Mega Thread Non-Freo AFL Discussion 2024

[Ge3ks]

Sydney have just shown themselves that they can still win big without Chad.

 

[Fat Nyfe]

See how Sydney got 25 up on Essendon in the last quarter, but instead of stopping and bottling it they cruised to an easy win? Must be nice.

 

[Dockeroo]

How the **** did we lose to the Bombers. They are shit.

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We were shit

 

[freo_leo29]

Can't believe the bombers chose to flipping show up against us

FFS

 

[chaosball32]

Classic Essendon season, start off red hot, go into the mid-season bye in the top 4, everybody jumps on the hype train (usually led by VFL media), then they fall apart in the last month of the home and away and somehow miss finals

They’ve lost 5 of their last 6. Imagine the losers that lost to this team…

 

[Purple Suit]

Can't believe the bombers chose to flipping show up against us

FFS

Swings and roundabouts. Melbourne chose to not turn up twice against us.

 

[mattis117]

Only Carlton and Pies can knock us out now. Pies should lose this weekend and hopefully Carlton are gone with those injuries.

 

[Dockeroo]

I liked the look of that Caiden Cleary guy tonight. Young 19 yo from Sydney.
He looks a player - an academy selection too for Sydney.
Cheers afl. w***ers

 

[Ge3ks]

hopefully Carlton are gone with those injuries.

...but West Coast are playing Gaff so it kind of evens it out.

 

[Dockeroo]

Stringer has played like an absolute potato for the last few weeks.

Apart from against us of course when he looked like prime Dustin Martin.

 

[StingBitten]

Only Carlton and Pies can knock us out now. Pies should lose this weekend and hopefully Carlton are gone with those injuries.

We still need to win at least one match even if Carlton lose to the Weags

 

[BeinPurplenGreen]

Essenscum are out, Essenscum are out, yes Essenscum are goneski YESSSSS

 

[s_wd6]

See how Sydney got 25 up on Essendon in the last quarter, but instead of stopping and bottling it they cruised to an easy win? Must be nice.

To be fair we didn’t stop trying to attack when we were up by 4 goals. We had heaps of entries when we were 25 up with Treacy 1v1 in a lot of them. Essendon literally just kicked 4 goals in a row without us touching it. Complete midfield breakdown. Different to other games where we just went defensive.

 

[Purple Suit]

We still need to win at least one match even if Carlton lose to the Weags

Not if Carlton lose to the Saints too.

 

[BeinPurplenGreen]

I liked the look of that Caiden Cleary guy tonight. Young 19 yo from Sydney.
He looks a player - an academy selection too for Sydney.
Cheers afl. w***ers

We could have taken multiple players that played well for Sydney tonight but we didn't, please stop pretending that somehow Sydney succeed just solely because of some "unfair gifts" that the AFL magically bestow on them.

Just look at how many games Collingwood and Essenscum and Richmond have ever played outside Victoria in the last 20 years. Fewer games in total than Sydney, Adelaide, Port, Freo or Brisbane do in a single season.

So Fing sick of this mantra that Sydney somehow get gifts from the AFL, it is just a VFL mantra to hurt everyone outside Victoria including Freo

 

[BeinPurplenGreen]

We'd spank both these teams if we were in form right now

"IF"

 

[freo_leo29]

Stringer has played like an absolute potato for the last few weeks.

Apart from against us of course when he looked like prime Dustin Martin.

Yeah wtf, he came out breathing fire against us, didn't fumble or drop marks


infuriating

 

[Docker82]

I liked the look of that Caiden Cleary guy tonight. Young 19 yo from Sydney.
He looks a player - an academy selection too for Sydney.
Cheers afl. w***ers

Really wish they’d just remove discounts and fix the points allocated to each selection tbh.

Honestly think academies are needed but they’ve been poorly executed in a way that makes them a genuine advantage rather than just equalisation. Go home factor is a massive disadvantage and something is needed but the AFL is too incompetent to get it right.

 

[Mr Cheese]

Sydney have just shown themselves that they can still win big without Chad.

I actually think they're better without him. 5th rounder should do it...

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[Heave Ho Bro]

Essenscum are out, Essenscum are out, yes Essenscum are goneski YESSSSS

Should of been out 2 weeks ago to be fair. Still hurts thinking about that game. FFS.

 

[Heave Ho Bro]

We could have taken multiple players that played well for Sydney tonight but we didn't, please stop pretending that somehow Sydney succeed just solely because of some "unfair gifts" that the AFL magically bestow on them.

Just look at how many games Collingwood and Essenscum and Richmond have ever played outside Victoria in the last 20 years. Fewer games in total than Sydney, Adelaide, Port, Freo or Brisbane do in a single season.

So Fing sick of this mantra that Sydney somehow get gifts from the AFL, it is just a VFL mantra to hurt everyone outside Victoria including Freo

Wrong. We could have bid on those academy players but Sydney would have matched and got said players... At a discount with junk picks.

 

[Taylor]

Funny that even if we beat Essendon we are in the exact same ladder position as we are at the moment.

 

[nurries]

Essington, the pretend “big” 4 club

 

[Taylor]

Wrong. We could have bid on those academy players but Sydney would have matched and got said players... At a discount with junk picks.

Isaac Heeney was bid on at pick #2 in his 2014 draft, the rules at the time was that the club could match that bid with the next available pick, which turned out to be pick #18.

So yeah, not the same situation at all.

This is a perfect example of what I am talking about when I say that changing the rules actually increases the advantage of the club who took a player on the old system. The following season the AFL brought in the points.

Mills bid #3 - matched with picks #33, 36, 37 and 43

Then they changed the rules to prevent bulking up on late picks like that. Sydney still kept Heeney and Mills, but all the academy and father son clubs after had to pay far more.

 

[Lach72]

Yeah can’t wait until we have to pay first round picks into the future to secure Jack Pavlich