AFL 2019
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@mariner4life said in AFL 2019:
Marlion Pickett's a heck of a story
How good did he play?
Didn't actually watch it for the first time in years.
Was out and about and by the time I got home and turned on the tele it was something like 73-12.
Good to see he kicked a goal.
Kicked a goal, assisted at least 4 more. Repeatedly got the ball inside 50, late in the 3rd had gained the most distance on the ground. One highlight reel clearance. Not only at home, he excelled, and was playing on the ball by the 2nd quarter.
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@mariner4life said in AFL 2019:
Marlion Pickett's a heck of a story
How good did he play?
Was third in the norm smith medal count, that says a bit,
Was an amazing story, but he wasn’t your average first year player, 27, mature body, played in plenty of big games at the next level down.
Was best on ground in Richmond’s vfl premiership 6 days before. 2 premierships in a week. He must be on cloud nine considering where he has come from .
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@kiwiinmelb said in AFL 2019:
@mariner4life said in AFL 2019:
Marlion Pickett's a heck of a story
How good did he play?
Was third in the norm smith medal count, that says a bit,
Was an amazing story, but he wasn’t your average first year player, 27, mature body, played in plenty of big games at the next level down.
Was best on ground in Richmond’s vfl premiership 6 days before. 2 premierships in a week. He must be on cloud nine considering where he has come from .
Still a great story
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Two premierships in a week, life member of the club after one AFL game!
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Hows this for your first game of AFL, not sure it could get any better
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Yeah that was a cool story (can I sound like a wank and say 'narrative'?)
The comms - more McAvaney getting exciyted than anyone else - were talking him up as a chance at the Norm Smith at one stage.
As good as he was though, you're not going to get an easier AFL GF to debut in.
I couldn't believe by 11.30am yesterday, RS hadn't even mentioned the result let alone talked about the game, let alone had an Aussie correspondent on. I texted in and they read it out as if it was the fucking story and couldn't add anything at all to it aside from the score. Really poor, RS.
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The apple doesn’t fall....
Toby Greene's father faces Melbourne court over alleged police assault at MCG
The estranged father of Greater Western Sydney player Toby Greene is remanded in custody for allegedly assaulting a police officer after the grand final at the MCG.
Michael Greene, 59, is accused of headbutting a female officer as he was being removed from the stadium after Saturday's game.
Police were responding to reports of a man drunk in the bathrooms.
Mr Greene appeared at the Melbourne Magistrates' Court on Sunday morning facing six charges, including assaulting a police officer while in bail, assaulting an emergency worker, recklessly and intentionally causing injury to a police officer and being drunk in a public place. -
@ACT-Crusader said in AFL 2019:
The apple doesn’t fall....
Toby Greene's father faces Melbourne court over alleged police assault at MCG
The estranged father of Greater Western Sydney player Toby Greene is remanded in custody for allegedly assaulting a police officer after the grand final at the MCG.
Michael Greene, 59, is accused of headbutting a female officer as he was being removed from the stadium after Saturday's game.
Police were responding to reports of a man drunk in the bathrooms.
Mr Greene appeared at the Melbourne Magistrates' Court on Sunday morning facing six charges, including assaulting a police officer while in bail, assaulting an emergency worker, recklessly and intentionally causing injury to a police officer and being drunk in a public place.what a fluffybunny
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@ACT-Crusader said in AFL 2019:
The apple doesn’t fall....
Toby Greene's father faces Melbourne court over alleged police assault at MCG
The estranged father of Greater Western Sydney player Toby Greene is remanded in custody for allegedly assaulting a police officer after the grand final at the MCG.
Michael Greene, 59, is accused of headbutting a female officer as he was being removed from the stadium after Saturday's game.
Police were responding to reports of a man drunk in the bathrooms.
Mr Greene appeared at the Melbourne Magistrates' Court on Sunday morning facing six charges, including assaulting a police officer while in bail, assaulting an emergency worker, recklessly and intentionally causing injury to a police officer and being drunk in a public place.Your son is playing in a massive game, and you turn up and get shit faced , at 59 years or age.
Sounds like he has been a great role model for Toby.
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Massive bail-out package for the Suns, as they basically reset.
Pick 1, 2 and 20 this year
Pick 11 next year
Pick 19 the year afterAs well as some other measures like treating the entire NT as an academy, and an expanded rookie list.
Basically their whole club has to start again.
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A fizzer of a game, but really fun to be at the ground.
My Mrs is a big Carlton fan and I'm a on-and-off Swans supporter, so while we were supporting GWS we weren't gutted they lost. Just annoyed it wasn't a closer game.
GWS couldn't get any run off half back, and lost just about every stoppage. The turnovers just murdered them over and over again, too.
The atmosphere was amazing, considering 90% of the crowd were in yellow and black.
Would definitely do it again.
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@barbarian said in AFL 2019:
and lost just about every stoppage
Mumford was a complete waste of space on the weekend, given an absolute bath at the ruck, and the Richmond mids just won clearance after clearance.
Richmond defend that ground so well, and they tackled like absolute demons to squeeze the life out of the Giants. It was as good as i've seen a team play i think.
If i have to take pot shots, Jack Reiwoldt is still a flog, and the Tiger dove for 3 free kicks that i saw.
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Haven't missed a final since 2009. That was shit. GWS - just couldn't maintain the rage long enough, I think their best side, fully fit would've been a handful - just too many soldiers out or down on contribution sadly.
Richmond well worth the Premiership - makes up for last years miss. -
@westcoastie said in AFL 2019:
Haven't missed a final since 2009. That was shit. GWS - just couldn't maintain the rage long enough, I think their best side, fully fit would've been a handful - just too many soldiers out or down on contribution sadly.
Richmond well worth the Premiership - makes up for last years miss.they've been the best team for 2.5 years i think, and 2 flags is a just reward. And looking at their side, someone is going to have to play well next year to beat them as well.
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@mariner4life said in AFL 2019:
@westcoastie said in AFL 2019:
Haven't missed a final since 2009. That was shit. GWS - just couldn't maintain the rage long enough, I think their best side, fully fit would've been a handful - just too many soldiers out or down on contribution sadly.
Richmond well worth the Premiership - makes up for last years miss.they've been the best team for 2.5 years i think, and 2 flags is a just reward. And looking at their side, someone is going to have to play well next year to beat them as well.
agreed.
Richmond get Rance back, Marlion Pickett from Round 1, Sydney Stack.Hawks will come hard depending on who they pick-up in draft and/or trade. Tom Mitchell from R1, full & injury-free pre-season into Scully, Wingard.
GWS full strength and natural growth will be good again. West Coast should be ok. Collingwood if they can get a full-forward.
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that was the best defensive pressure I have seen richmond apply since the 2017 GF when they did a similar job on Adelaide ,
Gws were hanging in there early , but their usual accurate chip it around game had to be a lot more rushed than they are used to , and from that came the disposal errors, richmond punished them with the turnover ball , and once they lost confidence in their own gameplan, it was all downhill, you could see it in their body language live at the ground.They have a bit of ruthlessness about them this tiger side, once they smell blood they can put the game out of your reach pretty quickly .
Gws did well to get there from 6th, but I think it was one game too many for them, and I think most Richmond fans were pretty happy when we got GWS, not Collingwood to be honest.
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@mariner4life said in AFL 2019:
@westcoastie said in AFL 2019:
Haven't missed a final since 2009. That was shit. GWS - just couldn't maintain the rage long enough, I think their best side, fully fit would've been a handful - just too many soldiers out or down on contribution sadly.
Richmond well worth the Premiership - makes up for last years miss.they've been the best team for 2.5 years i think, and 2 flags is a just reward. And looking at their side, someone is going to have to play well next year to beat them as well.
About 5 years ago they had a great top 6 players. And even their next 6 were good, but their was a massive drop in that next 6 and so they were always finishing where they should’ve (around 8-9th).
What they done is build significant depth and surrounded their superstar top players with excellent role players that know their job and have been able to develop.
It’s almost Golden State Warrior-ish in having the core 4 stars and then the role players to plug holes.
The use of their cap is quite similar as well.
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@ACT-Crusader said in AFL 2019:
@mariner4life said in AFL 2019:
@westcoastie said in AFL 2019:
Haven't missed a final since 2009. That was shit. GWS - just couldn't maintain the rage long enough, I think their best side, fully fit would've been a handful - just too many soldiers out or down on contribution sadly.
Richmond well worth the Premiership - makes up for last years miss.they've been the best team for 2.5 years i think, and 2 flags is a just reward. And looking at their side, someone is going to have to play well next year to beat them as well.
About 5 years ago they had a great top 6 players. And even their next 6 were good, but their was a massive drop in that next 6 and so they were always finishing where they should’ve (around 8-9th).
What they done is build significant depth and surrounded their superstar top players with excellent role players that know their job and have been able to develop.
It’s almost Golden State Warrior-ish in having the core 4 stars and then the role players to plug holes.
The use of their cap is quite similar as well.
Also over that time Dimma Hardwick has matured as a coach , instead of imitating Clarkson and trying to play like hawthorn like he did in the early years.
He has been innovative and invented new ways to do things that have now become Richmond’s trademark.
