AFL 2025
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Look, i am no AFL coach, but i would have thought that kicking less than 50 points is sub-optimal when you are trying to win a game. For 5 teams on a weekend to do it is a pretty fucking horrific round of footy.
Thursday night may have lacked a lot in skill, but at least it was close.
Friday the Saints killed what ever hope the Freo supporters had that perhaps they have a decent team. The first half was the worst football you will ever see, but at least the Saints turned up at half time.
The Bulldogs are flying now Bont is back, and destroyed Port
Adelaide continued their rollercaoster season by putting Carlton back in their misery box
Collingwood and Geelong turned in a game worthy of the abilities of both teams.
Melbourne beat West Coast, and no body cared (or watched)
What are GWS? because it's going very wrong there all of a sudden. Sydney needed that like you wouldn't believe.
Hawthorn v Richmond went almost exactly to script.
The Lions won the pineapple grapple by absolutely flogging the Suns through the midfield. Matt Rowell is really good, but he can't beat that Lions midfield by himself. Great to see Charlie Cameron on the board again, but once again the Lions kick a bucket of behinds to keep the score closer than it should have been. We're the worst 7-1 team you've ever seen. We have a worse percentage than GWS who have only won 4 times. -
@mariner4life said in AFL 2025:
While it doesn't mean much
My youngest boy just made the Suns academy.
This doesn't mean were planning a draft party in 5 years, it's more evidence that the AFL are putting money in to the GC for bigger reasons than the W/L column
This would be an awesome first meeting for people from a NZ rugby forum…..afl draft party in qld
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what a belter of a weekend of footy. By the numbers the closest round in 55 years.
Collingwood went to Freo and won a close one. It's a pretty good win given they left a couple of guys at home, and Daicos wasn't dominant. Jamie Elliot is a fucking good player.
Friday Carlton held off the Saints after establishing a decent lead in the 2nd quarter.
Melbourne pushed Hawthorn early before the Hawks pulled away in the last
The Bombers beat Sydney in a mid-table shitfight.
Saturday night was fucking great. The Gold Coast v Dogs finish was awesome. The Suns had it won, but the Dogs finished downhill and ran them really close, kicking 5 in the last quarter to get back to within 4 before the Suns managed to put it to bed. Great game.
I then flicked over to catch the end of the showdown, and it delivered as well. The Crows had to be desperate to hold off Port, and it took a pretty good mark in the Crows defensive 50 to put it to bed.
Yesterday West Coast did everything they could to get a win over the Tigers, and fell 2 points short.
Then Geelong and GWS played out a belter than saw GWS get a win at what Kardinia by 4 points off a late goal.
Then we had a draw in Tassie as North were desperately unlucky not to upset the Lions.I meant to post that the bet bet of the weekend was North to beat Brisbane. It was paying $5.50, despite the fact we're really not that good, and our record in Tasmania is appalling. And so it almost came to pass. Something is not right at the Lions, and we are a bit past the "of it's early and we won the flag last year". Defensively we are still pretty good, but we can't fucking score. It sounds churlish to say as defending premiers who are currently top of the ladder. But we've had a soft draw, played 5 of the bottom 7 sides, and the Dogs without Bont. Collingwood bitch slapped us, and the only credible wins were Geelong and the Suns, but with the caveat that we couldn't kick more than 10 goals in either. Something has to change in the forward line.
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Every club bar maybe Carlton and Collingwood have absolutely smashed it with their indigenous guernseys this year. All absolute fire.
And even those two are pretty friggen good.
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Good game last night, and Gold Coast have got themselves back to 2nd.
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Social media content of the weekend
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Beautiful afternoon at the SCG watching the Swannies win an entertaining game against the Dockers on a sunny afternoon.
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@mariner4life how good
perfect round in the tipping comp....but so did the guys in ahead of me
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So, Carlton. Allow me to vent for a minute.
They have had the same problem for the last two years. They can't hit a target. It's become increasingly problematic. While the fault lies largely with the players, it's an indictment on the coaches that they've been unable to fix it.
I watch a guy like Wanganeen-Milera with a green-eyed envy. Or a guy like Sidebottom or Myers. Their ability to pick out a guy in the corridor, or on the lead inside 50 is something we desperately need but don't have. Nobody is even close to that level and it's killing them.
Fix that one issue and it all starts to fall into place, I think. But it's an enormous and maybe impossible problem to solve without wholesale list changes.
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I have read so many theories on what they need to do. Carlton led a prelim in 2023 before being run over, and last year were 2nd on the ladder in Rd 19 before winning just one of their last 5.
Coaching, list management, arrogance, game style, the Board, everything has been laid out as needing to change.
It has gone very wrong this year though. 4 wins and percentage out of the 8 is a long way to come back.
But it's not all bad, once again you're playing prime time free to air footy this week.
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The perils of being a big Melbourne club. Great to get the attention when it's going well, but very hard to fail quietly every Thursday or Friday night.
I don't think they are actually that bad. Been in most games this year. Just lack that execution, and if/when they get it I think a lot will come from that. Confidence being the main one.
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Loooooool
Tigers v Bombers was hilarious.
My son played 2s in Cairns today and it didn't look any worse.
Meme game
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what in the actual fuck?? Do the AFL hate casual viewers? Are they deliberately trying to sabotage their own broadcast deal?
Another Thursday, another fucking Carlton primetime game. Fuck that club off in to the sun. Or the saturday early/sunday late arvo timeslot which is arguably worse.
That's alright, tomorrow night we get, wait, what? Fucking Essendon? wait, no, they have actually saved us all by hiding it behind the Sydney derby, and it's what we get FTA.
Biggest Q-Clash in years? Lets put it on at 1pm saturday.
The Showdown is the derby game that throws up the best results and best spectacles. Lets put it Saturday night. I mean, Collingwood are going to flog Richmond so that better be the Sunday arvo game...Defies belief.
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who would have thought that after an absolutely shocking weekend of footy, where there were one-sided beltings galore, it would be saved by the final quarter of the sunday twilight game. A game involving the Saints and the Dees. Largest 4th quarter comeback in history. Just an absolute flood of goals. unreal.
A weekend to forget for so many teams, though most especially the Lions as they were the only decent side to get absolutely rolled.
Sydney are now gone, and it's 9 teams still alive. The Suns still have their catch up game v the Bombers which you think they win, so the Dogs are actually 2 wins out of the 8, with only 4 to play.
This weekend we get Crows v Hawks and Collingwood v Lions to really shape the top 4.
Dogs v Giants could decide the 8.
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@mariner4life who's top of the table?
(Who cares about number of games played ... )
(Haven't watched a game so far this year.)
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@mariner4life Genuinely think NWM is the best player in the competition at the moment. If you held a draft with every player available, he'd be my first pick. The skill set that every team needs.
Plenty of decent on-ballers but only a couple who can move back, move forward, go into the middle and be so impactful everywhere.
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@barbarian said in AFL 2025:
@mariner4life Genuinely think NWM is the best player in the competition at the moment. If you held a draft with every player available, he'd be my first pick. The skill set that every team needs.
Plenty of decent on-ballers but only a couple who can move back, move forward, go into the middle and be so impactful everywhere.
St Kilda should just pay him what ever he wants. Players like that don't come around very often.
