Discussion 2023 General AFL Discussion

[Munga]

Buddy got 1, Kozzy got 2, McAdderal got referred.

Wow. I gotta get my eyes checked, I really thought I saw Buddy run through a guy's head. Cheers.

 

[George]

Gee John Brown can talk . Oh Boy

Bucks has been really good so far. I was a bit confused last week when they asked him to stop talking like a coach but I like it. Explaining the tactical aspects of the game is much more interesting to hear about than Jono slurring off some bullshit champion data lumped together for him 15 minutes before the show

 

[StCicatriz]

My son likes sitting on level 3 so we wander up and you get a really good view of the field up there. I'd come back from a win last year and feel like we got away with it. There was so little organisation and structure. Players would hang each other out to dry by playing for themselves. Yesterday that had flipped, it was hunting like a pack of hungry velociraptors, players shifting from one player to another and instructing a team mate on who they wanted covered while they moved off. You looked at what Freo had ahead of them and saw that we'd blocked the whole field up. No half arsed efforts, no pulling up short when they couldn't be bothered.

Lyon is a structural master. Proudest I've been of this club in years. I'm going to enjoy going to the footy this season.

this is huge!!!!

also explains longmuirs comments. you cant see up the field on tv so it just looked like freo were delib moving the ball slow. suddenly it makes sense

 

[StCicatriz]

RTB and Webster will get along well
Webster was very good yesterday

youd think webster would be the type ross loves. has mongrel about him. gets the best out of himself week in week out

 

[Mowman]

No x

It’s just gringo and myself ?

 

[bergholt]

Yeah I had a look. Webster made his debut in 2013 under Scott "Juggernaut" Watters. He told him he'd be making his debut by tearing down the 2009 GF poster of the team and writing it on the back.

Whatever happened to that guy? Has he got a job in footy? Such a weird choice as coach in hindsight.

 

[sammm]

If Tom Stewart has any issues with his knee down the track, AFL can look forward to yet another lawsuit.

the way these lawsuits are building, AFL might be outlawed

 

[Joffaboy]

It’s just gringo and myself ?

I would make sure gringo turns up then, with Dard and his homo erotica fetish, you might be walking into a bumming trap.

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[gringo2011]

I would make sure gringo turns up then, with Dard and his homo erotica fetish, you might be walking into a bumming trap.

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That church looks a bit psycho-sexual deviant. Almost like his dungeon room.

 

[lewdogs]

My son likes sitting on level 3 so we wander up and you get a really good view of the field up there. I'd come back from a win last year and feel like we got away with it. There was so little organisation and structure. Players would hang each other out to dry by playing for themselves. Yesterday that had flipped, it was hunting like a pack of hungry velociraptors, players shifting from one player to another and instructing a team mate on who they wanted covered while they moved off. You looked at what Freo had ahead of them and saw that we'd blocked the whole field up. No half arsed efforts, no pulling up short when they couldn't be bothered.

Lyon is a structural master. Proudest I've been of this club in years. I'm going to enjoy going to the footy this season.

Good insight mate thanks.

Something I noticed on the telecast was we seemed quite comfortable at times to just hack it out of defence or gain territory and back our system in if we turned it over.

After Bytel gave Sinclair that poor handball early in the game you could see Ross on the phone saying "tell him to just kick long there and gain the territory" or something along those lines.

Think it must go back to the systems you're describing at the ground. Nice to have a mix of silk and grunt coming out of the backline as we've probably relied too much on being clean over the last few years and been killed when we turn it over.

 

[gringo2011]

Good insight mate thanks.

Something I noticed on the telecast was we seemed quite comfortable at times to just hack it out of defence or gain territory and back our system in if we turned it over.

After Bytel gave Sinclair that poor handball early in the game you could see Ross on the phone saying "tell him to just kick long there and gain the territory" or something along those lines.

Think it must go back to the systems you're describing at the ground. Nice to have a mix of silk and grunt coming out of the backline as we've probably relied too much on being clean over the last few years and been killed when we turn it over.

Freo were actually very good in defence too and push up the ground to lock it forward. We struggled to get it out of our backline as well. Lots of blind kicking for territory and try to reset further up the ground. Guys like Gresham, Byrnes and Sinclair were able to run with the ball and break through the lines and Hill and Nas were pretty good too. Gresham had a real mixed bag game. Did some things that probably won us the game but did a few things that could have cost us the win. I guess that the gamble paid off and that was probably the difference. Freo took no risks and lost. We rolled the dice and broke it open.

 

[George]

Whatever happened to that guy? Has he got a job in footy? Such a weird choice as coach in hindsight.

CEO/Founder at a youth services company.

Kind of ironic that he's working with people given he stripped the fabric of our football club apart in a span of a couple of years. Still cannot believe people defended him.

 

[Hubnester]

My son likes sitting on level 3 so we wander up and you get a really good view of the field up there. I'd come back from a win last year and feel like we got away with it. There was so little organisation and structure. Players would hang each other out to dry by playing for themselves. Yesterday that had flipped, it was hunting like a pack of hungry velociraptors, players shifting from one player to another and instructing a team mate on who they wanted covered while they moved off. You looked at what Freo had ahead of them and saw that we'd blocked the whole field up. No half arsed efforts, no pulling up short when they couldn't be bothered.

Lyon is a structural master. Proudest I've been of this club in years. I'm going to enjoy going to the footy this season.

It was unbelievable how different we looked. A tangible feeling of purpose and organisation on the field, around stoppages and around the ground in general.
Time after time there'd be a stoppage or a contest that the last few years had conditioned me to expect we couldn't win. But we seemed to have players in the right place at the right time to extract or prevent them from getting it out cleanly. And it kept happening to the point where I could believe that it wasn't a fluke.
It felt exactly like what we'd been crying out for.

 

[Hubnester]

Also it was almost nostalgic, sitting at level two on the wing, right over the interchange bench, and seeing not a single player in one half of the ground haha

 

[Dard Ball Get]

It’s just gringo and myself ?

Like Andy Warhol said, 'But I always say, one's company, two's a crowd, and three's a party'

 

[Mowman]

Freo were actually very good in defence too and push up the ground to lock it forward. We struggled to get it out of our backline as well. Lots of blind kicking for territory and try to reset further up the ground. Guys like Gresham, Byrnes and Sinclair were able to run with the ball and break through the lines and Hill and Nas were pretty good too. Gresham had a real mixed bag game. Did some things that probably won us the game but did a few things that could have cost us the win. I guess that the gamble paid off and that was probably the difference. Freo took no risks and lost. We rolled the dice and broke it open.

I really liked at times how we moved it out of the back 50 with ease and quickly, something we haven’t done for a long time, King and Membrey will love it

 

[Sully111]

I really liked at times how we moved it out of the back 50 with ease and quickly, something we haven’t done for a long time, King and Membrey will love it

It will be interesting to see how Membrey goes when he comes up the ground and takes a mark on the wing. Hopefully he'll keep things moving quickly rather than take an eternity to move the ball on as he has a habit of doing.

 

[StFly]

Wow. I gotta get my eyes checked, I really thought I saw Buddy run through a guy's head. Cheers.

Running was generous for mine with Buddy, he didn't really get out of a jog in that match, it's for that reason alone I'm happy with him getting one as it's then less of a bumping action and more of a "I'm jogging to gather this ball, oops raised my elbow, oops collected you on the chin, oh well" moment as opposed to Kozzies "I'm running at pace to you, making no motion to smother your disposal and splitting you straight up the middle in that action no ifs and or buts" in which case he's similar to McAdams in he made a decision to bump, it's intentional not careless, give him 3 since Smith either has an iron head or Kozzi is a flea or both.

McAdams was then right to be referred given what transpired, which is actually happening as of like 10 minutes ago, so interesting to see who argues what in that.

 

[StFly]

Adelaide stuffed themselves.

Biomechanical on their behalf says contact to chin, Adelaides rebuttel to AFl states "no higher than chin" and states that chin is not part of head. Thus they argue their own expert and look kinda foolish.

 

[Mowman]

It will be interesting to see how Membrey goes when he comes up the ground and takes a mark on the wing. Hopefully he'll keep things moving quickly rather than take an eternity to move the ball on as he has a habit of doing.

I love Membrey think he has been great for the club and done really well in crap sides
Think he will be fine under RTB and was most likely playing how the coach asked him to play previously

 

[StFly]

Now arguing the severe defense starring Dangerfield from 2021 and Kozzi, who is sitll sporting that splash screen of jumper punching Smith in the chin on his promo to really drive home how they really missed a trick on careless grading. "How dare you get up from me bumping you, take that fiend!".

Still stuffed though, Dangers was a head knock as contact was to chest and not chin, 50% don't cut it, do better.

Edit: Short and sharp, tribunal now deliberating.

Adelaide is stating is high not severe, my feel it gets thrown out, their evidence is wishy washy and they've second guessed themselves a couple times in their arguments. Sadly won't see any hands of god as different counsel, so keep it in your togas.

Edit 2: Please hold, tribunal figuring out how to sit in chairs and what a desk is for. Help is on the way.

Edit 3: 3 weeks, do not pass go, do not collect your discounted case, good bye. Also, pay your bill, chances are the power got turned off as you might have missed a zero somewhere.

 

[PostmanBish]

It was unbelievable how different we looked. A tangible feeling of purpose and organisation on the field, around stoppages and around the ground in general.
Time after time there'd be a stoppage or a contest that the last few years had conditioned me to expect we couldn't win. But we seemed to have players in the right place at the right time to extract or prevent them from getting it out cleanly. And it kept happening to the point where I could believe that it wasn't a fluke.
It felt exactly like what we'd been crying out for.

Watching Freo come to a grinding halt across halfback time-and-time-again was nice to watch ...

 

[StCicatriz]

Watching Freo come to a grinding halt across halfback time-and-time-again was nice to watch ...

absolutely delish. a treat worth over indulging in.

 

[StFly]

To no ones surprise, Crows have appealed, cited how the AFL Tribunal has NFI and how this whole problem could have been avoided if Pickett got 3 instead of 2 making me feel vindicated. Choice quotes from hand of god himself indicates that yep, they might have stuffed it also but they're above reproach dontchaknow.

So;
McAdams has bigger arms than Pickett.
Pickett got saved by being a literal flea and not impacting as hard, aka soft even when you try really bloody hard.
Dees are slightly more loved than Crows, probably ever since the Eagles took over as the cash cow TBH.
Crows counsel is kinda similar to our man Rushy, like the wonder twins, perhaps as a group they might win a tribunal case.
Bickley still loves the sound of his own voice.
As an aside, my old man thought Picketts was worse than McAdams on first viewing.

Does just go to show that the more they state how they're going to update, stay relevant and not be a results orientated essence in footy, nothing has really changed and it's all a bunch of hot air in a hot mess. I look forward to another 30 years and having this crop also sue the AFL for dicking around with concussion and people literally throwing themselves to make even more of an issue. The second we move away from AFL and make it an entertainment combat sport with a ball and posts the better.

 

[Dard Ball Get]

To no ones surprise, Crows have appealed, cited how the AFL Tribunal has NFI and how this whole problem could have been avoided if Pickett got 3 instead of 2 making me feel vindicated. Choice quotes from hand of god himself indicates that yep, they might have stuffed it also but they're above reproach dontchaknow.

So;
McAdams has bigger arms than Pickett.
Pickett got saved by being a literal flea and not impacting as hard, aka soft even when you try really bloody hard.
Dees are slightly more loved than Crows, probably ever since the Eagles took over as the cash cow TBH.
Crows counsel is kinda similar to our man Rushy, like the wonder twins, perhaps as a group they might win a tribunal case.
Bickley still loves the sound of his own voice.
As an aside, my old man thought Picketts was worse than McAdams on first viewing.

Does just go to show that the more they state how they're going to update, stay relevant and not be a results orientated essence in footy, nothing has really changed and it's all a bunch of hot air in a hot mess. I look forward to another 30 years and having this crop also sue the AFL for dicking around with concussion and people literally throwing themselves to make even more of an issue. The second we move away from AFL and make it an entertainment combat sport with a ball and posts the better.

The fact Pickett got the same penalty as a stationary Ryder is laughable, yet unsurprising