Mega Thread Port Forum General AFL Thread Part 22

[EskimoPAFC]

Calling Melbourne Naarm sounds waank.

Fixed your typo

 

[PeacefulWarrior]

I’ve said it before but the crows need a sustained period of bottom 4.

Their youth is atrocious

 

[Del165198]

I’ve said it before but the crows need a sustained period of bottom 4.

Their youth is atrocious

They've already had a bunch of high draft picks and blew it. Imagine when Laird, Smith and Ted are gone.

 

[DazzaTys]

How the farrkkk did we lose to the franchise.

 

[Festerz]

Crows get done by a lazy 7 goals and are yet again described as 'gallant'.



So yet again the picture of the true 'Galant' Crows midway through their 'rebuild' needs to be circulated:

 

[wannabejack]

How the farrkkk did we lose to the franchise.

 

[240volt]

Crows get done by a lazy 7 goals and are yet again described as 'gallant'.

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So yet again the picture of the true 'Galant' Crows midway through their 'rebuild' needs to be circulated:

I had one of them yellow 72 model The Galloping Ant!

 

[philthy05]

Maybe a controversial opinion but

Luke Jackson

9

Luke Jackson

Age

23

Ht

199cm

Wt

102kg

Pos.

F/R

Career

Season

Last 5

D

8.3

2star

K

3.3

1star

HB

5.0

4star

M

1.5

2star

T

1.0

3star

G

0.3

3star

D

8.3

2star

K

3.3

1star

HB

5.0

3star

M

1.5

2star

T

1.0

2star

G

0.3

3star

D

8.3

3star

K

3.3

2star

HB

5.0

4star

M

1.5

2star

T

1.0

3star

G

0.3

3star

is an excellent player, but a below standard ruck.

His hitout win % is very low (one of the lowest of any ruck getting consistent minutes) and his hitout to advantage is embarrassingly low (lowest in the league)


I think the role in melb of playing utility / 2nd ruck suits his skill set very well and protects him from the hiding he would be getting and from his weaknesses being exposed while he gets to use his strengths.


Having said that he’s 20, and could develop the actual ruck craft in the plenty of time he’s got ahead. His apparent work ethic says that it’s certainly possible.

But right now he’s basically a 200cm mid (which is a ****ing handy thing to have)

 

[philreich]

Calling Melbourne Naarm sounds wank.

Hopefully it's the indigenous term for finals choke......

 

[chiwigi]

Crows get done by a lazy 7 goals and are yet again described as 'gallant'.

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So yet again the picture of the true 'Galant' Crows midway through their 'rebuild' needs to be circulated:

Geelong weren’t even trying, I was annoyed that they didn’t smash them.

 

[Hammer#8]

Melb look like they'll have the pefect 25-0 season.
Who can beat them?

 

[DazzaTys]

Freo just bombing it to contests, Melbourne set up defensively. Could get ugly the dockers here.

 

[EskimoPAFC]

How the farrkkk did we lose to the franchise.

Well we had a plan to be 0-4 or 1-3 and it just felt like the former would be better for togetherness.

 

[240volt]

Melb look like they'll have the pefect 25-0 season.
Who can beat them?

Was just thinking the same thing reckon if any it might be a bum team like Collingwood.
Can’t see them losing to a good team

 

[240volt]

How the farrkkk did we lose to the franchise.

Last qtr had a massive Amber Heard.

 

[JimmyBC]

Melbourne will drop a game or two when they rest a few players or go through a different training block or something imo.

 

[Marmozet]

Melbourne will drop a game or two when they rest a few players or go through a different training block or something imo.

• Geelong in Geelong
• Freo in Perth
• Brisbane at the GABBA

A few loseable games for them

 

[philreich]

Melb look like they'll have the pefect 25-0 season.
Who can beat them?

Even the great Essendon team of 2000 lost a game - is this Melbourne team better? I guess time will tell.

 

[Hammer#8]

Melb could have a Geelong 2008 type season and get upset by a young Carlton in the GF.

 

[Hammer#8]

Even the great Essendon team of 2000 lost a game - is this Melbourne team better? I guess time will tell.

The thing I suppose is the big gap between Melb and the second best team. Carlton/Brisbane are solid, but unlikely to overtake them. The rest aren't near it either.

Melb's percentage (161.7) is better than the 2000 Bombers at round 10 (155.7).

 

[240volt]

Lucky for Melbourne they only play us once this year.

 

[DazzaTys]

Come on Freo you campaigners..

 

[Marmozet]

Lucky for Melbourne they only play us once this year.

We play them again in Alice Springs in Round 18.

 

[240volt]

We play them again in Alice Springs in Round 18.

I missed that one could be there second loss the way things are going today.

 

[Nemisis]

Do you really think they’re making their decisions by professor Xavier-ing what the players actual intent was?

Theyre judging it on the result. Deliberate is just the name of the rule.

The result is what they rule on, not whether the player meant to or not. There’s probably been a 1000 cases this year where players just meant to put the ball down the line but misjudged it and copped a deliberate free against


But going back to the point, the umpires have always absolutely ******* always said that they do not care what intent was.

If you collect a player high they don’t care if that wasn’t your intent, whether you knew the player was there or whatever. it’s a free

If you run over the mark, does your intent matter? Does it matter if you didn’t realise where the mark was?

What free that’s ever been given in the history of the game could have been overturned if the ump believed the player didn’t intend to do the action?

A player can legally bust open the skull of an opponent with his knee in a marking contest. That's footy