Mega Thread Port Forum General AFL Thread Part 26

[240volt]

Serong 46 disposals

 

[TeeKray]

Adelaide don’t travel well, last night was a classic example of that.

We should sell our home Showdown interstate, it's probably the only way we'll ever win one.

 

[gtrxuone]

Serong 46 disposals

Huge game

 

[tribey]

Adelaide don’t travel well, last night was a classic example of that.

Freo’s slick young midfield should annihilate their one-paced plodderthon.

 

[gtrxuone]

Adelaide don’t travel well, last night was a classic example of that.

Recon Freos a big chance if Tex is,still injured

 

[WillemDaDrew]

A little disappointed in the Brions thus far.
Still early days yet, they’ll be there at the pointy end the season.

 

[Purple7x08_24]

Serong 46 disposals

Kept him as my captain instead of Daicos. Nearly switched to Butters at the last minute.

 

[gbear]

We should sell our home Showdown interstate, it's probably the only way we'll ever win one.

I was literally thinking the same thing last night.

 

[Holden Hillbilly]

 

[sobrave]

Another cool feature of the opening round nonsense is that now we get to have a messed up ladder for half the season! Yay!

 

[Buget]

Another cool feature of the opening round nonsense is that now we get to have a messed up ladder for half the season! Yay!

And it actually makes it look good for Collingwood, who even though they are 0-2 are somehow 15th.

 

[Festerz]

With the Tasmanian state election being held in just five days time and taxpayer funding of upwards of $750m (more likely $1 billion when finished) for a new closed roof AFL stadium with a capacity of 23k being such a hot election topic, the AFL is clearly playing politics here to support the current Tas government.

Also exposes their own gutless Vic-bias incompetence in not forcing Norf to shift to Tasmania rather than propping up a 19th team (which will surely have to expand to 20) funded by other clubs and lowering the talent pool across the competition.

 

[Capital Power]

Yet Geelong, with a population of about a third of Tasmania's, continues to pork barrel taxpayer funds into MDMA park, which now has a capacity of 40,000.

And don't get me started on the situation here in the ACT. Manuka oval has a capacity of roughly 15,000 with temporary stands, with 14,500 of those exposed to the sleet and hail of the Canberra winter. The AFL wanted to upgrade it as part of its package for the Giants but the local government here decided it needed its tram to nowhere more. To be fair though, Manuka is near where posh people live and there's a lot of nimbyism and we have a minority government .

 

[Holden Hillbilly]

Another cool feature of the opening round nonsense is that now we get to have a messed up ladder for half the season! Yay!

Byes:

Week 2 Lions & Blues
Week 3 Suns & Giants
Week 4 Gather Round
Week 5 Swans & Pies
Week 6 Tigers & Demons

Back to normal week 7 (Anzac weekend)

 

[Grave Danger]

Back to normal week 7 (Anzac weekend)

...and then not long to til the bye rounds start, spread over 4 rounds again (us and Freo being the only teams having the bye in R13).

 

[Festerz]

Another cool feature of the opening round nonsense is that now we get to have a messed up ladder for half the season! Yay!

Missed our chance to be top of the ladder - can't see us getting that chance back this year.

 

[Holden Hillbilly]

More tickets have been released for AFL’s Gather Round as it’s revealed Aussie indie rockers The Temper Trap will entertain crowds at next month’s Norwood Food and Wine Festival, which has returned as part of the four-day footy feast.

All nine matches were previously sold out, but AFL chief executive Andrew Dillon announced on Monday that over 1000 tickets have now become available and will go on sale to the public on Thursday at 1pm Adelaide time. They will be available through Ticketek.
Mr Dillon said the extra Gather Round tickets have become available after corporates and members recently returned some passes.

 

[Macca_1870]

Freo’s slick young midfield should annihilate their one-paced plodderthon.

Yet watch them globetrot their way to a comprehensive win in R8, with the hardness of peak 1980's Hawthorn to boot.

 

[tribey]

Yet watch them globetrot their way to a comprehensive win in R8, with the hardness of peak 1980's Hawthorn to boot.

No doubt. Already marked it down in my Budget.

 

[simba_]

More tickets have been released for AFL’s Gather Round as it’s revealed Aussie indie rockers The Temper Trap will entertain crowds at next month’s Norwood Food and Wine Festival, which has returned as part of the four-day footy feast.

All nine matches were previously sold out, but AFL chief executive Andrew Dillon announced on Monday that over 1000 tickets have now become available and will go on sale to the public on Thursday at 1pm Adelaide time. They will be available through Ticketek.
Mr Dillon said the extra Gather Round tickets have become available after corporates and members recently returned some passes.

the AFL is more of a circus act than a sports comp hey

 

[ibd77]

So if we are getting less AFL funding, does this mean they can relinquish control back to the members?

 

[It Just Is]

So if we are getting less AFL funding, does this mean they can relinquish control back to the members?


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You’d take Carlton’s $12m and dozen prime time games any day of the week

 

[It Just Is]

Another cool feature of the opening round nonsense is that now we get to have a messed up ladder for half the season! Yay!

It also ruins fantasy. A third of the season is a split bye round.

 

[sobrave]

It also ruins fantasy. A third of the season is a split bye round.

Yeah but now a million people who were gonna watch the NRL are now mad keen AFL fans!!

 

[Grave Danger]

It also ruins fantasy. A third of the season is a split bye round.

I gave it away even before they split the byes over 4 rounds - will be horrendous this year.