Around The Grounds - Round 17

[Deestar9 1,557]

Def not Geelong ...Swans for sure & maybe Adelaide but they would need to win tonight 

[Sideshow Bob 2,302]

4 hours ago, titan_uranus said:

Has a team ever gone 9-0 and missed the finals?

Not at this level but Old Camberwell back in the mid/late 90's playing D grade Ammo's. 9 and zip at the turn - top of the ladder just a nice comfy second half the year to come.... lost all 9 to finish 9-9 for the year. Finished 5th I think missing finals! Really [censored] weird year

[Generation dee 1,336]

9 minutes ago, Pates said:

Adelaide are a good team but I still they yet to prove themselves of being at the level of Hawthorn in the finals. (Few teams have)

Even though the Swans and Cats have faltered a bit in he last couple of weeks I still feel like they are the best contenders. For that matter I also feel like Hawthorn don't have the same aurora around them. 

They have had some very lucky escapes. 

Absolutely, but adelaide have a lot more mental toughness when the going is hard than west coast, which was what my reference was to in terms of them being another mismatch in a gf.

I still think it will be Sydney. Would love to see western bulldogs, they have been very quietly going about their business, trying a few new things, but settling in nicely towards the finals. 

 

[Akum 2,660]

If Pies can't win this with the amount of maggot generosity they're getting ...

[At Least I Saw a Flag 5,173]

Brian Taylor. What a fool. "Lyons kicks the winning goal". Really? 6 minutes to go. Adelaide were 23 points up before the kick. 

[Earl Hood 6,067]

Great to see Scott Thompson get chaired off after 300 games. Injury riddled at Melbourne for 39 games in 4 years and then has played 261 out of a possible 270 games since! We all knew he was a gun but couldn't get a run at it at MFC, then decided to go home for a new start and the rest is history as they say! Another miss for us. 

[At Least I Saw a Flag 5,173]

9 minutes ago, Earl Hood said:

Great to see Scott Thompson get chaired off after 300 games. Injury riddled at Melbourne for 39 games in 4 years and then has played 261 out of a possible 270 games since! We all knew he was a gun but couldn't get a run at it at MFC, then decided to go home for a new start and the rest is history as they say! Another miss for us. 

I stand to be corrected, but I have the feeling he wanted to go home (Adelaide) for personal reasons. He was always going to be a star, and MFC certainly didn't want to lose him. I'm pretty sure the Club tried very hard to keep him.

But good on him. Absolute champion. 

[Sir Why You Little 36,744]

Tomorrow's game is HUGE....

[daisycutter 29,438]

36 minutes ago, bingers said:

Brian Taylor. What a fool. "Lyons kicks the winning goal". Really? 6 minutes to go. Adelaide were 23 points up before the kick. 

can't you find the mute button?

[Wiseblood 24,637]

Just now, Earl Hood said:

Great to see Scott Thompson get chaired off after 300 games. Injury riddled at Melbourne for 39 games in 4 years and then has played 261 out of a possible 270 games since! We all knew he was a gun but couldn't get a run at it at MFC, then decided to go home for a new start and the rest is history as they say! Another miss for us. 

There was an article in the HUN about him today, and I was pleased to see that he still has genuinely good feelings about his time at the club and that he still keeps in contact with some of our former players.  It was very much all about personal reasons that he went home.  I do recall us getting that trade done very quickly so we could get Brent Moloney as well.

[daisycutter 29,438]

1 minute ago, Sir Why You Little said:

Tomorrow's game is HUGE....

it's bigger than huge, lose and saints go up 4 places and above us

[Copuchas 758]

I note all the focus is on North continuing to lose in terms of a finals spot opening up.  But if Carlton were to roll the flat trackers on the G tomorrow, things could get interesting!  And they have Dockers, Giants (away), Hawks and Crows (away) to finish....

[Demon trucker 1,800]

hawthorn is the worst top of the ladder team in  history, the only hope is that they are getting all the luck now, you only get so much luck.

[monoccular 17,352]

On 15 July 2016 at 10:28 AM, Abe said:

I imagine there would be plenty of people at AFL house deeply concerned about the prospect of Hawthorn winning a fourth flag, makes the idea they're working on equalization seem like a joke

Like so many things that emerge from the hypocritical bowels of AFL HQ, equalization is all spin.   

[Mazer Rackham 14,971]

13 hours ago, Petraccattack said:

[censored] Luke Darcy  -  "Brodie Grundy had 26 possessions last week , the most by any ruckman this season"

 

Except that Max Gawn had 27 vs Collingwood in a BOG performance vs Brodie Grundy.

Off topic but this quote sprung into mind. "The force has a powerful effect on the weak minded."

Darcy would be perfect in the media as a stooge sidekick to a more dominating personality, someone with strong opinions but constant need for validation. Someone with little self control and who needs simple minded sycophants to agree with everything he says and stick up for him on the many occasions where he puts foot in mouth.

If only there was a media platform like that for Darcy. He'd fit it like a glove.

[Lucifers Hero 39,063]

29 minutes ago, Ted Fidge said:

Off topic but this quote sprung into mind. "The force has a powerful effect on the weak minded."

Darcy would be perfect in the media as a stooge sidekick to a more dominating personality, someone with strong opinions but constant need for validation. Someone with little self control and who needs simple minded sycophants to agree with everything he says and stick up for him on the many occasions where he puts foot in mouth.

If only there was a media platform like that for Darcy. He'd fit it like a glove.

Eddie's morning radio show fits your sensational descriptions perfectly: dominating personality with relapsing foot in mouth disease in great need of sidekick stooge, Darcy feeding his ego!!

Edited July 17, 2016 by Lucifer's Hero

[John Crow Batty 8,831]

11 hours ago, don't make me angry said:

hawthorn is the worst top of the ladder team in  history, the only hope is that they are getting all the luck now, you only get so much luck.

Don't know what planet you recently arrived from but they are currently back to back three times premiers. Speaking of worst top of ladder teams, how about Freo last season? Or us in 2004 when we hit top spot after round 18 coincidently beating a rabble Hawthorn and then took a spectacular dive? I remember well the back slapping and high fives at the time we beat them. Luck may snag a flag every now and then but not three going on to possibly four on the trot. 

Edited July 17, 2016 by america de cali

[Undeeterred 3,100]

10 minutes ago, america de cali said:

Don't know what planet you recently arrived from but they are currently back to back three times premiers. Speaking of worst top of ladder teams, how about Freo last season? Or us in 2004 when we hit top spot after round 18 coincidently beating a rabble Hawthorn and then took a spectacular dive? I remember well the back slapping and high fives at the time we beat them. Luck may snag a flag every now and then but not three going on to possibly four on the trot. 

Think he was talking about this year....

[John Crow Batty 8,831]

Just now, Undeeterred said:

Think he was talking about this year....

He should have left history out of his post then.

[daisycutter 29,438]

12 hours ago, don't make me angry said:

hawthorn is the worst top of the ladder team in  history, the only hope is that they are getting all the luck now, you only get so much luck.

what they have played like to date this year is now irrelevant, luck or no luck it is now behind them 

what is relevant is 1. they are in a position to achieve the coveted top 4 spot,  and 2. they now need only concentrate on peaking for finals time 

[Adam The God 29,673]

16 hours ago, Petraccattack said:

[censored] Luke Darcy  -  "Brodie Grundy had 26 possessions last week , the most by any ruckman this season"

 

Except that Max Gawn had 27 vs Collingwood in a BOG performance vs Brodie Grundy.

Probably the worst commentator out there.

[What 18,810]

If results go as expected today, the Scott sisters will be 7th and 8th on the ladder.   Love it.

[John Demonic 5,617]

Carlton v West Coast at the MCG today. What a [censored] up. Clearly the AFL has done this to appease the WCE request for a game at the G pre-finals and put their interests ahead of ours.

Edited July 17, 2016 by johndemons

[Ethan Tremblay 30,431]

10 minutes ago, johndemons said:

Carlton v West Coast at the MCG today. What a [censored] up. Clearly the AFL has done this to appease the WCE request for a game at the G pre-finals and put their interests ahead of ours.

Absolute steamy pile of a game.

[beelzebub 23,254]

15 hours ago, don't make me angry said:

hawthorn is the worst top of the ladder team in  history, the only hope is that they are getting all the luck now, you only get so much luck.

I'd like us to be so bad