AFL 2024
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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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Gather Round, or, as i like to call it, "We are so fucking back"
Adelaide lost, again
Friday was belting city as expected for North, but less expected for Essendon
West Coast put up a fight against Sydney
Carlton got the most umpire-assisted win in history
Geelong v Dogs was a beauty.
Gold Coast are so good, but just couldn't get over the early season leading GWS
St Kilda just beat Richmond, and Collingwood held off the HawksGWS lead the way, and look good
Melbourne are 2nd and probably better than i thought
Sydney are good, but WTF happened over Easter
Fuck Carlton (they are unbeaten and going well)
Geelong will not die, are better than last year, and have some guys to come back
Port and Freo look pretty good.
Bulldogs have elite talent but a poor bottom 8 or so players.St Kilda and Essendon look nicely placed to just miss finals
Last year's Grand Finalists are not back yet.
Richmond have banana skin game written all over them this yearFour teams haven't won in the first month, and look set for loooong years.
No real favourite emerged yet, too early, but it looks pretty open between about 8 teams
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bloody richmond stopped me getting a clean sweep....so hard to tip this year!
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crazy round
Lions belted Melbourne, score hugely flattered the Dees with some junk time goals. Best i have seen the Lions tackle for years. Considered an upset, especially by the victorian focused Ch7 team (suffer in your jocks flogs).
Then Essendon, who have looked terrible, beat the Dogs, who were showing signs of life.
GWS were smacking the Saints as expected, but then won by a point
Adelaide beat Carlton. WTF?
GC smacking the Hawks pretty much expected
Port and Freo played out a close but pretty dire game
Geelong did what is expected to north
And then fucking West Coast won.Either lots of teams are good, or no one is. I can't quite work it out yet.
