AFL 2022
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@mariner4life season over. Our goal kicking accuracy has been poor for 3 seasons.
Arghhhh.
Bulldogs scrape home in what was a tough watch.
Blues will be absolutely kicking themselves to let that one drop. Now it’s on the line for them next week against the Pies in what could be the biggest home and away crowd in footy history. Pies to stay in top 4 and have double chance and blues playing to stay in the 8. At the G, will be epic.
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and so, with a round to go, we still have 10 alive, though the Saints would need to flog the absolute fuck out of Sydney to make it.
Sydney finally end Collingwood's streak, which threw them from 2nd to 5th because of their ordinary percentage.
Carlton do a Carlton and throw away a win over Melbourne, and now they have to play Collingwood on Sunday and win in front of probably 400,000 baying bogans.
The Bulldogs probably only need to beat Hawthorn and have Carlton lose to play finals.
Richmond are in, will finish 7th, and suddenly finishing 6th looks very treacherous.Lions play Melbourne on Friday night, winner to the top 4, loser probably to 5th
Geelong have minor premiership sewn up, and will probably run out the U16s to play WC in the final round
The order of 2nd to 6th will all depend on results this weekend which is pretty cool for the competition.
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didn't Essington have quite the day yesterday? Mid-morning they had sacked their coach.
By mid-afternoon he was unsacked (okay it was all media hearsay really, but you look around it, with the extraordinary board meeting etc it was weird)
Now there is very much the chat it's all about getting Clarkson. The chat was yesterday they thought it was on, so were making moves on Rutten, then it was off, so Rutten was back. Either way, it does look like Rutten is gone after another horrible season.
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@mariner4life and if he (Clarkson) goes to North then Essendon are in even more dire straits. The club is a mess and there is an arrogance there that Clarko may want to avoid like the plague.
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@ACT-Crusader said in AFL 2022:
@mariner4life and if he (Clarkson) goes to North then Essendon are in even more dire straits. The club is a mess and there is an arrogance there that Clarko may want to avoid like the plague.
i think it's almost inevitable that they will not have a coach next week. And they will be forced to find ANOTHER up and comer, because surely no A-Grader wants to go near the place.
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Essendon are going though a similar thing Richmond went through but a decade or two behind them ,
After a couple of decades of being a power house ( richmond 60s and 70s , bombers 80s and 90s ) there came a feeling of arrogance and entitlement ,
And when it all finished , they both found themselves always looking for the quick fix to get back to the top, and making panic decisions
As a Richmond supporter ive been watching them for a while now thinking you guys have taken our mantle
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@kiwiinmelb the amount of good draft picks they have traded away, not admitting a true rebuild was necessary, the lack of healing from drugs saga or thinking the club and members were over it, the constant Hird talk, merry go round of assistant and head coaches - all coming home to roost.
Good job I say. Couldn’t stand them as a kid.
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@ACT-Crusader yeah we were a bit similar without the drug scandals , but sacking coaches who didn’t get instant results every few years , that was the Richmond ruthless way , almost like they were scared of their own feral supporter base
It wasn’t until they got a calm ceo , president and footy manager in gale Peggy and Balme who allowed Hardwick the time to recruit his own list they started to see long term results .
It’s interesting how often the rot starts from the top not the coach , but the coachs wears the blame
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Clarko to the Kangaroos.
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@mariner4life here’s my smokey, Buddy to finish his career at North.
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Essendon never in with a show. Kangas and GWS only real possibles and given his former links to Kangas it was only going to be there.
Bombers way too late to the party and they either knew it and have used it as the out to get rid of their current coach or they are naive.
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@ACT-Crusader said in AFL 2022:
Clarko to the Kangaroos.
Grew up supporting them then played for them , so there might be a bit of loyalty in his choice
Will be very little pressure on him , will be given all the time he needs to rebuild properly, I think it’s an excellent fit for north , they should feel very lucky
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Fuck off Carlton enjoy Bali
Brisbane will get Richmond for week 1 of finals and we'll get rolled
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and so end the home and away season
Geelong finish 2 wins in front. Melbourne end up 2nd thanks to hammering Brisbane in the last round, Sydney 3rd, and collingwood round out the top 4
Freo 5th, Brisbane 6th, a couple of wins in front of Richmond, and the Dogs sneak in at the deathAnd of the teams on holiday, a couple of horro shows
Carlton were in the 8 all season right up until a minute from the end of their final game. Heart breaking
St Kilda went 8-3 in to the buy, and then 3-8 to finish 10th
Port's 0-5 start killed them off. The suns did pretty well to get 10 wins.
Some horror shows below that, led by Essendon and GWS. North and West Coast were historically awfulFirst week of finals i can't see Collingwood beating Geelong
Melbourne v Sydney should be epic
Freo should beat the Dogs
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My preseason ladder prediction:
Melbourne
Western Bulldogs
Port
Brisbane
Geelong
Sydney
Richmond
GWSEssendon
St Kilda
Carlton
Freo
West Coast
Hawthorn
North
Adelaide
Suns
CollingwoodClose on Melbourne, wildly overestimated the Dogs and Port, underestimated Geelong and Sydney and Freo and holy shit Collingwood.
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@ACT-Crusader said in AFL 2022:
Swans v Dogs - 8 v 10. Only a game the difference and Dogs need to be able to remain in touch.
This was only 6 weeks ago. One is in the top 4 and the other is 8th and playing finals.
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the reason i hate Carlton #264
Despite finishing 9th, they have 3 All Australians. Could the media suck this dogshit club off any harder?
Two decades and counting of ladder irrelevance, still more talked about than probably 14 other clubs (and not just to laugh at them like Essendon)
