Sir Why You Little

Mr Ed worked hard

1 minute ago, Brownie said:

Yeah, I'm angry.

Such a lost opportunity. The lions fall over the line by a goal and we get ripped off.

Sometimes the better team loses the game. That should have been Carlton tonight.

Clear free kicks to us in the last 5 minutes ignored. A ridiculous goal line review.

Sometimes good teams win when they haven't played their best. That should have been us. 

I really detest the AFL. 

Yep. We just have to suck it up

but it was wrong 

Don’t blame Grundy. He was great in the last Quarter 

We were robbed of 4 points 

23 minutes ago, layzie said:

So was it touched or are we all just being Melb fans?

The ball did not deviate. Nobody touched it. 
The AFL need to get 4K Cameras. It is amateur hour right now 

I hope the entire Club is very angry 

3 minutes ago, rolling fog said:

Their massive sense of entitlement - this separates them from the filth. 

For different reasons I cannot separate them. 
I have not eaten in Lygon Street for Decades 

3 minutes ago, Smokey said:

Good to hear from you! 

I was incarcerated for many months 

Thin wam gruel was my only meal…

SWYL is very Angry 

That was a goal

i HATE everything about Carlton. There is no difference between them and Collingwood 

Never Forget that

20 minutes ago, ManDee said:

LDVC,  this is a similar argument to the cessation of tobacco advertising. 

NB.  Sport did not stop, go broke or charge much more for attendance. Prices have gone up even with gambling revenue. 

Exactly. Cricket was Sponsored by B&H Cigarettes for years until it was banned. 
There are many Companies who would step up their exposure, if Gambling and Betting ads were banned, as they should be. 

14 minutes ago, WalkingCivilWar said:

… and of those who do wanna go, many can’t. 

That too. 
I am sure the AFL executive will have 5-6 star Free Accommodation over the entire weekend 

18 minutes ago, La Dee-vina Comedia said:

You make a good point.

Mind you, I suspect the SA Government would prefer less TV coverage to encourage more visitation. 

This has nothing to do with what SA want. They get a free hit. 
 

This is all blanket broadcasting against The NRL

8 minutes ago, La Dee-vina Comedia said:

I'm amused by the angst associated with the TV broadcasting arrangements. It's not that long ago we were complaining that we weren't getting enough FTA because we were rubbish. We can't have it both ways. If poorer quality teams are to be given some FTA coverage, the better teams will occasionally have to miss out.

No. This is “Gather Round” all teams should be given full coverage. 
Not everyone wants to go to Adelaide

6 minutes ago, dazzledavey36 said:

It's the time slot that's been allocated by the AFL. The broadcasting (channel 7) go off the agreement contract of what their time slot arrangements is from the AFL. Friday and Thursday night games, a Saturday night game and then the Sunday afternoon are pretty much 7's locked timeslot.

Channel 7 have never had a 4:10 Saturday twilight game time slot in place, ever. Fox have always covered this one as well as the Sunday twilight with St Kilda and Collingwood.

It'd not as easy as just "changing cables" purely because this would have been the contract that would have been agreed on when the fixture came out as @Bring-Back-Powell was getting at.

Yes it is as easy as Changing Cables   They all use the same Cameras. 
I worked on many outside broadcasts. 
Please don’t tell me TV Stations are not flexible to time slots. They always have standby programs ready 
The Reason for this Farce is for one reason only. To STOP PEOPLE WATCHING NRL. That is it. 
all 9 games should be on Free to Air, all 9 games should be on Cable  

Blanket Coverage for 1 weekend 

It’s a half assed joke

8 minutes ago, dazzledavey36 said:

Can you provide an example where the AFL has changed the time of the game during the week purely to suit the broadcasting channel??

No need to change that.

You either plug in Ch7 Cables or Foxtel. This doesn’t need months of planning 

The Top 4 teams are being penalised 

It’s a joke. The whole thing

4 hours ago, Bring-Back-Powell said:

The AFL and CH 7 had no idea in December that Esssendon and St Kilda would be a combined 7-1 between them.

And not once has the AFL moved a game “in season” so that channel 7 can get the favourable game. (Fox has a fair bit of skin in the TV rights too)

Most people can get Kayo at a reasonable price if they can’t afford Foxtel so I don’t see this as a major issue.

Kayo is a complete joke. Not worth 50 cents 

Games can still be changed days out 

Nothing has taken place yet

They call it “Gather Round” but it’s not on Air 

So the Top 4 Sides are not on Free to Air Broadcast this weekend?

What an absolute Shambles 

The AFL should just sack themselves for total incompetence 

Love The Demons, Hate The AFL

21 minutes ago, Gawndy the Great said:

Another left field question. MFCs presence in the media seems to be almost non existent. Do you think this is deliberate or coincidental?

Nothing wrong with “swimming under the surface” if we keep winning games…

1 hour ago, Axis of Bob said:

I think that the retirement of Mundy at the same time that Fyfe has stopped playing as a midfielder, has had a big impact on how Fremantle operates.

Mundy and Fyfe are both around 6'4 (~192cm), so they are big midfielders, and are contest winners with Mundy consistently averaging over 10 contested possessions a game (9 last year) and Fyfe averaging closer to 15 before injury and form issues recently. What these bigger bodies do is take the load off and make it easier for the smaller midfielders in the contest. 

By comparison, their spot as the top contest winners in the engine room has been taken by Serong (5'10 - 178cm) and Brayshaw (6'0 - 183cm). They're both excellent players but they don't have the physical size to make the game easier for everyone else. Serong averages 13 cp/g this year and Brayshaw 10. The other midfielders are O'Meara (6'0), Aish (6'0) plus whatever's left, but none of them are big midfielders. Brodie helped a lot when he was in form at points last year but has been struggling (and dropped) this year, Fyfe and Mundy could always make the job of others easier around the ball but they can't anymore and now they just can't get any drive from the contests. It's a bit like the Neale, Zorko, Lyons midfielders from Brisbane, where they always struggled in the tough games because they got beaten up with size around the ball. 

They've picked up some big midfielders in the last few drafts (Johnson and Erasmus) but neither have shown so far that they're going to be the answer. They also struggled last year to get consistent contests in the forward line from their big guys, and with Lobb and Logue moving on they are getting almost no aerial contest inside 50. Taberner has always been more of a leading forward, Jackson isn't that sort of player and Amiss is a kid. 

Freo are going to have to learn how to turn slow inside 50s into scores, as that's how they're set up at the moment. They shouldn't be as bad as they are at the moment but they've got an oddly constructed list with some big gaps that they need to be filled with few resources to fill them. It'll be an interesting journey. 

David King made some good points this morning with Gerald 

Longmuir isn’t coaching to suit his list at present. They have cleared out too many solid players. They could fall off the cliff very quickly 

1 minute ago, Sydee said:

I don't waste my time with that usually - but thanks

From my limited experience of the game day thread few if any comments tend to age well

Absolutely. But they are said

11 minutes ago, Sydee said:

I think both teams were kicking at less than 50% efficiency in the first half. There was a fair bit of heat around the ball which was certainly contributing. Listening to TMac after the game he confirmed as much.

Gus did have one or two moments but overall, I thought he was one of our best players. Surprised if there are people potting him here.

 

It’s all in the Game Day Thread 

13 hours ago, layzie said:

JL the champion pre season coach!

This one is Gold

14 hours ago, demon3165 said:

Not worried if people agree with me, they are my opinions and I don't need people to agree with me to be right or wrong that why it's called a forum.

2. He is not a legend

3. Why would I talk to Jack he is not going to agree with me is he?

“Jack is not a Legend of the MFC”, now you are just being silly  

That’s another one you can tell him eyeball to eyeball.. 

4 minutes ago, A F said:

3165 may be using flagrant language to describe Jack, but it's an opinion and 3165 doesn't have to be 'respectful'/share your opinion.

Of course he doesn’t have to share my opinion.
But when he refers to our VC as a player with no IQ, then he had better have a good reason for saying it. 
I am yet to see anything except a hole being dug deeper and slagging off at me

The $100 stands

2 minutes ago, dazzledavey36 said:

In fairness to JL, Goody isn't far behind him. Press conferences are usually a snore fest.

Only difference is Goody can actually Coach and has the medallion to back that up. His persona is definitely different when he's game day coach which is a strength of Goody.

I have no problem listening to Goody. 
he has improved dramatically since 2016-17.

He has also been told to listen more to his match committee 

(You will have noticed more youth is now being given Senior exposure)

6 minutes ago, demon3165 said:

You call what I say about Viney a rugby player and lack of footy IQ Vitriol, you really have led a sheltered life.

You haven’t answered anything. 
nobody agrees with you, you are disrespectful to an MFC Legend 

I am merely asking that you talk directly to Jack. 

1 minute ago, Macca said:

Salem's DE rating wouldn't be all that flash if we use his year last season as an example.  But often the DE Rating is a furphy if looked at closer

Anyway, when Salem becomes available both he and Brayshaw will play. 

And how on Earth is a backman kicking  to a contest further afield somehow a mistake anyway? 

If there is no free target there is no other choice but to kick to that contest (you can't head for the boundary - pinged)

And the boffin's determine that the player kicking the ball is at fault if the contest is won by the opposition

How utterly ridiculous.  Sheer madness but the public lap it up

 

Exactly. People forget that Brayshaw’s  kicking options are limited. Sometimes he has no choice but to “hack & hope” Yesterday there were a few fumbles early by a lot of players ( I put that down to the Perth Turf which certainly had a different bounce & many players slipped over) But Angus certainly got very reliable later in the game. 
A couple of kicks across the centre to the opposite wing were spot on.