AFL 2025
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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.
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Reports of a Board meeting at the Demons today
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Just watched Dockers v Eagles
i'm thinking the Dockers are showing more starch this season than anytime since they joined the comp
not saying they're guna win the flag, but they are starting to become a tough nut to crack
still cant kick straight tho, 18 behinds!
more starch and grit, that's what the NRL warriiors need
