Everything posted by Supermercado
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Welcome back to Demonland: Tayla Harris
We desperately need a full forward, and even though she did nada this season if there's no other options available I'd be willing to take the chance.
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Farewell Sam Weideman
I appreciate his effort but for once we're trying to win a flag here, can't just wait all year for his game to click. Brown was rusty against North but still kicked goals, good against the Swans, then ordinary against Carlton in conditions that didn't suit him. I'm not ruling out switching back later if Brown doesn't work but unless there's some deeper tactical element to it that my pleb brain can't fathom I want to give the proven performer a chance.
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Other great comebacks
My favourite is the 2000 Qualifying Final. Five goals down late in the third quarter, hit the lead late, lose the lead, then get it back and go on to win (relatively) comfortably against a side that beat us by 98 points a few weeks earlier.
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Where will we play the Lions?
I hope the delay is due to our executive trying Mafia style tactics to get the NT government to let us in.
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Where will we play the Lions?
For the sake of $700k+ (especially if we get shafted out of Queen's Birthday) move the Round 16 GWS game there.
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The 2021 Forwardline: What's our best mix?
Weid has to start taking marks inside 50. Not going to argue with anyone marking up the ground, but it's crossing over with what McDonald and Jackson do. Also I'm not writing off Brown this quickly. He started slowly in his first game of the year, was good in his second, and had a rotten one in the wet when he and Weid shouldn't have both been playing. I'm 51% Weid at the moment but if he doesn't perform tonight I'm willing to change.
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DEES PLAYER AT COVID SITE
That worked well for us*, we missed playing them while they were in form and got them when they were rotten. * adjusting for already having stuffed the season up in Cairns.
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Slow off the Mark; Our First Quarters
We've been doing this for years - during the Roos/Goodwin development years we'd often go four goals down then try to find a way out of the hole. I can't find where it was posted but I had a list of how often we'd come back from 24 points down to get within a goal and it was ridiculously long. In 2017 it happened about three weeks in a row. Difference is now we've got a better team to overhaul deficits. Then there's last Saturday, where we got so confused at having a decent early lead that we let them kick two goals before quarter time.
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REVENGE ROUND - August 14
This is what happens when we forget what it's like to lose.
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Should Gawn have played the percentages and tried to force a draw?
Should have hit it towards the goals and made a behind more likely but still with the idea of winning it if possible.
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What they're saying down at Royal Parade
Carlton fans by the looks of it. How the mighty have fallen.
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What they're saying down at Royal Parade
I like the idea that we're elitists who enjoy skiing but would still shop at Aldi.
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Clubs Walking a Few Metres in Our Shoes
I don't think he needs to, just wedge an arm up the back passage of his successor and carry on like nothing's changed.
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Clubs Walking a Few Metres in Our Shoes
Jeff going for his own version of the prison bar jumper distraction from the team being rubbish.
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TICKETING: Rd 09 vs Carlton
If you wait until the public sale can you use a premium membership to get a general admission ticket on level four? I pay for a Redlegs membership but don't want to sit in the seats and it's painful being assigned a seat five down an aisle squashed in with randoms when there's 10,000 free seats on Level 4.
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Potential priority pick for Kangas
I know from our experience that journos love bringing this up to cause outrage when the club hasn't asked for anything yet, but it's a bit early to be discussing it. Who knows if their kids will improve and they'll win 4 or 5 games. I'm not against priority picks if they're no better than end of the first round, but they've also got to take some responsibility for dumping senior players and concentrating on kids.
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Norm Smith-What happened in 1965
English football manager Barry Fry took a ceremonial pish in all four corners of Birmingham's pitch to try and reverse a supposed gypsy curse. Let's see the people in this thread who think curses are a real thing load up and have a go at the same sort of exorcism.
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AFLW Off-season List changes
Harris just kicked four goals in eight games for a team on the cusp of the finals, I wouldn't pay her $3.50.
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Sat Night Channel 7 Team
What about it being our first 8-0 start "since 1956... err... 1965... when Ron Barassi was in his first year as coach". Whoever wrote that fun fact for Darcy forgot to include the bit about RDB coaching Carlton.
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Lets remove the Norm Smith Curse
I'd rather be boiled in oil than do community singing - even for a good cause - but hope you have better luck than when Collingwood tried to get the crowd to sing Nothing Else Matters by Metallica and were greeted with dead silence.
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THE LAST HURRAH - Demon Literature
Thank you @Whispering_Jack and all, also to Slattery Publishing/Hardie Grant for giving me the chance to turn pro. If you'd like to contribute to Jeff Bezos' next divorce settlement you can also pre-order at Amazon. And yes, I am very much hoping that by the end of September the title is rendered irrelevant. Should come with a free texta so you can alter it in the event of another flag.
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Best AFL/VFL season ever?
As if Melbourne 1956 wasn't better.
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Lets remove the Norm Smith Curse
The real Hutchy would have had Carpet Call presenting the post on behalf of McDonalds and Drouin Machinery Maintenance.
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Coach Killers
I always thought we put him away as well, but just looked it up and he went on for five more weeks and won another game before leaving.
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Coach Killers
We finished off both Stan Alves and Grant Thomas by beating St Kilda in finals. Bit hasty on Alves given he had them in a Grand Final the year before.