Oppo Camp Non-Eagles Discussion

[KERRPOW]

Yep, you're right about white wine. Should be served chilled but not cold. Plenty of people these days are drinking chilled red wine, although you want to avoid doing that with highly tannic reds(Cab sauv, Malbec and Italian reds, for example), because that's all you get when you drink it cold. Needs some warmth for the other flavours to come into play.

On the beer front, you're 'supposed' to dump it into a glass, so the gas disperses. I did this at a lunch a couple of weeks ago and copped s**t for it but unlike many European beers(English/Irish especially), Australian beer is massively carbonated. All that gas disperses in your stomach if you don't do it in the glass, so when you eat something, it gets agitated.

Aussie beer is shit. European beers are the bomb.

 

[Godfather32]

Aussie beer is s**t. European beers are the bomb.

Plenty of good Aussie beers, plenty of shit Euro ones

 

[FKASC]

That incident in the Tigers match with the player landing on his head.... oof. Hope he is ok.

Yeah didn’t look good

Darcy is looking pretty good. Quality player.

Hard not to really like him. Pity about his dad.

 

[PerthBoy86]

That Essendon loss looking better now.

 

[shoutsatclouds]

A lightly chilled Beaujolais (or gamay if you’re drinking an Australian bottle) is magnificent drinking in the spring/summer period when you wouldn’t normally expect to be drinking red.

Prefer a cheeky little rosé from the Provence in the Summer months.

Or a bottle of Pernod, and a jug of iced water.

 

[Get_The_Gaff]

Yeah that part is easy.

It will just be dealing with Barrass being made to take a concussion test in the dying minutes of a game, whereas Charlie Cameron has a massive head knock and plays out the game, because he’s a good bloke and kicks the winning goal.

That why you take it out of the club and players hands with an independent reviewer who's job it is to make that call .

 

[frenchconnection]

Talking of Cripps - the one we have on our list - Jamie a couple of days ago shed some light on abuse he received because of his brain-fade in the Essendon game and wanted to remind those trolling him that 'it's just footy, guys' - and he copped a serve for that, too, from the keyboard warriors.

With things like this happening with unfortunate regularity recently, maybe some of us also need to remind themselves that it's just a game and no matter what happens on the AFL field that it's just for our entertainment and not life or death (apologies for the phrasing). We all mocked Cam McCarthy on BigFooty when he spudded it up, and fair enough, that's part of the nature of sport, but I hope none of us thought it was also our place to berate him for that if they ran into him in the supermarket - however I know that some fans (Freo, WC or otherwise) definitely would have. Anyway, just my random musing on this news...it's just footy, guys. Things like this give everyone some perspective hopefully.

RIP Cam

Unfortunately there are always idiots in this world who are so called keyboard warriors but not much else going for them!

 

[Carbine Chaos]

Garcia with his 2nd.

 

[Shuestar13]

What a shame to see Richmond in such a state… a real shame indeed.

 

[UseR2006]

What a shame to see Richmond in such a state… a real shame indeed.

 

[Get_The_Gaff]

Saints really are in limbo.

Their recruitment has been shithouse.

Mattas phillipou was dropped after his horrid start to the season . After looking like both a forward and a mid in his first season he looks like neither .

He also still hasn't signed a contract extension and looks like playing for the crows next year at this rate

 

[Tugga27]

Expect the media will all be about Richmond's injury list.
They've probably got as many first starters out as us.

 

[SumaGodCoach]

Mattas phillipou was dropped after his horrid start to the season . After looking like both a forward and a mid in his first season he looks like neither .

He also still hasn't signed a contract extension and looks like playing for the crows next year at this rate

Here to stay: Phillipou pens fresh extension

Mattaes Phillipou has inked a new deal to reaffirm his commitment to the red, white and black, signing a two-year contract extension to keep him in St Kilda colours until at least the end of 2026.

www.saints.com.au

 

[Mr Eagle]

Bevo getting his pen ready for a five year extension, I'm sure!

 

[WCErevival]

The under pump coaches getting it done this weekend. Bodes well for Simmo?

 

[UseR2006]

Another injury for the Tigers, looks like a knee or lower leg for Maurice Rioli

 

[Carbine Chaos]

I thought broken lower leg immediately. You know it's a bad one when you're almost hoping it's a knee.

 

[Avalor]

On a little side note, the great Lewis Jetta lined up for the mighty Dons today. A big win for Donnybrook over Dunsborough.
There are a couple of the Jetta boys playing for the Dons in '24.

 

[Get_The_Gaff]

Here to stay: Phillipou pens fresh extension

Mattaes Phillipou has inked a new deal to reaffirm his commitment to the red, white and black, signing a two-year contract extension to keep him in St Kilda colours until at least the end of 2026.

www.saints.com.au

Ha ha so he signs an extension and they drop him

 

[whatis]

Huge month coming up. That was only the first of four consecutive Saturday night Richmond fixtures to come, followed by a Thursday night game.

 

[Keys]

What a shame to see Richmond in such a state… a real shame indeed.

Sobering thought is that their head recruiter is now our list manager

 

[Shuestar13]

Sobering thought is that their head recruiter is now our list manager

Yes, indeed!

 

[chaddy22]

Another injury for the Tigers, looks like a knee or lower leg for Maurice Rioli

they still are nowhere as bad as our injuries last year but it is still early in the year.

 

[Cursedsword02]

Gotta say, Jake Waterman

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Jake Waterman

Age

26

Ht

192cm

Wt

92kg

Pos.

Fwd

Career

Season

Last 5

D

11.3

3star

K

7.9

3star

HB

3.4

3star

M

5.2

5star

T

1.2

3star

G

1.0

4star

D

9.8

2star

K

7.8

3star

HB

2.0

1star

M

5.8

5star

T

0.3

1star

G

1.5

5star

D

12.2

3star

K

7.6

3star

HB

4.6

4star

M

4.6

5star

T

1.6

4star

G

0.8

4star

picked a good time to get concussed. Barring Langford, kinda, none of his major competitors for the Coleman really had a day out.

 

[HoneyBadger35]

You love to see it.

In seriousness, the league has had a problem for a long time in that 2-3 teams are totally unwatchable each season. And one of those is always North Melbourne.

Just in time to add two more!

They simply cannot bring in Tassie without folding/merging North. Flat broke, parroting a line of “no we’re not we make profit”, ignoring the fact that that profit comes from an expansion side calibre financial handout from the AFL (paid for by us) and the payments from Tassie, which will soon disappear.

Off their own merit? Not a pot to piss in, and now 1-29 in their last 30, with four consecutive bottom two finishes (and almost certainly a fifth to come).

They have to ****ing go. Talent pool is too thin, too many teams in Vic, if the league started today they would not even be a consideration. 20 teams is ****ed, 20 teams and letting North continue to leech off of the comp is resignation worthy.