Fitz Fitzpatrick

1 hour ago, kev martin said:

He said "throw some punches", not throw the first punch.

Throw some punches could mean retaliation. 

It is all so stupid anyway.

STAY OUT OF FIGHTS

Too much to lose, including yours or the other person life or health. 

I wouldn’t give a [censored] If someone lost their health or life because they harassed my partner or family/friends.

The world is a jungle and if you stick your nose in to other peoples business then you must accept a hospital bed or a pine box. 
If more people remembered this then perhaps there would be less smart arses.

a guy punched my girls [censored] a few years ago. I put him in hospital with a broken ashtray.

im sure he’s more respectful these days 

50 minutes ago, red&blue1982 said:

I think there needs to be more sophisticated methods used to ensure fans treat other fans with respect. 

Perhaps replace the wages for the new crowd behavioural officers (watch dogs) with wages for a team of people who conduct surveys pre and post gameday about their experience. This is just a quick thought that came to mind as an example.

I don't really care what the method is, but i assume it's better to work with fans rather than alienating or punishing them.

How about leaving it alone! The game is Fine. The media jump on the odd fight but it’s been going on for decades. 99% of the time it’s not a problem.

Kennett - need about 5 million more of his kind in this nanny state. What he said is dead right. How we celebrate and watch sport is uniquely Australian and it’s getting changed by PC police and immigrant security guards who have NFI - and nor should they . They didn’t grow up following footy like we did. They can’t be expected to understand the nuances of our culture - but equally so, it shouldn’t be a capital offense to point that fact out. 

16 hours ago, Nasher said:

To you it’s politics. To Goodes it’s a lifetime of lived experience. Potato/potarto.

Lol, yeah goodes has had such a tough life. Stardom and big money to play sport must really enable him to connect with those less fortunate. 

The guy is a professional victim ( as player and as a man) and the day he retired was a great day for the afl

Can someone please explain who Lilly Mitchell is ?

What a load of PC guff.

eddie betts doesn’t get booed.

goodes was a racially divisive [censored] of the highest order and got exactly what that delivers.

betts will be remembered as a great man and a superb player.

goodes tried to bring politics in to football and got exactly what he deserved. The crowd spoke - “F^*+ off mate” 

Hi Admin

anything you guys can do to avoid RFC banner ads on Demonland - it’s offensive .

thiight they were related to browsing history but I’ve never browsed that kind of dirty trash before 

21 hours ago, McQueen said:

I believe so. 

Used to frequent there back in the late 90’s. Got kicked out of the aptly named place just as much too. 

You guys clearly haven’t travelled much if

you think the daily planet is an interesting place. Lol

a cliche run of the mill [censored] house, with all the over the top rules and regulations a nanny state like Australia offers you. Great

On 10/19/2018 at 10:04 PM, Elwood 3184 said:

Problem being that Buku Khamis is a NGA tied to the Western Bulldogs who are likely to match any bid from 3rd Round plus which is probably where he’ll go.

Bailey Williams, on the other hand, would be worth looking at with Pick 23 or 28.

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Stop rabbiting on about Jessie’s considerable issues he’s had to deal with. He’s a man. He needs to deal with it.

perosnally, he has been riding on the reputation of his ‘potential’ for too long. 

I believe we have won by trading him out. He won’t be the generational player he was billed as and we get a strong key back to add to our side.

11 hours ago, inanunda said:

 

I recently had the opportunity to chat with Jack Fitzpatrick, former Melbourne player who retired from AFL football due to concussion at the age of 26. In part one of two, Jack talks about his mate Tom Mitchell, his time at Melbourne under Dean Bailey, where he was during the infamous 'Geelong P187' game, and much, much more.  Listen to Part One

That’s a fantastic interview mate! Very well done

29 minutes ago, Stormy Dee said:

He’s had some very good games at VFL level where he has kicked multiple goals.

'very good' is a stretch. hes been ok but hasnt been busting the door down. Not even close to the top bracket of VFL forwards, let alone an AFL talent.

As usual on this site, posters will see what they want to because the reality stinks.

weidemann is a bust. KPF take a while but the good ones show potential in the meantime and any astute footy observer can see it.

Highlighting 6 tackles for a KPF is really clutching for straws. Half of us could go out and lay tackles.

move him on

the age of the interchange being using tactically was the beginning of the end for Australian rules football. It will be slow but the game will die.

The sport at the highest level is unwatchable now. The only reason a game is entertaining is if its close with a minute to go. There are no more highlights. cheap goals over the back are boring. Its become basketball on a big field with a rolling maul making it as boring as batshit.

I don't want to see fumbling players getting tackled non stop. I want to see one on one contests, high marking, precision foot skills to hard leading forwards.

AFL is gone fellas.

9 hours ago, Grand New Flag said:

I was at the game sitting at height. What I saw which did not come out on tv was Ports defensive tactic.  Many here are complaining about continuous long bombs into our forward 50, however the case is that Port defended excellently and quickly ran in numbers into our forward 50 once we had possession. Our f50 was always super crowded with Port players. Sometimes all 18 of them. They made it almost impossible to short pass. A long bomb to the top of the square was the best percentage play. 

Regardless we played better and deserved to win. Our biggest disappointment was not putting the game to bed in the 3rd when we had them on toast.  The crowd got very involved and the umpires were certainly influenced by the crowd. It is rare that umpires influence the outcome of a game, but on this day we were murdered by the maggots.  Port were continuously awarded soft free kicks in front of goal, where at the other end our players were blocked, pushed in the back, and illegally held without one free kick (from memory). The 50 meter penalty awarded to win the game for Port was disgraceful.

32 players inside a 50m arc is not a sport I enjoy watching. That isn't what footy should be. Im even struggling to enjoy Melbourne games now. 36 seagulls fighting over a bag of hot chips - a lucky flick out the back to a seagull on the outside who then flies off with it. 

exciting until that seagull drops the chip and the other 35 catch up to him and started squabbling over it again.

Is anyone even noticing how the quanitity of reasonable highlights in any given game of footy has fallen off a cliff. Nothing happens anymore. fumble, fumble, fumble, handpass(throw), fumble, fumble, fumble, fumble, quick handpass(throw) fumble fumble, fumble, fumble, fumble, arm pinned, free kick. kick, fumble, fumble , fumble, fumble, fumble, quick handpass(throw) , snap shot , goal.  …….. return to centre, rinse and repeat.

19 hours ago, olisik said:

Been watching soccer and there’s a reason why that game is globally adopted and AFL isn’t.

its rules are clear cut and easy to officiate.

You have fouls and handballs and that’s about it.

AFL On the other hand.....high tackle, sliding, holding the ball, swing tackle, kicking in danger, holding the man, rough conduct, throw..I can go on all night...

Im sorry but this sport is quickly turning in to an absolute farce. I have no interest in watching neutral games anymore. A decade ago I couldn't miss them.

They are officiating to rules that don't actually exist and everything is being made up on the fly. Its getting ludicrous.

Reduce congestion which will reduce the need for so many farcical rules being tacked on to farcical rules. 

Anyone who cant see that this great sport of ours is spiralling out of control and relatively quickly, is completely deluded.

its not that the talent pool is too small. Its not. Our population is nearing 25 million people. its not the skill level that makes poor games. 

Its the state of the game. 36 players chasing a footy like a flock of seagulls fighting over a bag of chips is not appealing television for all but the most die hard footy fans.

look how few highlights there are now. its very hard to put an exciting highlights reel together from a round of footy these days because apart from a rolling maul and squabble of a mass of players, nothing happens! 

I used to love watching most games each week. I cant sit through footy as a natural observer any more. Its garbage.

I love watching melbourne games but even then i feel a bit hollow. We are winning games but its not great footy. Its 10 blokes in a 5 sq m area squabbling over shittty handballs and fumbles until someone finally gets free for a cheap one over the back. 

The game is simply not appealing anymore. Its grown in to a massive snore fest, then add on the relentless wave of weekly issues and changing and bending of prexisting rules to counter previous rule changes. 

Its snowballing in to a non marketable sport.

Years ago my friends and aquaintances overseas used to love watching the game. the speccys and the great goals. I can assure you in its current format very very few first time observers of the game on Tv are being wowed like they used to.

ITs become so sterile. Its all about structures and 2 on 1s and zones. 

Remember the days when in the lead up to a game the streets, pubs and trams used to full of chat about up coming matchups.  the history that developed between carey/jakovich, fletcher/longmire. whos going to fondly remember all those 3 on 1 contests of today in the future?? 

it all changed in 2005. 2004 there were an average of 34 rotations a game. It jumped to 60 in a year and then malthouse took it to a new level. This facilitated a game style of up and back running that was previously not possible. 

I cant stand the argument of the players not being able to withstand a game of restricted rotations. they would adapt just as they did going the other way.

maybe its not possible to go back but the argument of 70s/80s footy is a furphy. we dont have to go back that far. footy in the brisbane lions, essendon PA flag eras was epic. Most players and young fans are too young to really remember it but anyone who does remember the closing years of positional play remembers a game where THE FOOTY moved quickly. Now the footy moves very slowly but the players move quickly.

The footy used to fly up one wing, transition out of defence and fly down the other wing. Now it gets bogged down in a pocket for minutes until finally a free kick is pulled out someones arsse just to get the ball moving.

Lets get rotations back to 8 a quarter. The argument of the clubs then only recruiting athletes is a furphy as well. An arms race will then develop to recruit the most talent footballing athletes. The game plan will be developed to move the footy quickly so that skilled footballers can compete against unskilled runners.

The solution is on every youtube clip or DVD of early 2000's pre malthous, pre Roos football. 

why is anyone surprised. yet again, supporters with no ability to look at footy in an objective manner lulled in to a false sense of achievement over a couple of half arsed, less than convincing wins over two poor footy teams

we paid overs for a Fist.

Lever really is just one Fist roving the back line , unaccountable , looking to fist the footy over the boundary line.

over hyped. hes ours now, so we' will have to deal with it. But lets remember this as we watch all the first round talent for the next two draft periods go to the other clubs.

We shouldve learnt by now that single big name recruits dont change fortunes of footy clubs

Ahh, the good old Aboriginal Rights Industry in full swing. Gotta love it.

as soon as the victim hood bs stops , he sooner these people can get on with progressing in the 21st century

53 minutes ago, Sir Why You Little said:

This reminds me of a game I think in '98. We went to Free with a side that couldn't win

That's the way Goodwin has to Coach tonight. Be daring for the whole game

Try players doing different things (within reason of course)

Move the ball with some precision

it was west coast, SWYL. Round 15

Robbo played CHF

4 minutes ago, don cordner said:

I'm not ur mate

I doubt you're anyone's mate, fella

1 hour ago, don cordner said:

We have no ruck idiot.. what do you expect..

One of our more intelligent posters I assume.

reading my post and extracting from that , that I'm basing this on our games so far this year just shows how poor your comprehension skills are mate. Talk about missing the point. 

I played in the ruck for 9 years - think I might have a fair understanding on how much Gawns loss affects us. But that's totally irrelevant to my point about this demons group think bandwagon Ive witnessed.

rd 1 - gawn played . That won papered over a glaring deficiency in our list. We play aggressive footy but our skill level is well below many other teams. 

10 hours ago, davo said:

There is no way Collingwood has a better list than, no frickin way, Saints are on par but we did beat them if you remember. Hawthorn are not shyte, they've had some thrashings but that's mental, they've still got plenty premiership players. Our problem IS young players with not enough game time and the older blokes like Jones making stupid stupid mistakes

Collingwoods midfield is absolutely better than ours. Much higher skill level. After a 5 day break collingwood looked very slick against geelong. Very good ball movement and good disposal.

st kilda would not lose to us now. Just like GWS would not have lost to us later in the season last year.

7 hours ago, praha said:

So basically....2010 lol

Haha yes I rest my case