AFL 2024
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I think the story of the season so far is the relative parity. Besides Sydney, I don't think any team is really that good, and besides North I don't think any team is really that bad (Richmond are at the moment but I think that's injury inflicted).
Who is the second best team in the league right now? Tough question to answer. Hard to say Melbourne, Geelong, Carlton or GWS given their latest losses. Essendon and Port are fun but lack a class edge for mine. Maybe it's Collingwood, but they have been riding their luck as much as they did last year.
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push comes to shove i would say Collingwood as they are the defending premiers and they are climbing the table. But it's not a hill i am willing to die on
Couple of weeks ago i said the 8 was locked in. I wish to backtrack on that. fuck knows. 2 wins separates 3rd from 11th, and you wouldn't tip any game with any certainty
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That's why the endless commentary in the early part of the season is so maddening. A few weeks ago David King (who I like as an analyst) declared that it was Carlton's year and they will be in the GF. Now they aren't even in the eight.
And they still might make the GF. It's just such a long season. You can endure the bumps and come through OK, but the way they talk about shit is so definitive and it drives me nuts.
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@barbarian said in AFL 2024:
A few weeks ago David King
really? David King and his laptop i view as the dumbest smart-sounding analyst on TV. He spouts shit that sounds smart until you pay just a little bit of attention. Generally he looks for a hot take, and finds an inane stat that seems to back it up.
I'll never forget when he was trying to show how even the top 8 was, and his evidence was, if you added up the wins and losses column for those teams against each other, they balanced to zero. Oh fuck really David? Guess what, if you went deeper, the for-and-against would balance as well. mind. blown.
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@barbarian about 4 daily AFL shows means there is a lot of time to fill in.
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@mariner4life Yes I remember that, he was burned about that online for weeks. Hilarious.
I don't consume that much David King content, but I enjoy his segments on 360 every Wednesday. I also enjoy him on match day panels, which generally are way above what is on Channel 7. Now I am an idiot when it comes to AFL, so take my views with a grain of salt.
As a sidenote, I've really enjoyed Daisy Thomas's work of late as an expert commentator. Way ahead of Selwood, Jobe, Hodgey.
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Didn't watch at all, just saw the score, but how bad are the Weagles?
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I hate AFL 2024, just so much. Yes Hawthorn away is a bogey for us, but usually i blame the travel to Tassie, we didn't even have that, we're just shit. Teams move the ball from 50 to 50 through us so easily, as they have for teh whole of Fagan's time in charge, and yet nothing changes. Daniel Rich had to drop himself last year because he knew he wasn't up to it, but Fagan refused to cut him. If a clearly tired Carlton didn't fall in a hole in that prelim last year Fagan would be in a very hot seat. The Lions have a few players who should be in the 2s, but no one gets dropped at Brisbane, we just have lessons and learnings (that no one pays attention to apparently).
That is the Lions done for the year. And i am pissed about it. That list should not be missing finals despite the injuries.Sydney are still good.
Maybe Collingwood aren'tWho fucking knows with the rest. It's a case of roll the dice for any given game. Essendon are 2nd at 8-1-2 and have a percentage of 104 FFS.
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Yeah the Lions are cooked. I thought at 3QT they'd roll over Hawthorn, but the reverse happened.
Neale looks good but the old achilles heels keep getting exposed over and over again. They aren't as bad as their ladder position but jeez missing finals ain't good with a list this good.
I'd say the window is closing but I actually don't think it is. Good young guys plus another Ashcroft about to come through the draft. No reason they can't be a factor for the next 3-5 years.
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i am loving watching the swannies...thats all...very enjoyable
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@barbarian i don't think the window is closed at all. The guys who are out are some of our best players, and hugely important. Ashcroft was so good in the first half of the year i actually think we win the GF if he plays. Coleman is the guy who starts all our attack AND is a key at shutting down opposition attacks. We brought in a gun defender who didn't even get on the field. Those guys coming back would be enormous for us.
Harris Andrews and Lachie Neale are elite, and in the right age profile. It's only 10 months since Charlie Cameron was the best small forward in the game.
But they definitely need a strategic rethink. And someone needs to work out Cam Raynor, or trade him away.
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well, yeah, he shits me to tears.
And we signed fucking Eric fucking Hipwood until approximately 2035 just to compound it. -
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this season is absolute chaos. Even the short bye round had all sorts of shit going on
Carlton beat Port in Adelaide in a good win. Suddenly Carlton are good again? Port are just happy being mediocre
Dogs beat Collingwood in the battle of "who has the least out?"
It's like 6 weeks since there were rumblings that maybe Hawthorn should sack Mitchell. Since then they have won like 4 from 5, and the loss was where they gave up two goals in like the last minute. They tuned up the crows
The Saints bored their way past West Coast
Geelong got lucky against Richmond
Lol at Melbourne getting fucking tuned up by Freo
Then the Suns tipped over the previously flying BombersSydney didn't even play and went further in front.
The ladder is ridiculous. Sydney are first by 2 wins and about 48 percentage points.
Then it's like everyone else down to the shit teams headed by Brisbane in 13th.The season is drunk as fuck
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....i got 2 tips.....and one of those was geelong who took the lead for the first time just before 3Q time so was looking very grim for a while
on a more posative note, went down to north port and watched some VFL, lovely day on the embankment behind the goal with a beer to see Borough spank Willy.......
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@antipodean if the latest is to be believed, and given Leigh Matthews' current position, it would be hard not to, then the claims against Chris Fagan are that he nodded his head during a meeting.
What an absolute shitshow.
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@mariner4life after two reports stating there's no basis for the claims of racism, this is starting to look a lot like secret women's business. The big difference is the impact on the professional and private lives of the accused. There should be consequences for this nonsense.
