Mega Thread Non-Freo AFL Discussion 2023

[anchor man]

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OK. Stand corrected if that is the case. Still, handballing it in the air so much is optically a bit different and can't really blame the umpire too much.

What would happen if a player kicked the ball 50 metres up and 20 metres forward, then ran and marked it? Acres might do this one day. Is he supposed to get pinged for running too far?

l woudn't think so because he has kicked the ball. He has not run with out disposing of the ball or bouncing it.

 

[MadMundy]

Just wondering as the Egirls now desperately need a ruck (& they should have plenty of money to splash around) will they make a play for Sean Darcy?

Tim English would be at the top of their wishlist, saw a few of them on there complaining that they didn't retire Naitanui a year early so they could make a play for English last year.

 

[masai tu]

When was it a couple of years back where the eagles lost a close game and niknat was too unfit to make it to the contest on the 50 lol. And then the coach claimed it was a set play for niknat to sit behind the ball totally gassed and unable to run lol

Goldstein marked on the goal line, thank you very much.

NikNat was “unable” to move past the half back line, expected McGovern & Co to look after his opponent.

 

[masai tu]

Supposedly, several different people close to him have said "not in a million years", though I dont know why

Family feud with the Fyfe clan ???.

 

[masai tu]

Naitanui will go down as one of the best ruckman of the game in my opinion, all down to what you consider a good ruckman.

Shame about the team he played for, but he seems like a genuine guy, wish him all the best.

Darn good ruckman, but not in the top 5 from WA.

Good Black Duck recruit.

 

[masai tu]

I mean - he did text Sonny that one time.

As for Bushby St, I think Sonny might own that street now.

All the others have fallen at the hurdles.

 

[Purple Jesus]

Gaff is getting traded from the sound of it.

As long as he is miles away from a flag challenger, I'm all for it.

 

[gaskin]

Two blatant bad calls in the Geelong Collingwood game.

The mark that looked on the full was actually line ball. There is a reverse angle that looks like it may have been on the line. Either call in that situation is fine going by how tight it was.

 

[Ge3ks]

Dafuq? A truly memorable day for the young man.

'It was a tough day at the office for the Eagles in their 101-point defeat to Fremantle, but Hewett was one of shining lights for his side in the hefty loss.'

Exciting young Eagle earns Rising Star nod

West Coast's Elijah Hewett is the AFL Rising Star nominee for round 22

www.afl.com.au

 

[E Shed]

My favourite Nic memory was before AFL.
2008 WAFL grand final I was on the wing in the stands as he gave Phil Read a 40 meter head start and caught that little campaigner on the 50m line as he was about to kick into an open goal, and buried him 6 foot deep.

For that Nic you were always a fave

I was about to share the same story. I was there too. The noise the crowd made was epic.

I actually became a temporary Swan Districts fan that year. I started going to the WAFL after I read an article in the worst about this incredible kid coming through at Swans that had broken every athletics record at his school in pretty much every event.

I actually wasn't that impressed with him when I first saw him play for the same reasons he was criticised throughout his whole career, he didn't get involved enough, but he would occasionally do something incredible.

But I started watching Walters and Yarran and as I tend to do got emotionally involved with the team from watching them live.
Was so glad we drafted Son Son that year.

I don't think I've seen a better ruck than Nic Nat in terms of his control over directing taps anywhere in a 360 circle and when his mids were on and knew where it was going it made them pretty formidable at stoppage.

 

[Rob]

Ok, I thought it wasn't a mark but play on because I thought that had happened before. Not sure if it's always been that way but if the kick or handball doesn't hit the ground it's a free.

TBH I didn't know about the rule until a few years ago when an Irish Essendon player (McKenna?) did a solo to himself running through the middle. The media talked it up and it turns out it wasn't legal, at least not in terms of resetting the 15m you could run without bouncing it. He should have been pinged for running too far.

 

[FreoRicci]

Still a few more to come tbh.
Darling should be thrown out. No idea how he survived post 2019 with his vaccination refusing to hub BS.

 

[greatgatsby]

What’s the story with Gaff, or they simply can’t unload his salary?

 

[FreoGirl]

Dafuq? A truly memorable day for the young man.

'It was a tough day at the office for the Eagles in their 101-point defeat to Fremantle, but Hewett was one of shining lights for his side in the hefty loss.'

Exciting young Eagle earns Rising Star nod

West Coast's Elijah Hewett is the AFL Rising Star nominee for round 22

www.afl.com.au

what a joke!

 

[Nodgey]

I was about to share the same story. I was there too. The noise the crowd made was epic.

I actually became a temporary Swan Districts fan that year. I started going to the WAFL after I read an article in the worst about this incredible kid coming through at Swans that had broken every athletics record at his school in pretty much every event.

I actually wasn't that impressed with him when I first saw him play for the same reasons he was criticised throughout his whole career, he didn't get involved enough, but he would occasionally do something incredible.

But I started watching Walters and Yarran and as I tend to do got emotionally involved with the team from watching them live.
Was so glad we drafted Son Son that year.

I don't think I've seen a better ruck than Nic Nat in terms of his control over directing taps anywhere in a 360 circle and when his mids were on and knew where it was going it made them pretty formidable at stoppage.

Clancee Pearce was in that team too. A LOT of kids drafted from that Swans side.

 

[Purple Suit]

As long as he is miles away from a flag challenger, I'm all for it.

If he goes to a challenger, it will weaken them though.

 

[Nodgey]

TBH I didn't know about the rule until a few years ago when an Irish Essendon player (McKenna?) did a solo to himself running through the middle. The media talked it up and it turns out it wasn't legal, at least not in terms of resetting the 15m you could run without bouncing it. He should have been pinged for running too far.

I’ve never forgotten Doug Hawkins got paid a mark off his own kick at the Western Oval one time. Was blowing a gale and he skied a kick higher than it went long. He got to the contest and ended up marking it himself. Umpire paid the mark. I have NFI whether the umpire simply made a mistake and didn’t realise Dougie had kicked it, but I’ve always therefore assumed you can take a mark from your own kick.

 

[BringBackTheAnchor]

Clancee Pearce was in that team too. A LOT of kids drafted from that Swans side.

Lewis Jetta and Stephen Coniglio in the seasons after also.

 

[E Shed]

Lewis Jetta and Stephen Coniglio in the seasons after also.

The GF that year was incredible. Coniglio played one of the best quarters of finals football I’ve seen. I think he was still only 16.

 

[Fred Ziffel]

When was it a couple of years back where the eagles lost a close game and niknat was too unfit to make it to the contest on the 50 lol. And then the coach claimed it was a set play for niknat to sit behind the ball totally gassed and unable to run lol

Are you thinking of the North game at Optus where Goldy just drifted down and across the front of the square to take easiest of marks ?

 

[freo_leo29]

Pretty sure Baker was always an Eagle, like a mad one

Then he was playing against Peel in that year that we beat Subi with a Freo team, would have made the hate towards us even stronger (and he was a hothead so clashed with the Freo boys, Traino said on his poddy with Bakes that they used to hate him a bit)

Finally, he loves it over in Melbourne


all 3 of those add up to never coming to Freo

 

[Purple Jesus]

If he goes to a challenger, it will weaken them though.

As long as he never wins one.

 

[Fred Ziffel]

I hope this doesn't mean we no longer get daily updates on his wife's pregnancy in The West.

Not his wife

 

[anchor man]

The mark that looked on the full was actually line ball. There is a reverse angle that looks like it may have been on the line. Either call in that situation is fine going by how tight it was.

It was out by the length of my back yard.

 

[Paracleet]

Clancee Pearce was in that team too. A LOT of kids drafted from that Swans side.

You're forgetting the biggest young star in that side, if shockingly unrealised; Clayton Hinkley.