Fork 'em

19 minutes ago, Hellaintabadplacetobe said:

That's not only season defining. It's era defining.

 100%.
And apart from the flag they played in another state during a season with no crowds and almost choked, the era's been a fail.
There are few clubs who can embarrass their supporters like ours.
Forken Goodwin bangin' on about earning respect ... My god.



 

What a joke this club is.

The AFL will come up with some BS propaganda for the Golden Boy.
St.Kilda player already in a falling motion, Low impact , accidental football action , yadda yadda ....

Here's a fine play on.

I'll just leave this here.
40mins of poetry.
And didn't we love him.
 

Been bangin' on about manipulation of outcomes by the corrupt AFL for ages.
Fixturing, umpiring, goal review, MRP are all used to manipulate an outcome.
The AFL follow the money and their "Umpire Coach" excuse was typically shonky AF.
 
The sheeple call them conspiracy theories.
I call 'em Spoiler Alerts.

2 hours ago, rjay said:

No coincidence...EFC have a huge supporter base & they're winning.

And how do you get a huge supporter base?

Not by boring everyone to death that's for sure.

16 minutes ago, Demonstone said:

 Afterthought:  If sport is entertainment, why do we have a facility called the Sports AND Entertainment Centre?

If sport isn't entertainment .... Why do we watch?
The AFL is fighting for the attention of the masses against all other forms of entertainment out there.
And if you have contact with any kids these days you'll notice they have the attention spans of gnats.
Then try keeping one amused through a Melbourne game.

13 minutes ago, sue said:

Whoopee, I'm sure the advertisers and 7 love lots of goals, but I don't.  An endless goalfest can be pretty boring - stops the play a lot for a start. A game can be interesting to watch and full of tension with little scoring.   Soccer fans around the world put up with ridiculously low scoring.

(Too low scoring in my opinion since either there is no winner or a win that doesn't really separate the teams. All they need do is widen the goals a bit to take into account that people are taller than there were in 1870 or whenever).

Well 5 yrs from now when you're at Marvel among 20thousand other miserable people on a sunday arvo every week I'll remind you of my beef.
Or maybe not cause they're losing my interest and when Gawn and co. retire and we inevitably fall off the cliff I'll be done.
The game isn't what I loved anymore.

1 hour ago, DeeSpencer said:

 We aren't designed to produce champagne football.

Aint that a fact.
My beef is that we play dour, unattractive football every week.
A few weeks ago we played the Cats in primetime and neither team kicked a goal in the second qtr.
An advertisers nightmare.
Meanwhile Essendon gets gifted multiple primetime games over the rest of the season.
Coincidence ..... I think not.

Anyway, we've got the best list of my time (tho' Danihers list was pretty good) and we're wasting the opportunity to expand the club by playing boring, unattractive, scrappy football.
Goodwin needs to remember he's in the entertainment business.
For the club to not just wither away we need to entertain "the mob".
Get bums on seats, eyes on TVs, sponsors at the door and keep the Premiership generation kids attention.
And ya don't do that by playing boring footy in primetime games, chocking in finals or embarrassing the club like they did last week.

7 hours ago, ANG13 said:

Well I would be bored and disinterested too if I had to watch the Saints play every week. 
They overachieved last year now back to the reality of a middle of the road team miles away from a premiership. 

I'm struggling watching us week after week.
And we're supposed to be good.
This week I watched the 1st half.
Half time I decided I wasn't gonna waste the whole afternoon watching this boring sheet and so headed to the back yard.
I get out there and Nathan Brown's on the radio talking about the Aints making the game a boring scrap in order to stay in touch with us.
I'm there thinking "BS, it's us who turn games into boring scrap .... Every forken week, no matter who we play."
And we're supposed to be good.
Goodwin is wasting the golden window to build this club boring us all to tears.
And then we lose to teams like West Coast led by a kid.
We might not be as far away from another flag than the aints but we're drifting away, not closer.


 

2 minutes ago, DubDee said:

you’ve got no idea mate

Harvey Norman clanger.

Not that I do much watching of opposition unless they're playing us.
I gotta go with Toby Green too.
Plays on the ragged edge and ya just never know what he's gonna do. 
Dazzle with some brilliance or kick somebodies head off. 

4 hours ago, Moonshadow said:

The year 1978 just called, wants you to come back asap

I'm on my way.
2024 and the outbreak of squealing Karens is forked .

He was near stationary.
Both feet planted.
In this new world he might get a couple weeks cause the bloke was KO'd but the Karens calling for his head need to get a grip.
Play on I say.

12 hours ago, DEE fence said:

@Fork 'em they only thing you're missing are the salty tears of Chris Scott's post match comments, cheeky grin, couldn't help but wonder if the R8 Scott PC, was tinged by memories of '21, he seemed very touchy about Max. Thanks so much for the video's always an excuse to watch them again.

Twice I've teared up watching footy and I posted both of them.
His after the siren goal to finish the season on top for the 1st time in my life.
And then the moment I knew he was taking us to the GF with his running bomb in the Prelim.
Both against Geelong 😅
Good times.

Now I didn't watch the Eagles religiously when Cox was playing but I don't remembering him taking control of games like Gawn does.
He might've at times but not like Max, or as regularly.

And it's a travesty that he probably won't win a Brownlow.


 

24 minutes ago, DubDee said:

good info but 2 years of bottom 2 for a team like tigers is hard to survive for any inexperienced coach. he’ll be fine this year but likely mid next year the heat will come 

doesn’t make sense but it’s how it has been for AFL coaches. hope he survives

As NFL coach Mike Ditka once said, "New coaches need to win and win early."
 

11 minutes ago, In Harmes Way said:

If Kossie got a week due to the potential for injury, then Newman should get the same.

Both practically identical. 

4 minutes ago, DeeZee said:

The lack of intensity in the first quarters of the Carlton and Brisbane games are worrying factors for me.

You'd think they’d be super pumped for these big games.

Were were switched on against the cats, but way off it against Blues and Lions.

They also had their pants pulled down out've the blocks by Grundy and the Swans in Rd 1.
Or was it Rd 0 ... I dunno .... Forking stupid.

Every week Windsor does something that reinforces the fact he's gonna be an absolute ripper.
His quick reaction to toe poke Vineys lunge over the defenders shoulder was forking brilliant.

And watching Gawn launch one of his bombs is one of the best sights in the game.

Firstly ..... Thursday games suck.
Was on arvo shift tonight so only managed to only see the 3rd qtr and then the last when I got home.
Small mercies I guess.

2nd .... I saw Goodwin talk about earning respect from the football public after last weeks game.
Prime time free to air TV, everybody watching and we stink it up like that.
That's not how you earn respect.
As I said I was at work so didn't see the 1st half but I had every-one in the joint gleefully giving me updates.
Sure they'd changed their tune by the end but the big comeback fell short.

But ya know what, though frustrating I saw a team working as a team to the final siren.
And if they keep doing that, well that's all I can ask for.
I can't fault their commitment.
Just gotta strap ourselves in to see if we stay fit and then good enough in the big moments often enough.
Yeah we got our foibles but so does every club.
We're in this marathon up to our eyeballs.
See if we can kick straight when it counts.


 
 



 

Suspected we'd be in trouble when I saw BT giving Fritta a tongue bath pre game.
We love the bathwater.
Been on it all week I suspect.

14 hours ago, DubDee said:

Glad to see the AFL are discussing the important issues in football 

maybe use the money to make umpires professional?

Smoke and Mirrors.
The way of the world.