No Oppo Supporters General AFL discussion and other club news

[Ned Ryerson]

IMO Quotas are needed to break quotas.

Quite a few setups now are results of unwritten quotas of cliques, sub-groups.

Have seen enough white boys get into underserving positions, because they of their background.

Only hope they recruit talented non-white people for these roles and again don't revert to their other subgroups( pvt school etc).

I would love hiring policies that said ‘if you’re hiring a white guy out of a Big 4 accountancy firm please check if their resume was in crayon’. The amount of absolutely useless white collar types I’ve seen get advanced because of their private school background and experience at one of the Big 4 is depressing. So - reverse quotas could absolutely work. For this sport it could be ‘is the applicant a complete dickhead who yells cliches and spends half the game butchering the English language and bleating about a player’s boots - if so, don’t bloody hire them’.

 

[Ned Ryerson]

Just a special for this week only mate - it’s to commemorate the opening of their new facilities.

They should just revert back for good. They’re not going broke any more, Ross Oakley is no longer a thing and I doubt they’d lose fans in Werribee just because they’re not called ‘Western’ any more.

 

[mustang]

With the AFL changing the rules for the NGA we could have our first case of losing a player to an Academy with Kobe Williams in the Dogs NGA.

If he chooses the dogs instead of us.

 

[VandoHawk]

Dogs are the real deal. Could win it all this year.

 

[mustang]

Melbourne arn’t helping us tonight they look like witches hats v the dogs run and carry.

 

[TylerDurden]

Dees look horrific.

 

[Judd2Sewell]

The Doggies look so good at the moment. They should really be 6 goals up.

 

[The hands of stone]

Looks like the Dee's thought it was still a 7.40 start

 

[KermitJagger]

At the start of 2022 I wondered if Melbourne might end up going on a Geelong 2007 style burst. That this is mostly the same club as then is crazy.

 

[I got the outside word]

Disgusting defense by McDonald.

 

[Sixpence]

With the AFL changing the rules for the NGA we could have our first case of losing a player to an Academy with Kobe Williams in the Dogs NGA.

If he chooses the dogs instead of us.

Pretty sure Mark is still a huge Hawks man. Don't think we have anything to worry about with Kobe.

 

[DogDaySonny]

Melbourne are broken. Check browser histories and you’ll find the players are already booking accomodation in Greece.

 

[Ned Ryerson]

At the start of 2022 I wondered if Melbourne might end up going on a Geelong 2007 style burst. That this is mostly the same club as then is crazy.

The ‘backs against the wall, us against them’ mentality can only do so much across a long season. Definitely can produce a good sugar hit in sport but the Demons are showing that it’s not a long term plan.

 

[Bedi]

Wouldn't mind seeing Bonts winning the Brownlow this year, as it'd be well deserved, but bet it'll be bloody Lachie Neale

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Lachie Neale

Age

31

Ht

178cm

Wt

84kg

Pos.

Mid

Career

Season

Last 5

D

27.0

5star

K

11.5

4star

HB

15.5

5star

M

4.0

4star

T

3.7

5star

CL

5.9

5star

D

28.3

5star

K

13.9

5star

HB

14.4

5star

M

4.6

4star

T

4.0

5star

CL

5.9

5star

D

12.0

3star

K

4.6

2star

HB

7.4

5star

M

2.0

3star

T

1.0

3star

CL

0.4

3star

again

 

[DogDaySonny]

The ‘backs against the wall, us against them’ mentality can only do so much across a long season. Definitely can produce a good sugar hit in sport but the Demons are showing that it’s not a long term plan.

The Demons have their backs against the wall because everyone is calling them underperforming drug fiends, including the coach.

There’s backs against the wall because everyone dismisses your potential and there’s backs against the wall because everyone keeps pointing out the blinding obvious off field issues.

The first kind is very sustainable.

 

[Ned Ryerson]

Stupid AFL.
Two games on Friday night.
Thursday night footy? Hello?

Not that stupid - there’s an NRL game in Perth tonight so the AFL clearly put a game on the same night to draw fans away. Amusingly the commentators are saying the NRL game is a sell out despite it looking about 70% full at best.

 

[cryptor]

Melbourne are broken. Check browser histories and you’ll find the players are already booking accomodation in Greece.

I think a few might go to Colombia

 

[VandoHawk]

Ugle-Hagan is doing his best Franklin impersonation, down to the inaccuracy

 

[earthworms]

Games at GMHBA:
Nick Watson: 1
Scott Pendelbury: 0

 

[Cleavy]

Stupid AFL.
Two games on Friday night.
Thursday night footy? Hello?

probably for the best that they didn't butcher both Thursday AND Friday night this time.

 

[mustang]

probably for the best that they didn't butcher both Thursday AND Friday night this time.

Just use split screen easy

 

[mustang]

Reid has started well

 

[Ned Ryerson]

Another week, another Auskicker who is more natural and comfortable in front of the camera than Joel Selwood.

 

[Cleavy]

Just use split screen easy

don't care about either game, double easy

 

[bindas12]

How has the blue collar team of Footscray become the most hateable team in the league !?! Probably the weightman and Bevo effect.