This has been a true 16th vs 18th, but seeing Aaron Keating reincarnated chasing down Liam Ryan made me smile. Good boy, love that effort.

1 minute ago, Demonsone said:

Well it’s reality

Geez Louise. Going by this kinda reality, the club is stuffed first week back after the bye. 
 

Norf will kills by over 100 points. 
 

🥱🥱🤔🤔🤨🤨

Is Jayden injured?

#funfact ... That Norf player Pink has orange hair.

The Eagles have awoken

5 minutes ago, dees189227 said:

Is Jayden injured?

Toe injury apparently 

9 minutes ago, Demonsone said:

Well it’s reality

Doesn’t mean you have to keep saying it over and over and over again, especially in the Non-MFC thread. We get it, we all know what happened. You reminding us at any and every opportunity isn’t gonna change what happened so why do it?

41 minutes ago, monoccular said:

binman - I haven’t watched any games this weekend but looked at the current scores and thought exactly the same as you predicted.   Bizarre. 
Do different clubs load differently ??🤔🤔🤗

According to Libby Birch, it sounds as if collectivey clubs are taking a different approach to their high performance programs this year.

And then there is individual program differences- eg the cats model of managing players ad opposed to ours of not doing so.

But I was more referring to the bye period.

Every year for the last 5 years or so there are crazy results around the mid point of the season.

A big factor is the accumulative fatigue all teams experience at the half way point of the season.

Another is the aforementioned differences in programs, including when they do a big block of intensity and density and how they manage the bye period.

It's all made worse by the AFL's greed. They should go back to all teams having their bye at the same time.

But that ain't gonna happen because the AFL, nor fox and 7, dont want a football free weekend.

So instead we have the ridiculous situation of byes being spread over several weeks meaning it's all over the place in terms of when teams play each other - eg, both coming off a bye, only one coming off a bye, one team not yey having their bye and the other 2 weeks post bye etc etc.

And this year it's even more absurd with the teams playing in OR having 2 byes.

It is just ridiculous. 

Start practicing the 'No Reid, no Eagles' taunt because it is going to be fresh and current for 15 years.

Like having Judd but no Cousins, Kerr, Fletcher or Chick.

Lol. The ultimate winning culture midfield.

Bad bad choke from north. 

Just now, WalkingCivilWar said:

Doesn’t mean you have to keep saying it over and over and over again, especially in the Non-MFC thread. We get it, we all know what happened. You reminding us at any and every opportunity isn’t gonna change what happened so why do it?

Some people enjoy being miserable. How you deal with disappointment is a choice - I don’t know why some people choose self-flagellation over and over. 

43 minutes ago, BDA said:

Eagles are putrid. 

Nick Larkey is wasted at North

So is it “no Reid, no Eagles”?

Maybe we can scoop both Reid and Larkey with some clever trading 🤔🙄🤗

Clarko would probably need to be on the bench now to steady the team, but because he can't control himself he has to stay in the box.

Waterman the chance to put them in front & nails it

Oh man, this is very rough viewing. 

lol

North Melbourne when they realize they might win a game 

huge choke

Roos really shot themselves in the foot last year not getting Reid. That win hasn't exactly built a winning culture and cost them a generational player.

27 minutes ago, Rab D Nesbitt said:

Loyalty is a rare thing in today's game so you have to admire him for that. Maybe we'll see him in red & blue four years from now when both his knees are shot. 

… and we win a Flag with him? Awesome!

Brave umpire 

That was not holding the ball 

No one wanted to take the shot at goal.

Now Simpkin kicked a goal from a free kick!! 

Game over !! 

8 minutes ago, danielE288 said:

huge choke

Thank god someone performed the Heimlich manoeuvre 😁