The AFL Discussion Thread

[SirRumpole]

Wow I didn't expect to see the Swans crumble like that!!! They choked better than Port in 2003

You're right. As a Swan's supporter it was hard to watch.

I reckon we may lose Goodes, Malcheski, maybe Jack, Rhyce Shaw and Ted Richards for next year.

It could be a very different team, and maybe we won't do as well even with Buddy.

 

[Tisme]

You're right. As a Swan's supporter it was hard to watch.

I reckon we may lose Goodes, Malcheski, maybe Jack, Rhyce Shaw and Ted Richards for next year.

It could be a very different team, and maybe we won't do as well even with Buddy.

I'm pretty sure someone forgot to tell Malcheski they couldn't win.

 

[Tink]

I wasn't sure where to put this but very sad to hear, a true gentleman, gone too soon.

Robbie Flower, Melbourne legend and AFL Hall of Famer, passes away aged 59

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/a.../story-fni5f91a-1227078308134#social-comments

RIP

 

[Miss Hale]

Yes, very sad, Flower was one of my favourites from that era. And always seemed like an absolutely lovely bloke as well.

Anyone else hate the trade period? I find all this bargaining with players rather unseemly.

 

[tech/a]

As for the Crows
Phil who?

Think I'll barrack for Port.

 

[pavilion103]

As for the Crows Phil who? Think I'll barrack for Port.

Me too.
Mass exodus at Geelong

 

[Tink]

Yes, Miss Hale, that was when the players had outside jobs, as well as playing footy.
They played with the team in the area they were located in.
It has come a long way.

I agree about this trading period. I don't like it either.

 

[SirRumpole]

The trading period reminds me of a livestock auction.

Which is what it is.

 

[Tink]

Yes, true, Rumpole.

It happens in all the sports now.

 

[shouldaindex]

Hawks fan.

People forget how mediocre we were between 1992 and 2006 (won 3 finals in 15 years).

Makes the last few years all the better.

I think FA will favor teams like us to rotate our top end, once Hodge and Mitchell go, get in the best 27 year old midfielder FA.

 

[Tisme]

Not long now 'til the first bounce !!!

 

[drsmith]

Former AFL bad boy Ben Cousins in the poop again,

http://www.perthnow.com.au/news/wes...vide-breath-test/story-fnhocxo3-1227259540376

 

[Tink]

AFLPA raises prospect of all AFL officials to be tested for illicit drugs as league reviews policy

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/a...e-reviews-policy/story-fnp04d70-1227297694324

 

[Tisme]

Footy isn't the same game it was 40 years ago, when players had Wednesday arvo off to train and part of Friday to prepare for the game, booze and have a naughty. Then again the game back then included aluminium sprigs, biffo, bumps, mud, blood, rain, prickly wool jumpers, shirt fronting and a beer gut.

 

[Logique]

Uggh those prickly wool jumpers, how bad were they! Copping a shirtfront was not a pleasant experience as a kid, but it made you learn.

 

[IFocus]

How woeful were Carlton last night Mick out coached by Simpson cannot see Mick lasting the season.

 

[sptrawler]

How woeful were Carlton last night Mick out coached by Simpson cannot see Mick lasting the season.

Mick showed how bad a coach he was, in the mid 90's, when the Eagles didn't win three back to back.

He had a State side, that were head and shoulders above the competition, his coaching let the guys down.IMO

 

[Tisme]

My footy tipping so far is woeful!!

 

[pixel]

My footy tipping so far is woeful!!

You're not alone, mate:
Many only got 5 out of 9, myself included. And I still dropped only 30 places in a field of over 46000.

 

[trainspotter]

It has nothing to do with the colour of your skin Adam Goodes. It was the fact in the first quarter the umpire let you get away with several cheap shots and you got paid the free kick

The West Coast club issued a statement on Monday expressing its regret at the repeated booing.

In a statement, the club said its Indigenous liason officer, Phil Narkle, spoke to Noongar elders today to express the club's dismay and disappointment at the treatment of Goodes during Saturday's game.

"Adam Goodes is a wonderful player, person and Aboriginal leader and deserves our respect," Narkle said.

"As a club we are committed to a Reconciliation Action Plan and internally we are making some important progress in this area, now we hope to impact the community more broadly."

Chief executive officer Trevor Nisbett also came out strongly in support of Goodes.

"It is completely inappropriate and it has to stop," Nisbett said in the statement.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-07-27/lewis-jetta-sick-of-adam-goodes-afl-boos-sydney-swans/6650332

Twitter goes into meltdown for real ...

http://www.foxsports.com.au/afl/afl...confused-by-fans/story-e6frf3e3-1227370441560