Oppo Camp 2022 Salt Mine thread - the saltening

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Looking forward to playing those deadbeats round one.

By getting Taranto and hopper we’ve just nullified the only area they had us covered in.

Also the best thing about playing them every year round one is,

We almost always win but if we don’t it’s just round one.

If Carlton lose, they’re season will crumble before it even starts.

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Yeah, Rance is the one player I freaking miss watching the most. The way he left the game and the rumours that circulated were a bloody disgrace.

He didn't get that final send-off he deserved.
Rumour is Piggins couldn’t satisfy his misses so Rance came in with AA level performance as village chief.
 

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we will fly under the radar for a bit

if we win against the Blues rnd 1 that won't cause a stir
rnd 2 V Crows in Adelaide , not a ripple

but if we knock over 3 of Pies , WB , Swans & Dees

put in your ear plugs , the whinging will be coming from everywhere
us getting the two players from GWS
Geelong , just when they thought they could go back to back will shit themselves and want more rule changes
Caroline Wilson will be wanting Hardwick out of the game , yet again , because he had an affair
Robbo & Whately will self combust
North, in an attempt to distract the media from another poor season, will claim they were r*ped over Tarrant and ask the AFL for a priority pick
and in the run up to the finals someone anonymous will post a story the AFL is unsafe while Dusty is playing
they have proof he didn't wipe his arse properly when he was 8 yo
 
we will fly under the radar for a bit

if we win against the Blues rnd 1 that won't cause a stir
rnd 2 V Crows in Adelaide , not a ripple

but if we knock over 3 of Pies , WB , Swans & Dees

put in your ear plugs , the whinging will be coming from everywhere
us getting the two players from GWS
Geelong , just when they thought they could go back to back will s**t themselves and want more rule changes
Caroline Wilson will be wanting Hardwick out of the game , yet again , because he had an affair
Robbo & Whately will self combust
North, in an attempt to distract the media from another poor season, will claim they were r*ped over Tarrant and ask the AFL for a priority pick
and in the run up to the finals someone anonymous will post a story the AFL is unsafe while Dusty is playing
they have proof he didn't wipe his arse properly when he was 8 yo
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Looking forward to playing those deadbeats round one.

By getting Taranto and hopper we’ve just nullified the only area they had us covered in.

Also the best thing about playing them every year round one is,

We almost always win but if we don’t it’s just round one.

If Carlton lose, they’re season will crumble before it even starts.

Delicious
I have rewatched Round 1 recently to reconfirm what I remember of the game. Once Meatball was hurt, their midfield got a run on and they did it by putting big bodies through the guts. We looked meek because we had a centre circle of Cotchin, Edwards, Bolton for a lot of it and Cripps just swatted them like flies. At least with hopper and Taranto there is some mass in the centre.

Hopper would automatically become a tiger legend if he lined up Cripps early and put a massive tackle on him.

I prey dimma has the first bounce of the season as Hopper, Taranto and Meatball
 
I have rewatched Round 1 recently to reconfirm what I remember of the game. Once Meatball was hurt, their midfield got a run on and they did it by putting big bodies through the guts. We looked meek because we had a centre circle of Cotchin, Edwards, Bolton for a lot of it and Cripps just swatted them like flies. At least with hopper and Taranto there is some mass in the centre.

Hopper would automatically become a tiger legend if he lined up Cripps early and put a massive tackle on him.

I prey dimma has the first bounce of the season as Hopper, Taranto and Meatball

Reckon a fit and firing Dusty might make a difference to the midfield as well.

But last year we were totally (almost) reliant on meatball for our midfield to work well. When he and Cotch were fit we were stars. When not fit we were in major problems.

Add 2 more hard quality mids and the formula for undoing us changes so much it's ridiculous.

And i hope Sonsie comes on, that'd just be sweet if he can step into 2023 as a quality AFL player and make our depth stupid good.
 
We start winning, the whingeing will get louder by the week.
Notice after a Cats flag the topic of the "state of the game" & rule changes has completely gone away....
the game has never been/looked worse in my lifetime

in the afl survey a year ago the number one issue amongst fans was the rule changes and yet the afl funded media didnt even report on it
 
the game has never been/looked worse in my lifetime

in the afl survey a year ago the number one issue amongst fans was the rule changes and yet the afl funded media didnt even report on it
The stand rule is a blight on the game dunno how anyone can honestly say it has improved in he game in any way.
 
The stand rule is a blight on the game dunno how anyone can honestly say it has improved in he game in any way.
need a poll on the main board asking if we should abolish the stand rule or keep it biaseddustyfan
 
The stand rule is a blight on the game dunno how anyone can honestly say it has improved in he game in any way.

Some people don't like seeing pressure and the resultant 'chaos'. SHocking is one. therefore AFLX. Which ended up being something that very few people, not zero but close to it, wanted to watch. The stand rule limits pressure nd supposedly allows for more skills.

So coaches, who aren't stupid, drop their defenses deeper so that teams can play on from the free/mark and have to kick it to a contest. So the rule defeats itself, because the idiots running the AFL thought by solving one 'problem' they would have a final solution. It's never worked before, and won't work. Clubs are too smart and work out how to manipulate / defeat the rule change.

They keep making these changes and they keep running into the fact that other people outsmart them. Just stop. But they don't learn.

And yes, pointing out that all this manipulation of the game makes people annoyed and makes the game worse means you are excluded from the AFL's bounty. So the supposed experts just say 'brilliant idea SHocking' and then are shocked that it leads to ..... lower scoring and more congested footy.
 
We are gonna keep breaking brains this year when we win the flag. We are a massive show this year.

I reckon last year we were the best, or close to the best everywhere bar the midfield. So to overuse my old analogy, we're a race car that had a dodgy engine. If the engine keeps breaking down you won't win races. We've just got ourselves a brand new top end engine to go with everything else. We can match or beat anyone anywhere on paper now. Hope that on paper become on field. Cause this could be a great year
 

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