NON-MFC: Finals Week 01

[Redleg 41,398]

2 minutes ago, Sir Why You Little said:

Hipwood is just so… meh

He should be dropped after tonight, just pathetic.

I had him down for 6 Blues goal assists.

[Demonland 73,106]

[Adam The God 30,403]

Now we just need Geelong and Hawthorn knocked out and I'll be happy.

[BoBo 2,941]

4 minutes ago, Demonland said:

Can’t see hawks beating Sydney up there. So Sydney is in for mine. 
 

Brisbane won’t be Geelong… GWS with a better chance, but geez, their form is unreal and good luck stopping Jezza.

Sydney v Geelong granny.

[Demonstone 22,792]

25 minutes ago, monoccular said:

So, next week GW$ v BNE (SCG), and Port v Hawks (AO).

Is it at the SCG or the Giants' home ground (whatever it's called this week)?

[Demonstone 22,792]

26 minutes ago, monoccular said:

Was it Eric the ant, or the gnat, in the Monty Python song?

Eric the half a bee!

 

 

[At Least I Saw a Flag 5,272]

I think Chol is worse than Hipwood.

[Adam The God 30,403]

7 minutes ago, Demonstone said:

Is it at the SCG or the Giants' home ground (whatever it's called this week)?

Giants home ground.

[Macca 17,032]

9 minutes ago, Adam The God said:

Giants home ground.

Sydney Showgrounds Stadium (ENGIE Stadium) What's ENGIE? (rhetorical question as I really don't care)

Capacity 23,500

Which begs the question, isn't there an obsession with maximising crowds?

And doesn't Cat Park (Kardinia Park) hold 40,000?

[Adam The God 30,403]

11 minutes ago, Macca said:

Sydney Showgrounds Stadium (ENGIE Stadium) What's ENGIE? (rhetorical question as I really don't care)

Capacity 23,500

Which begs the question, isn't there an obsession with maximising crowds?

And doesn't Cat Park (Kardinia Park) hold 40,000?

I suppose the AFL doesn't want a half empty ground for a final.

With a capacity of 23,500, they're a chance of filling it.

[dees189227 12,395]

I really don't want a swans cats gf. Especially if it's like 2 years ago.

I think I'll just be barracking for gws now

[DEE fence 5,039]

2 hours ago, YearOfTheDees said:

They only play the one set. 

Hence set not sets, glad you got the joke (-;

[Bowserpower 166]

Whoa take it easy you big imposters

[Kent 2,913]

12 hours ago, spirit of norm smith said:

When you make him the sub 7 times, drop him in an instant and prefer others, JJ had to walk out !!! That’s the truth.  Goodwin didn’t show him that he was wanted.  

Does Goodwin even know what he wanted Look at some of the spud Mates he kept giving games to  Cant wait till Goody goes

[pitmaster 3,575]

14 hours ago, leave it to deever said:

Gws will storm home. 

Did not age well...

 

14 hours ago, Demon_spurs said:

watch the umps get Sydney home

Aged very well. The umps certainly got to work.

[picket fence 17,459]

11 hours ago, BDA said:

hipwood terrible so far

The BIGGEST OVERATED DUD in history but Fagan cant see it SOFT az butter

[Rob Mac...... 638]

During Heeneys speccie, did you see Giants #44 Jack Buckley deftly grab Heeneys arm and raise it to protect Heeney from hitting the ground hard?!!   WONDERFUL duty of care for the other guy from Buckley!

I've never noticed a Collingwood player do that for an opposition player. 

[Queanbeyan Demon 6,860]

11 hours ago, Graeme Yeats' Mullet said:

Tracc dodged a bullet...

If he really wants to dodge a bullet - change girlfriends.

[Demon17 5,191]

19 minutes ago, picket fence said:

The BIGGEST OVERATED DUD in history but Fagan cant see it SOFT az butter

But he's on a 7 year deal. Who would take him off their hands?

[Whispering_Jack 30,572]

One observation from last night was the contribution of Logan Morris to the Brisbane forward line. He was by no means outstanding but kicked two goals and he missed a set shot from close in but he’s a young tall KPF playing in a finals team. 

Morris was taken in last year’s draft with pick 31 which means that when we entered the trade and draft period with two first and two second round picks plus some extra trade opportunities, he was very gettable by us. Instead, we opted to use only our two first rounders and went for the likes of Billings, McAdam and Fullarton, speculative options who contributed little to the cause. 

In hindsight, it might have worked out better had we taken the other course and had someone like Morris on the list.

By way of contrast, we only have one first rounder this year when another would come in handy.

[Demonsone 2,043]

14 hours ago, Sir Why You Little said:

97,000 at The ‘G

The right call was made

So what’s the advantage for the dogs finishing higher than the hawks?? I get the 97k, the swans & lions had home ground advantage as they finished higher.. that was there 3rd game at the G. Vs 10th .. 

[old55 23,687]

The Blues mobile - 0 to 60 in 57 minutes.

[Sir Why You Little 37,119]

1 hour ago, Demonsone said:

So what’s the advantage for the dogs finishing higher than the hawks?? I get the 97k, the swans & lions had home ground advantage as they finished higher.. that was there 3rd game at the G. Vs 10th .. 

the GF is played at The ‘G 

Clubs like the Dogs should welcome chances to play there

[leave it to deever 17,517]

Apologies if this has been addressed and answered previously.

Where do the Cats play their preliminary final?

Much appreciated.

And do we feel it's pretty much a certainty given this year's meets and Giants at home that the Orange people will steamroll the other big cats on the Lions?

Also I'm not certain that the cats can beat the Giants even if at the cat's home ground.

And surprisingly, not confident despite the Swans dominance all year that the Swans can stop Hawthorn.

Yes I'm backing Hawthorn to dismiss port after their abysmal first final.

AO doesn't seem to give Port that mich advantage.

Hawthorn are playing some scintillating footy at the moment.

The cats did very well to not only break port's streak but in effect they pulled a proverbial Freo on them like Freo did to us. Ports confidence would be shot and on current form Hawks look dangerous. Especially the way they can just grab hold of a game and change momentum by kicking five in a row and making it appear easy.

So if the in form and potent Hawks can delete a confidence depleted port then Hawks v Sydney will be interesting. But of course the travel for Hawks and rest for Sydney will probably be too strong.

Although Hawks v Sydney would definitely be an interesting one.

It's disappointing to not be in the mix ourselves because we beat the cats, Hawks and only just lost a line ball to the Giants and the lions.

Injury really took it's toll upon is at the wrong time of the season.

And I thoroughly believe that injury aside if we made the final eight we could be the wildcard like the Hawks. Although our inability to kick 100 points would have probably revealed it's ugly head again.

Unfortunately , I've been sort of getting used to finishing top eight and somewhat arrogantly expecting to be there this time of the year.

Maybe the players have been even more.

And finally ( no pun intended) I don't look fwd to 2025 will a great deal of hope and positivity.

I mean our fwd line is still a cacophony of players that provide chameleon performances each week and this was sadly mirrored by our midfield. Firstly from form then injury as well.

Now there is a lot of noise about players being disappointed with the club.

I know I'm digressing from my original post about home grounds but I feel our club has been infected by a general malaise of some sort that has left us scrambling to keep players at the club. Anb has left for family reasons but it may be something more than that or at least something has helped tip his hand .

Gus has gone.

Oliver is in doubt. Viney has made murmurings and he's getting somewhat long in the tooth. As are Max, May and Lever.

Then we have a collection of players that have been at the club for some very average years or imported from some average clubs. I'm trying to be diplomatic here.

Suffice to say if one looks at our 2021 stocks to today's and it's a very disappointing picture painted.

I find it both interesting and sad that in 2021 a lot of our marque players were 24 to 25: years in age .

That's pretty much in my view the cusp of the prime time of a player @ 26 years of age and the team should have gotten better each year.

But sadly 21, without Jackson revealed a deep complacency in the higher ranks to ignore the absolutely plain as day issue with our fwd line.

An injury ridden tall department and some form issues with others.

And sadly this glearing problem continued into 2023.

And here we are ( as mentioned along with other issues) at the end of another season with the same pointy problems.

It's not all on the players or injury.....the FD 😔 is responsible for seeing the same problems for 3 years and then leaving it's head in the sand.

We are a club that got lazy and complacent.

We arrogantly thought that a great backline and midfield was more than enough.

It's why Meatloaf was comprehensibly booed when singing at the Mcg ..."two out of three ain't bad,"

Ditto

Boo.

 

 

[The Taciturn Demon 564]

16 hours ago, Demonstone said:

Equally predictable are the cries of "Why did we let him go", although it's been explained 1, 529,677 times that we wanted him to stay and offered him a new contract but that he chose to exercise his Free Agency rights and leave.

One and a half million refusals to acknowledge that Goodwin didn't rate him.