Football Related Random Thread - PART 2

[Gadzorks]

Just watched the latest robvlogs episode. Pretty low key.

Showed one training session and Robbo clearly knows his weapon is energy cause he keeps saying it and doing his best to hype up the others.

Loved seeing Ben Keays

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at robbo's son game of rugby. Changing clubs doesn't change everything. Btw Ben said Chance looked so angry when he scored a run away try and the kid can run. Father son coming on with the same bulldozer attitude.

He critiqued his game. Said he felt every one of his 33 years (this episode included his birthday) and he could not judge the ball.

 

[mattsmob]

Just watched the latest robvlogs episode. Pretty low key.

Showed one training session and Robbo clearly knows his weapon is energy cause he keeps saying it and doing his best to hype up the others.

Loved seeing Ben Keays at robbo's son game of rugby. Changing clubs doesn't change everything. Btw Ben said Chance looked so angry when he scored a run away try and the kid can run. Father son coming on with the same bulldozer attitude.

He critiqued his game. Said he felt every one of his 33 years (this episode included his birthday) and he could not judge the ball.

Thought it was interesting to see Lohmann taking part in the captains run as well.

 

[CarterS]

Apparently in the next lot of floating fixtures we have 2 more Friday night games coming up - Home vs carlton and away vs St Kilda. Likely Round 23 will be Friday night vs Melbourne as well - love Friday night at the Gabba.

 

[briztoon]

 

[Nunez]

Apparently in the next lot of floating fixtures we have 2 more Friday night games coming up - Home vs carlton and away vs St Kilda. Likely Round 23 will be Friday night vs Melbourne as well - love Friday night at the Gabba.

Amazing! I've got a gig in Sydney on the Saturday so will be able to go to the Carlton game after all!

 

[CarterS]

Amazing! I've got a gig in Sydney on the Saturday so will be able to go to the Carlton game after all!

We have been top 4 in the league for a few years it is about time we were rewarded with a decent amount of Friday night Games

 

[KissKiss]

Show much Melbourne has dropped away, while our defence is down as well. Freo holding steady

 

[Gadzorks]

Looked for the latest Robvlogs and found a new up and about segment, which is question and answer.

Points of interest
Called wing a shit position
Said he wasn't dropped, but just couldn't get back into the team after injury
Said he struggled mentally with retiring when he couldn't get back in. Was his hardest time in Brisbane.
Doesn't like the way the media deals with players
Wants to get into media post footy and bring have a different media player interaction.

 

[Lazza16]

Just read on AFL.COM English will miss this week's match against Hawks with concussion and could also miss against us seeing the match is on a Thursday night. We seem to be getting a continuous run of opposition outs lately.

 

[CarterS]

Apparently in the next lot of floating fixtures we have 2 more Friday night games coming up - Home vs carlton and away vs St Kilda. Likely Round 23 will be Friday night vs Melbourne as well - love Friday night at the Gabba.

Media was wrong of course, Home vs Carlton is Sunday afternoon

 

[Nunez]

Wow Richmond and Carlton games on a Sunday. Cooked.

 

[Tom14]

Wow Richmond and Carlton games on a Sunday. Cooked.

5 day break from the Carlton game to the saints game on Friday night in round 22

 

[Viceregal]

5 day break from the Carlton game to the saints game on Friday night in round 22

Guessing there is no algorithm or parameters programmed into the fixture generator ... surely avoiding five day turn arounds should be something to be avoided if you can ...

 

[Tom14]

Guessing there is no algorithm or parameters programmed into the fixture generator ... surely avoiding five day turn arounds should be something to be avoided if you can ...

We are the only team who will have to deal with a 5 day break with the latest fixture dump

There is provision for teams to have a 5 day break once per season and we haven't had one yet I guess.

 

[Gadzorks]

5 day break from the Carlton game to the saints game on Friday night in round 22

I'm straight to the risk of injury increasing immediately before finals.

I might watch that game with my eyes closed.

 

[BRAB]

Said he wasn't dropped, but just couldn't get back into the team after injury

Robbo’s coping a bit lmao.

 

[CarterS]

Wow Richmond and Carlton games on a Sunday. Cooked.

Just like last time they try and throw us a crumb by reporting it like "The Sunday afternoon prime time slot blockbuster is BACK!"

Notice that our Friday night game is in Melbourne

What do we have to do to get a Friday night at the Gabba?

Surely Round 23 vs Melbourne will be Friday night. Based on previous history though they will put Carlton v Collingwood Friday night though.

To be fair, the Melbourne v Collingwood game that week should be a good game.

 

[Dalions]

Just like last time they try and throw us a crumb by reporting it like "The Sunday afternoon prime time slot blockbuster is BACK!"

Notice that our Friday night game is in Melbourne

What do we have to do to get a Friday night at the Gabba?

Surely Round 23 vs Melbourne will be Friday night. Based on previous history though they will put Carlton v Collingwood Friday night though.

To be fair, the Melbourne v Collingwood game that week should be a good game.

I don’t actually Mind that 3.20 time slot due to the fact that it’s pretty close to the Grand Final time.
All bar it is on a Saturday and not the Sunday.
But the time slot I like.

 

[BuntonRules]

If I was Collingwood, I would send DeGoey out with Dane Swan

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- how to party up, and get away with it 101.

 

[BangyBangy]

If I was Collingwood, I would send DeGoey out with Dane Swan - how to party up, and get away with it 101.

I would send DeGoey out with Steven May. Just because.

 

[briztoon]

Disclaimer: I try and stay away from such discussions, because I’m never any good at taking a “side”, or providing a strong argument on one side or the other. And being honest, I was a d!ckhead as a kid, have done worse, and probably didn’t start to mature or “grow up” until I was 39.

However…

Interesting listening to my boss (plays for a QFA club) and my 2ic (female, close to retirement age) talk about the De Goey “situation” this afternoon. While not directly defending all of De Goey’s behaviour, but defending footballer/sportsmen like De Goey, Swann, Warne, Boon, etc.

What makes a larrikin a larrikin? when are they allowed to be larrikin’s?

Warne had done far worse than De Goey in how he had treated women in night club environments, and worse than Bailey Smith

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in terms of usage, but never copped the criticism that De Goey has, or has at the very least has mostly been forgiven for all his indiscretions.

Is it purely that there are cameras everywhere and with today’s social media, everything is seen, rather than us just hearing stories of past sporting “hero’s”


I don’t condone De Goey’s treatment of women, and have always thought he was a d!ckhead.

Is it because De Goey is a d!ckhead, with priors, that this story is as big as it is.

I also don’t know if the media does go to far sometimes, looking for a story, or make a story bigger than it probably should be.

From what I’ve heard, the Steven May

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incident should be a bigger football story, and should be discussed more than De Goey’s Bali behaviour.

 

[martinson]

Disclaimer: I try and stay away from such discussions, because I’m never any good at taking a “side”, or providing a strong argument on one side or the other. And being honest, I was a d!ckhead as a kid, have done worse, and probably didn’t start to mature or “grow up” until I was 39.

However…

Interesting listening to my boss (plays for a QFA club) and my 2ic (female, close to retirement age) talk about the De Goey “situation” this afternoon. While not directly defending all of De Goey’s behaviour, but defending footballer/sportsmen like De Goey, Swann, Warne, Boon, etc.

What makes a larrikin a larrikin? when are they allowed to be larrikin’s?

Warne had done far worse than De Goey in how he had treated women in night club environments, and worse than Bailey Smith in terms of usage, but never copped the criticism that De Goey has, or has at the very least has mostly been forgiven for all his indiscretions.

Is it purely that there are cameras everywhere and with today’s social media, everything is seen, rather than us just hearing stories of past sporting “hero’s”


I don’t condone De Goey’s treatment of women, and have always thought he was a d!ckhead.

Is it because De Goey is a d!ckhead, with priors, that this story is as big as it is.

I also don’t know if the media does go to far sometimes, looking for a story, or make a story bigger than it probably should be.

From what I’ve heard, the Steven May incident should be a bigger football story, and should be discussed more than De Goey’s Bali behaviour.

I generally agree.

What we used to get up to back in the day is unprintable. It doesn't mean we were bad people ,just immature with too much testosterone.

De Goey is obviously mentally challenged but it looks more to me that the culprit is Collingwood's management and mentoring of him rather than anything specific he did in Bali. They should have told him in the strongest terms possible not to go there and if he did to keep well hid. Obviously both pieces of advice might have been difficult for him to get his head around.

 

[dlanod]

Warne had done far worse than De Goey in how he had treated women in night club environments, and worse than Bailey Smith in terms of usage, but never copped the criticism that De Goey has, or has at the very least has mostly been forgiven for all his indiscretions.

Is it purely that there are cameras everywhere and with today’s social media, everything is seen, rather than us just hearing stories of past sporting “hero’s”

Video footage is a massive part of it. It's a lot easier to both sweep things under the carpet (from the sportsperson's POV) or dismiss things as rumour (from the supporters' POV) if it's just someone claiming something. If there's video to show them being an idiot or worse, then that's game over. You see it regularly where a player or a club will dismiss something or other, only for video to come out to show them lying and force them to backpedal massively. There wouldn't have been a single comment about De Goey's behaviour if it wasn't videoed.

 

[Mighty Lions]

I generally agree.

What we used to get up to back in the day is unprintable. It doesn't mean we were bad people ,just immature with too much testosterone.

De Goey is obviously mentally challenged but it looks more to me that the culprit is Collingwood's management and mentoring of him rather than anything specific he did in Bali. They should have told him in the strongest terms possible not to go there and if he did to keep well hid. Obviously both pieces of advice might have been difficult for him to get his head around.

Strongly disagree with blaming the club for De Goey's bad behaviour. It's just typical of society consistently blaming other people/organisations for their wrong doing. Our culture here in Australia is to never put our hands up and take responsibility for anything. Even in the workplace now, a person could be stupid enough to put his hand in something that could remove it from his arm and it would be a workplace fault rather than an idiot move by the worker. Time to take responsibility for what he does...not switch it over to someone else.

 

[McIvor]

And just like Bailey playing the mental health card, I heard on the radio this morning Degoey is blaming ADHD.

Some of the boys know exactly what they are doing when they are doing the things theyve been caught doing - its a shame they just cant take ownership and say yes, I was an idiot - got caught up in whatever it is and I'll do better - but pls stop using things as the reasons for your appalling behaviour.