Oppo Camp Non-Essendon Football Thread XVI

[eth-dog]

Fantastic player and well deserved.

 

[TheGreatBarryB]

Bont and Petracca had better years …a couple of games where they probably should’ve got more votes. Daicos as well.

 

[Blind Turn]

Fyfe was ineligible.

Not my point. Wasn’t saying that Fyfe should’ve won it. I’m saying that the Brownlow is not indicative of the player worthy of being glorified. Priddis and Woewodin, as the examples I’ve eluded to, were not top-tier players in their careers and were a fair way off being the best players the year they won. I get that it’s ‘fairest’ but I just don’t feel the love for this over-hyped award.

 

[mcgrath_truther]

Bont and Petracca had better years …a couple of games where they probably should’ve got more votes. Daicos as well.

viney constantly took votes away from petracca, agree with bottomsmelly though

 

[Blind Turn]

How Neale got 3 votes in the GWS game is the greatest mystery of all time

Well, it was enough to get him a nice little medal around his neck as it turns out.

 

[raskolnikov]

Much deserved winner.

 

[raskolnikov]

Meanwhile the Bulldogs board has gone into meltdown.

 

[Vindicater]

Lol.

Didn't even make the all Aus team.

 

[Pweter]

Not my point. Wasn’t saying that Fyfe should’ve won it. I’m saying that the Brownlow is not indicative of the player worthy of being glorified. Priddis and Woewodin, as the examples I’ve eluded to, were not top-tier players in their careers and were a fair way off being the best players the year they won. I get that it’s ‘fairest’ but I just don’t feel the love for this over-hyped award.

I certainly don't disagree

 

[citizen-erased]

Lol.

Didn't even make the all Aus team.

Maw
Diddums

 

[andleanback]

It’s got to the point where umpire voting is a joke.

 

[Sporno 4 Pyros]

oh it was only for another 43 years or something ridiculous.

every year we complain about the corporates at the grand final but the 22K MCC members getting tickets gets skipped over. it's gross. as far as I can tell the only way for the AFL to drastically reduce that number would have been to just threaten to take the GF away unless that number is cut down massively, but lol, sign a 40 year deal without really even making the MCC work for it and **** all over everyone instead.

Blame the 7500 corporate functions
7000 AFL Contractual obligations
1000 for the players (who sell them off anyway)

 

[mcgrath_truther]

It’s got to the point where umpire voting is a joke.

expected to respect them when everything they do is a pisstake

 

[citizen-erased]

It’s got to the point where umpire voting is a joke.

Thing is, who replaces them?
Coaches have their players
AA selectors are stupid

 

[Sporno 4 Pyros]

That interview with Lachie Neale

9

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

was painful to watch.
Hamish is terrible but seems to have a gig for life

 

[citizen-erased]

Blame the 7500 corporate functions
7000 AFL Contractual obligations
1000 for the players (who sell them off anyway)

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Afl members should be aligned to club nominated
MCC is tough. Seems a bit wrong they outnumber the competing clubs access.

 

[citizen-erased]

That interview with Lachie Neale was painful to watch.
Hamish is terrible but seems to have a gig for life

Hopefully not beyond this year

 

[Pweter]

Horne-Francis got 3 votes for a 13 disposal, zero goal game vs Geelong.

That's taking the piss to a whole new level

 

[andleanback]

Horne-Francis got 3 votes for a 13 disposal, zero goal game vs Geelong.

That's taking the piss to a whole new level

Add in 7 clangers

Probably the worst 3 vote game of all time

 

[Phone]

Blame the 7500 corporate functions
7000 AFL Contractual obligations
1000 for the players (who sell them off anyway)

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I mean, 22000 is definitely a bigger number than 15000 (16000 counting the other corporates) so I feel like I'm gonna keep on looking at the 22K figure. For all the fuss made about corporates, I thought it would make up a much larger share. And there's of course logic behind corporates attending the Big Game. it's a reality of any Big Game around the world. It's clear why it happens. It's less clear to me why in a national competition, we have a grand final at a set location for another 40 years with 22K tickets going to MCC members (plus another 15K going to AFL members, who I'd wager are also overwhelmingly Victorian based). Those 37K tickets could be given to actual members of the competing clubs!

 

[JT_the_Man]

That was a great count.

 

[Sporno 4 Pyros]

Off topic…why is Peter Bol jumping off high speed trains when it is less than one year until the Paris Olympics??

Bonkers…stupidest training technique since the crows players had to run across hot coals back in the late 90s

 

[andleanback]

I mean, 22000 is definitely a bigger number than 15000 (16000 counting the other corporates) so I feel like I'm gonna keep on looking at the 22K figure. For all the fuss made about corporates, I thought it would make up a much larger share. And there's of course logic behind corporates attending the Big Game. it's a reality of any Big Game around the world. It's clear why it happens. It's less clear to me why in a national competition, we have a grand final at a set location for another 40 years with 22K tickets going to MCC members (plus another 15K going to AFL members, who I'd wager are also overwhelmingly Victorian based). Those 37K tickets could be given to actual members of the competing clubs!

Well considering the mcg is over 100k even if you take out those areas. It’s still a bigger capacity than any other stadium, and a lot of the afl members there gf day are club support - which are counted in the clubs membership tally.

 

[Rabbit of Caerbannog]

Not my point. Wasn’t saying that Fyfe should’ve won it. I’m saying that the Brownlow is not indicative of the player worthy of being glorified. Priddis and Woewodin, as the examples I’ve eluded to, were not top-tier players in their careers and were a fair way off being the best players the year they won. I get that it’s ‘fairest’ but I just don’t feel the love for this over-hyped award.

There was genuine debate amongst WCE fans whether Priddis was even a net positive for their team during his career. No scoreboard impact, slow and a really poor kick. Darcy Parish is arguably a better player and he's obviously not in the top echelon either.

 

[DERO]

It’s got to the point where umpire voting is a joke.

Except the Parish votes- they were spot on.