3 minutes ago, titan_uranus said:

Probably not, but seriously, what a disappointment they are.

With a list that stacked they should be in prelims, not struggling to make finals and then eliminated first week.

Maybe their list is a bit overrated? Their midfield is impressive, they have Pearce and then handy players in front but I can't stop thinking Freo are not a fully formed contender.

I honestly feel for Brayshaw and Serong

quality players that were excellent

50 minutes ago, ElDiablo14 said:

Tbh they were lucky to be a chance in the last quarter. GC outworked them all around the ground for 3 quarters.

I mean massive chance in general given they had the home ground advantage ED and on paper they had a pretty good line up with not many injury issues at all

1 hour ago, ElDiablo14 said:

Maybe their list is a bit overrated? Their midfield is impressive, they have Pearce and then handy players in front but I can't stop thinking Freo are not a fully formed contender.

I don’t think it is overrated they have quality on all lines.

When they tore us up twice last year I thought they were the real deal, then they lost silly games and failed to replicate that ball movement.

It’s all in the coaches box. JL just doesn’t inspire you as a senior coach

8 hours ago, GS_1905 said:

I don’t think it is overrated they have quality on all lines.

When they tore us up twice last year I thought they were the real deal, then they lost silly games and failed to replicate that ball movement.

It’s all in the coaches box. JL just doesn’t inspire you as a senior coach

I agree. They are drilled to play a slow conservative transition game. They are the slowest in the afl for ball movement by a long way. That’s coaching.

You could see how good they can be when they have to move the ball quickly to score like last night in the last qtr. Even going way back to the game against us in 2022.

18 minutes ago, Watson11 said:

I agree. They are drilled to play a slow conservative transition game. They are the slowest in the afl for ball movement by a long way. That’s coaching.

You could see how good they can be when they have to move the ball quickly to score like last night in the last qtr. Even going way back to the game against us in 2022.

chaos vs control

longmuir definitely wants the latter

macrae, as an opposite example, seems to prefer the former

13 hours ago, praha said:

I don't respect them at all. They are gifted tax payer money simply for the privilege of being in a voting belt held by the dominating party of the last half century. On top of that, all of the shenanigans they pull to get players there. It's blatantly shady. Players suddenly walking into large multimillion dollar properties. Partners suddenly in high paying jobs in the region. Players consistently taking far, FAR below their market value to a degree only seen there. Even Collingwood has their contract challenges. Somehow Geelong manages to re-sign stars on minimum wage. Yeah right! They've been doing it since the 90s and imo it really kicked into gear during the Thompson years. [censored] them.

Nailed it. On top of this and this record, after finished 3rd last year and making a prelim, the AFL gift them 18 games in Victoria. They are the new Carlton brown paper bag brigade. Obviously we would all love to be like Geelong, but jeez they have so many gifts across the board. They should be investigated.

4/4 for WWE tips this week. Next week Hawks and Suns.

On 05/09/2025 at 11:56, Jaded No More said:

Geelong magically resurrected him from the dead.

I swear that club makes me so angry with their endless ability to succeed at everything.

Yeah well succesful clubs do it year after year, others are spasmodic, then there is us!!

11 hours ago, ElDiablo14 said:

Maybe their list is a bit overrated? Their midfield is impressive, they have Pearce and then handy players in front but I can't stop thinking Freo are not a fully formed contender.

FREO are the biggest chokers since The Boston Strangler!

[censored] Freo as well. Their supporters are so weird. They have such a weird sense of self-worth. You'd think they were West Coast. Such an irrelevant club.

13 hours ago, dees189227 said:

Poor matt Rowell. His interview got gate crashed by his mum & sister

I thought they were his lovers.

12 hours ago, titan_uranus said:

Probably not, but seriously, what a disappointment they are.

With a list that stacked they should be in prelims, not struggling to make finals and then eliminated first week.

There bottom 12 are very, very ordinary.

14 hours ago, Superunknown said:

This is a good game to watch

Jeez Witts is handy

They are good by hand at times the Suns

Horeforn have a couple of players that are good by hand as well.

1 hour ago, praha said:

[censored] Freo as well. Their supporters are so weird. They have such a weird sense of self-worth. You'd think they were West Coast. Such an irrelevant club.

They used to be likeable until they started stealing our star players. [censored]'em.

14 hours ago, dees189227 said:

Poor matt Rowell. His interview got gate crashed by his mum & sister

His Mum was hysterically funny. She worked very hard to not drop the F-word!

Whoever sits next to her at the Q-clash will have a good time!

Didn't watch last night live but just caught the mini. What a bang up game and what an effort by the Gold Coast Suns! Snatching victory from the jaws of defeat like champions.

For Freo it seems a lesson has been learned. You can't act like winners if you havent been there before.

8 hours ago, praha said:

[censored] Freo as well. Their supporters are so weird. They have such a weird sense of self-worth. You'd think they were West Coast. Such an irrelevant club.

6 hours ago, ElDiablo14 said:

They used to be likeable until they started stealing our star players. [censored]'em.

Agree regarding loosing any liking of Freo after they went on a poaching spree on us. I guess we did get Jeff White from them, but then they have taken the Wiz, Jessy Hogan and Dogger. There have been a few others and we got Linggers, but they seemed quite OK with trading him.

While any dislike of Freo might not be on the same level as Collingwood, I'm also quite happy to see them lurk in irrelevance and starved of sucess. We might not have made finals the past 2 seasons, but at least our club has actually won a premiership and we're not Freo. On that note, this clip cracked me up a few times:

30 minutes ago, Rodney (Balls) Grinter said:

Agree regarding loosing any liking of Freo after they went on a poaching spree on us. I guess we did get Jeff White from them, but then they have taken the Wiz, Jessy Hogan and Dogger. There have been a few others and we got Linggers, but they seemed quite OK with trading him.

While any dislike of Freo might not be on the same level as Collingwood, I'm also quite happy to see them lurk in irrelevance and starved of sucess. We might not have made finals the past 2 seasons, but at least our club has actually won a premiership and we're not Freo. On that note, this clip cracked me up a few times:

Don't forget Kozzy this year, like honestly FO Freo. Go get players from the Weagles.

2 hours ago, Rodney (Balls) Grinter said:

Agree regarding loosing any liking of Freo after they went on a poaching spree on us. I guess we did get Jeff White from them, but then they have taken the Wiz, Jessy Hogan and Dogger. There have been a few others and we got Linggers, but they seemed quite OK with trading him.

While any dislike of Freo might not be on the same level as Collingwood, I'm also quite happy to see them lurk in irrelevance and starved of sucess. We might not have made finals the past 2 seasons, but at least our club has actually won a premiership and we're not Freo. On that note, this clip cracked me up a few times:

We a

So got Ed L

That should read….. “ we also got Ed Langdon.”

42 minutes ago, The Panglossian said:

That should read….. “ we also got Ed Langdon.”

Yeah thought that's what you meant.

I did mention that we got Lingers (aka Ed Lingers Langdon)

Edited September 7, 2025Sep 7 by Rodney (Balls) Grinter

So finals started with only 3 VIC teams.

We are down to 6 and we still have the same 3 VIC teams, AFL HOuse must be very happy.

37 minutes ago, ElDiablo14 said:

We are down to 6 and we still have the same 3 VIC teams, AFL HOuse must be very happy.

You don't think they would love the expansion teams to be successful?

31 minutes ago, Demonstone said:

You don't think they would love the expansion teams to be successful?

Somewhat, but they are not money makers.

I guess they are more than happy to see them competing, not sure they'd be happy with expansion teams making it to the GF.