Football Related Random Thread

[Chief]

Continued in Part 2

Football Related Random Thread - PART 2

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[lionshine]

Random thought but I'd love to see Joyce and Cockatoo play senior's before the end of the season.

 

[bungalow_bill]

Random thought but I'd love to see Joyce and Cockatoo play senior's before the end of the season.

We all love to see that

Ely Smith as well

 

[Dalions]

Cuddly Fages!

 

[Section 5]

Not sure about round 16 Cubs2Lions but round 15 looks like some time changes
Lions safe on Thursday evening
Teams likely effected
Swans v Port
Pies v Dockers
Blues v Crows

Rd 15 fixture latest: Three games may move, ‘likely’ Vic crowds revealed but call could ‘lack logic’

Rd 15 fixture latest: Three games may move, ‘likely’ Vic crowds revealed but call could ‘lack logic’

www.foxsports.com.au

 

[jackess]

 

[Dalions]

 

[Gadzorks]

Loved the question and Zorks' reaction to the, 'how tall do you want to be when you grow up'.

 

[Dalions]

Loved the question and Zorks' reaction to the, 'how tall do you want to be when you grow up'.

The whole clip was very funny.

 

[Gadzorks]

When we were at the bottom and needing to get talent from the draft, expansion happened.

When we are at the top with our opportunities at the premiership, covid happened.

sigh.

 

[irel]

When we were at the bottom and needing to get talent from the draft, expansion happened.

When we are at the top with our opportunities at the premiership, covid happened.

sigh.

Shit happens, we just build resilience and immunity and become stronger.

 

[Harris Specter]

When we were at the bottom and needing to get talent from the draft, expansion happened.

When we are at the top with our opportunities at the premiership, covid happened.

sigh.

Was just thinking that. Must be incredibly frustrating for some of the senior players.
Hope we come out of it with a premiership

 

[M Malice]

Was just thinking that. Must be incredibly frustrating for some of the senior players.
Hope we come out of it with multiple premierships

Edited.

 

[FLVanLandingham]

Its interesting. I'm no old fogey so I have no clue, but has it always been the overt goal to win multiple premierships? (stupidly worded question, I know)

No I'm not stupid, I know all teams want to win them all, but my scope of footy only goes basically back to the late 90's early noughties. So the comparison has been if you want to be truly great you have to win multiples or better yet do them concurrently. i.e the Lions three peat. (or maybe I'm wrong and that's not the pinnacle of footy greatness)

Who were the teams that others compared their achievements against?

 

[M Malice]

 

[trikster]

Dev won the rising star for this week

NAB AFL Rising Star: Deven Robertson lights up round 15

Watch the highlights and find out why Deven Robertson gets the NAB AFL Rising Star in R15

www.afl.com.au

 

[MSB ROYS]

 

[royboy2]

Its interesting. I'm no old fogey so I have no clue, but has it always been the overt goal to win multiple premierships? (stupidly worded question, I know)

No I'm not stupid, I know all teams want to win them all, but my scope of footy only goes basically back to the late 90's early noughties. So the comparison has been if you want to be truly great you have to win multiples or better yet do them concurrently. i.e the Lions three peat. (or maybe I'm wrong and that's not the pinnacle of footy greatness)

Who were the teams that others compared their achievements against?

Ask a Saints fan, winning one is hard enough...Worry about multiple after you get the 1st one

 

[Gadzorks]

Lions on their way to Victoria by charter flight today re covid lockdown.

I really really really want the premiership this year when we are the ones not sleeping in our own beds.

 

[Viceregal]

I really really really want the premiership this year when we are the ones not sleeping in our own beds.

You know if we win it that way then having a focussed environment without family etc distractions would be an unfair advantage ... assuming we play off against a Victorian team...

 

[jackess]

 

[Section 5]

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I do like stats and this looks like it was taken as at end of round 15.
However Melbourne have only played 5 top eight sides so far compared to say Geelong's 8 to our 7 & Dogs 7
No wonder they lead this ladder. Don't get me wrong they are playing very good footy so far this year

Also both the Lions & Geelong have played each other twice for 1 win each.
Dogs played Eagles twice for 2 wins

Demons 5 : Wins - Cats, Tigers, Swans, Dogs, Lions & Loss - nil

Cats 5-3 : Wins - Lions, Eagles, Tigers, Port, Dogs & Loss - Demons, Swans, Lions

Dogs 4-3 : Wins - Eagles, Lions, Port, Eagles & Loss - Tigers, Demons, Cats

Lions 3-4 : Wins - Port, Tigers, Cats & Loss - Swans, Cats, Dogs, Demons

 

[BrainOfMorbius]

That's just the way the fixture is organised, as a tool of equalisation. They divide last year's ladder into groups of six teams - top, middle and bottom - and make sure that the teams in those groups tend to play those teams twice on average. So a bottom-placed team is less likely to play top-6 team twice the following year.

It's not new, the Lions have "benefited" from this arrangement for years, and it was especially handy in 2019 when we finally cracked it as a decent side.

I don't have a problem with our operationally and of course next year's Melbourne fixture will be more consistently challenging for them.

 

[Dalions]

 

[CarterS]

Lots of IFs to happen before now and next week, we have to not be in lockdown for 1, but assuming we are back at the Gabba you'd have to think it will not be with a capacity crowd. Adelaide never even went into a lockdown and they have a 25% crowd.

 

[POBT]

Lots of IFs to happen before now and next week, we have to not be in lockdown for 1, but assuming we are back at the Gabba you'd have to think it will not be with a capacity crowd. Adelaide never even went into a lockdown and they have a 25% crowd.

Dunno. The CHO has previously expressed confidence in how large sporting events risk manage for COVID. She’s previously allowed crowds even when there’s been a local outbreak.

I think it will be a moot point though as I suspect footy will be played in Vic, SA and Tassie only for a couple of weeks.