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TheBrownDog
- Oct 4, 2007
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AFLW 2024 - Round 9 - Indigenous Round - Chat, game threads, injury lists, team lineups and more.
The only problem I have with Richmond winning is that it would make that miserable turd Mick Molloy happy. I can't have that.Yep, as it stands right now my preference
Tigers
Crows
Dee's
Giants
Port
Bombers, cats, swans
Oh I agree Geelong have done well for themselves - by throwing away their future on a handful of mature-age mercenaries who'll allow them to make up the numbers a little while longer. Meanwhile their youth is close to the worst in the league and depth wafer thin.
All they've done is push the cliff wall back a few years, but by doing so their plunge off the edge will be all the more ghastly and crawling back up the other slower & more painful.
Agree with all of that. Unfortunately Geelong couldn't be positioned better.As long as it's not Geelong or Sydney I'm fine with it.
Would be good to see Adelaide win it. They've been through some pretty heavy shit. They've lost a lot of players. They've never bottomed out.
Richmond won't win. When they played us it was really reminiscent of how the doggies played in the finals last year, but I don't think they'll sustain it.
Sydney could win it and that would be so crap. Already reading things about Longmire should get coach of the year. I love Buddy and would love to see him kick some bags in September but would like him to do an Ablett Senior and get a norm in a losing grand final team. He deserves the individual accolades but don't want the swans winning.
And Geelong - well. What more do I have to say? Despite never going back to back (let alone twice) the debate would reopen that they somehow achieved more than us. 4 flags each since 2007. Even though we did it in 8 and their's would be spread across 11 seasons people would try and hold them up in higher regard than us. We can't have that.
So Mackie and Lonergan have retired - backline will be interesting next year[/QUOTE
Harry taylor is the really big one, feel like he is actually their most pivotal player. Alot of what they do revolves around him. Without him they are susceptible.
And therein is the frustration
Of all the bloody games we drop one to that crap side
Depends if they lose the QF, they will than most likely have to travel to adelaide for the prelim. They are strong favourites however so your probably right.Geelong perfectly positioned unfortunately. Won't have to leave Victoria and have a good record against Giants, Richmond and Adelaide.
Wow.So Mackie and Lonergan have retired - backline will be interesting next year
With those two retiring who will hold the backline together next year, if you know what i mean.Wow.
Their defensive set up has revolved around them 2 for a long time. Always those two blocking for each other (against the rules, but it's Geelong)
Will be very interesting
Think Ross should win coach of the year, the guy is a genius.
I thought this was a pretty ordinary homage tbh. Seemed like a bit of an afterthought and characterizing him as "pest" rather than a Brownlow medalist and premiership captain seemed an odd choice to me. Its just a shame that Mitch wasn't out there next to Hodge on Friday night rather than not knowing his fate at Subiaco. It may be sacrilegious to say out loud but I rank him above Hodge on our list of greatest players (the best I have seen anyway) and consider him significantly more crucial to the four flags.
As great as it would've been to see Essendon miss the finals, if Freo won it would've been freaking devastating given our loss to Carltonc'mon Freo!
I honestly don't understand the media lovefest over essendon making the finals. Twitter is full of them saying how great a story it is that they've made the finals and what a great effort it is from winning the spoon last year.
Do they not realise they got a easy run, number 1 pick and a heap of senior players back that didn't play last year?