Oppo Camp Non Geelong football (AFL) discussion 2019

[Vdubs]

What a shock

At least had us top 2; not many did preseason...and you?
Of course, no point in idle speculation at that time of year. I actually agree, but these forums are a bit of fun and unwinding.

 

[hoopla]

Dusty is like the invisible man. He should have been penalised 50 metres twice for lurking around the mark.

 

[winty]

"I thought he marked it then you knocked it out of his hands" Err, shouldn't that be a 50m penalty then?

 

[Vdubs]

Yeah I know, it just reminds me of last year and many other years in the past decade. The favourites tag has often been a curse. I know you will say Collingwood got rid of them last year and are now ill-equipped to do so, ergo a Richmond flag is guaranteed. Football/sports just don't work so easily. There's a huge amount of time for anything to change and an upset can happen at any time.

The flag race is wide open.

Pies could still knock them off this year, but they have way too many injuries right now.

 

[winty]

Pies could still knock them off this year, but they have way too many injuries right now.

Get Aish, Adams, Beams and Moore back and it'd be interesting.

 

[Vdubs]

Get Aish, Adams, Beams and Moore back and it'd be interesting.

Stephenson- they have been poor since his absence.

 

[BotsMaster]

Pies have been playing costly fumble footy

 

[BotsMaster]

Ling is hard for the Tigers right now.

 

[Spearman]

I'm not quite sure how Richmond always manage to have superior numbers at the contest, but never get caught out in other parts of the ground.

that is their gameplan, grub it forward anyway they can and everybody, I mean everybody goes there. that is their secret really, totally buy in, commitment. any one or two of them don't, they start to break down.

 

[winty]

Yeah, like that wasn't a shepherd out of a marking contest by Riewoldt then....

 

[Strange Cat]

And the tigers are on the hype train

Will be amusing when it crashes

 

[Vdubs]

And the tigers are on the hype train

Will be amusing when it crashes

You must have HATED 17. Like most of us did.

 

[Shai]

I'm actually sorry for Jamie Elliott, he's played not much more than a handful of games in 2 years. His injuries mean he can't (or shouldn't) go for those spectacular marks any more and yet, there seems to be that expectation.

The commentators are such weathercocks! They were bagging Prestia early in the game for not holding a wet ball and pumping him up now.?

Yeah, no. Lynch wouldn't ask that because he had that delivery from Prestia at the Suns.

 

[Mr Meow]

Pies could still knock them off this year, but they have way too many injuries right now.

I just did a quick ladder predictor, here's what I got (with Richmond winning out as I expect them to, and Geelong going 3-2):

Geelong (1st) vs Richmond (4th)
West Coast (2nd) vs Brisbane (3rd)
GWS (5th) vs Adelaide (8th)
Collingwood (6th) vs Essendon (7th)

Interestingly enough I had each of Geelong, West Coast, Brisbane and Richmond finishing equal on 16 wins with places down to %, so it's going to be close. IF avoiding Richmond in week 1 is the aim, we might be hoping for a Brisbane or West Coast slip up. Most straight forward route is probably lose week 1 to Richmond, beat a GWS/Coll/Ess in a semi and then lose away to West Coast in a prelim.

 

[Strange Cat]

Gee even the umpires are blocking for the tigers

 

[Strange Cat]

Imagine having to listen to Eddie in that group

 

[Baudolino]

Post-injury Elliott has a bit of post-injury Menzel about him.

 

[winty]

Is Mollison the worst umpire in the league? Most of his decisions are real head scratchers.

 

[Shai]

There's maybe a 1/3 of that Coll injury list to come back in, that would make a diff.

 

[Vdubs]

There's maybe a 1/3 of that Coll injury list to come back in, that would make a diff.

hope so.

 

[Vdubs]

I'm actually sorry for Jamie Elliott, he's played not much more than a handful of games in 2 years. His injuries mean he can't (or shouldn't) go for those spectacular marks any more and yet, there seems to be that expectation.

The commentators are such weathercocks! They were bagging Prestia early in the game for not holding a wet ball and pumping him up now.?

Yeah, no. Lynch wouldn't ask that because he had that delivery from Prestia at the Suns.

And #9.

 

[cats_09]

I didn't watch a lot of the match; wasn't really a great spectacle to watch, at the end though they mentioned Cotchin won't be playing next week due to injury - what did he do?

 

[winty]

I didn't watch a lot of the match; wasn't really a great spectacle to watch, at the end though they mentioned Cotchin won't be playing next week due to injury - what did he do?

Had a bad hair day.

 

[Vdubs]

I didn't watch a lot of the match; wasn't really a great spectacle to watch, at the end though they mentioned Cotchin won't be playing next week due to injury - what did he do?

Hammy "tightness"

 

[cats_09]

Hammy "tightness"

Isn't that like the third hamstring issue this year?

Got to be a concern