Everything posted by redandbluemakepurple
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AFL Under 18 Championships 2023
Always!
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Fifty years ago today … Robbie Flower debuts
I too have been telling people for 50 years that Shane Fitsimmons debuted the same day: incorrectly. On Channel 7's League Teams the previous Thursday, Jack Dyer could not believe that a VFL club would field a side with a Flower on the wing and a Swan at FF. He opined that it must actually be Fowler, that's right Fowler. When RDB moved Robbie from the wing, a thing of beauty was snatched away from us. Have we forgiven him?
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Thugs and Saints
- Contenders & Pretenders
Petenders unless we have Petty and Schache playing. Tomlinson couldn't keep up with McKay. Smith as a defensive key forward didn't work as did Melksham didn't once TMac went down last year. BBrown, Tmac, no longer can do enough. Adams not doing much. Turner is too light to release Lever from second key back. So the normal run of injuries means Pretenders. Looking forward to being severely embarassed after the GF.- CASEY: Rd 11 vs Southport
https://www.afl.com.au/video/941705/vfl-match-replay-r11-southport-v-casey?videoId=941705&modal=true&type=video&publishFrom=1685757900001&references=AFL_MATCH:5186- Hawks racism allegations (merged thread)
Yes 👍- PREGAME: Rd 12 vs Carlton
As others have already pointed out, Lever is a competent second tall but an intercepting marvel as a third tall working his way onto a small or mid. Tomlinson is starring at Casey. It defies logic to leave him out. McVee gets squeezed out. Hunter comes back in. Chandler goes back to Casey and Spargo to emergency but a toss-up really. Two forward spots for TMac, Van Rooyen, BBrown and The Love Shack. I wouldn't overthink this. Just who ever has run the most kms in their last game. None of them are setting the world on fire. With a qualifying 12 disposals at Casey or 8 in the Seniors. That lets TMAC out.- Hawks racism allegations (merged thread)
My bolded words are just putting fuel on the fire and are surprisingly ill-judged IMHO.- PREGAME: Rd 12 vs Carlton
I imagine that the Ancient Greeks did not give a stuff, with Constantinople having fallen on April 29, 1453. (Yes, desperate but certainly not dateless). However, the educated class in the 19th Century, was mad for Ancient Greek (as well as Latin). They coined new words based on the Ancient Greek language, e.g. phonogram, telephone, phoneme, saxophone. The alternative explanation that those were just the letters that came out of the scrabble bag, seems rather far-fetched.- Hawks racism allegations (merged thread)
If I may have a attempt Old55, the AFL should have wrapped this up more rapidly. First up, their investigations officer should have interviewed all parties individually asap with or without their lawyer as they choose. When it came apparent that their stories were incompatible and one side didn't want to meet the other side, the AFL should quickly have said that the basic facts could not be agreed and no further action was possible. The appointment of a panel of lawyers had no prospect of success. Gill's statement that "this is what they asked for" ducks responsibility. So no further action unless someone sues. Then the jury will be able to look into their faces and work out who was gutted and who is defensive/ashamed. I suspect that there won't be cases. The interview with the former Hawthorn football club welfare manager Jason Burt suggests that they should keep their heads down. So Gill that is another big fail after Lamumba, Goodes, Rioli(?), etc. The system to support indigenous and/or immature and/or isolated players is broken and you do not seem to care. Sling me or many others some of your salary and we would tell you how to fix it.- PREGAME: Rd 12 vs Carlton
Too much information perhaps but "p" run into "f" does sound a bit like "f". It was the best that the ancient Greeks could do a couple of thousand years ago last Tuesday, when the "f" sound came back into use in their language. The dedicated letter of diagamma had disappeared due to lack of use. Phono-etc words come from the Greek words φωνή (phonē, 'sound' or 'voice'). Hence the odd spelling. Similarly, the naughty frenchies spelled the Anglo-Saxon "ch" sound as "tch" i.e. catch, hatch. They ran together the "t" sound with the "sh" sound that they rendered as "ch" e.g. chalet, mon petit chou.- Sestan & Verrall Re-Sign
Looked Verrall up on the MFC website. Bronze Sponsor => Clayton Oliver Should be a couple of threads about conflicts of interest in there 😃- PREGAME: Rd 12 vs Carlton
- Tom De Koning
But only 23, playing at the club where coaches go to die, TMac has seized up. We need the kgs. Sign him up.- NON-MFC: Rd 11 2023
Just an oddity but he runs exactly like his old man did.- Sparrow cops one week ban for rough conduct
Has there been extra video yet? If not, Sparrow released Day earliy and he stumbled over the umpires' guide dog as far as we could see in the partial video. Woofy was too cute to charge.- When will Melbourne break these embarrassing records?
Still worth a thread but the records are no longer a dagger to my heart. We won a Premiership. We crashed out of the finals last year but we won a Premiership. We gave Roos a very MFC send-off with his greatest ever loss. But we won a Premiership. Hopefully others found 2021 as therapeutic. 😃- The No T$ No B$ Thread
- NON-MFC: Rd 09 2023
God bless you Mansell. Still looking forward to Scott's presser. He may collapse inwardly like one of those blackhole thingies.- The No T$ No B$ Thread
- PREGAME: Rd 09 vs Hawthorn
We need to give Petty some time to learn the Forward's craft as we did for Van Rooyen. Possibly some less flaky coaching will train up the Love Shack for a key position. We need the extra kilos. Our new guys are lightly built. Van Rooyen floats like a bee but dropped a lot on Saturday. Half a century ago, a much taller friend was coached to tilt his hands forward. Anyone out there with an updated diagnosis and cure?- The No T$ No B$ Thread
Who do you want to dig you out of the snow, a St Bernards or a beagle with ambition? The political system has thrown up Prime Ministers Morrison, Abbot, Rudd, Turnbull, Keating, etc. Shrinking violets to the man with hubris unknown. Be Afwaid be vewy vewy Afwaid — (Elmer Fudd c. 1956) Any mention of a recent State Premiers will cause this thread to self-combust.- The No T$ No B$ Thread
- Andrew Dillon is the Next AFL CEO
As a dislecksick baby boomar, I will one at the back yelling "JUDAS". - Contenders & Pretenders