AFL 2025
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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!
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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.
The pull to go back home (Adelaide) is very strong.
But he should be able to name his price and Saints get the deal done. Two things - he’s a phenomenal player and a rare player that can do it all. But he’s not the superstar type that will want the limelight and be ‘out there’
On a different contract - did you see the stupid numbers being touted for Reid? $24 million over 10 years. Yeah nah.
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Reid is not that good yet. But, West Coast need to pay it to keep him, OR the AFL need to step in and help to make him stay. The comp is getting more and more one-sided. North have barely won a game in the 20s, and are still copping regular blow out hidings. West Coast won the flag in 2018 but they fucking suck now.
Qld football is going well because of our academy system and a huge dose of luck in the father/son.
But there are so many teams that are going nowhere, and can't keep the talent they do draft. Not all are as bad as North, but the Dons have their two decades without winning a final, St Kilda's last decent finals campaign was a long time ago.
With a possible new side coming in (and you think another somewhere else) it's only going to get worse at the bottom before it gets better, the AFL can't keep letting the talent all accumulate in a few clubs.
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Yes
People seem to like when leagues add more teams.
But they forget the negative side; with more teams you are going to get more loser teams too.With Tassie in in 28; I think the interstate balance will be just about right.
The issue will be too many clubs in Victoria, but try and tell them that! HahaIn 28 there will be nine interstate teams, 9 in Melbourne, plus Geelong
This is close to a seismic change in Australian football. If all the interstate teams stick together, control of the league could possibly move out of Victoria for the first time.At one time the VFL (now AFL) didn’t even control all football in Victoria. Now it controls all Australian football worldwide.
The VFL expanded interstate because all the Melbourne VFL clubs were in trouble and the new license fees (Eagles first) bailed them out.
When you consider the amount of money they’re spending to expand (interstate) now, the thought of the old license fee system is almost laughable.Eventually only one Melbourne club (Fitzroy) actually disappeared.
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I agree.
Fold Carlton now.
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Haha
I enjoy Carlton at the mo
just looked at the table
if it wasn't for the sorry ass Eagles, seven Melbourne clubs would be holding up the ladder!
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Not sure which Vic club should leave, but as an outsider I just feel like GWS and Gold Coast are manufactured and feel artificial.
Others may be able to point out the error of my ways, but I don't feel the ... tribalism (?) ... of those clubs. Just don't get the feels when they're playing.
Happy to be wrong.
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The club to be disbanded is obviously Collingwood.
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almost 100% manufactured
but this is where the commercial imperiatives take over, whether we like that or not
the VFL started that ball rolling themselves when they expanded out of Victoriathe West Coast Eagles and Adelaide Crows joining the VFL virtually destroyed the WAFL and SANFL, leagues and clubs with lots of tribalism
several of the Melbourne clubs have done well to survive in the big league
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wasn't guna say it, but now that you've brought up
i'd be ecstatic if Collingwood suddenly disappeared of the face of the earth haha
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Gold Coast and i assume GWS are more important to the AFL than nearly any other club for reasons far beyond the field.
I've mentioned before, but the Suns do all the heavy lifting in terms of development and academies through regional Qld. There are an enormous amount of kids getting high grade coaching in regional Qld areas that would probably otherwise just default to rugby league. They open up pathways to higher levels that just did not exist not that long ago.
