FINALS: Week 02 2021 (NON MFC)

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9 minutes ago, Stiff Arm said:

Is that haiku, sensai???

Finals football 101.

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1 minute ago, Demon Disciple said:

Gawn, Petracca, Viney, Oliver, Harmes, Salem and ANB did.Get those fellas motivated and pumped and it will go a bloody long way to winning.

With all due respect, the last thing those guys need to get them pumped is to review the 2018 PF thrashing by a team not in this year's fins race. There are far better was to get them ready. Watching Rocky IV would be better

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https://www.news.com.au/sport/afl/afl-finals-2021-live-scores-updates-geelong-cats-vs-gws-giants-semifinal/news-story/f9843a98a6815035109d097e21c5a8fe

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Fans slam one-sided umpiring in Geelong vs GWS semi-final

[Stiff Arm 4,419]

Jeez, watching Scott's presser, he's such a poor loser and an ungracious winner. 

Hope we smash them

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Ump No 1 was relentless in awarding frees to Geelong. God help us if he plays for them again next week

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9 minutes ago, napster said:

Ump No 1 was relentless in awarding frees to Geelong. God help us if he plays for them again next week

Don’t worry, we’ll have Razor.on our side 😁

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1 hour ago, whatwhat say what said:

not my photo 😈

i think i have them all on cd still tho!

pj, soundgarden, and nirvana the only three i still regularly listen to (admittedly via streaming)

You must be a fan of Temple of the Dog in that case? Hunger Strike, what an absolute gem.

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3 minutes ago, FireInTheBennelly said:

You must be a fan of Temple of the Dog in that case? Hunger Strike, what an absolute gem.

yeah, for sure, all the music i grew up listening to in the early 90s - plus all the great local bands to go see on the regular too

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1 minute ago, whatwhat say what said:

yeah, for sure, all the music i grew up listening to in the early 90s - plus all the great local bands to go see on the regular too

100% for sure. Great times. Was the same in Bris. Slamming every Thursday and Friday night to the best music. All of those bands just took music to a whole new level. I'm not sure they've been mentioned yet, still catching up with the thread, but I was a massive Faith No More fan as well. Saw them at Festival Hall and was just speechless in awe until the rumbos kicked in 

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However, the clash with the Giants failed to live up to the intensity expected of finals football and AFL pundits believe the Cats will struggle to challenge the Demons.

“I don’t think Melbourne are quaking in their boots right now based on what they’ve seen,” St Kilda great Nick Riewoldt told Fox Footy.

 

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3 minutes ago, FireInTheBennelly said:

100% for sure. Great times. Was the same in Bris. Slamming every Thursday and Friday night to the best music. All of those bands just took music to a whole new level. I'm not sure they've been mentioned yet, still catching up with the thread, but I was a massive Faith No More fan as well. Saw them at Festival Hall and was just speechless in awe until the rumbos kicked in 

yeah, saw fnm a bunch of times too - always been on a good show

last band i saw pre-pandemic was tool at rod laver arena (last artist i saw was laura marling, the night before everything went...2020)

sigh...i miss live music so much

 

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1 minute ago, whatwhat say what said:

yeah, saw fnm a bunch of times too - always been on a good show

last band i saw pre-pandemic was tool at rod laver arena (last artist i saw was laura marling, the night before everything went...2020)

sigh...i miss live music so much

 

Never seen Tool, timing was always out. I'd probably list them as my all time favourites. Maynard's a legend, A Perfect Circle is magic as well, and other things he's been into, Puscifer etc. Passenger, a song he did with Deftones. Wow.

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1 hour ago, Demon Disciple said:

Gawn, Petracca, Viney, Oliver, Harmes, Salem and ANB did.Get those fellas motivated and pumped and it will go a bloody long way to winning.

May, Lever and Fritsch didn’t. 

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😂 

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10 minutes ago, whatwhat say what said:

yeah, saw fnm a bunch of times too - always been on a good show

last band i saw pre-pandemic was tool at rod laver arena (last artist i saw was laura marling, the night before everything went...2020)

sigh...i miss live music so much

 

You and me both. It’s the field I work in. Or as many of us now put it, worked in. 

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Dogs and cats are the 2 most 'looked after' teams in the comp. Cats going through to last 4 is dangerous. If dogs go through as well anything could happen. 

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6 minutes ago, Mel Bourne said:

You and me both. It’s the field I work in. Or as many of us now put it, worked in. 

lots of friends and acquaintances in the same boat so i am very, very sorry to hear

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15 minutes ago, Mel Bourne said:

May, Lever and Fritsch didn’t. 

True. This is the very reason why May came to us so he’ll be pumped, Lever missed our run in 2018 due to ACL so he’ll be up for it. As for Bayley, he’s in the best form of his career so that doesn’t hurt.

But the engine room is where it will be won and lost. 

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31 minutes ago, WalkingCivilWar said:

😂

Oh for goodness sake.

please don’t show the players this tweet!

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11 hours ago, titan_uranus said:

Are you serious?

There's no meaningful difference between 13 days and 15 days off. They're obviously going to give Geelong and the Dogs/Lions winner 7 days each rather than give Geelong 8 days but Dogs/Lions 6 days.

And Port gets the "lower ranked" finals team in the prelim because they already had to beat the higher ranked finals team in their QF.

Are you seriously complaining about this?

For god's sake TU it's an observation. Not everything on DL has to be taken as a complaint, seriously.

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12 hours ago, napster said:

Ump No 1 was relentless in awarding frees to Geelong. God help us if he plays for them again next week

I thought Meredith was far worse , number 21, in giving the Cats about 5 pathetic frees right in front and then ignoring obvious Giants ones. Razor was the bets of them by a mile. I would be happy with Razor next week and hopefully Stevic.

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The reported crowd last night was just over 44k.

Certainly didn't look like that many but if there were I'm impressed by the Perth public's support

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Kudos to Lachie Whitfield who I thought played a great game.

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10 minutes ago, Diamond_Jim said:

The reported crowd last night was just over 44k.

Certainly didn't look like that many but if there were I'm impressed by the Perth public's support

We should get a full house next week. Optus is a fantastic stadium and a pleasure to attend games there. Still no MCG but light years ahead of Docklands for spectator ambience. 

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If the doggies make it to Perth they'll have travelled more than any other grand finalist. Melbourne to Tassie to Brisbane to Adelaide. It's too much.

Not sure who wins tonight. Either way their journey will end next weekend in Adelaide I reckon.