AFL 2021
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Right with the Olympics done and with a greater schedule of games returning to the box I can now start paying attention again. What's happened of late? Lockdowns and postponements? Who's resurgent and who's on the slide? I caught a couple of minutes of a couple of hidings yesterday (Lions vs Freo and at one stage it looked like Hawthorn would thrash the Pies but I see that closed up a bit).
The Dees have got the Eagles away tonight which has been a fraught fixture for us for a while now; the 2018 prelim final and last years' final pre-Covid hammering stand out. Recent form lines are similar (both two wins from ther last five games) but West Coast are definitely a bogey team for us so I'm not overly hopeful and am therefore not too worried it's not on TV. If we do get up though, we're back on top of the table.
@shark basically no one wants to finish first and no one wants to finish 8th
It looked like Geelong were rolling to a flag. Then GWS beat them well. The Dees have faltered. The Dogs lost again on the weekend. The season is spluttering a bit with all the fixture movement.
Right now i don't know who the fuck is actually the favourite. All i know is, it's not the Lions
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Dees win what sounds like a pretty bizarre game with a lightening delay during the second half. So we're back on top having beaten a quality team away in what's the most difficult road trip also. You'd have to think that puts us back in the running for the flag, big time.
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Dees win what sounds like a pretty bizarre game with a lightening delay during the second half. So we're back on top having beaten a quality team away in what's the most difficult road trip also. You'd have to think that puts us back in the running for the flag, big time.
Dees win what sounds like a pretty bizarre game with a lightening delay during the second half. So we're back on top having beaten a quality team away in what's the most difficult road trip also. You'd have to think that puts us back in the running for the flag, big time.
West Coast are a quality team in name only. They're 10 and 10, and have only won 4 of their last 10.
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Dees win what sounds like a pretty bizarre game with a lightening delay during the second half. So we're back on top having beaten a quality team away in what's the most difficult road trip also. You'd have to think that puts us back in the running for the flag, big time.
West Coast are a quality team in name only. They're 10 and 10, and have only won 4 of their last 10.
@mariner4life said in AFL 2021:
Dees win what sounds like a pretty bizarre game with a lightening delay during the second half. So we're back on top having beaten a quality team away in what's the most difficult road trip also. You'd have to think that puts us back in the running for the flag, big time.
West Coast are a quality team in name only. They're 10 and 10, and have only won 4 of their last 10.
Well they were in the 8 yesterday I think....?
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@mariner4life said in AFL 2021:
Dees win what sounds like a pretty bizarre game with a lightening delay during the second half. So we're back on top having beaten a quality team away in what's the most difficult road trip also. You'd have to think that puts us back in the running for the flag, big time.
West Coast are a quality team in name only. They're 10 and 10, and have only won 4 of their last 10.
Well they were in the 8 yesterday I think....?
@mariner4life said in AFL 2021:
Dees win what sounds like a pretty bizarre game with a lightening delay during the second half. So we're back on top having beaten a quality team away in what's the most difficult road trip also. You'd have to think that puts us back in the running for the flag, big time.
West Coast are a quality team in name only. They're 10 and 10, and have only won 4 of their last 10.
Well they were in the 8 yesterday I think....?
that's like being the tallest dwarf at the moment, a 9-11 record has you in the 8.
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@mariner4life said in AFL 2021:
Dees win what sounds like a pretty bizarre game with a lightening delay during the second half. So we're back on top having beaten a quality team away in what's the most difficult road trip also. You'd have to think that puts us back in the running for the flag, big time.
West Coast are a quality team in name only. They're 10 and 10, and have only won 4 of their last 10.
Well they were in the 8 yesterday I think....?
that's like being the tallest dwarf at the moment, a 9-11 record has you in the 8.
@mariner4life ok but we won away against a bogey team who weere in the 8. And we're bettre than Brisbane.
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So Taylor Walker gets to watch the rest of the season after saying racist shit at a Crows ressies game. In this instance it appears teh Crows are to be totally commended, as it was an official who dobbed him in, and the suspension is internal as well (as i understand it, happy to be corrected).
This really is fucked. It is 2021 FFS. Taylor Walker is a 31 year old, 13-year veteran. He doesn't need "educating" he's had more diversity training than 99% of the population. He's played alongside (and is supposedly, or more accurately was supposedly) good mates with Eddie Betts
So either Taylor still just doesn't see anything wrong with yelling racial shit at young indigenous players; or possibly worse, knows what harm he is causing, and that's why he did it. So he's either the dumbest fluffybunny in the league, or one of the bigger pieces of shit.
I don't cop "i made a mistake" and "i'll educate myself" from a guy of his age, experience and standing.
How in the fuck is this stuff still happening? Deadset, if it is still going on now, then we may never get rid of this stuff. And that's pretty sad.
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So Taylor Walker gets to watch the rest of the season after saying racist shit at a Crows ressies game. In this instance it appears teh Crows are to be totally commended, as it was an official who dobbed him in, and the suspension is internal as well (as i understand it, happy to be corrected).
This really is fucked. It is 2021 FFS. Taylor Walker is a 31 year old, 13-year veteran. He doesn't need "educating" he's had more diversity training than 99% of the population. He's played alongside (and is supposedly, or more accurately was supposedly) good mates with Eddie Betts
So either Taylor still just doesn't see anything wrong with yelling racial shit at young indigenous players; or possibly worse, knows what harm he is causing, and that's why he did it. So he's either the dumbest fluffybunny in the league, or one of the bigger pieces of shit.
I don't cop "i made a mistake" and "i'll educate myself" from a guy of his age, experience and standing.
How in the fuck is this stuff still happening? Deadset, if it is still going on now, then we may never get rid of this stuff. And that's pretty sad.
@mariner4life said in AFL 2021:
How in the fuck is this stuff still happening? Deadset, if it is still going on now, then we may never get rid of this stuff. And that's pretty sad.
As much as the whole thing saddens me, the one (small) positive is the fact it was called out and he's been hauled over the coals for it.
This is what progress looks like, I think. In years gone by people would have ignored it, or worse still agreed with what he said. Now it's being brought into the open and he's being held publicly accountable.
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@mariner4life said in AFL 2021:
How in the fuck is this stuff still happening? Deadset, if it is still going on now, then we may never get rid of this stuff. And that's pretty sad.
As much as the whole thing saddens me, the one (small) positive is the fact it was called out and he's been hauled over the coals for it.
This is what progress looks like, I think. In years gone by people would have ignored it, or worse still agreed with what he said. Now it's being brought into the open and he's being held publicly accountable.
@barbarian said in AFL 2021:
@mariner4life said in AFL 2021:
How in the fuck is this stuff still happening? Deadset, if it is still going on now, then we may never get rid of this stuff. And that's pretty sad.
As much as the whole thing saddens me, the one (small) positive is the fact it was called out and he's been hauled over the coals for it.
This is what progress looks like, I think. In years gone by people would have ignored it, or worse still agreed with what he said. Now it's being brought into the open and he's being held publicly accountable.
fair comment.
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I'm also curious about what he said, and it's interesting there hasn't been any reporting about that. Because there are racist comments and then there are racist comments.
He was addressing the Adelaide ressies, so was it a case of 'mark that black bastard, he's all over us', or was it 'that n-word c-word b-word is a c-word etc etc etc'.
As much as racism is racism and it's all unacceptable, I do think there are degrees of how unacceptable these things are. If it was the former he deserves his suspension, if the latter then maybe that should be the end of his career in the AFL.
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@barbarian said in AFL 2021:
AFL have released the Carter report into future Tasmanian involvement:
lol seeya North
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@barbarian said in AFL 2021:
AFL have released the Carter report into future Tasmanian involvement:
lol seeya North
@mariner4life said in AFL 2021:
@barbarian said in AFL 2021:
AFL have released the Carter report into future Tasmanian involvement:
lol seeya North
Would Tassie accept that? I'm not sure. And I'm not sure North want that, or the AFL will make them.
The report is clear, but frustrating. It tries to have a dollar each way, and give the AFL a clear out to do nothing and say it's all too hard.
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@mariner4life said in AFL 2021:
@barbarian said in AFL 2021:
AFL have released the Carter report into future Tasmanian involvement:
lol seeya North
Would Tassie accept that? I'm not sure. And I'm not sure North want that, or the AFL will make them.
The report is clear, but frustrating. It tries to have a dollar each way, and give the AFL a clear out to do nothing and say it's all too hard.
@barbarian said in AFL 2021:
@mariner4life said in AFL 2021:
@barbarian said in AFL 2021:
AFL have released the Carter report into future Tasmanian involvement:
lol seeya North
Would Tassie accept that? I'm not sure. And I'm not sure North want that, or the AFL will make them.
The report is clear, but frustrating. It tries to have a dollar each way, and give the AFL a clear out to do nothing and say it's all too hard.
i for one think we should dissolve Carlton and create a Tassie side
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@barbarian said in AFL 2021:
@mariner4life said in AFL 2021:
@barbarian said in AFL 2021:
AFL have released the Carter report into future Tasmanian involvement:
lol seeya North
Would Tassie accept that? I'm not sure. And I'm not sure North want that, or the AFL will make them.
The report is clear, but frustrating. It tries to have a dollar each way, and give the AFL a clear out to do nothing and say it's all too hard.
i for one think we should dissolve Carlton and create a Tassie side
@mariner4life said in AFL 2021:
@barbarian said in AFL 2021:
@mariner4life said in AFL 2021:
@barbarian said in AFL 2021:
AFL have released the Carter report into future Tasmanian involvement:
lol seeya North
Would Tassie accept that? I'm not sure. And I'm not sure North want that, or the AFL will make them.
The report is clear, but frustrating. It tries to have a dollar each way, and give the AFL a clear out to do nothing and say it's all too hard.
i for one think we should dissolve Carlton and create a Tassie side
Don't think you'd get much opposition from Carlton fans at the moment. They're desperate to be put out of their misery.
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@mariner4life said in AFL 2021:
@barbarian said in AFL 2021:
@mariner4life said in AFL 2021:
@barbarian said in AFL 2021:
AFL have released the Carter report into future Tasmanian involvement:
lol seeya North
Would Tassie accept that? I'm not sure. And I'm not sure North want that, or the AFL will make them.
The report is clear, but frustrating. It tries to have a dollar each way, and give the AFL a clear out to do nothing and say it's all too hard.
i for one think we should dissolve Carlton and create a Tassie side
Don't think you'd get much opposition from Carlton fans at the moment. They're desperate to be put out of their misery.
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@mariner4life said in AFL 2021:
@barbarian said in AFL 2021:
@mariner4life said in AFL 2021:
@barbarian said in AFL 2021:
AFL have released the Carter report into future Tasmanian involvement:
lol seeya North
Would Tassie accept that? I'm not sure. And I'm not sure North want that, or the AFL will make them.
The report is clear, but frustrating. It tries to have a dollar each way, and give the AFL a clear out to do nothing and say it's all too hard.
i for one think we should dissolve Carlton and create a Tassie side
Don't think you'd get much opposition from Carlton fans at the moment. They're desperate to be put out of their misery.
@barbarian said in AFL 2021:
@mariner4life said in AFL 2021:
@barbarian said in AFL 2021:
@mariner4life said in AFL 2021:
@barbarian said in AFL 2021:
AFL have released the Carter report into future Tasmanian involvement:
lol seeya North
Would Tassie accept that? I'm not sure. And I'm not sure North want that, or the AFL will make them.
The report is clear, but frustrating. It tries to have a dollar each way, and give the AFL a clear out to do nothing and say it's all too hard.
i for one think we should dissolve Carlton and create a Tassie side
Don't think you'd get much opposition from Carlton fans at the moment. They're desperate to be put out of their misery.
nah, according to social media anyway, they are one piece from being in the top 4 according to half their fans.
Clarko would be fucking mad to take that job.
(admission: I have an intense dislike of Carlton because despite them being complete dogshit since i moved to the Country, they are constantly talked up, seem to be a destination club for some ridiculous reason. And then every year they fall in a heap)
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@barbarian said in AFL 2021:
@mariner4life said in AFL 2021:
@barbarian said in AFL 2021:
@mariner4life said in AFL 2021:
@barbarian said in AFL 2021:
AFL have released the Carter report into future Tasmanian involvement:
lol seeya North
Would Tassie accept that? I'm not sure. And I'm not sure North want that, or the AFL will make them.
The report is clear, but frustrating. It tries to have a dollar each way, and give the AFL a clear out to do nothing and say it's all too hard.
i for one think we should dissolve Carlton and create a Tassie side
Don't think you'd get much opposition from Carlton fans at the moment. They're desperate to be put out of their misery.
nah, according to social media anyway, they are one piece from being in the top 4 according to half their fans.
Clarko would be fucking mad to take that job.
(admission: I have an intense dislike of Carlton because despite them being complete dogshit since i moved to the Country, they are constantly talked up, seem to be a destination club for some ridiculous reason. And then every year they fall in a heap)
@mariner4life Well my wife is a mad Carlton fan, and as such I've adopted them as my team.
There are parallels to the other Blues team, based in Auckland, I think. It's just a team with an endemic culture of underachievement. Once it seeps into the carpets it's a very hard thing to get rid of.
They have the spine of a really good team. It's hard to believe they are going to have the Coleman winner (McKay), a Brownlow contender (Walsh) and an additional All Australian (Weitering), and finish lower on the table than they did last year.
Coaching seems to be an issue, but I think it runs much deeper. Just punting Teague and putting in Clarko or Lyon or Scott or whoever won't fix it.
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Thumping the fuck out of Collingwood is always awesome
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how good? The last weekend of H&A sees the top 4 all play each other!
Melbourne v Geelong, winner gets the minor premiership
Port v Bulldogs, Dogs have to win or they risk dropping out of the 4Lions have the Eagles in Brisbane, need to win well, and hope Port beat the Dogs
Sydney get the Gold Coast, but the chances of them finishing higher than 5th are remote.
GWS are in good form, and play Carlton, will still need to win to shore up a spot in the 8
8th is a shootout between Essendon, Freo and West Coast. The Bombers have the percentage, and play Collingwood, so should hold on.
Good last weekend heading in to finals.
