AFL 2024
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Sydney win after a good 4th quarter (after 3 very dour ones). Repeatedly won the ball in midfield despite the names they were up against.
I think Melbourne's forwards will struggle to kick big enough scores this year to get them too high up the ladder.
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yeah, we looks quite rusty, other than that final quarter we seemed to really struggle for contested marks, lots of kicks (from both sides) going straight to D's players in uncontested positions....hopefully...winning ugly is the first step to winning pretty
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I hate footy
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it's taken a lot of time and a lot of money, but the expansion clubs are finally top of the ladder.
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damn....1 from 4....not a good start!
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Great win from Carlton, nobody saw it coming. Not least when they were down 46 points. So important for their self belief going forward.
A lot of focus on McKay but I thought Acres was excellent and they looked a lot more polished coming off half back, with Williams and Saad starting movement much better than previous years.
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unfortunately Carlton avoided the almighty lol as they just got over Richmond. Big crowd of the league's biggest nuffies in attendance. Mouth breathing everywhere.
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@mariner4life i had tipped carlton so was happy they got up....i dont feel it was that long ago (2 seasons?) Richmond would have put 60 points on the blues
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i hate footy
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@mariner4life I can understand your comment. Paying $1.48 for the away win I think your guys were up something like 28 - 02 and then leaked about 40 points (against Freo of all teams) before they scored again, I blew my dosh on them as well.
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i know it's only Rd2 (1, whatever)
and i know we made the GF last yearBut this shit has been going on for as long as Fages has been coach. We're weak as piss, and we have no way to stop teams once they get a sniff. Bruise free, soft option footy on defence, and then panicked kicks forward when we do get it. Throw in our usual shit goal kicking, and boom, lose to fucking Freo.
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pretty much every other game went to script.
I think you can pen the two Sydney teams and carlton in to finals. I assume Collingwood will come back after a tough start.
West Coast, the Bulldogs, and North locks for the bottom 3. -
or not? Collingwood go 0-3 to start after falling to St Kilda of all teams.
And suddenly we have a Grand Final rematch in a week where the Lions are trying to avoid falling to 0-3 themselves (including two losses at home which would almost make top 4 impossible) and Collingwood are trying to avoid 0-4 and a full-blown crisis.
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damn, i was sure the pies would finally get one...they in trouble
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@mariner4life said in AFL 2024:
or not? Collingwood go 0-3 to start after falling to St Kilda of all teams.
Hey hey, we almost snagged a win in the hardest venue to win a game last week.
We had way too much run for Collingwood down the stretch. I was feeling pretty confident going in even if our record against the Pies sucks.
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well well, Andrew Wilkie really doesn't want a new AFL stadium in Tasmania does he?
Last night, he stood up in Parliament, and went "whack!" at the AFL via the Melbourne Demons, all around cocain.
We all know the shitstorm surrounding the Demons, the rumours around Goodwin, then Joel Smith for trafficking coke, and the league seemed to just hope that all slid away.
Well, that's not likely to happen now, after Wilkie made some pretty hard core allegations
- private, unreported pre-game testing of players for drugs, with any failures being omitted for the weekend with "injuries" (very very bad weekend for a player to be a late out)
- AFL house ignoring aired concerns around the drug use of the Demons coach
- AFL house getting ride of the Melbourne president when he wanted to expand drug testing to all levels of his club (wilkie made it sound like to AFL level as well)
I don't really know what to make of the whole deal, but it's real bit of bad PR that the AFL executive will have to front up and explain, and that could get juicy.
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@mariner4life I dont follow much AFL but this story has serious legs, wow just wow if this is true..
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I haaaaate footy
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Season kicked off yet?
