Fork 'em

If I said I wasn't very disappointed in both the Men and Women I'd be lyin'.

Chokers.

On 14/11/2023 at 09:29, La Dee-vina Comedia said:

 

(Disclosure: I don't agree with most of the comments in this thread. I've always believed that if it's a choice between a [censored]-up or a conspiracy, go with a [censored]-up every time.) 

 

Whereas I prefer to call what most of the MSM label conspiracy theories spoiler alerts.



 

12 hours ago, Ethan Tremblay said:

The only year it wasn’t rigged was 2021. 

Cause we beat 'em by more than 15 😜

4 minutes ago, McQueen said:

Luckily one day we’ll all be dead and not have to worry about it any longer. 

Facts

3 minutes ago, DistrACTION Jackson said:

AFL is way more rigged.

We don't even have home and away games v every team. Teams never travel to certain locations & instead play them at their home venue (i.e. Collingwood to Geelong). It's beyond a joke.

MRO, Goal review, Umpiring ......

Replace NBA with AFL.
Sixers with Melbourne.
Heat with Collingwood, Celtics with Carlton.
Tell me I'm wrong.
 

On 17/10/2023 at 19:03, deegirl said:

He’s barely in Collingwood’s best 23!

 

And we already have a headbanded midget of questionable pace

Yikes 😂

23 hours ago, daisycutter said:

 

don't think smokers are any more violent than non smokers for example

 

Unless they're outta smokes.

Who was that bloke from the swans who 10yrs ago declared half the comp was doin' coke and got shut down by the AFL.
Dale Lewis?

24 minutes ago, DubDee said:

football is a system game more than ever. you can have Gary Ablett out there but if 3-4 links in the chain don’t spread or pressure at the right time you won’t win games

Wouldn't matter with our game plan.
He'd have to jump on top of 10players heads every time the ball come in.

And if your 6 guns aren't firing you aint winning a flag.

No.
I watch the footy for the footy.
Not the propaganda.

So as soon as another club shows interest in one of our players who is showing abit of form we should trade 'em.
Got it 👌

All these media parasites who think they're club list managers.
Fork 'em all.

1 hour ago, BDA said:

Go home factor is a furphy that is used by players as an excuse. Tim Kelly wanted to go home, just as long as it was to WC for example. And how many players go home for less money? Not many I reckon.

I'd play for Melbourne for less money.

52 minutes ago, DubDee said:

if a player makes a decision based on more money it’s not a go home factor issue and that’s fine. 

If they make a career defining decision due to a city being busy with traffic or too hectic well that’s pretty astounding. 

If i got paid big money to live away with a new ‘family’ of 45 mates to play footy i’d think i’m the luckiest bloke in the world. 

Continuing my story from above.
My old man was [censored] off when I shot through.
"There's no jobs up there, yadda, yadda, yadda."
"You want your whole life to be a holiday.", to which I thought .... "What's wrong with that."
I was at the stage of contemplating going back to Melbourne there for abit.
I knocked off work.
Went to the pub, got a couple of Beam cans and was on the Murray river with a fishing rod in the water watching the cockies fly by within' 10 mins.
There was no way I could do that in Melbourne and made my decision there and then to stay.
Never looked back from that moment.
10years later the old man comes to visit.
I loaded him in the car, launched the boat 200m from my house and took him for a burn up the river.
He looked around and declared, "Geez, ya got it made."
One of my proudest moments TBH.

Not everything is about money man.
Though I was doing ok in that dept as well.

 

9 minutes ago, DubDee said:

totally normal to miss your home but for professional athletes in their 20’s earning big money that can visit home multiple times per year for free it’s truely bizarre that some AFL players dictate their career path based on missing home

What if they can earn bigger money closer to home?
Or away from the rat race of Melbourne.

23 minutes ago, Rab D Nesbitt said:

I’m always hearing on here that footballers (round ball) are all soft AF but try telling that to a Nigerian that’s plying his trade in Vladivostok or a Colombian playing in Helsinki. I wonder if these guys that run down their contracts because they miss their mum are the same ones you see on docos that are still being breastfed when they’re in primary school. 

I dunno.
I moved away from home when I was 18.
Spent a few years home sick at different points till my visits back to Melbourne to see family and friends got less and less.
Now I can't stand the joint.
Reckon getting homesick as a young fella is pretty natural.
It passes for some, but for others it's stronger.
And I was raised by my old man from the age of 5 😁

37 minutes ago, Super Sub Schache said:

Broden just mentioned Demonland in the latest episode, he's one of us*.

*Sad nuffies

Any chance of a link?

14 minutes ago, layzie said:

Just because there's a lure doesn't mean it will catch anything. 

As a fisherman who mostly uses lures this is 100% correct 😂

Well we know one thing.
The Melk will give it all he's got.
Stood up during multiple big moments during the year and one of our best kicks for goal.
Not much competition on that front I know.

24 minutes ago, BDA said:

Everyone has different tastes and preferences of course but to say the game was boring yesterday is ridiculous. Ripping first half chock full of outstanding goal kicking. Both teams took the game on. 3rd quarter sagged (understandably given the hot day) but it was tight and tense throughout.

Tough crowd to please.

It was sheet cause we weren't in it.
And had we been there the game would've been an ugly maul.
Cause that's how we roll.


 

1 hour ago, dees189227 said:

Our premiership feels like a lifetime ago 

My sister declared today it feels like it didn't even happen.

18 minutes ago, Demongirl35 said:

I loved loved loved us winning in 2021 but god I feel robbed at being able to celebrate :( come on dees! 2024 please! 

We we're robbed big time.
Would've loved to have celebrated with our players and supporters both after the game and the next day.
Instead we celebrated by phone.
Well I did.

 

23 minutes ago, BDA said:

congratulate him on the win and move on. 

Nah, 

Look at him across the desk and say "Fork the Pies"
Then get back to work.

1 minute ago, Earl Hood said:

  Whatever happened behind closed doors in the last part of the season between Grundy, Max  and the coach, it cost us big time. And I suspect the fiasco involves some very unprofessional, selfish behaviour somewhere but we will never know. 

Yeah, something happened there.
Disrespected Grundy bigtime.

Good luck trying to bring the next free agent to the club if that's how we're gonna treat 'em.

11 minutes ago, ANG13 said:

Catch anything?

Got a few nice reddies.
Yummo 😋