Mega Thread 2024 Media & Miscellaneous Thread

[Lach72]

I was just thinking ‘Lachie who’ when I read this and realised we’ve had three Lachies and they’ve all requested trades. Lesson is don’t recruit players called Lachie.

GTFO
I just got vet badge on BigFooty

 

[E Shed]

GTFO
I just got vet badge on BigFooty

Me too!

 

[FD2646]

I've also just joined the vets list!

 

[Purple Jesus]

Me 3!

Watching this Collingwood doco on the AFL website. Our whole team should be watching this but **** me are we a long way off it.

 

[Piggy Smalls]

Me 5!

 

[Scatter]

Also me (vet)

 

[Wigarus]

Ha!

Nerds

 

[Purple Jesus]

Are we a unified group of brothers? That was the difference on GF day.

 

[CaseySibosadoHOF]

At most a moderate concern. He kicked ~1.5 per game. Even Banners kicks 0.8 and he plays sub half the time.

Would we be better with him? 100%

Are we doomed without him? Not even close.

Schultz may well end up being a very significant loss, but to your point if he is it won't be based primarily on goal count. Others replacing him won't score 0 goals: maybe you lose like 10 goals net.

Where losing him will be felt more imo is his all round game: he got up the ground really well, set up plays (his field kicking has gotten so much better compared to like 2019/2020), applied pressure, made great courageous winning plays, etc. I've really liked what I've seen from Emmett in a small sample size in that high half fwd role, but others like Sturt can score goals and have moments (when he's fit and firing) but don't have that same all-round impact.

 

[pK75]

Schultz may well end up being a very significant loss, but to your point if he is it won't be based primarily on goal count. Others replacing him won't score 0 goals: maybe you lose like 10 goals net.

Where losing him will be felt more imo is his all round game: he got up the ground really well, set up plays (his field kicking has gotten so much better compared to like 2019/2020), applied pressure, made great courageous winning plays, etc. I've really liked what I've seen from Emmett in a small sample size in that high half fwd role, but others like Sturt can score goals and have moments (when he's fit and firing) but don't have that same all-round impact.

Think you hit the nail on the head with Emmett, he brings the same intensity but is 8cm taller, a harder tackler and in a very small sample size averages more goals per game. He isn’t a small forward but we played too many anyway and need more medium forwards in the team.

 

[Sully90]

I too am a vet. How rude

 

[ubiquitous226]

Handing out badges like candy

 

[GingerDocker]

I thought the V stood for virgin?

 

[fnerd]

Ha!

Nerds

I know right!…… wait, we’re meant to be rejoicing in this accomplishment??

 

[gaskin]

Who the **** is calling me old?

 

[ignoramus]

Handing out badges like candy

 

[Midnite65]

Me 3!

Watching this Collingwood doco on the AFL website. Our whole team should be watching this but * me are we a long way off it.

Collingwood were pretty ordinary a few years ago, they turned it around fast!

 

[Purple Jesus]

Collingwood were pretty ordinary a few years ago, they turned it around fast!

Yeah, they got a new coach and a free generational player.

 

[poshman]

I too have joined the illustrious ranks.

What is the criteria? If it’s old fartery some of the new vets should have super vet status! Like great grandpa vet or something.

 

[Johnny Dalmas]

AFL small forwards are like NFL running backs. Incredibly important to most game plans but also relatively plentiful and easy to replace.

Just because a hard working small forward like Schultzy should be relatively easy to replace with another blue collar hard working small forward doesn't mean it's a slam dunk for us to do so.

There is evey chance that an Emmett or a Simpson or someone similar will make us all love him.

But we have to nail the transition from Scultz to someone else. Let's hope that -- this year -- we aren't asleep at the wheel.

 

[greatgatsby]

Me too … I’m not sure it’s a good sign.

 

[mayne iac]

I thought it was something to do with Vic bias

 

[Joao]

Schultz may well end up being a very significant loss, but to your point if he is it won't be based primarily on goal count. Others replacing him won't score 0 goals: maybe you lose like 10 goals net.

Where losing him will be felt more imo is his all round game: he got up the ground really well, set up plays (his field kicking has gotten so much better compared to like 2019/2020), applied pressure, made great courageous winning plays, etc. I've really liked what I've seen from Emmett in a small sample size in that high half fwd role, but others like Sturt can score goals and have moments (when he's fit and firing) but don't have that same all-round impact.

Yeah I'm not suggesting we won't notice, I 'm just saying we'll find a way. Schultz won't be the difference between a good season or a bad season for us.

Edit: Also got the V.

 

[Dump Truck]

Well I was in Afghanistan 12 years ago but it's nice that bigfooty has finally decided to give me a badge for it

 

[ubiquitous226]

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I'm assuming it's related to the age of the account (>=5 years?)