Demonland

He was almost being applauded for his efforts on the night. They were certainly laughing about it and not taking it seriously. Then again the AFL don't take it seriously by their own actions. Sure they talk a good game when it comes to wanting to stamp out gut punches and sling tackles and making the head sacrosanct but they always fail to follow up with sanctions that would deter that behaviour.

100% agree with this. If they are going to navigate away from what is currently happening to show a replay then they should have a picture in picture box with LIVE play. It's happening a lot this year and I suspect it is due to COVID reduction in production staff. Obviously this year the commentators and the production is all being done from Melbourne. Where is the production done in a normal year? From the ground or from another location?

Highest we can end up is 6th as we can't catch the Eagles on wins even if they lose to North (I couldn't even type that last part without laughing).

If the Grand Final is on the 24th of October then just by looking at the calendar there will be a week off between the season and the first week of finals. I guess that also allows another team time to quarantine in WA.

I thank them for their service but [censored] them anyway.

We don't actually need them to win by 10 goals but I'm happy for them to keep pegging away all game to get there. I don't think they will drop their heads if they are only 4 or 5 goals up. They might drop their heads if they are down by a few goals after half time. Again though we should not be relying on others doing our dirty work. If we fall short because another team doesn't win or win by enough then that is on us.

Having said that curse us for having to rely on any other teams but also [censored] the Eagles for not beating the Dogs the other week.

Exactly. This also works in our favour. If we are relying on the Giants winning then we want them to have incentive because we also need them to whittle away as much percentage as they can off the Saints. If they knew our result already and it meant they couldn't make the finals there is no incentive to win let alone win big.

Let's say the Dogs win and we lose, the Giants need to win by about 10 goals to overtake St. Kilda and make the finals. Bare with my thinking here. In my book that helps our case of making finals. It gives the Giants incentive to go out and smash the Saints helping us out with our percentage gap on the Saints. All we need to do then is [censored] win.

GWS are relying on the same set of circumstances as us with the added need to gain some percentage Providing we lose GWS don't have to win by much to overtake the Bulldogs. They have incentive. More than Freo to knock off the Bulldogs.

Happening to me too on occasion. I was worried there was some software or server related issue that was causing these "double posts". Glad it's just user error (muscle memory as you so eloquently put it) as a result of the new version of the software's new placement of edit and report functions. Not sure why they made such a drastic change but there is nothing I can do about it.

I've been gently weeping for the past two weeks. I fear I will need more tissues before next Sunday.

Please either put each other on ignore or you can both go. I don’t usually do this publicly but I’m sick of you guys all whinging to me about each other.

May I ask what caused the duplicate? Did you mistakenly hit the Quote button where the Edit button used to be (now the 3 horizontal dots above the right side of your post)?

You can't compare the audio doing it this way with recording the audio that I get from Skype.

Good ear. I did that intentionally because I always forget to do it. I thought if I had it pre-recorded I wouldn't forget. I almost did. The audio quality is better because we are not using the recording of the cohosts from over Skype. We are connecting over the internet but each host's audio is recorded separately on their own machine and then uploaded where I can put the audio together in post. This way you don't get the compression of the cohost's audio.

Had we finished 5th and they finished 8th we'd probably still have had to have played them there MFCSS style.

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It's already worse than 2017. In 2017 we didn't have to rely on any other team in the last round except ourselves.

I agree. My point is that even if it was a sling and even if he was knocked unconscious he still would get off. Not all players are treated equally. Especially if they are outright favourite to win the Brownlow.

Will not even get looked at or deemed insufficient impact. Play on. Sweep. Carpet. Under.

Probably not but it’s worthy of the commentators saying something.

Commentators were absolutely silent. None of them wanted to highlight that there could be something there. I’m not suggesting he be suspended but it needs to be looked at and it will be brushed under the carpet. If this exact incident was involving Oskar Baker it would be looked at. No question.

Surprised (or not) that this is not all over social media. I only found this story. Would have thought the video would be all over the place. Not even the usual suspects are spotlighting this. I guess the AFL don’t want a landslide winner not eligible.