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    Bizarre to think that of every team in the eight, there are only three established coaches (Scott, Fagan and Longmire) who haven't been seriously under the sacking microscope in recent years. Even they have had their brushes with ignominy, with Scott clearly squandering a dynasty, Fagan repeatedly failing in finals, and Longmire successfully navigating the politics of a tank...erm... I mean... a really very difficult two-year period in between qualifying final appearances.

    4 hours ago, Bring-Back-Powell said:

    Remind your Essendon mate that his team drew 14,463 against GWS in 2016. Under a closed roof as opposed to the arctic conditions we had to put up with.

     

    Essendon have Dockers, Suns and Swans at home the next three weeks. Could be interesting to see how their crowds go now that they've been out of the top 4 for two whole weeks. I

    It might hold up this weekend given they still have everything on the line, but a loss to the Dockers and their season is kaput. Essendon fans really don't turn up when it gets tough - their 2022 crowds included;

    30k v Lions early in the season, then

    25k v Crows

    24k v Dockers

    23k vs Suns

    20k vs Port

     

     

     

    I know it wouldn't be easy or likely - it would require us to win all four remaining games and for Geelong to drop two - but with both Collingwood and Essendon wilting while facing three top-4 teams still to come, could we please pull off the ridiculous miracle and sneak into finals at the specific expense of Geelong?

    20 hours ago, Ollie fan said:

    You can't help yourself, can you; you must complain - this time, in a thread about Jason Taylor's recruiting in 2021 you talk about Tim Lamb's trades in various years. 

    You have to give credit where it is due; Cranky Franky managed to complain, in a thread about the 2021 draft/trade period, about five of our players and four of Hawthorn's players without a single one of them being from the 2021 draft/trade period.

    Nine throws and not one in the dartboard.

    Right now I'm picturing Cranky Franky going into a KFC and demanding a Big Mac, and when they won't give it to him saying it proves they are too timid to handle his opinions on the cheese.

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    1 hour ago, Dr. Gonzo said:

    To be fair though Richmond are dead last on the ladder, we were fighting for finals last night. How many would've turned up if we were 18th with two wins for the season? We had <10k against GWS at Docklands about 10 years back.

    It is possible we just hate games against GWS, and also games at Docklands, and games in the final round of yet another miserable season after seven previous miserable seasons.

    Because, after all, that was the only game that season where we dropped below 22k in Victoria.

    One might even note that in 2014, one of the most miserable year for any given club this century and following on from the undisputed most depressing season since Fitrzoy folded, we managed 17k against the Giants late in the season. So the entire difference between Melbourne's 250,000 estimated supporters in the depths of the worst slump in the modern era, and Richmond with 500,000 supporters in their very first non-competitive season in 13 years... is two thousand.

    In fact, if you looked back over the figures you'd find, comprehensively, that our crowd attendances are the least affected by performance of any club.

    Each of us can have a whole lot of reasons to not show up for a particular game, but 'soft' has never, ever been one of them.

    We've got to send that McGuire-led myth to its grave.

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    Two separate points.

    1. Winter saturday nights are a TV slot and attract poor crowds unless the AFL specifically sets up a 'blockbuster'.

    2. Giant super-huge mega-awesome club of hardcore supporter terrific whoopdie-doo-daa, Richmond, got 19k against GWS at the 'G two weeks ago.

    Shush.

     

           

     

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    2 minutes ago, Moonshadow said:

    Character building, I'd call it!

    I thought a 'character building' was a heritage listed property with no door on the toilet and a colony of possums living in the badly bricked-up chimney cavity.

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    35 minutes ago, Doug Reemer said:

    16k at a Saturday Prime Time Home game.

    I was there. If you weren’t whats your excuse? Want other clubs to respect us and stop saying we don’t turn up? Get off your [censored] and stick fat!

    Can't speak for others, but I was just avoiding you.

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    9 minutes ago, gs77 said:

    Like players care - they're the ones telling the docs to [censored] off while staggering about seeing triple.

    When they're nauseous then next two mornings and their spouse and family are questioning whether football is worth the cost, they'll care.

    31 minutes ago, GCDee said:

    Genuinely lost that game due to the umpiring. 

    28 minutes ago, Lexinator said:

    Umpires genuinely cost us the game, no ifs or buts about it.

    26 minutes ago, Redleg said:

    3rd game where a sh-t free, this time to toby ducking, costs us a loss by under a goal. Sick to death of it.

    22 minutes ago, biggestred said:

    Greene ducking

    May no push in back

    Greene getting called back 25 seconds into pettys shot at goal and no 50

    Channel 7 want gws in finals and you cannot convince me otherwise. 

    20 minutes ago, Redleg said:

    JVR infringed 10 times without a single free.

    May pushed  in the back on their last goal, everyone but 4 umpires saw and knew it.

    We have not had the rub of the green with frees, injuries and other sides kicking straighter.

     

    18 minutes ago, Demon Disciple said:

    First 7 minutes of the last in which we conceded 4 goals. Don’t know what was said at 3/4 time, but we sure as hell weren’t switched on.

    We score way too slowly at the business end of games, and concede far too easily when we lapse in concentration.

    Sure we can ramble on about the umpires, but what’s the point? So long as they make games contentious, AFL remains in the headlines. Too many games being influenced by umpiring decisions to be more than a coincidence, and with Dillon saying that umpiring is the best it ever has been, that ain’t changing any time soon.

    14 minutes ago, Lexinator said:

    I thought we played better for majority of the game and deserved the win. It's just was frustrating when there were calls and non calls that cost us goals and prevented us goals, from the poor decisions we would of had a couple goal win IMO. Meh, it's footy I guess.

    10 minutes ago, Clintosaurus said:

    HQ got new favourites so we get the ****ty end of the stick

    7 minutes ago, binman said:

    I have not been as furious with the umpiring in I honestly don't know how long. 

    I was apoplectic

    Simply appalling. I'm still seething.

    The blatant inconsistency is just mind numbing.

    5 minutes ago, titan_uranus said:

    Should have been 6 goals up at quarter time. 

    Should never have conceded four goals in 5 minutes to start the last. 

    Billings and Bowey atrocious, Gawn not fit, not sure May’s fit, and TMac had an all time stinker.

    Some dodgy 50/50 umpiring against us (it was obviously a push to May and Green sucked them in by dropping his knees) but we are far too inefficient and it keeps killing us.

    1 minute ago, Lexinator said:

    There have been some bad games this season, probably the Bombers game was the worst, but this takes the cake by a mile... so far!

    I didn't want to think it. I know there's no joy or comfort in it. I know it never sticks and everyone who didn't watch any given game will assume it is just one-eyed fan sour grapes.

    I was almost sad we got back within a margin that meant the umpiring was bad enough to be the difference.

    Even way back in our dominant first quarter, GWS were getting gimmes.

    Unfortunately, short of there being a recorded message on someone's phone which then leaks to the public, there will never be any way to press home the implication that the umpires are well aware of The Corporation's favourites.

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    8 minutes ago, bobby1554 said:

    Bomberblitz is gold, loved this one

    "Just apologised to my 12 year old son for “forcing” him to be an Essendon supporter.

    That kid will probably have their own 12 year old before Essendon win a final.

    4 minutes ago, Rab D Nesbitt said:

    Bombers now setting their sights on pick 6 in the draft. 

    Chasing Collingwood's run at pick 4.

    It gives me great joy to know that this season we have broken the souls of both Geelong and Essendon. Well, soul-analagous synthetic devices, anyway.

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    1 hour ago, monoccular said:

    Goofy - we must not rely on others; we need to get it done ourselves.  I am more bitterly disappointed by some of the games we have dropped.

    No doubt on that. I'm just watching the puzzle pieces fall. We are in control of our destiny as far as top 8 goes, but a home final would be nice and top 4 still conceivable, but only if other results play out nicely.

    Plus, at the simplest realistic level, we're clearly still getting our act together and even if we're hitting form by September and have a reasonable shot at finals, we'd want those puzzle pieces to fall our way.

    Also, It's Goffy. I may be somewhat odd, but not a little goofy!

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    Main things I learned.

    Jefferson continues to develop but as he grows in some crucial facets that people were very worried about like the contested work and leading patterns, an early favourable aspects in his set shots has suffered a bit. I feel comfortable with the progress in as much as it is the 'hardest to learn' stuff which he seems to be making progress in.

    Yze appears to be a legit prospect, which is nice. And if you drop an Yze sandwich on the floor you get a Gruzewski.

    And Casey needs go recruit and reorganise in a major way.

    And the VFL is being relentlessly disrespected by The Corporation.

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    Bittery disappointed Carlton couldn't get the job done against an opponent which had only a tiny margin of % ahead of us. Blues still a club relying too much on a handful of stars, but at least their fans will be able to say 'but but but we were missing the greatest players ever' and still believe. Port are still chasable not only because we play them, but their other opponents are Sydney, Adelaide, and Freo in Perth.

    Feels strange to be keeping at least a half eye on all of today's other games. We could do some kind of motorcyle stunt jump over both Scott twins in one day if Geelong and Essendon squelch it against their low-ranked opponents.

    Plus, no harm in St Kilda coming home strong and making Magpie fans nervous.

    An Adelaide win over Hawthorn tomorrow would also clean up the chase while bringing a Collingwood bottom-4 finish into the range of possibilities. come to think of it, Adelaide are our absolute best friends for the rest of the season, with four games being against our close positional rivals.

    Brisbane either fail and bring themselves back into the peloton, or they do the job and remove Gold Coast from the race. Either result is acceptable but I wouldn't think Brisbane could stumble completely from here, so it'll be better to have on less chaser to worry about.

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    10 minutes ago, Cranky Franky said:

    Frost is getting a game in a team playing much better than us at the moment. He'd be well ahead of Lever this year.

    Amazing.

    I'd love to hear your evidence for this. Actually, no, just go away.

    Does Demonland do bans for sheer wrongness?

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    1 hour ago, Cranky Franky said:

    Has anyone else noticed that we have lost almost all the real speedsters off our list in recent years ?

    This has happened when genuine leg speed is a very valuable commodity.

    Jeff Garlett was probably cooked so no great loss.

    Sam Frost would probably get a game with us today.

    Oskar Baker - probably Casey material.

    Toby Bedford- would be very, very useful.

    Jayden Hunt would also be very handy as a line breaker.

    Maybe the BT doesn't value speed.

    Garlett, Frost, Baker, Bedford and Hunt. Pick any five players on our current list and make the switch, would we really be anything more than incrementally improved?

    Overall our team is faster than it was four years ago and in particular we've added considerable speed in recent drafts in every position.

    The anti-club Gish Gallop coming from some directions is getting more than annoying.

     

     

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