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10 minutes ago, Lexinator said:

Lol..  yet its Howe who has the last laugh while Cameron has to drown his sorrows playing in 2 grand finals without a win.

I know what I'd rather take.

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3 minutes ago, dazzledavey36 said:

Lol..  yet its Howe who has the last laugh while Cameron has to drown his sorrows playing in 2 grand finals without a win.

I know what I'd rather take.

You got to take the little wins where you can.

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1 hour ago, The heart beats true said:

Here’s an interesting stat.

2 of the last 3 premiers have gone from 17th to a Premiership in 2 seasons.

Squibbing for Draft Picks

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2 hours ago, rpfc said:

CLOSE THE BOARD

Ok then, with the GF, about two teams we either hate or are indifferent to, over.  We can now close the ‘Melbourne Demons’ board over the summer.

Therefore leaving the trading and drafting board, and the ‘AFL Womens team’ (whatever that is) board.

Because if we can’t talk about the only ‘Melbourne Demons’ team playing in a concurrently running league on the ‘Melbourne Demons’ board - I don’t really know what the point of the ‘Melbourne Demons’ board is.

Anyone who hasn’t done so, please watch the replay of our match last Thursday vs Geelong. You’re guaranteed to be impressed and super bloody proud.

We’re halfway through the H&A season and barring any unforeseen catastrophe, we’ll be playing finals and very possibly we’ll be playing in a grand final. Back to back beckons.

It doesn’t matter if you’ve never taken an interest in the W comp… bandwagoners are very welcome!😁  And casual supporters, too. No one expects anyone to be as invested as we are. But even if you attend one match, that’d be awesome. $10 per ticket! That’s the price of two coffees (or 10 if you’re me and you drink 7/11 coffee 😁) or you can support the girls with a membership for the paltry amount of $60. $60! That’s the price of 10-12 coffees. Again, 60 if you’re me. 😃

JUST JUMP ONBOARD!!!!!!

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I tell you I cant stand Tom Mitchell

 

World's biggest flopper and all time worst Brownlow winner.

Could have been done for staging at least 8 times during 3 finals.

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1 hour ago, The heart beats true said:

Here’s an interesting stat.

2 of the last 3 premiers have gone from 17th to a Premiership in 2 seasons.

But but but we're told you can't change a game plan that quickly, or personnel

You can add GWSs rise this year to proof that you can make radical changes if you take a chance ....(simon)....

Unfortunately we will 100% be in the category where we say 'we're not far off, we doing 90% right, we just need a tweak here and a tweak there'. Simon will point to our record over 3 years and I get that its got merit but the big teams know how to beat us. We are way too predictable.

The game will go past us.

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Posted (edited)
3 minutes ago, jnrmac said:

The game will go past us.

The boundary line game is finished. Ask the Lions who are probably best suited to play the style with multiple fit high class experienced forwards.

The strange thing is that when two corridor teams meet (GWS v Pies for example) the corridor gameplan often falls down as well

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What were everyone’s thoughts of the umpiring? 
 

I watched the first 3 minutes and after the Daicos and Hipwood free’s I went and cleaned my garage. Then come back for the last 5 minutes before turning it off with 20 seconds to go. The advantage taken when clearly there was no advantage was massive. I’m not one for the total frees paid but more so when and where.

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Posted
5 hours ago, Rab D Nesbitt said:

Things could always be worse. Imagine living in a place where Celtic have won 10 of the last 11 league titles 😩

HH 

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Posted
1 hour ago, Ned said:

I still feel like we were the best shot and it still hurts. I also feel like they scammed their way to the premiership with 7, 1 and 4 point wins. But you don’t keep winning those tight ones if you’re no good. I think their coach is superb. It’s painful!

We were realistically the best chance of beating them but we had two really unlucky things not go our way.

1. Brayshaw getting knocked out

2. A wet night at the MCG. If the weather was like the Carlton game, I think we would have won.

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14 minutes ago, layzie said:

Lots of people think we would have beaten Collingwood.

There's one problem with this, we didn't.

 

Even with the injuries to Petty and Melksham we were better team in both our finals yet found a way to lose. This year was a massive fail, no excuses at all. That’s why I’m still gutted and couldn’t watch yesterday.

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3 minutes ago, Bombay Airconditioning said:

Even with the injuries to Petty and Melksham we were better team in both our finals yet found a way to lose. This year was a massive fail, no excuses at all. That’s why I’m still gutted and couldn’t watch yesterday.

Amen.

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2 hours ago, titan_uranus said:

I said this last night and will double down today. 

IMO this is your anti-Collingwood bias speaking. 

There were a handful of goal of the year contenders in the first quarter alone. 

The first half was a great blend of high scoring but high pressure - it never felt like a defence-less shoot out. 

The second half was lower scoring but still intense. 

I hate Collingwood, and Nick Daicos more, and Howe possibly more again, but the game was fantastic and they are wholly deserving winners after the season they’ve had. 

I'll openly admit a dislike of Collingwood but I didn't find the game enthralling.

But you are right, there were some fantastic goals, crunching tackles and great marks.

That said I didn't think it was very entertaining. Just didn't have the x factor for me. Maybe it was my bias.

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29 minutes ago, At the break of Gawn said:

We were realistically the best chance of beating them but we had two really unlucky things not go our way.

1. Brayshaw getting knocked out

2. A wet night at the MCG. If the weather was like the Carlton game, I think we would have won.

Luck. Luck isn’t the way we move the footy in a stilted and unimaginative way. 

Luck isn’t recruiting a premier ruck when we needed a 3rd tier fwd/ruck.

Luck isn’t creating a forward line of part timers and experiments and expecting that hubris to ‘work out’ next to our Rolls Royce midfield and Red Bull Racing backline.

When you leave things up to chance - that’s called gambling and then we really are relying on ‘luck’…

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1 hour ago, jnrmac said:

But but but we're told you can't change a game plan that quickly, or personnel

You can add GWSs rise this year to proof that you can make radical changes if you take a chance ....(simon)....

Unfortunately we will 100% be in the category where we say 'we're not far off, we doing 90% right, we just need a tweak here and a tweak there'. Simon will point to our record over 3 years and I get that its got merit but the big teams know how to beat us. We are way too predictable.

The game will go past us.

Pretty sure we're one of the sides that did it. 17th 2019, premiers 2021

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Honestly let's just stop it. We are not as good as what many people here think we are. This divine right rubbish about how our game style stacks up because we won a flag can go straight to the nearest bin. We have a very good side but there is nothing now to suggest to me that we were streets ahead of the other premiers in the last 5 years. 

People giving it to Brisbane because they choke in finals then we choke in finals, people not rating Bris through the season because they 'couldn't win away from home' yet we flopped on the road until the very last game of the season.

Would we have beaten Collingwood in the Grand Final? Maybe, but we were not there and didn't deserve to be while Collingwood found a way. 

Need to settle a bit, we have a good list but there's been so much bull lately with ifs and buts and candy and nuts and all the stuff. The truth is the truth, all you can do is live with it.

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1 hour ago, Bombay Airconditioning said:

What were everyone’s thoughts of the umpiring? 
 

I watched the first 3 minutes and after the Daicos and Hipwood free’s I went and cleaned my garage. Then come back for the last 5 minutes before turning it off with 20 seconds to go. The advantage taken when clearly there was no advantage was massive. I’m not one for the total frees paid but more so when and where.

For the 4 best umpires for the season I thought they were just so so. Continually rewarding Daicos for dropping the knees was poor and of course the howler at he end with the advantage call was a disgrace.

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I don't think this was a good AFL season despite the AFL getting everything they ever dreamed of.

Fixturing - bad
Score review - horrible
Brownlow - bad
Umpiring- mostly poor
Umpiring in the finals - mostly poor
Maynard incident and stance on concussion - a joke
Umpiring in the Grand Final - poor
Umpiring in the last few minutes of the Grand Final - poor

Grand Final entertainment - OK 

 

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1 hour ago, loges said:

For the 4 best umpires for the season I thought they were just so so. Continually rewarding Daicos for dropping the knees was poor and of course the howler at he end with the advantage call was a disgrace.

How about the out of bounds on the full by collingwood and the boundary umpire said throw it in. 

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2 hours ago, Bombay Airconditioning said:

What were everyone’s thoughts of the umpiring? 
 

I watched the first 3 minutes and after the Daicos and Hipwood free’s I went and cleaned my garage. Then come back for the last 5 minutes before turning it off with 20 seconds to go. The advantage taken when clearly there was no advantage was massive. I’m not one for the total frees paid but more so when and where.

This year more than any other year, and include Finals the Results of games have been directly changed by Umpires decisions.

This year more than any other year the Momentum of games has been directly, and dare i say deliberately, changed by Umpires decisions. and

This year more than any other year Umpires decisions have been misunderstood, misread by Both Teams at the Same Time. If the clubs aren't saying WTF........i give up.

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