Everything posted by Vipercrunch
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2024 Preseason Training Thread
Looks like TMac may have lost a bet over the chrissy break...
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Trade Rumours 2023
Hindsight is 20:20, but Lobb should have been our choice last year instead of Grundy. A second pure ruck (who we now all know can't play forward) made no sense for us, and a forward ruck made even less sense for the Bulldogs. I would have backed us to get far more out of Lobb than the Bullgods did, and even there he still had some good games. I expect its now 12 months too late for him to be a signifacant recruit for us though.
- AFLW: Rd 05 vs Geelong
- AFLW: Rd 05 vs Geelong
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Maynard must get at least four weeks
There is nothing wrong with attempting to smother. It is his decision to turn, brace and lean his weight and momentum into Gus' head with his shoulder. There is no way on this earth you can tell me he had to do that and no way on earth he would have done that if it had been Nick Daicos there instead of Gus during match practice at training.
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Maynard must get at least four weeks
Maynard acted with the instinct of the self confessed white-line-fever player that he is. His instinct would of had him acting very, very differently if it had been Nick Daicos there in an intraclub game.
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Maynard must get at least four weeks
I 100% get that. I used to watch every game I could. Now, I very rarely watch anything other than our game.
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Maynard must get at least four weeks
Ask anyone trying to defend how Maynard positioned his body to make contact if Maynard would have done exactly the same thing if it had been Nick Daicos there in an intraclub game instead of Angus Brayshaw in a final.
- POSTGAME: QF vs Collingwood
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Maynard must get at least four weeks
Anyone who says its purely a footy act needs to be sure in their own mind that Maynard would have turned, braced and leant his body weight and momentum into Brayshaws head if it had been a teamate there instead of Brayshaw. The only answer is of course not.
- POSTGAME: QF vs Collingwood
- POSTGAME: QF vs Collingwood
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Should we go hard for Sean Darcy?
The question no one from the media who have been critisicising us for picking up Grundy have tried to answer is who would have rucked for us when Gawn was injured earleir this season? If Grundy leaves, the club will need to answer that question. Will Verrell or Farris-White be able to fill in at AFL for a short period (or longer) if Gawn is injured again next year? It doesnt look like it to me, so I think we need another experineced ruckman on the list next season. As unpopular he is around here, in hindsight, perhaps we should have chased Rory Lobb instead of Grundy.
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PREGAME: QF vs Collingwood
I'm not taking any significance at all from the KB game. At 11-1 at the time, Collingwood would have been in a very demanding training phase, potentially even training harder than us who were 3 wins behind them (8-4). This is now the real deal and it's got every chance of being an epic final.
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Jake Melksham Injury
5 goals for the team in the 2.5 quarters before his injury is hardly evidence of that.
- GAMEDAY: Rd 21 VS North Melbourne
- GAMEDAY: Rd 15 vs Geelong
- GAMEDAY: Rd 15 vs Geelong
- GAMEDAY: Rd 15 vs Geelong
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NON-MFC: Rd 14 2023
Can’t help think that the result would have been very different if the umpiring hadn’t got Brisbane back into the game in the second quarter. Sydney was well on top at stage then the momentum swung 180.
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NON-MFC: Rd 14 2023
Swans are getting absolutely rogered here by the umps. OMG
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NON-MFC: Rd 14 2023
Hope so. Extremely silly thing to do.
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NON-MFC: Rd 14 2023
The one that didn’t get tackled but still got a HTB paid against him? Terrible umpiring decision.
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NON-MFC: Rd 14 2023
History shows Dangerfield would call a ambulance for a paper cut. There has been several times he has taken himself off the ground and out of the game because he felt the slightest twinge. Unlike our man Clarry who played out a game with a torn hammy.
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MRP & MRO Fiasco
Apologies if there is a thread for this already, but is anyone else really concerned where the game is going after the 3 week suspensions dished out tonight for Sicily and Mansell? I don’t like Mansell and am pretty ambivalent about Sicily, but I think both are incredibly stiff to get any punishment at all for those incidents. Mansell made a self preservation action at the very last moment to protect himself, and there is no way Sicily should be held responsible for that tackle. Accidents happen and the game seems to be getting itself lost trying to eliminate them.