Clintosaurus

@picket fence won't know what to say

Looking forward to one of my non-MFC favourites Hayden Young being back out on the field on Sunday. Hope he rips the Pies a new one. Freo a big chance unless the umps get spooked by the Pies nuffs into umpiring one way.

For manipulating results? Most betting would be at the line so could be easily done without impacting who wins.

Good thread for the Eeyores. Winning solves everything - even MFCSS amazingly. Nah - who am I kidding? Sufferers never get fully over it.

Mitch Cleary the Geelong shill? But also Collingwood or Hawthorn at the moment. Seems the AFL want 3 Victorian powerhouses while the other 7 are District 12 in comparison. Journos would not be pushing narratives for all these players to go to one of those three without HQ being OK with it. Especially as some of it is on the AFL website.

So who out of Geelong, Collingwood or Hawthorn is Tom shilling for this time?

Pies not cursed by beating them the next week though. AFL karma works in strange ways.

This never gets old

Or just about any other free that can be paid?

Getting carved through the middle

Ump guessed that was HTB then

Don't think just give to the first option FFS.

No, we are not allowed to blame the umps.

Not a mark either

Norf get a nice run from the umps don't they?

Awful umpiring. Not close to high.

Howes excellent. Did laugh at the Footscray 500 comment.

I didn't see the game. Guess Hardwick's sooking about Matt Rowell got a dividend? Did laugh at this from a Cats fan podcast:

They have @Demonland covered in terms of MFCSS 90% of the time too.

The media would prefer us to have no good players and be 1:10 or 4:40 every Sunday playing on front of 13,000 at Marvel. Great to have friends in the right places...........

How do we know that the club says nothing? Even if Goody spoke ad nauseum in pressers about how the umps are cheats, all he would get is a significant fine, as opposed to the continual favourable treatment McRae and C Scott receive to overcompensate when something trivial goes against either of their teams.

Good old sports entertainment hey? When did you last see a free paid against the Pies in the last 5 minutes of a close game? Best it's ever been. So many manipulated results there's at least 30 games of no consequence in the last 7 rounds. All good though as Collingwood, Geelong and Hawthorn will make the prelims.

Did we nearly get Zac Merrett a few years back?

Nah I'm done. No point arguing what everyone should accept as truth anymore.

NRLW season 8 kicked off on the weekend. 12 teams currently and not sure when it expands next. Standard is pretty good and having Origin and Tests clearly helps this.