AFL 2021
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oh Hawthorn, what have you done?
I like Sam Mitchell (his injection sledge v Essendon was the funniest bit of chat caught on camera) and by all accounts he'll be a great coach, BUT, Clarko is a fucking gun, he's guided them to amazing success, and we've seen this sort of handover go tits up before.
I would imagine there are 9-10 clubs ringing his manager already.
You know what, i love Fagan, but i would take Clarkson next year in a heartbeat.
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@mariner4life Clarko won’t coach next year, but I think he’ll be back in 2023.
I think all the uncertainty and noise got the better of Hawthorn and they needed a circuit breaker. It’s easy to shake the noise off if you are winning but because they are in a lean period it only gets louder and the journos will latch on to any minor thing and blow it up.
Good on them I reckon.
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Also, nothing like the AFL trying to take the limelight.
Now the Clarko story is the biggest news story in Victoria. What Olympics….
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@mariner4life said in AFL 2021:
oh Hawthorn, what have you done?
I like Sam Mitchell (his injection sledge v Essendon was the funniest bit of chat caught on camera) and by all accounts he'll be a great coach, BUT, Clarko is a fucking gun, he's guided them to amazing success, and we've seen this sort of handover go tits up before.
I would imagine there are 9-10 clubs ringing his manager already.
You know what, i love Fagan, but i would take Clarkson next year in a heartbeat.
He could coach Adelaide. I wouldn't mind ...
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Right with the Olympics done and with a greater schedule of games returning to the box I can now start paying attention again. What's happened of late? Lockdowns and postponements? Who's resurgent and who's on the slide? I caught a couple of minutes of a couple of hidings yesterday (Lions vs Freo and at one stage it looked like Hawthorn would thrash the Pies but I see that closed up a bit).
The Dees have got the Eagles away tonight which has been a fraught fixture for us for a while now; the 2018 prelim final and last years' final pre-Covid hammering stand out. Recent form lines are similar (both two wins from ther last five games) but West Coast are definitely a bogey team for us so I'm not overly hopeful and am therefore not too worried it's not on TV. If we do get up though, we're back on top of the table.
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@shark basically no one wants to finish first and no one wants to finish 8th
It looked like Geelong were rolling to a flag. Then GWS beat them well. The Dees have faltered. The Dogs lost again on the weekend. The season is spluttering a bit with all the fixture movement.
Right now i don't know who the fuck is actually the favourite. All i know is, it's not the Lions
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Dees win what sounds like a pretty bizarre game with a lightening delay during the second half. So we're back on top having beaten a quality team away in what's the most difficult road trip also. You'd have to think that puts us back in the running for the flag, big time.
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Dees win what sounds like a pretty bizarre game with a lightening delay during the second half. So we're back on top having beaten a quality team away in what's the most difficult road trip also. You'd have to think that puts us back in the running for the flag, big time.
West Coast are a quality team in name only. They're 10 and 10, and have only won 4 of their last 10.
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@mariner4life said in AFL 2021:
Dees win what sounds like a pretty bizarre game with a lightening delay during the second half. So we're back on top having beaten a quality team away in what's the most difficult road trip also. You'd have to think that puts us back in the running for the flag, big time.
West Coast are a quality team in name only. They're 10 and 10, and have only won 4 of their last 10.
Well they were in the 8 yesterday I think....?
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@mariner4life said in AFL 2021:
Dees win what sounds like a pretty bizarre game with a lightening delay during the second half. So we're back on top having beaten a quality team away in what's the most difficult road trip also. You'd have to think that puts us back in the running for the flag, big time.
West Coast are a quality team in name only. They're 10 and 10, and have only won 4 of their last 10.
Well they were in the 8 yesterday I think....?
that's like being the tallest dwarf at the moment, a 9-11 record has you in the 8.
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@mariner4life ok but we won away against a bogey team who weere in the 8. And we're bettre than Brisbane.
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So Taylor Walker gets to watch the rest of the season after saying racist shit at a Crows ressies game. In this instance it appears teh Crows are to be totally commended, as it was an official who dobbed him in, and the suspension is internal as well (as i understand it, happy to be corrected).
This really is fucked. It is 2021 FFS. Taylor Walker is a 31 year old, 13-year veteran. He doesn't need "educating" he's had more diversity training than 99% of the population. He's played alongside (and is supposedly, or more accurately was supposedly) good mates with Eddie Betts
So either Taylor still just doesn't see anything wrong with yelling racial shit at young indigenous players; or possibly worse, knows what harm he is causing, and that's why he did it. So he's either the dumbest fluffybunny in the league, or one of the bigger pieces of shit.
I don't cop "i made a mistake" and "i'll educate myself" from a guy of his age, experience and standing.
How in the fuck is this stuff still happening? Deadset, if it is still going on now, then we may never get rid of this stuff. And that's pretty sad.
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@mariner4life said in AFL 2021:
How in the fuck is this stuff still happening? Deadset, if it is still going on now, then we may never get rid of this stuff. And that's pretty sad.
As much as the whole thing saddens me, the one (small) positive is the fact it was called out and he's been hauled over the coals for it.
This is what progress looks like, I think. In years gone by people would have ignored it, or worse still agreed with what he said. Now it's being brought into the open and he's being held publicly accountable.
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@barbarian said in AFL 2021:
@mariner4life said in AFL 2021:
How in the fuck is this stuff still happening? Deadset, if it is still going on now, then we may never get rid of this stuff. And that's pretty sad.
As much as the whole thing saddens me, the one (small) positive is the fact it was called out and he's been hauled over the coals for it.
This is what progress looks like, I think. In years gone by people would have ignored it, or worse still agreed with what he said. Now it's being brought into the open and he's being held publicly accountable.
fair comment.
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I'm also curious about what he said, and it's interesting there hasn't been any reporting about that. Because there are racist comments and then there are racist comments.
He was addressing the Adelaide ressies, so was it a case of 'mark that black bastard, he's all over us', or was it 'that n-word c-word b-word is a c-word etc etc etc'.
As much as racism is racism and it's all unacceptable, I do think there are degrees of how unacceptable these things are. If it was the former he deserves his suspension, if the latter then maybe that should be the end of his career in the AFL.
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@barbarian said in AFL 2021:
AFL have released the Carter report into future Tasmanian involvement:
lol seeya North
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@mariner4life said in AFL 2021:
@barbarian said in AFL 2021:
AFL have released the Carter report into future Tasmanian involvement:
lol seeya North
Would Tassie accept that? I'm not sure. And I'm not sure North want that, or the AFL will make them.
The report is clear, but frustrating. It tries to have a dollar each way, and give the AFL a clear out to do nothing and say it's all too hard.
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@barbarian said in AFL 2021:
@mariner4life said in AFL 2021:
@barbarian said in AFL 2021:
AFL have released the Carter report into future Tasmanian involvement:
lol seeya North
Would Tassie accept that? I'm not sure. And I'm not sure North want that, or the AFL will make them.
The report is clear, but frustrating. It tries to have a dollar each way, and give the AFL a clear out to do nothing and say it's all too hard.
i for one think we should dissolve Carlton and create a Tassie side
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@mariner4life said in AFL 2021:
@barbarian said in AFL 2021:
@mariner4life said in AFL 2021:
@barbarian said in AFL 2021:
AFL have released the Carter report into future Tasmanian involvement:
lol seeya North
Would Tassie accept that? I'm not sure. And I'm not sure North want that, or the AFL will make them.
The report is clear, but frustrating. It tries to have a dollar each way, and give the AFL a clear out to do nothing and say it's all too hard.
i for one think we should dissolve Carlton and create a Tassie side
Don't think you'd get much opposition from Carlton fans at the moment. They're desperate to be put out of their misery.
