing more.The perfect scenario for us would be to the top 4 to stay as it is and we get Geelong at the g first week of the finals. They get a bit spooked about playing us there .
Given your draw, i reckon you are a chance to sneak in to 2nd, and host there anyway. I don't think the Lions would want to play you there.
As far as i am concerned, if we can't host (and i can't really see us finishing top 2) then i hope we get Geelong, and the AFL make them play at the 'G.
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Cripps will definitely poll well early in the season. He was on fire right up until around round 9
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@mariner4life said in AFL 2019:
@kiwiinmelb said in AFL 2019:
I think it’s pretty open to be honest,
Plenty of little twists and turns could happen over the next few weeks , Richmond have to play 2 sides above them on the ladder in 3 weeks , at the g which helps .
But 1 loss and they are out of the 4. Even Carlton won’t be easy this week in their resurgence, they hate us with a passion and would love nothing more.The perfect scenario for us would be to the top 4 to stay as it is and we get Geelong at the g first week of the finals. They get a bit spooked about playing us there .
Given your draw, i reckon you are a chance to sneak in to 2nd, and host there anyway. I don't think the Lions would want to play you there.
As far as i am concerned, if we can't host (and i can't really see us finishing top 2) then i hope we get Geelong, and the AFL make them play at the 'G.
I don’t think we can overtake WC or Brisbane unless we beat them and they lose again given the percentage difference.
If we were to beat Brisbane and west coast we would be on the same wins , unless you guys lost to Geelong as well , I think west coast have 2 other winnable games.
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@ACT-Crusader said in AFL 2019:
Cripps will definitely poll well early in the season. He was on fire right up until around round 9
He was, but Carlton only won one of those games so I can't see him bagging too many 3-pointers. That said, in the absence of a consensus favourite I don't think he will need as many votes as he might have in previous seasons.
Neale is now the bookmakers favourite, followed by Kelly, Fyfe and Cripps.
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Winning games and getting Brownlow votes doesn’t always correlate. Plugger won a Brownlow playing for the Saints in the 80s....
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Cripps polled 20 votes last year when he wasn't as good, and the Blues got beaten like ginger stepkids
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You've got to give Chris Scott credit. Geelong falling back to the pack, and he fronts up and answers questions pretty honestly and with a refreshing level of insight.
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Also Mark Robinson is a shameless flog
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And so 2 weeks of regular season left.
Lions predictably boost the percentage with a Q-clash and jump to 2nd. @booboo 's crows drop out of the 8
Finals starts 3 weeks early! this weekend 1st plays 2nd, and 3rd plays 4th. Lions are playing at home for top spot if you can believe it. This season has been amazing no matter what happens from here.
Bottom spots in the 8 are well open. The Doggies are coming hard, Adelaide fell to 9th, both Essendon and Port who are there at the moment are vulnerable.
I'm not surprised @shark has abandoned this thread. Melbourne have gone from a prelim, to 5-win 2nd last. An appalling season for a club tipped to contend for the lot this year.
I am still tipping Richmond v West Coast GF.
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@mariner4life said in AFL 2019:
And so 2 weeks of regular season left.
Lions predictably boost the percentage with a Q-clash and jump to 2nd. @booboo 's crows drop out of the 8
Finals starts 3 weeks early! this weekend 1st plays 2nd, and 3rd plays 4th. Lions are playing at home for top spot if you can believe it. This season has been amazing no matter what happens from here.
Bottom spots in the 8 are well open. The Doggies are coming hard, Adelaide fell to 9th, both Essendon and Port who are there at the moment are vulnerable.
I'm not surprised @shark has abandoned this thread. Melbourne have gone from a prelim, to 5-win 2nd last. An appalling season for a club tipped to contend for the lot this year.
I am still tipping Richmond v West Coast GF.
Yep. It's pretty galling to go from the swift upward curve of 2016-18, to this years' fucking dross.
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A pretty satisfied feeling to all but end Freo’s finals chances. Haha Ross.
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@mariner4life only lost to West Coast in Perth by 10. Not the worst performance.
And only out of the 8 by less than 2%.
Apparently favourites to beat the Pies. ??
It could be all about percentage for us and Port the next two weeks.
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@mariner4life only lost to West Coast in Perth by 10. Not the worst performance.
And only out of the 8 by less than 2%.
Apparently favourites to beat the Pies. ??
It could be all about percentage for us and Port the next two weeks.
yeah, it was the best the Crows have looked for a fair while. 7th and 8th is a complete shitfight so you are balls deep in it. I think the Bombers are in trouble as their percentage is awful.
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I’m keeping a lid on the tigers chances until we get through the next fortnight, eagles and lions, both in excellent form, in successive weeks should give us more of an indication.
One loss and out of the 4, it gets much tougher from there. Eagles who play the g really well( won their last 5 ) will be a big test this week
I think it’s wide open, any of teams in the 4 and maybe Collingwood are capable imo.
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@kiwiinmelb we should put GWS there as well, but the reality is they aren't a threat. What is wrong at that club? They have a heap of talent in every line, but they are always beset by injury. And when it gets tough, they melt. The worst type of downhill skiers.
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@mariner4life said in AFL 2019:
@kiwiinmelb we should put GWS there as well, but the reality is they aren't a threat. What is wrong at that club? They have a heap of talent in every line, but they are always beset by injury. And when it gets tough, they melt. The worst type of downhill skiers.
A guy I know through work, his son was drafted there, a lower pick , a bit on the outer , and ended up at Melbourne, finished now.He told me a few things , but I think you hit the nail on the head , a bunch of talented kids who have had everything gift wrapped for them to keep them happy , and as a result , they have developed a culture of quitters when the going gets tough.
The other thing, they can’t use the excuse of being young anymore, when we played them, we fielded a younger team than them .
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Nice touch with Hawthorn giving Jarryd Roughead a farewell game against the Suns this weekend.
Not a Hawks fan, but definitely an admirer of that great team they assembled, and Roughead was an integral part of it. Seems like a genuinely nice guy who it appears no one has a bad word to say about. Coming back from cancer is always a great story as well.
That vision of him "coaching" his young opponent in the VFL this year was all the warm fuzzies i love about sport sometimes.
Hope he manages to kick a bag.
