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1 hour ago, willmoy said:

11 minute mark of last qtr, Hannon takes a mark but at last minute spills from his hands. Umpire had, a split second earlier, blown whistle, not for the mark, but i think for the push in the back. So when Hannon spilt same mark he, maggot, decided to ball it up. Amazing. 

I detest Nicholls, but this call was correct, he blew the whistle and paid the mark quickly, Hannan fumbled it and I believe it hit the ground. I have no issues with that decision. Nicholls can still get stuffed though. ?

I think registration for us is available on Wednesday 19th?

Edit: AFL site says that Semi Final 1 winners can register Wednesday 19th. Semi Final 2 winners on Thursday 20th

28 minutes ago, red and blue forever said:

I do a similar thing to help promote the club to potential new supporters.

 

Myself I get the little sticker for car number plates we receive in our membership package and stick them on random peoples cars.

I've done this to a few of my work mates, see how long it takes them to realise. ?

3 hours ago, Mazer Rackham said:

A hearty thank you to who suggested using a phone.

I got nervous after seeing the "Thousands of AFL fans are transacting right now. The Ticketek website is up and running and you are in a queue, waiting for your turn." message on my computer screen for an uncomfortably long time.

Got on the phone, got through the queue in the first 10 seconds, enter barcode etc ... select seat, go to pay YOUR SESSION HAS TIMED OUT

Get f***ed! still had 6 minutes on it!

Back on, this time success.

And the whole time, the computer browser has been patiently sitting in the chumps queue and still is. "Thousands of chumps  are transacting right now. The Ticketek website is up and running and you are in a queue, waiting for your turn. This is a normal part of our f***ed up operation."

Thank you again!

I'd check your email, you may have still gotten those tickets? I had the same thing happen, told me I had timed out when I payed, luckily I then checked my email, there were the tickets. ?

2 tickets in M50, Row CC. Was hoping to get down the front but didn't want to take a 3rd try at it. 

Third best ranked Dee on the night, fourth overall. Disposal efficency of 70%, no clangers, 9 tackles and was leading pressure player in first quarter - I only saw that stat for 1st quarter - probably for the game too. Personally, I think he played well and I was happy with his game.

They can add the 2018 Premiership Cup in a few weeks. ??

The kid has talent, I just see him as being a little too excitable at the moment. When players were asked who is the biggest pest, they all voted Petracca without a second thought. ? He just has that personality, once he learns to curb it back a notch on the field, he'll start being more consistent and will rip games apart more often. (In my opinion. ?)

Such a tough call, Brayshaw and Jones are probably my slight favourites.

To all the Harmes supporters, I will add that he is probably the best at taking time to sign autographs for the kids in the pink shirt warm up, when the players are doing their own set shot stuff etc. He just really seems to be loving his footy at the moment, he'll always take photos and sign autographs with the kids and he normally has a bigger grin then them. ?

With two years left on his contract, Adelaide will want a 1st and 2nd round pick for him. (Only slightly tongue in cheek ?)

Carlton are after mids, I can't see them throwing away a 1st round pick for him. Unless they get a priority pick at the end of 1st round, trade that for McGovern and a 2nd round pick?

Always a fan of his athleticism, but even though I never bagged him here, I wasn't impressed by his decision making or foot skills. Other then his mistake of leaving Hawkins 30mtrs on his own last time we played the cats, he seems to have improved both immensely.

Great work to the coaching staff, in either working and improving those deficiencies, or in keeping him at Casey to build his confidence up if that's all it was? The last two games, against good opposition, he's looked good for the whole game, not just a few mins of it. ??

At least all their members will be guaranteed GF tickets if they ever make it. ?

(Probably scalp them though. ?)

Either way tomorrow, it's going to make for an interesting EF.

We win, we play against a team coming off two 100pt wins and have beaten us twice during the year, both close at least.

We lose, we play the same team again, high on confidence because they just beat us, their home ground and a few more players back for EF. We will have Viney back too.

It's still going to play a big part in who plays who in the first week of finals though. ?  

Correct me if I'm wrong, but if we win we'll play Geelong, unless Collingwood lose then we'll slip into 4th and play Richmond.

If we lose though, we have about 55pts of percentage over Geelong to work with I think. So if we lost by 30 and Geelong win by 30 etc, we'll finish 8th and play GWS. If our loss and the Cats win is under the 55pts, we finish 7th and play the loser of Swans vs Hawks. ??

1 hour ago, Demon Disciple said:

And according to Juddas, Brendon Bolton is doing a fantastic job, plus he tips Carlton every [censored] round (there's blind faith, then there's stupidity).

The bloke doesn't have a clue. May he forever continue as a director on their board, let's see how far down he can bury them (and then wipe his hands innocently clean - smug [censored]).

I guess we're stuffed then, as he believes we can win the flag? ?

I listen to triple m footy a bit when I'm stuck working during the games, Juddy is pretty bullish on the Dees and how well they could do in finals, I got the feeling that he doesn't want the Dees to be celebrating so much for just making finals when he thinks we should go further?

I understand what he's getting at, but considering how long it's been for the club, you can understand the players getting pumped up about it. ?

I don't understand the constant ANB bagging, on Footy Classified a short time ago they had the following.

DEMONS' LESSER LIGHTS

HARMES: Disposals - 20.7, Goals - 0.6 (Above Average)

HANNAN: Goals - 1.6 (Elite), Score Involvements - 6.4 (Above Average)

FRITSCH: Disposals - 16.7, Meters Gained - 315 (Above Average), Goals - 0.8 (Above Average)

NEAL-BULLEN: Disposals - 17.6 (Elite), Goals - 1.1 (Above Average), Fwd Half Pressure Points - 36.6 (Elite)

The swans fans that were around us were actually pretty good, didn't need to bag us, our players were pathetic enough.

I'm actually shattered and embarrassed by our team today, shocking coaching, shocking decisions by players, shocking accountability of your direct opponent and the worse one, shocking goal kicking...again. ?

1 minute ago, MSFebey said:

Why do we still bomb long into the forward 50 after the last 2 years?

And to make it worse, we are still playing the extra player off the backline at centre bounces and only 5 in the forward line. Good coaching that, bomb the ball into our fwd 50 where the opposition has an extra player. ?

Great chance to be 4th at end of round, as long as we don't screw the pooch. Massive game next week if we win tomorrow. Come on Dees. ?

The possible problem I see with the 17-5 scenario is that it may cause tanking claims again. Let's say Team 6 & 7 are equal points coming into Rd 17, Team 6 (for this example) has won on the Saturday, Team 7 needs to win by 36pts on Sunday to leap frog into 6th, would it be worth winning by 36 and going into the higher draw for last 5 games, or win by 20 and play against lower teams for last 5?

In the above scenario for example, if it's a close year like this year, it might be better to finish the 17 rounds in 7th, then play teams ranked between 7-12 for last 5, this may get you 5 wins instead of 2-3 and actually finish higher on the ladder for finals?

I don't think 12 wins will be enough, I think we need 13. If we can manage two of those against Cats, Swans or Giants would be ideal. ??

I don't see Max Gawn listed in the above article, he was listed as one of our five players on the list that On the Couch showed? Whatever show he pops up on would be amusing to watch. ?

To be fair on Petty, our game plan, or lack of one, didn't help. Out coached again, the ease in which they transferred play and went from defensive 50 to attacking 50 was a disgrace, they isolated Petty with a stronger opponent or Omac with a faster one and delivered the ball accordingly. They hit their targets going forward, we just bombed it and hoped for the best. ?