Everything posted by Supermercado
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Fans Behaving Badly?
Unnecessary by Channel 7, they're on to cover the game not crowd politics. Also ironic because they're the people who have been cutting to nuffies in the crowd doing their block after controversial decisions for years.
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What is left to look forward to in 2019
Hoping we might get to take some of our frustrations out with a massive win. Don't know against who, and it would mean nothing but would a temporary break from misery.
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Fans Behaving Badly?
Freeing Willy is definitely grounds for ejection from any stadium
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Fans Behaving Badly?
They can get together and form a rival Nuffy Football League. I'm all for kicking the AFL at every opportunity but there was 75,000 people there the other day - the majority of them Collingwood fans - and the bloke who gets in the paper saying he didn't do anything is exposed 20 seconds later for making a obscene goose of himself at previous games. I think most us will be safe from the AFL Spy Squad putting a bag over our head and taking us to Guantanamo By. Should have got myself in the media when we kicked 3.16 against GWS and a security guard threatened to chuck me out of a stand with about 250 people in it for letting out a loud wail of distress.
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Max Gawn shanks left - AGAIN
Was probably tired from carrying 21 men on his back all day
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Lowest Inside 50 Scoring Rate EVER
Everyone else having six months to review how we did it.
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Alex Keath
Are we trying to reduce oppositions to the point where 7.15.57 is a winning score?
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1978 - The Dennis Jones era
Yep, was a typo in my post. 167-57 wouldn't have been nearly as weird.
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Gawn on May
I think they just copied and pasted exactly what Max sent in without anyone checking it.
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1978 - The Dennis Jones era
The AFL would give him life membership for conceding such outrageous scores.
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1978 - The Dennis Jones era
1970s fans, explain the Dennis Jones coaching regime to me. I've just started doing a research deep dive into 1978 and there's an almost Mark Neeld level of insanity going on. - He was appointed after three years out of senior coaching and had been sitting on the committee that presumably appointed him. Previous coaching experience with Prahran 15 years earlier (one losing second division grand final + one prelim), Central Districts seven years earlier (finals in the last of his four years) and West Perth in 1973/1974 (grand final in his first year, didn't make the finals in his second and left). I know he had more experience than a lot of people who got senior roles in that era but seems a bit jobs for the boys. - Ian Thorogood was one of his assistants after two years taking Carlton to 1st and 6th on the ladder. Seems like he'd have been a better option. Did he not want to take on another senior job? - Bob Skilton was reported to be one of the lowest paid coaches in the league, then Jones was said to be one of the highest. My reading of the situation is that he became one of the few full time coaches in the league because he had to give up a good job to take the role. A precursor for the next few years where we'd try and buy everyone in sight. - Immediately banned players from wearing thongs, t-shirts or tracksuits. - Fell out with Laurie Fowler twice (which to be fair to Jones was apparently not hard to do), causing him to quit the club both times before quickly coming back. - Presided over the most insane scoring I've ever seen, including: Conceding 100+ points in 20 of 22 weeks, 150+ five times and +140 another three times Losing 68-147 (!) in Round 1, winning 167-57 (!!) in Round 2, then five weeks later losing 141-204 (!!!!!!!) Losing 12 in a row in the middle of the year, including kicking 2.14.26 against Carlton and publicly describing it as the worst game he'd ever seen - Spent much of his time complaining about umpiring - Responded to nearly throwing away a big lead against Geelong with the playful statement "if we’d lost the game I would have cut their throats" - After losing to South Melbourne, Swans coach Des Tuddenham said we'd "run out of legs" and Jones said his side had "run out of ability" - Made the players sing the song in the visitors' dressing rooms of the Western Oval after their eighth 10+ goal loss of the season - When he said there was money for recruiting (though they didn't buy anyone worthwhile before the season) his philosophy was “if you get enough stones you’ll eventually smash a window”, which doesn't sound like the sort of person you'd put in charge of a budget - Celebrated a late season win by stomping on pamphlets handed out by a reform group that wanted to sack him. You can tell by the team list that they were trying to find new players, and he did try and lower expectations by all but saying (in contemporary language) that they needed to rebuild, but the new administration got in at the end of the year and he basically quit before he was sacked anyway. How was this appointment seen at the time, and what was the tipping point that led to fans turning on him? This is an era I'd like to learn more about, there's a lot of focus on the Barassi years but the 70s seem to be ignored. I'm sure those of you who lived through it will say that it's forgotten for a good reason.
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Demonland Podcast featuring David Neitz Tuesday (18/6) @ 8:30pm
Featuring classic fence sponsor Cracker Barrel.
- NT is South Australia backyard
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NT is South Australia backyard
NT is crap no matter how hard the club tries to spin it but 50,000 x $5 will leave you about $1,000,000 short of what these games bring in. Factor in losing the permanent Queen's Birthday home game and dumping our pokies and there's a massive revenue gap to fill. Given that we made a slender profit last year one year of winning obviously wasn't going to be the answer.
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The Footy Show officially axed.
Great moment when Jakovich randomly turned up to open the show in the late 90s. As a teenage Jakovich fanatic I was moved to jump over the back of my couch in celebration. Then off he went for another 20 years...
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PR Changes - Give them a gig
I couldn't care less about the politics one way or the other, but the idea that anyone would give a fat rat's clacker if we wheeled Burnside out as a fan is comical.
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The 2019 Draft and Trade Targets Thread
Do we get one pick (Nietschke) or two (Walker) in this mid-season draft? Seems NQR that you'd be allowed to pick a ready made player to replace a Category B rookie but with the AFL who knows. Wonder if there's any electric forwards in the mix? Helps take a chance on somebody unusual when you can chuck them 12 weeks later.
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Jordan Lewis is absolutely cooked, never pick him again
This is what I want to know. I don't want him in the side, but need to know who we'd fill his spot with or what we'd do with a non like-for-like player. Very willing to discuss alternatives. The idea of on-field leadership is great (if it's actually happening), but we're hardly original recipe GWS having to field Power, Cornes, Brogan and Junior to help the kids.
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Lynden Dunn: "I wish I came to the pies 10 years ago"
Smart bloke, would have won a flag. Like when Green could have gone to the Pies, stayed and spent the next three years as a scapegoat.
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Gary Pert
Good to know Caro got one last story out of the people who spent all of 2011-2013 leaking to her.
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The preseason we didn't have
Didn't the Crows also get some mentalists to kidnap their players?
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Welcome Back to the Bottom of the Ladder
Welcome home!
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Oskar Baker
Should at least get a game when we only have 22 fit players left by Round 10
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Oskar Baker
I wanted him to get a game mid-season last year before he was injured but the #1 rule in life is never get seduced by the highlights tape.
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May setback + Jetta knee injury (8-10 weeks)
Should have threatened them with a brutal camp again