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NON-MFC: Round 20

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52 minutes ago, dazzledavey36 said:

Its actually depressing how we can slog a loss against Carlton and yet Hawthorn can just come out and put them to the sword in the first two quarters.

You cant tell me the players have lost all motivation under Goodwin. Its so evident.

This isn't doing Goody any favours.

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    It's a dour struggle between Matt Hill and Mark Howard for the title of most useless, uninformative and distracting commentator.

    3/4 time its Howard by a couple of points.

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    50 minutes ago, BDA said:

    Carlton attempts to tackle are pathetic

    BDA… you didn’t mention how [censored] our club and/or coach is! What’s wrong with you? Don’t you realise this is the NON-MFC thread?! Jesus, Mary and Joseph… lift your game, man!

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    21 minutes ago, pitmaster said:

    It's a dour struggle between Matt Hill and Mark Howard for the title of most useless, uninformative and distracting commentator.

    3/4 time its Howard by a couple of points.

    Another poster who’s neglecting to hang [censored] on the Dees in this thread! What’s the world coming to?!?!

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    So much for the Hawks and their massive percentage boost 😁

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    Typical, moir scores nothing tonight.

    But well done to docherty. To come through not only 2 knee reconstructions & 2 cancer battles as well. An incredible person.

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    41 minutes ago, pitmaster said:

    It's a dour struggle between Matt Hill and Mark Howard for the title of most useless, uninformative and distracting commentator.

    3/4 time its Howard by a couple of points.

    He was a good fun teammate though Howie - could take a hanger in his day; played like Fritsch

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    19 minutes ago, dees189227 said:

    But well done to docherty. To come through not only 2 knee reconstructions & 2 cancer battles as well. An incredible person.

    Three knee reconstructions. Diagnosed with testicular cancer, underwent chemotherapy only to have the cancer return seven months later, this time metastasising to his stomach. Indeed, an incredible person.

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    12 hours ago, Ghostwriter said:

    you didn’t mention how [censored] our club and/or coach is!

    i wouldn;t describe the club in those terms

    i would say that board, admin, senior coach, FD, list manager and senior players are all underperforming. badly

    JT and our young crop will get good end of year grades. so will maxy and kossie. everyone else at the club need to lift.

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    20 minutes ago, BDA said:

    i wouldn;t describe the club in those terms

    i would say that board, admin, senior coach, FD, list manager and senior players are all underperforming. badly

    JT and our young crop will get good end of year grades. so will maxy and kossie. everyone else at the club need to lift.

    Soz. I just thought bagging our club and coach was mandatory in the NON-MFC thread 😉

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    I see tonight the bummers are celebrating the 25th premiership anniversary.

    I hope the dogs do a number on them like last time & give those bummers players a night to remember

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    Big weekend at Spa

    With rain forecast and both an F1 and Sprint race scheduled it could be a lottery in the World Driver Championship. (Go Oscar)

    After unexpectedly losing last week Melbourne Storm won a close one against the Roosters last night but it came at the cost of an injury to Storm's star player and winner of last years Dally M winner Jahrome Hughes.

    In breaking news:

    Melbourne Storm halfback Jahrome Hughes is expected to return to the field for the NRL finals now that scans on his left shoulder have revealed he does not need surgery.

    Hughes went down during Melbourne's 34-30 win over the Sydney Roosters on Thursday night, clutching his left arm after attempting to tackle Roosters captain James Tedesco.

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    Dally M winner avoids surgery as Storm receives NRL final...

    Melbourne Storm halfback Jahrome Hughes is expected to return to the field for the NRL finals, after scans on his left shoulder revealed he does not need surgery.

    And finally the Tour de France is in the mountains. After the Australian Ben O'Connors stage win last night there's not much time left for the contenders to catch race leader Tadej Pogacar

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    This season has proved a disaster for the AFL - and even more so for the broadcasters.

    Five rounds still to go and there's only one team outside the 8 who realistically can make finals, the dogs (by the by has a team ever not made the finals with a percentage north of 125%?)

    Meaning we have five weeks with any number of rubbish games, including tonight.

    And tonight's game highlights another related worry for the AFL and broadcasters - the gap in performance levels of the top 9 teams and the bottom 9 teams.

    The dogs are 9th on 40 points, and the bombers are 14th on 20 points.

    In most seasons, at this stage of the season 9th would of course be favourites in the betting against the 14th team.

    I know the bombers have been decimated by injury but even so the fact they are 11.50 to win this match is absolutely nuts.

    The dogs are 1.04 to win. I'm pretty sure winx never even started that short.

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    Remember when it was all fair and reasonable that we never got good time slots because we weren't very good and/or we didn't draw crowds and/or our play style wasn't exciting? (depending on who you ask)

    The only really interesting thing about tonight's game is the old '186 watch'. Dogs can score frantically on their day and Essendon are perfectly capable of throwing in the towel.

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    1 hour ago, binman said:

    This season has proved a disaster for the AFL - and even more so for the broadcasters.

    Five rounds still to go and there's only one team outside the 8 who realistically can make finals, the dogs (by the by has a team ever not made the finals with a percentage north of 125%?)

    Meaning we have five weeks with any number of rubbish games, including tonight.

    And tonight's game highlights another related worry for the AFL and broadcasters - the gap in performance levels of the top 9 teams and the bottom 9 teams.

    The dogs are 9th on 40 points, and the bombers are 14th on 20 points.

    In most seasons, at this stage of the season 9th would of course be favourites in the betting against the 14th team.

    I know the bombers have been decimated by injury but even so the fact they are 11.50 to win this match is absolutely nuts.

    The dogs are 1.04 to win. I'm pretty sure winx never even started that short.

    They’ll never admit it but AFL HQ must be horrified, and panicked. The season has been over for literally half the competition for months, and the fixture couldn’t have been more poorly designed. Thursday night in particular has had 8 weeks of games that have been over at half time.

    This season is a stinker, and I’m genuinely surprised it’s not been a much bigger story.

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    2 hours ago, binman said:

    This season has proved a disaster for the AFL - and even more so for the broadcasters.

    Five rounds still to go and there's only one team outside the 8 who realistically can make finals, the dogs (by the by has a team ever not made the finals with a percentage north of 125%?)

    Meaning we have five weeks with any number of rubbish games, including tonight.

    And tonight's game highlights another related worry for the AFL and broadcasters - the gap in performance levels of the top 9 teams and the bottom 9 teams.

    The dogs are 9th on 40 points, and the bombers are 14th on 20 points.

    In most seasons, at this stage of the season 9th would of course be favourites in the betting against the 14th team.

    I know the bombers have been decimated by injury but even so the fact they are 11.50 to win this match is absolutely nuts.

    The dogs are 1.04 to win. I'm pretty sure winx never even started that short.

    very true and I wonder if it is anomaly given the closeness of last year

    12 points between 14th and 5th

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    When does the real friday night footy start?

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