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Did everyone just get this alert? Don't mind it, just can't figure out why I got it.
Review Rachele, Bad & Ugly v Fremantle (Round 1)
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Very disappointing crowd really, but lots to factor in.
There has been a substantial surge in Covid cases over the past week and if the lines at testing sites today is anything to go by, it is going to get worse. Add on a heap of events over the weekend, from Fringe and Festival to Head of the River and concerts, people are busy.
It's not just that though.
Crowds were down in Victoria as well, despite them being gifted every single prime time slot they could possibly have.
I think AFL is on the nose to be honest. On field the game itself is still pretty great. But the constant manipulation by the AFL is wearing everyone down. You just want to believe that your team, if they get it right with recruiting and coaching, has an equal chance to succeed. You want to believe that the rules are applied equally to all teams. But they aren't. Everything is manipulated and controlled for the AFL to get the outcome they want. And I think people are over it. I know I am.
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I'm not necessarily talking about the older lad comments (mostly directed at Sloane seemingly), just some of the younger lads who I feel are getting written off unnecessarily. Sloane had a woeful performance, and he should cop something for it. Although knowing us im sure we're just going to persist with him.
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We'll swap him for Daicos, if you throw in a sweetener
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A bigger deal out west.
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Most likely it's just a mixture of COVID running through for us (seeing we're at what 3-4k cases per day at the moment), other events, and likelihood that high fuel prices may have priced out a fair bit of country supporters from doing the drive.
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You would hope so but geezus he was all levels of shittiness yesterday. I swear he was spotting up mates in the crowd with his kicks yesterday. OOF Harry yesterday.
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Guess you can understand Collingwoodish, then?We'll swap him for Daicos, if you throw in a sweetener
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The #1 concern for fans in the AFL's own survey year after year is the quality and fairness of umpiring.
The AFL has done absolutely nothing to address this, if anything making the competition harder to umpire with dumb rules
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You can’t continue to placate people who are scared of leaving the house.
Look, none of this is hard to figure out.
Australians have been treated like absolute shit for the past two years. And going to the football in a mask and having to flash your medical certificate is nobody’s idea of fun.
The clubs should’ve challenged this stupid SMA decision from the outset. About 8-10% of the SA population isn’t vaxxed, so you’re effectively locking out about 5-6k Crows members every week.
The club has been shit for five years and they’re still happy to lose this much support without so much as a yelp.
This is stupid, it’s not achieving anything, and it’s a luxury the AFC can’t afford.
It’s about time Olsen and that ****wit Koch went to the SMA and said enough with this bullshit.
And this is our issue.
Our two best mids going forward struggle with disposal under pressure.
Hopefully with experience this settles.
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That was probably the worst game I've seen from Schoenberg. It seemed like every single time he kicked it he sent it over the head of his target. He certainly wasn't alone in being unable to hit the side of a barn by foot yesterday, but it was especially jarring after becoming used to him being pretty clean with the ball last year.Ben Keays might have something to say about that
That said, I'm hopeful Schoenberg gets there. He accumulated well on the weekend, but looked strangely rushed in everything he did. Hopefully it's fixed in a week or two.
52% efficiency, 25% by foot is way off the mark. Hopefully just had a bad day, because he's shown already that he is a much better player than that.
At the game yesterday no one asked to see my vax status, nor anyone in our group of 11 guys.
I would say if you are unvaxed, go anyway. Enter when busy and do it efficiently.
Mask wearing was very laxed. Last year they were Nazis at times making sure we wore our masks unless directly eating/drinking.
When walking not one person asked me to put my mask on. Last year I was always reminded.
We stood on the Western side Terrace. It was great.
It was pretty much normal.
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The forward line structure was bad, Himmelberg and Thilthorpe were always too close to each other which allowed their defenders to move off them to spoil the other player.
They didn't give each other enough space to work.
They didn't give each other enough space to work.
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That’s fine but the threat of it is still stopping thousands from showing up
They really missed Tex's leadership up there.
Having said that, I don't think we should play Hberg and TT together.
Gollant for Hberg.
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In 10 years time Pete trips over a raised paver on the footpath and begins yet another tirade about how government oppression from covid was the cause.
Time to move on or at the very least keep it to the politics thread.
Time to move on or at the very least keep it to the politics thread.
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They made a good start by dumpi... allowing Hocking to leave to pursue other opportunities.
No doubt he wasn't acting without approval. But he actively hung umpires out to dry for the problems caused by changes he made to the rules (sometimes without actually publishing.)
Nah, anti-vaxxers will have had minimal impact IMHO
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You miss the goals by Rachele and Rowe that resulted from bringing the ball to ground?
Sloane is a concern, he needs to be played at half forward or not at all.
There was 0 vaccination checks from what I could tell anyway.
Berg gets another week but he's on thin ice.
If we want some statue up on the forward line to contest who lacks any ability, just get a basketballer in. At least the are taller.
It's been this way for 2 seasons. Our coaches are the only ones who refuse to see it.
