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18 hours ago, leave it to deever said:

😄

Yea, but he lives in Portsea.

so?

 
18 hours ago, Jaded No More said:

He cycled home. You were close. 

But he was banned from rock climbing on game day a few years ago by the club so probably had excess energy saturday evening.

15 hours ago, monoccular said:

Ethan. Brilliant stuff. Thanks. Made my day reading that.

I hope you read it in Sleepy Joe’s voice.. gave myself a giggle. 

 
23 hours ago, Deemania since 56 said:

Brian Dixon's old jumper? 

and arguably the worst kick in the team

3 hours ago, forever demons said:

so?

A long, long way to ride.

It out of context though now 


48 minutes ago, daisycutter said:

and arguably the worst kick in the team

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1 minute ago, forever demons said:

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ok so another word banned cant go for a crep and cant duck out for a quick feg .I was outside and my neighbour saw me sucking on a feg and stopped for chat

9 minutes ago, leave it to deever said:

A long, long way to ride.

It out of context though now 

no to both

 

 

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Beating Essendon  NEVER, EVER gets old 😁

On 13/07/2024 at 22:12, Demon Dynasty said:

That's as good as any win this year with No.22 doing his best to get the Peptides back from the death.

22 should be sent to the country leagues and never heard or seen from again.

Yep,,he's a bottler, isn't he. Just when you thought hello they are going to let us win this easily. Two free kicks and a fifty later.....

Number 12 is barely indistinguishable as well.


1 hour ago, WalkingCivilWar said:

 

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Beating Essendon  NEVER, EVER gets old 😁

The AI artwork is a little wonky but I get the gist.

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On 16/07/2024 at 09:30, Timothy Reddan-A'Blew said:

Re the '50', I agree with you all (apologies for not quoting you all individually). I've always assumed it came partly from the measurement reference provided the 50m square and 50m arcs (so it'd be nice, btw, if the umpires used these, consistently and accurately!) So a reference convenience would be retained with 'half 50' - 25m.

15m provided a gain of a minimum markable kick; the 50m change took it all the way to a 'full' kick. I like the idea that a 'middling' penalty would disrupt the set-ups.

Re Saturday's game (surely this has been jumped on already, so apologies) I loved our forwards getting the job done, tradesman-like. You know who I mean;

Fritta and Turner?

Oops. Embarrassing. Someone really has. My deepest apologies, now, @Fritta and Turner

 

 

aw schucks, thats ok, no apologies required.  I thought we were good at grinding down the opposition and were able to manufacture forward opportunities to construct a winning score as specified in our game plan.

16 hours ago, John Crow Batty said:

The AI artwork is a little wonky but I get the gist.

Looks pretty [censored] ing cinematic to me

22 hours ago, 640MD said:

You are only as good as your next game,   can they do it again,  then of course  it gets easier and easier,  ??

but if we cannot beat these ones in front of our faces we do not deserve the finals slot.

very similar to 1987  now that was a run to the finals    Can we do it    Yes we can   thanks Barack

At least Buckenara isn’t playing, I still watch replays of that preliminary final and cringe at the last 10 minutes with our misses and the coast to coast kick out. I’m still not convinced Grinter infringed Buckenara.


18 hours ago, John Crow Batty said:

The AI artwork is a little wonky but I get the gist.

No wonder the bomber crashed, it's only got three engines.

On 14/07/2024 at 20:02, DubDee said:

That free kick to Turner when he kicked Drapers head is one of the worst calls i’ve ever seen

Please scrap the sliding rule AFL! Brought in off a single injury. horrible rule

I’ve had a dislocated patella and almost complete tear of my MCL from someone sliding in below the knee. Injuries are common from that action. It’s a good rule.

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16 minutes ago, godees said:

I’ve had a dislocated patella and almost complete tear of my MCL from someone sliding in below the knee. Injuries are common from that action. It’s a good rule.

I hear ya. If the rule was adjudicated correctly I see the merit.  However it is generally just given when a bloke is stationary on the ground and makes any contact with an opponent.  In this case getting his head kicked off

On 13/07/2024 at 23:57, Supdeano said:

So we're still making excuses for Petty's performance (selection) because 

A) lack of preseason/injuries

B) he's playing out of position 

It's not all on him, I get it, it's as much on team selection that causes him to either play unfit or play in a position where he's ineffective.

But we can't rely on these issues when analysing performance. If you're not fit or in position where you need to play, then let's call it out.

He was monstered by Draper and not much more effective in the forward line v Mackay.

Out muscled, out bodies, out worked across the ground.

I'd write this season off for Petty, he has shown he can play and given a full preseason next year he will show a lot of the doubters up. He's better than this.


3 hours ago, Pennant St Dee said:

At least Buckenara isn’t playing, I still watch replays of that preliminary final and cringe at the last 10 minutes with our misses and the coast to coast kick out. I’m still not convinced Grinter infringed Buckenara.

I was behind the Demon goals in that last quarter and it seemed like a foregone tragedy or stage play that they would get the goal. As soon as we mucked it up down our end, It all seemed to happen in slow motion and I just knew we had lost it.

From memory we did have our chances in that last quarter,  

1 hour ago, mauriesy said:

No wonder the bomber crashed, it's only got three engines.

Yes but the other has 5

On 14/07/2024 at 00:42, Supdeano said:

It's ok to win and still be critical.

That's what successful clubs do. Teams like the c*ts and h*wks didn't create premiership dynasties by sitting on their laurels and not being critical about performance.

That's all I'm doing and that's all I suggest you do.

Soak up the win by all means, but always look for areas for improvement. 

Enough already, you have made your point and I think everyone on here knows you aren't a big HP fan, ok, we got it.

Did you watch the game or just the parts that HP was involved in, how can you enjoy a win when you only look at one aspect of it?

 

 

You know you have got under the skin when Herb posts a video... evil 😈 

 

On 16/07/2024 at 16:57, WalkingCivilWar said:

 

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Beating Essendon  NEVER, EVER gets old 😁

Dyson Heppell first they stripped him of the captaincy, now he's been ejected without a parachute. Ground zero can't come quick enough.

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