Mega Thread Non-Freo AFL Discussion 2024 Part 2

[Lach72]

And featuring Marlene, the most loveable Collingwood supporter of all time.

She was good.

 

[DQ 4EVER]

Was just thinking that an Oscar McDonald

21

Oscar Mcdonald

Age

28

Ht

196cm

Wt

100kg

Pos.

Def

Career

Season

Last 5

D

13.2

3star

K

7.9

3star

HB

5.2

4star

M

4.2

4star

T

1.6

4star

MG

191.4

3star

D

11.3

3star

K

7.7

3star

HB

3.7

3star

M

3.7

4star

T

1.7

3star

MG

157.7

3star

D

14.8

4star

K

5.4

2star

HB

9.4

5star

M

4.4

4star

T

0.4

3star

MG

138.4

3star

would’ve been a perfect fit for a team who should’ve let Barrass go last year for a kings ransom.

That’s a shame…

So they give us a Jack's ransom for McDonald after they get rid of barass?
(Note: never play cards with a feminist as they will argue that Queens should outrank Kings - joke)

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[Fred Ziffel]

This took way too much effort

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I think you’ve photoshopped that.

 

[Madas]

This took way too much effort

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Definitely worth it
Nice work

 

[Madas]

Felt bad for the kid

Gets to play in WA maybe twice a year and gets benched for trying to be a tough guy to Pearce , good lesson in respect.

Got caught out a few times as well .
Live’n’learn

 

[anchor man]

Would be handy right now. In saying that Draper has been good. Hugh Davies and Ollie Murphy in the background.

Hamling couldn’t get a game last year and that was with Logue out. Logue is not a forward let’s be honest. That pick we got was traded on with our pick around 32 for Port Adelaide’s 2024 first.

If Cox or Pearce couldn’t play regularly last year then sure but they did and allowed a year of development for Draper/Davies.

So no I don’t think Logue has been that big a loss. Nor was Lobb who we upgraded significantly for Jackson.

We have lost too many wingers over the years. Langdon > Acres > Henry

We brought in Sharp for nothing but retaining Acres would have been better.

According to someone on here, in this post, he was not liked by the younger ones of the group.
I don't think we have missed not having any of the three mentioned. I prefer Sharp to any of them. And remember Langdon wanted out because of an issue with another player.
Not missed Henry one bit.

 

[anchor man]

Although 2016 premiership was the most putrid corruption in world sport history.

Lance Armstrong!!

 

[mightymouse75]

Lance Armstrong!!

Bombers and James Hird ?

 

[Madas]

Tholstrup having a tanty on the bench wasn’t a good look.

Felt bad for the kid

Gets to play in WA maybe twice a year and gets benched for trying to be a tough guy to Pearce , good lesson in respect.

Got caught out a few times as well .
Live’n’learn

 

[BStaff17]

Lol I saw this.

I don't know what's worse the West or the Eagles

 

[Quazar2]

Lol I saw this.

I don't know what's worse the West or the Eagles

I saw someone else post this from a Twitter/X post; genuinely thought it was a wind up or a "lol' thing. Surely it's not a serious consideration...?!?!

 

[Bigger]

He looked like he was more angry at himself, at least that was my impression

AKA Clarking it.

 

[Paracleet]

Lol I saw this.

I don't know what's worse the West or the Eagles

I assumed this was satire when I saw the headline yesterday.

 

[Stinky Lomax]

Lol I saw this.

I don't know what's worse the West or the Eagles

He would burn those players out in 18 months, far too intense. Not to mention his press conferences would be so tedious.

 

[Cam Payne]

The slimes coach thread is case study in mass delusion. It's truly beautiful.

 

[Bigger]

I was just in it. I can't tell what's funnier - the deluded saps who still think they have the run of the place or the poor sad souls who wander in and sadly say "The rebuild hasn't even started yet."

I reckon losing to them in the first derby is the best thing we could have done. It blew on the fading embers of delusion. "There's life in Yeo and McGovern yet! Yes, yes, a couple of drafts and we're competing again."

 

[Hamann188]

I was just in it. I can't tell what's funnier - the deluded saps who still think they have the run of the place or the poor sad souls who wander in and sadly say "The rebuild hasn't even started yet."

I reckon losing to them in the first derby is the best thing we could have done. It blew on the fading embers of delusion. "There's life in Yeo and McGovern yet! Yes, yes, a couple of drafts and we're competing again."

This stuff cracks me up, and frustrates me no end.

I work with Eagles supporters and TBF some of them are able to have a laugh at their own expense and at the situation they currently find themselves in. I like talking to these guys, they're fun.

But it's the, as you say, deluded ones that bother the snot outta me. I can't tell if they're blind, ignorant or just have no idea how modern football works. These, are the people who believe that just because the team has been able to turn around reasonable quickly before they should just be able to do it again as if it just happens by itself.

And I'm convinced that they are dumbfounded by the fact that they got the number 1 pick in the draft last year and still aren't winning games as if that was the missing piece of the puzzle the last couple of years.

 

[Bigger]

They really have had it so good for so long - mainly on the back of priority picks, I hasten to add - that they started to think it was just their natural right and due. The mug punters can believe that sort of thing - it is, after all, what officially makes them the Worst Supporter Group in the Country. But it looks like the clowns at HQ started thinking they could just phone it in too.

There's a story going around about a pitch West Coast made to Liam Baker

7

Liam Baker

Age

26

Ht

173cm

Wt

72kg

Pos.

D/F

Career

Season

Last 5

D

15.7

4star

K

7.8

3star

HB

7.9

5star

M

3.2

3star

T

2.6

4star

MG

222.2

3star

D

14.6

4star

K

6.8

3star

HB

7.9

4star

M

3.8

4star

T

1.8

3star

MG

191.9

3star

D

14.4

4star

K

6.2

3star

HB

8.2

5star

M

1.6

2star

T

1.8

4star

MG

224.2

4star

at the end of 2022. Simmo showed him the plans and where he saw Baker fitting into those plans. Baker apparently listened to it all and then said to his manager words to the effect of "These blokes still think it's 2018."

It really is the mother of all premiership hangovers. It pickled them in aspic.

 

[Hamann188]

What I am really enjoying at the moment is all of these coaches and players they've got they're eyes on (and I'm sure they believe these coaches and players will happily come and join them) turning their back on them.

It's as if the Tim Kelly

11

Tim Kelly

Age

30

Ht

184cm

Wt

83kg

Pos.

Mid

Career

Season

Last 5

D

23.6

5star

K

13.5

5star

HB

10.1

5star

M

3.4

3star

T

4.0

5star

CL

4.9

5star

D

19.9

5star

K

12.3

5star

HB

7.6

4star

M

3.1

3star

T

4.7

5star

CL

3.6

4star

D

21.6

5star

K

10.4

4star

HB

11.2

5star

M

2.8

3star

T

3.8

5star

CL

3.8

5star

move has woken the whole league up to how much of a basket case the club is, that they can't just plug and play a new coach and a star recruit and instantly turn everything around.

They will eventually figure out that success isn't just a given right and that they have to work at it to make it happen just like we and so many other clubs have had to do over the last 30 years, that it isn't as easy as it has been. But I don't think they'll figure that out for at least another 3 years.

The Eagles may have had more success over that last 30 plus years with a pretty easy path, but our struggle has made us stronger and our failures have made us wiser. We've done all the hard yards and earned our future successes (and we are about to have a lot of them in the next 10 years), they are about to go through what we have been through the last 29 years, hit's and misses, struggles and failures to launch.

I know what position I'd rather be in at this point in time.

 

[BStaff17]

What I am really enjoying at the moment is all of these coaches and players they've got they're eyes on (and I'm sure they believe these coaches and players will happily come and join them) turning their back on them.

It's as if the Tim Kelly move has woken the whole league up to how much of a basket case the club is, that they can't just plug and play a new coach and a star recruit and instantly turn everything around.

They will eventually figure out that success isn't just a given right and that they have to work at it to make it happen just like we and so many other clubs have had to do over the last 30 years, that it isn't as easy as it has been. But I don't think they'll figure that out for at least another 3 years.

The Eagles may have had more success over that last 30 plus years with a pretty easy path, but our struggle has made us stronger and our failures have made us wiser. We've done all the hard yards and earned our future successes (and we are about to have a lot of them in the next 10 years), they are about to go through what we have been through the last 29 years, hit's and misses, struggles and failures to launch.

I know what position I'd rather be in at this point in time.

Only annoying thing is basically every generation of Eagles have won premierships.

Mid 90s, Mid 2000s & Mid-late 2010s.

 

[Hamann188]

Only annoying thing is basically every generation of Eagles have won premierships.

Mid 90s, Mid 2000s & Mid-late 2010s.

Yup, that's why we need to have some sustained, successful years. So they really don't have a leg to stand on when they are trying to compare their successes to ours.

A back to back premiership would go a long way shutting them down. A 3peat would be a nail in the coffin.

 

[Ge3ks]

I work with Eagles supporters and TBF some of them are able to have a laugh at their own expense and at the situation they currently find themselves in. I like talking to these guys, they're fun.

But it's the, as you say, deluded ones that bother the snot outta me. I can't tell if they're blind, ignorant or just have no idea how modern football works.

I have family that are 'die hard' Eagles fans. They would always wear the merch' to BBQs. and talk a lot of sh!t. But ever since the Eagles have been crap, it's 'yeah I'm just too busy to watch football' or 'I don't really like footy as much because the AFL has ruined it...'

The Eagles previous success has made their fans soft.

Where as we, Dockers fans, have an inherent toughness and resilience forged in the eternal pits of failure. Haha.

 

[Hamann188]

I have family that are 'die hard' Eagles fans. They would always wear the merch' to BBQs. and talk a lot of sh!t. But ever since the Eagles have been crap, it's 'yeah I'm just too busy to watch football' or 'I don't really like footy as much because the AFL has ruined it...'

The Eagles previous success has made their fans soft.

Where as we, Dockers fans, have an inherent toughness and resilience forged in the eternal pits of failure. Haha.

This is my exact line of thought as well.

It is US who have earned the right be arrogant and chirpy, they've EARNED nothing and had everything handed to them since their inception. Nothing but entitlement.

 

[anchor man]

Yup, that's why we need to have some sustained, successful years. So they really don't have a leg to stand on when they are trying to compare their successes to ours.

A back to back premiership would go a long way shutting them down. A 3peat would be a nail in the coffin.

Love your line of thinking.

 

[anchor man]

I have family that are 'die hard' Eagles fans. They would always wear the merch' to BBQs. and talk a lot of sh!t. But ever since the Eagles have been crap, it's 'yeah I'm just too busy to watch football' or 'I don't really like footy as much because the AFL has ruined it...'

The Eagles previous success has made their fans soft.

Where as we, Dockers fans, have an inherent toughness and resilience forged in the eternal pits of failure. Haha.

AAAANNNDDD , I always find, well most times we can talk football in general.
I have always said that have a circle of footy fan, 7/8 10. with out a Yellas fan and there will be a good discussion about all and all clubs.
Add a Yellas fan and within minutes the talk will be about how goood they are, about how all 22/3 players are the best in the league.And after five minutes he/she will be left alone talkig to themself.All without noticing that all other have gone elsewhere.