Football Related Random Thread - PART 2

[Dalions]

 

[briztoon]

Financial powerhouse clubs take $8 million hit from AFL

Four of the league’s strongest clubs - Collingwood, Richmond, Hawthorn and West Coast - will receive only the reduced minimum level of funding from the AFL.

www.theage.com.au

 

[Section 5]

Financial powerhouse clubs take $8 million hit from AFL

Four of the league’s strongest clubs - Collingwood, Richmond, Hawthorn and West Coast - will receive only the reduced minimum level of funding from the AFL.

www.theage.com.au

For those that don't want to open an account at The Age
below the important bit about the Lions from the article
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The Brisbane Lions, who have recovered strongly from a fiscally fraught position and made a profit to $3 million this year, are expected to receive about the same as they did in 2021.

 

[Dalions]

Obviously Cams knee is feeling ok.

 

[M Malice]

New super hero franchise > Spidercam.

 

[Section 5]

Best AFL game of 2021 vote on AFL site
Lions nominated for 3 of 13 games
Two games lost by 1 point being Cats round 2 and then the Dogs final. The 1 point win over the Pies in round 3.
At present the Lions v Dogs final leading with 32% closely followed by Demons v Cats round 23 clash with 29%
Next best 9% so a 2 horse race at present

What was the best game of the 2021 season? Vote now

This year produced a mountain of upsets, plenty of controversy and thrilling finishes. But what was the best match of 2021?

www.afl.com.au

 

[trikster]

Obviously Cams knee is feeling ok.

spandex doesn't lie, looking trim

 

[ManeMan]

Reckon the poll should include our game vs WCE in round 23 as well! Chasing that percentage was one of the most exciting/stressful regular season games I can remember

 

[Dalions]

Reckon the poll should include our game vs WCE in round 23 as well! Chasing that percentage was one of the most exciting/stressful regular season games I can remember

Yeah I was disappointed not to see it in there.
It would have got my vote.

 

[Section 5]

Reckon the poll should include our game vs WCE in round 23 as well! Chasing that percentage was one of the most exciting/stressful regular season games I can remember

That game was very exciting for us Lions fans. The win gave us that double chance and theoretically making it harder for the Dogs
However i imagine that game v Eagles sits well outside being rated in the best 13 games of the season for most AFL fans

 

[Grasshopper17]

I reckon this poll was collated by someone who simply went and got a list of the closest games of the season. You can have games decided by 6 goals that are absolute classics. The 2011 Grand Final is one that immediately springs to mind for me. I'd even have this year's Grand Final up there, simply for the sheer quality of the contest for 2 and a half quarters and then the epic theatre of the final 40 minutes.

Surely you cannot say the Grand Final was not a better game than the North v Giants draw.

I'd also consider:

St Kilda 102 v 82 West Coast (Round 4)
Richmond 77 v Western Bulldogs 55 (Round 7)
Essendon 107 v Carlton 123 (Round 7)
Richmond 63 v Geelong 126 (Round 8)
Western Bulldogs 107 v Carlton 91 (Round 8)
Richmond 87 v Giants 83 (Round 9)
Port Adelaide 77 v Western Bulldogs 96 (Round 9)
Brisbane 102 v Richmond 74 (Round 10)
West Coast 71 v Essendon 87 (Round 11)
Melbourne 97 v Brisbane 75 (Round 12)
Essendon 84 v Richmond 123 (Round 12)
Port Adelaide 91 v Geelong 112 (Round 13)
Port Adelaide 81 v Sydney 71 (Round 15)
Essendon 102 v Sydney 109 (Round 20)
Geelong 65 v Giants 84 (Round 21)
Brisbane 125 v West Coast 87 (Round 23)

Now, I'm not saying any of those games are better than whichever one ends up winning the poll (for what it's worth I voted for the West Coast v Richmond game, and Adelaide v Melbourne would have been my #2 pick). All I'm trying to demonstrate is that you can have matches of exceptional quality where the final margin doesn't necessarily indicate that.

 

[Dalions]

 

[pulpdriver]

Matho the one willing to take the Surströmming bullet for the team. Ultimate team man.

 

[Back2Back2Back]

Youtube of the thing:

 

[Section 5]

I am sure we could all add to this list from todays AFL site
Stephen May comes to mind for me

Metricon Stadium was an injury graveyard for the Lions in 2021, so they'd love a clean bill of health any time they play on the Suns' home turf next season. Cam Rayner ruptured his anterior cruciate ligament at the ground during the pre-season, and then Eric Hipwood did likewise in a re-arranged game against St Kilda in round 17. Daniel Rich suffered a similar fate at the ground way back in 2014. Some Lions fans think the venue is cursed for their club. – Michael Whiting

 

[Back2Back2Back]

It's just a crap ground in general really. I honestly think the surface wasn't the worst (Docklands wins that award); it still hasn't recovered right after the Commonwealth Games - but the stadium itself is just horrid. The roof does 8/10ths of bugger all for afternoon games since you sit facing direct sunlight for most of the game, and the logistics of getting to and from the place are just idiotic. The closest train station still needs a bus shuttle to connect to unless you want to walk in the gutter of the roads between. They didn't even bother servicing the place with the light rail for the local patrons either - there's nothing that remotely goes close to the stadium from the GCLR.

 

[BRAB]

It's just a crap ground in general really. I honestly think the surface wasn't the worst (Docklands wins that award); it still hasn't recovered right after the Commonwealth Games - but the stadium itself is just horrid. The roof does 8/10ths of bugger all for afternoon games since you sit facing direct sunlight for most of the game, and the logistics of getting to and from the place are just idiotic. The closest train station still needs a bus shuttle to connect to unless you want to walk in the gutter of the roads between. They didn't even bother servicing the place with the light rail for the local patrons either - there's nothing that remotely goes close to the stadium from the GCLR.

The plans for the Olympics look really promising at least. Massive extensions to public transport.

Won't stop it smelling like a swamp though.

 

[Section 5]

Below table from SEN article. Free kick count for & against 2017 to 2021
Full article link below

Club	For	Against	Differential
Collingwood	2163	1860	303
Western Bulldogs	2185	1891	294
North Melbourne	2095	1907	188
Adelaide	2089	1933	156
West Coast (Premiers 2018)	2137	1992	145
Brisbane	2217 rank 2	2154	63
Geelong	2277 rank 1	2266	11
Port Adelaide	2129	2118	11
Carlton	2048	2044	4
Gold Coast	1949	1972	-23
Fremantle	1881	1917	-36
Melbourne (Premiers 2021)	2075	2114	-39
St Kilda	1891	2002	-111
Essendon	1929	2042	-113
Sydney	2053	2179	-126
Hawthorn	1882	2022	-140
GWS Giants	2116	2335 rank 2	-219
Richmond (Premiers 2017,2019,2020)	2040	2408 rank 1	-368

The AFL free kick ladder of the last five years

All the numbers between 2017 and 2021.

www.sen.com.au

 

[bungalow_bill]

So the Lions get more frees for than the Dogs

 

[Section 5]

So the Lions get more frees for than the Dogs

Yes every year except 2021:- Lions 481 Dogs 515
So 34 more frees of which 9 were in the SF (Dogs 28 Lions 19)

 

[Some_guy]

That's also just the ones they do call. It's easy to forget the throws etc that are never called

 

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[western royboy]

Just ran into Fly McRae an his family in Horsham, lovely people. Thru gritted teeth I wished him all the best - still looks like he could play

 

[Dalions]