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NON MFC: Rd 06 2021

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Also centre clearance carnage. Total smashing.

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    28 minutes ago, Ollie fan said:

    WB top of the ladder? They look ordinary to me.

    They have only beaten teams below them ?

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    Shocking game. Cameron had to do it I guess, there’s no way they would’ve won a shootout. Had to clog it up and it makes horrible watching. 
     

    Shows how badly Buckley was out coached last week. To be beaten by this GWS side without really firing a shot is not good. 

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    Treloar still looks like a Pie....

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    5 minutes ago, Clint Bizkit said:

    I shudder to think what the Bulldogs will do to us at centre bounces.

    To be fair our midfield is firing ok?

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    28 minutes ago, Bring-Back-Powell said:

    Yes.

    Bad things happen when we play North at Hobart.

    Hopefully BBB will debut for us then and kick 10 goals.  

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    Just now, monoccular said:

    Hopefully BBB will debut for us then and kick 10 goals.  

    How many more in the 2nd half?

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    I reckon the pies made a bad call kicking Treloar out of his 5 year deal. 

    big call I know 

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    That game was very similar to us v Hawks last week. Minus the injuries 

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    while i expect to lose to richmond this week, i also think with the injury toll that they'll beat footscray next week - i also expect to beat north next week, which means at the end of next round both teams will remain top of the table at 7-1

    in an ideal world we win this and next week against north, dogs lose to tigers, we go top of the ladder

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    50 minutes ago, WalkingCivilWar said:

    Already got it. I back AGAINST  the Dees every week, regardless of who we’re playing. If we win, I’m happy. If we lose I’m unhappy but the winnings soften the blow, to a degree. I’ve got $20 for North to win. 

    Sounds like you're going to lose a lot of money this year...

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    Just now, AC/DeeC said:

    Sounds like you're going to lose a lot of money this year...

    I can only hope so!!!!

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    Interesting to see if the north vs dees dees goes ahead next week, north might have to do 2 weeks quarantine. Feels like a repeat of the Essendon game last year

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    9 hours ago, Clint Bizkit said:

    I shudder to think what the Bulldogs will do to us at centre bounces.

    Spray them with water, that gives them a shock and deters them

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    1 hour ago, Mazer Rackham said:

    Spray them with water, that gives them a shock and deters them

    or hit them on the nose with a rolled up newspaper

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    When you're allowed to throw the ball indiscriminately and push in the back and appeal to umpires who have had a gutfull of rules that flit in popularity from one to the other, well good luck. GWS very stiff. A couple of crucial decisions in fourth quarter got Footscray home me thinks..

    Just on McCrae and the Bont, both left footers, i hope that our midfield pick up on their clearance rate from of the middle with these two and watch the supply of throws that is being fed to them from Liberatore. 

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    30 minutes ago, willmoy said:

    When you're allowed to throw the ball indiscriminately and push in the back and appeal to umpires who have had a gutfull of rules that flit in popularity from one to the other, well good luck. GWS very stiff. A couple of crucial decisions in fourth quarter got Footscray home me thinks..

    Just on McCrae and the Bont, both left footers, i hope that our midfield pick up on their clearance rate from of the middle with these two and watch the supply of throws that is being fed to them from Liberatore. 

    Whitten’s flick pass was outlawed for the betterment of the game. Will the AFL rules committee recommend that the Footscray sleight of the ‘closed propulsive hand’ be focussed on under the umpiring  microscope? 
    Or will Liberatore and Co; still be allowed to be a bunch of tossers?

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    bring back the hand ball!

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    9 minutes ago, Tarax Club said:

    Whitten’s flick pass was outlawed for the betterment of the game. Will the AFL rules committee recommend that the Footscray sleight of the ‘closed propulsive hand’ be focussed on under the umpiring  microscope? 
    Or will Liberatore and Co; still be allowed to be a bunch of tossers?

    Listening to the TV commentators, it seems the AFL establishment are happy with throws because it speeds up the game.  So we can expect the rule soon to be changed to allowed to throw the ball as long as you use 2 hands when throwing.

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    1 minute ago, sue said:

    Listening to the TV commentators, it seems the AFL establishment are happy with throws because it speeds up the game.  So we can expect the rule soon to be changed to allowed to throw the ball as long as you use 2 hands when throwing.

    So the handball like the drop kick is destined to go the way of the Dodo? As long as it’s endorsed by the NRL.

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    I would like to see the media use a high frame rate camera which can show clear slow motion the hand passing technique used these days with particular scrutiny on the bulldogs implementation of the skill. I reckon at least half of the hand passes will show up as throws. 

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    6 minutes ago, John Crow Batty said:

    I would like to see the media use a high frame rate camera which can show clear slow motion the hand passing technique used these days with particular scrutiny on the bulldogs implementation of the skill. I reckon at least half of the hand passes will show up as throws. 

    It's not just the Dogs (though they have taken it to extremes).  Most of the momentum the ball gets comes from the hand supposedly holding the ball, very little if any from the fist that hits it.

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    4 minutes ago, sue said:

    It's not just the Dogs (though they have taken it to extremes).  Most of the momentum the ball gets comes from the hand supposedly holding the ball, very little if any from the fist that hits it.

    not in the AFL's interest to look too closely

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    1 hour ago, sue said:

    It's not just the Dogs (though they have taken it to extremes).  Most of the momentum the ball gets comes from the hand supposedly holding the ball, very little if any from the fist that hits it.

    Totally agree Sue, the hand supposedly holding the ball ‘steady’, awaiting the arrival of the action force  (‘closed’ fist.) Is now integral in the launch of the ball. Scott Pendlebury’s long ‘handball’ technique has that characteristic  slinging action. Of course he is hardly home alone in that. But that at least more or less mimics the original  intention. 

    Clayton Oliver has been ‘pinged’ a few times so far this season for dubious handballs. He obviously is a well practiced ‘gunslinger’ when it comes to ‘handball’ but overall appears to  maintain fair sportsmanship.

    Unlike Liberatore and his ilk, who like a growing number of AFL ‘luminaries’ , appear to think that winning at any cost justifies the end result. In a more perfect AFL world, shadowy figures at the card table who regularly apply deceptive practices in close, may at some time get their deserved comeuppance.

    Now where exactly is that Karma bus?

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    open up the goal space!

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