10 minutes ago, spirit of norm smith said:

AFL website

Mason Cox's second goal with just minutes remaining helped seal a nine-point win for the Magpies over Casey.

The 211cm big man, who was dropped for last week's AFL win over Hawthorn, also had nine disposals, three clearances and 22 hitouts rotating through the ruck.

Well, we do live in an age of “alternative facts”.

9 minutes ago, DiscoStu17 said:

Well, we do live in an age of “alternative facts”.

Not just alternative facts but artificial intelligence which is what surely was responsible for that pathetic effort.

1 hour ago, deanox said:

Respectfully disagree.

Billings has played 172 AFL games over 12 seasons, averaging about 14-15 games per season. Clearly he has been good enough for AFL: he is in the top 1000 all time VFL/AFL games played (over 13000 have played at least 1 game, and only ~4000 have got to 50 games).

Has he been an AFL star or able to regularly dominate at AFL level? No. Maybe right now he fits the "too good for VFL but not good enough for AFL" descriptor, but it doesn't sum up his career.

However right now I thinkthat is how Laurie is tracking. He'll get more chances this year and next, but I suspect ultimately he will be not be good enough to play regularly at AFL level.

Billings 172 games, pretty phenomenal. Don't even compare him to Laurie who. Will struggle to play another dozen or so.. Hate to be brutal, but thats where its at!

1 hour ago, spirit of norm smith said:

AFL website

Mason Cox's second goal with just minutes remaining helped seal a nine-point win for the Magpies over Casey.

The 211cm big man, who was dropped for last week's AFL win over Hawthorn, also had nine disposals, three clearances and 22 hitouts rotating through the ruck.

This is hilarious, I started on the final page of the thread and saw this. Thought oh damn we lost!

This is too funny, I mean I know they pay university students to write up these articles but this is next level embarrassing.

After Tassie crashed they have dropped their bundle. Commissioners will be busy unhooking their hollies to Europe

No comment…

it’s so obvious the agenda of Collingwood, Geelong and blues no other team matters one bit to the afl

Key stats

Dees 7.15. Oh boy. Goalkicking problems across the whole squad

Free kicks. Pies 33. Dees 17. Umps were poor again and clearly biased. It’s exasperating!!!

Who didn’t play and might come in tomorrow?

6 hours ago, jaydenh10 said:

No comment…

it’s so obvious the agenda of Collingwood, Geelong and blues no other team matters one bit to the afl

Hawthorn are in there before Carlton.

So many questions. First one: why is Casey playing Collingwood at the Whitten Oval?

18 minutes ago, The Jackson FIX said:

So many questions. First one: why is Casey playing Collingwood at the Whitten Oval?

See Ghosty’ s earlier comment

1 hour ago, spirit of norm smith said:

Key stats

Dees 7.15. Oh boy. Goalkicking problems across the whole squad

Free kicks. Pies 33. Dees 17. Umps were poor again and clearly biased. It’s exasperating!!!

Yep in spite of Goodwins 'power of work' cred still cant get this right! Embarrasing

10 hours ago, Dingo said:

Tom Mac ?

Was very good downback!

11 hours ago, titan_uranus said:

Billings will go down in history as one of those classic “too good for VFL but not good enough for AFL” players.

Laurie probably the same.

His sweet spot is probably as an unused emergency in the senior side.

8 minutes ago, Rab D Nesbitt said:

His sweet spot is probably as an unused emergency in the senior side.

That’s really unnecessary.

8 minutes ago, Rab D Nesbitt said:

His sweet spot is probably as an unused emergency in the senior side.

Is he a better supersub than Sharp?? PLAYED 174 games is a bloody good effort! IMO

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11 hours ago, whatwhat say what said:

casey win 7.15.57 to 7.6.48

all single goalscorers for the dees - laurie, hardie, ireland, mentha, kentfield, billings, cross

billings bog for mine; that goal he kicked was incredible

the votes from my spot on the other side of town...

6: billings
5: campbell
4: laurie
3: hardie
2: woewodin
1: bonner

you can see why bonner didn't make it at afl level; he gets a heap of the ball and really doesn't use it well enough for a player who is predominantly on the outside of the contest

I thought Bonners ball use was pretty good last night!

1 hour ago, spirit of norm smith said:

Free kicks. Pies 33. Dees 17. Umps were poor again and clearly biased.

Or maybe the free kicks were there. There's no rule that says that both sides have to receive roughly the same amount of frees.

15 minutes ago, Demonstone said:

Or maybe the free kicks were there. There's no rule that says that both sides have to receive roughly the same amount of frees.

No. But double the free kicks and the Pies were DEFINITELY favoured without question.

10 hours ago, spirit of norm smith said:

AFL website

Mason Cox's second goal with just minutes remaining helped seal a nine-point win for the Magpies over Casey.

Alternative Filth League

Somewhere in a parallel universe on a planet not unlike Earth…

24 minutes ago, Demonstone said:

Or maybe the free kicks were there. There's no rule that says that both sides have to receive roughly the same amount of frees.

No, but some of the frees from last night could make a good start for a AFL comedy umpire video.

25 minutes ago, Demonstone said:

Or maybe the free kicks were there. There's no rule that says that both sides have to receive roughly the same amount of frees.

So true Demonstone but they chose to pay most of Pies but failed to pay similar ones for the Casey boys, very frustrating indeed maybe they were trying to help the Pies achieve the AFL write up. lol.!!!

Where are on the ladder?

I can’t find the ladder.

1 hour ago, Slartibartfast said:

That’s really unnecessary.

It's not meant as a derogatory comment Slartibartfast. I think he sits in the 24-27 bracket in our pecking order. We're fine for wingers and pressure forwards now with Lindsay, Langford, Lingers, Chin, Kolt and Spargs. I don't think he should be playing ahead of any them. Harry Sharp could be in the same bracket but has 7 years on him. He might be a head of Jack Henderson.

13 minutes ago, Dingo said:

Where are on the ladder?

I can’t find the ladder.

We are have moved up to 10th. Just Google VFL ladder if you need to see it.