Don't want, (or need) to start a new thread - still want to post it though

[Markfs]

Like it doesn't happen at AFL level.

Diving and dropping the knees.

You pick out one example in EPL.

NO you don't win.

The difference is that in soccer it's part of the game plan. Coaches use it to get opposition players out of the game or get those goals that they cant get in the usual way...... which is understandable if you're putting a ball around a park for 90 minutes and nothing is happening...

 

[Fat Jesus]

The difference is that in soccer it's part of the game plan. Coaches use it to get opposition players out of the game or get those goals that they cant get in the usual way...... which is understandable if you're putting a ball around a park for 90 minutes and nothing is happening...

The truth is Managers get just as frustrated because these divers often get red carded. Leaving the team a player down. Usually resulting in a loss.

EPL and Bundesliga leagues better than the rest.

South Americans, Spanish and Italian soccer are the worst at trying to milk a free.

 

[Markfs]

The truth is Managers get just as frustrated because these divers often get red carded. Leaving the team a player down. Usually resulting in a loss.

EPL and Bundesliga leagues better than the rest.

South Americans, Spanish and Italian soccer are the worst at trying to milk a free.

no one ever gets sent off for faking it....once in a blue moon the umpire might show the guy a yellow card...

here's one for you. His coach says that he wasn't faking it ....but I'm not sure why he threw his foot out to catch his opponent's leg...

Arsenal told Saka accused of 'cheating' by officials

Football Insider has been told by Keith Hackett that Bukayo Saka has been accused of "cheating" by officials after an Arsenal controversy.

www.footballinsider247.com

anyway, end of discussion.... I get bored if i talk about this game too much. The pommes can have it...

 

[noideaatall]

I don't get this whole cancel culture thing. People have been shutting down and persecuting other people for their views since the dawn of time (or at least in the last 59 years which is much the same thing AFAIAC). Someone recently comes up with a new label and voila, its some sort of poison. Lets cancel the cancel culture. I think the problem is that bloke, two bits of wood and the vampire thing. Since people realised it was all a hoax everyone is running around looking for a new hoax to peddle. Cancel the cancellers I say, and while we are at cancel all councils, bloody parasites IMO.

 

[noideaatall]

Just sayin ... I am not too many years off being that old duffer that comes to the front door when those horrible little grommets knock, stick a double barrel between one of the crittur's teeth and croak trick or treat. How we allowed this shite to creep in the back door should be a national inquiry.

JB1975 is worried about being in his pjs fantasizing about jonbe54 in the middle of the afternoon. I am still in the same jocks I wore yesterday which happened to have doubled as my pjs. I'm not worried. I think maybe I should give jeff a ring about that blue stuff. As an expert on promoting the blues I am sure he can help me out.

 

[Vicky Park]

 

[noideaatall]

Yeah but deep down ya like it when things get off piste

 

[jmac70]

I don't get this whole cancel culture thing. People have been shutting down and persecuting other people for their views since the dawn of time (or at least in the last 59 years which is much the same thing AFAIAC). Someone recently comes up with a new label and voila, its some sort of poison. Lets cancel the cancel culture. I think the problem is that bloke, two bits of wood and the vampire thing. Since people realised it was all a hoax everyone is running around looking for a new hoax to peddle. Cancel the cancellers I say, and while we are at cancel all councils, bloody parasites IMO.

I don’t know what cancel culture is.
True story.

 

[Timmy from Thomastown]

I see Adelaide have nominated max micalannaannaaananny as a father son prospect. His dad never played a real game at the top level but played enough at Norwood to qualify….obviously started late with a family too… he would have become this kids dad at about age 50….

Surely there can’t be too many eligible father sons coming in via this pathway. The crows have been in existence for 30 years now.

Has there ever been a successful player recruited via the “never played VFL/AFL” father son path?

 

[TheGreatGrundy]

I love the way everyone wants to take a whack at jonbe54 , & then get lonely when they are put on ignore.

I am on ignore because I ridiculed his constant media conspiracy talk during the trade period a year or two back. Can't say I have been consumed by loneliness between then and now.

 

[Fat Jesus]

Jeffrey Dahmer

 

[gouki88]

Jeffrey Dahmer

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Poor form

 

[Timmy from Thomastown]

Poor form

Meh.

 

[Pistol Night]

Meh.

Just a young bloke being stupid. Im sure some people will now assume Jack is “pro-murder” though.

 

[Fat Jesus]

Poor form

I think the whole Halloween thing is a farce.

 

[Pistol Night]

I think the whole Halloween thing is a farce.

Was never a thing at all when I was a kid, so being the 41 going on 83 year old that I am I struggle to embrace it

 

[Obese Arachnid]

At the old fancy dress school social I wore something worse, wouldn't even think about it these days.

So I'm not going to have a go at him.

 

[Pistol Night]

At the old fancy dress school social I wore something worse, wouldn't even think about it these days.

So I'm not going to have ago at him.

Went as a Carlton player?

 

[Obese Arachnid]

Went as a Carlton player?

You sick bastard!!!

 

[35Daicos]

I see Adelaide have nominated max micalannaannaaananny as a father son prospect. His dad never played a real game at the top level but played enough at Norwood to qualify….obviously started late with a family too… he would have become this kids dad at about age 50….

Surely there can’t be too many eligible father sons coming in via this pathway. The crows have been in existence for 30 years now.

Has there ever been a successful player recruited via the “never played VFL/AFL” father son path?

Checking this list of AFL father-son recruits there's only been two players with a father who didn't play VFL/AFL at all. There's also a few with a father who played VFL/AFL, but not for the club the son was selected by - they qualified for F/S selection due to the father playing enough games at WAFL, SANFL or QAFL level.

Of those in the first category, Simon Fletcher failed to play a game for Geelong (the club who drafted him as a F/S), though he did well at Carlton (84 games). Mitch Morton managed just 12 games in 3 seasons for West Coast (the club who drafted him as a F/S), had a rather successful stint at Richmond, then (though he only played 12 games in 2 seasons) after a "fairytale run" late in 2012 ended up a Premiership player with Sydney. Obviously neither of those two were a success at their first club.

West Coast did incredibly well out of Ben Cousins and Ashley McIntosh, Brett Peake did well enough at Fremantle (75 games), and Brett Ebert had a very successful career at Port Adelaide. Shane Morrison played just 5 games for Brisbane.

Jonathon Brown was a superstar for Brisbane, qualifying as a F/S recruit as his father had played enough games for Fitzroy, and the Fitzroy-Brisbane connection allowed him to join the Lions. Josh Clayton was able to join Brisbane thanks to that same connection, but only managed 2 games.

 

[Timmy from Thomastown]

Just a young bloke being stupid. Im sure some people will now assume Jack is “pro-murder” though.

And pro smoking

 

[Timmy from Thomastown]

Checking this list of AFL father-son recruits there's only been two players with a father who didn't play VFL/AFL at all. There's also a few with a father who played VFL/AFL, but not for the club the son was selected by - they qualified for F/S selection due to the father playing enough games at WAFL, SANFL or QAFL level.

Of those in the first category, Simon Fletcher failed to play a game for Geelong (the club who drafted him as a F/S), though he did well at Carlton (84 games). Mitch Morton managed just 12 games in 3 seasons for West Coast (the club who drafted him as a F/S), had a rather successful stint at Richmond, then (though he only played 12 games in 2 seasons) after a "fairytale run" late in 2012 ended up a Premiership player with Sydney. Obviously neither of those two were a success at their first club.

West Coast did incredibly well out of Ben Cousins and Ashley McIntosh, Brett Peake did well enough at Fremantle (75 games), and Brett Ebert had a very successful career at Port Adelaide. Shane Morrison played just 5 games for Brisbane.

Jonathon Brown was a superstar for Brisbane, qualifying as a F/S recruit as his father had played enough games for Fitzroy, and the Fitzroy-Brisbane connection allowed him to join the Lions. Josh Clayton was able to join Brisbane thanks to that same connection, but only managed 2 games.

Great stuff thanks….. although fair to point out cousins macintosh and Peake senior all played 50 plus games in the vfl so weren’t exactly duds.

 

[Pistol Night]

And pro smoking

What a monster. Delist

 

[35Daicos]

Great stuff thanks….. although fair to point out cousins macintosh and Peake senior all played 50 plus games in the vfl so weren’t exactly duds.

They certainly weren't duds overall (though Peake did have his detractors while playing for Geelong!), and Russell Ebert could play as well. I simply put their sons in a different category as though they were recruited as father-sons and the fathers did play at that level, it wasn't for the club that recruited them, and only games played by the father in state leagues allowed them to be qualified.

 

[Black_White]

Just sayin ... I am not too many years off being that old duffer that comes to the front door when those horrible little grommets knock, stick a double barrel between one of the crittur's teeth and croak trick or treat. How we allowed this shite to creep in the back door should be a national inquiry.

JB1975 is worried about being in his pjs fantasizing about jonbe54 in the middle of the afternoon. I am still in the same jocks I wore yesterday which happened to have doubled as my pjs. I'm not worried. I think maybe I should give jeff a ring about that blue stuff. As an expert on promoting the blues I am sure he can help me out.

We put up a sign every year.
So far it’s been respected.




The UK police have been offering similar posters for years after they had violence erupt over people not supplying treats.