Oppo Camp Non-Essendon Football Thread XVII

[Beerfish]

Dangerfield has been suspended for a week.

Will get off after a good bloke appeal?

 

[Gabe251]

Toby just got 50 against him when the ump.didnt call stand. That daicos call was a disgrace.

 

[Ati Tude]

Dangerfield has been suspended for a week.

That’s a shame

 

[Call Me Cake]

Obligatory

 

[BrunoV]

Zerk Thatcher subbed off after getting a bag kicked on him.

Think we won that trade.

To think paid experts didn't know he can't play 1v1.

 

[Ati Tude]

Ess now favourites with the bookies against the Cats next week. Would there have been a time in the past 20 years when we were favourites against them?

 

[Blind Turn]

With the Swans winning the premiership this year, should every other club just focus on playing the kids now for the rest of the year?

 

[Run and carry]

Surely Ken gets terminated this year.

I always go to the Sack Ken Hinkley board after a heavy Port loss. So brutal and dehumanising. I then wonder if Scott would get that type of vitriole if things turned south.

But the difference is that Port have achieved some success in the last 20 years whereas we are so used to disappointment

Plus the good ol boys in the Port supporter base still are used to perpetual success during their glory days in the SANFL.

 

[Ati Tude]

I always go to the Sack Ken Hinkley board after a heavy Port loss. So brutal and dehumanising. I then wonder if Scott would get that type of vitriole if things turned south.

But the difference is that Port have achieved some success in the last 20 years whereas we are so used to disappointment

Plus the good ol boys in the Port supporter base still are used to perpetual success during their glory days in the SANFL.

I think the issue is that they have looked like they could win a premiership and at times the media have gone as crazy about some of their players (Rozee, Butter et al) as they are now about Warner, Gulden and Heeney. It is the failure to take their decent chances that is working against Ken. Similar to the talk this year about Fagan. Another couple of years of top 4/8 finishes for Lions without a flag will see Fagan copping the same stuff Hinkley is now.

There is something in the AFL about seeking out the next coach killing. It becomes a sport and the media are like sharks in the water following the trail of blood. I am sure media pressure has led to coach sackings in the past that might not have otherwise happened.

 

[doug85]

There’s a chance Aaron Francis will win a premiership this year

 

[Schnitzengruben]

In retrospect, I think our performance against Sydney was actually pretty decent considering how they've dismantled most sides this year.

 

[Nicholas61]

Dangerfield has been suspended for a week.

For the moment

 

[faible]

For the moment

Geelong appeals
‘We’re playing Essendon next week so obviously suspending him would be unfair.’

 

[DERO]

There’s a chance Aaron Francis will win a premiership this year

up there with Matt Spangher.

 

[crackers65]

He’s only played about three games this year. Really would be Johnny on the spot if he did become a premiership player.

 

[Blind Turn]

Melbourne would be a vastly better side without Oliver this year. He has truly become a spud of enormous proportions.

 

[ghostdog]

I think the issue is that they have looked like they could win a premiership and at times the media have gone as crazy about some of their players (Rozee, Butter et al) as they are now about Warner, Gulden and Heeney. It is the failure to take their decent chances that is working against Ken. Similar to the talk this year about Fagan. Another couple of years of top 4/8 finishes for Lions without a flag will see Fagan copping the same stuff Hinkley is now.

There is something in the AFL about seeking out the next coach killing. It becomes a sport and the media are like sharks in the water following the trail of blood. I am sure media pressure has led to coach sackings in the past that might not have otherwise happened.

I always go to the Sack Ken Hinkley board after a heavy Port loss. So brutal and dehumanising. I then wonder if Scott would get that type of vitriole if things turned south.

But the difference is that Port have achieved some success in the last 20 years whereas we are so used to disappointment

Plus the good ol boys in the Port supporter base still are used to perpetual success during their glory days in the SANFL.

I think it would be an easy trap to fall into as a supporter base; if your team is perpetually close to the prize you'd always be confident. There'd be so many good wins along the way that would confirm the belief as well. Maybe, given how long we've been bereft of success, we'd be easily persuaded in the same situation.

I look at Ken and I see Rodney Eade in his WB days; always close but no cigar.

If they picked up a coach like Scott or Kingsley before the end of the season, with the list they've got, they could turn things ariund fairly quickly.

 

[ghostdog]

Jake would have kicked that.

 

[ghostdog]

Some will say Eddie Ford blew his nose and flipped the bird.
I reckon he mimicked doing a line and flipped the bird.

 

[ghostdog]

...also, I'm barracking so hard for North Melbourne!

 

[ant555]

Melbourne have a worse forward set up than us and do even dumber shit going inside 50 . How they think kicking to a 3 on 1 in the goals square is a good option is beyond me.

 

[bommer16]

I think the seagulls are the rent a crowd tonight.

 

[Squeaky]

Ess now favourites with the bookies against the Cats next week. Would there have been a time in the past 20 years when we were favourites against them?

I still don't think we'll beat them...

 

[Phone]

so that's probably something that should get a staging fine from May

 

[ScrappyCoCo]

Game is cooked.