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I tipped them for the flag too. If they can stay injury free, that's a ****ing mean forward line.
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It's not Richmond elite though.
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Excellent question. All he ever does is slur his words, squint, drop some names, hint at some inside info he knows, slur some more, and generally look dishevelled and hungover.
Edit; forgot the rambling. Loves a good ramble, does Mark Robinson. Must dribble absolute shite when he's drunk.
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We have a new coach and need to improve, but WC, Hawthorn and Sydney are the three teams we have to get over this year. Reckon our best could match the rest if we can click and keep our best squad on the park. Need to match Hawks and Sydney for grunt to play it on our terms and bring our outside players into the game. Kreuzer is the key after he took Sydney apart two years ago and set out mids rolling. Reckon we have more X factor and outside class than most sides with Gibbs, Murphy, Yarran, Garlett, Walker and Betts dangerous running into space. Would love to get Menzel into the mix.
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A lot of so called experts are writing us off for 2013.... Not even making the 8
I can only see improvement
I can only see improvement
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Not sure why you think its so mean
2012 - WC 2224 pts for, Blues 2079 - 145 pts difference over the season, just over a goal per match difference
2011 - WC 2235 pts for, Blues 2225 - 10 points the difference, not even half a point per match difference.
2010 - WC 1773 pts for, Blues 2143 - 370 pts difference, close to 3 goals per match difference
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Sorry but the ferals from Adelaide are the real deal. When you watch them live their run both ways is exceptional. Can't see it on TV but at the ground it is "special".
Me and a mate do a crystal ball of ladder positions each summer at his shack and I like the eagles list so much in 2010 I had them as minor premiers. The won the spoon instead and stocked up on high picks and its no surprise to me how strong they are in 2013. Give them an almost unassailable home ground advantage and the are a lock for top two, home finals, and a huge chance for the flag. I still think the Hawks are a just as likely though.
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I'm probably underselling Geelong who have a top midfield, forwardline and backline compared to Carlton. You can't write them off as having the measure of sides ranked fourth to tenth.
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They have an excellent balance of top and medium level quality experienced players. They have also managed to recruit well over the last couple of years and their dip shouldnt be as bad as some of the other teams when they drop out of the finals race. They should easily be able to account for clubs in that range.
amazingly this has all changed in a week when many were putting us in the top 6. id imagine this would change back to us being in the 8 if we win easily against the tigers.A lot of so called experts are writing us off for 2013.... Not even making the 8
I can only see improvement
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What a weak effort the current Channel 7 footy promo "the boys are back" is. A half-baked soccer chanting piece of rubbish.
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How? I gotta watch Rebus. So many mudders.
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Wonder if The_Wookie saw Sam Lane in Seven's promo.
Something about controversial things in FOOTY!!!!
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Wonder if The_Wookie saw Sam Lane in Seven's promo.
pfft sammy is so last year. We here at Wookie HQ have a new idol
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Fickle. 
AFL pays $900k Sydney Swans bonus
I'd normally say this is a joke, but this is the AFL we're talking about. Crack down on marketing agreements with one hand. Pay Sydney to keep their list together with the other hand.
The media will keep up the pressure on the cost of living allowances.
Wonder if the AFL will break like they did with Brisbane who lost their cap concessions.
AFL pays $900k Sydney Swans bonus
AFL pays $900k Sydney Swans bonus
I'd normally say this is a joke, but this is the AFL we're talking about. Crack down on marketing agreements with one hand. Pay Sydney to keep their list together with the other hand.
The media will keep up the pressure on the cost of living allowances.
Wonder if the AFL will break like they did with Brisbane who lost their cap concessions.
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As long as the league continues to try and break into the sporting landscape in NSW, they will always allow the clubs up there that bit extra in the kitty over the rest of the country.Fickle.
AFL pays $900k Sydney Swans bonus
AFL pays $900k Sydney Swans bonus
I'd normally say this is a joke, but this is the AFL we're talking about.
Not shocked.
The media will keep up the pressure on the cost of living allowances.
Wonder if the AFL will break like they did with Brisbane who lost their cap concessions.
If Sydney can pull off a double or treble collection of premierships... then the AFL is going to have to consider the COLA for them.
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Grand Final is NOT played in WA. They'll lose. Wont get a one-sided officiated game out of WA.
As far as Hawthorn goes.... They remind me nothing of a team that fought so gallantly to get within a couple of kicks of winning a premiership less than a year ago. With the mounting injuries to vital players and the off field dramas they remind me every bit of our season from a year ago. They've already lost Matthew Suckling for the season, God knows when Brendan Whitecross will resume playing (listed as indefinite), Osborne is yet to play after his injury, Lake and Rioli missed the final three NAB Cup games and Hodge is yet to play senior level football after his injuries, with a number of their other important players having suffered from less than complete preseasons - its a fight that once you're behind in there is very little opportunity to catch up. We saw that last year with our boys. It would not surprise me in the least if in six months the headlines featuring one Brett Ratten are replaced by Alistair Clarkson.
If I was to offer you a premiership fancy I'd be going all guns blazing on the Adelaide Crows. A healthy list (sans Brodie Smith and Ian Callinan) to enter the season as opposed to the Eagles, a home ground advantage as strong in my opinion as West Coast's, a very reasonable first month of football (Essendon tonight to open the season followed by a trip to Brisbane, home (away) to the Power and home to the Bulldogs) - they should be 4-0 by the time we meet them in round five. They only have five real danger games on the road this year - Carlton (round 5), North (9), Collingwood (16), Fremantle (18) and West Coast (23). The only other road challenge will be Richmond (12). They have hunger in their belly by coming so close yet so far last year, their kids would have developed a fair bit after the experience of last year and they're well coached.
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