The Silver Fern

@booboo said in AFL 2025:

@African-Monkey said in AFL 2025:

Right, just moves to Perth fellow ferners. I'm on the Freo bandwagon. What are our chances of winning it lol?

I also know bugger all about the game but am making an effort to follow haha.

If it's anything like Adelaide you won't need to make an effort. It's all you'll see and hear. At least you have the Farce.

Seen a bit around the place but not like Melbourne where it's rammed down your throat (so far anyway). Never been to Adelaide so can't comment (yet).

Yup the Farce are located 10 mins walk away from where I am, so I will be attending their matches every week.

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@barky1 said in Australia v India:

@NTA Basket Case of a side when you have a guy retiring mid-series. A strange dude, was Ashwin

He got out before it blew up.

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Nice work Bill!

Didn't get to watch any of this thanks to SBS's shithouse streaming service.

ABs unbeaten

Aha! Did not compute. That's a good thing then.

Oh boo hoo you haven't won a GF in 3 years, my heart fucking bleeds

@booboo said in Enz of an Era:

Anyone made the obvious Sam Cane joke?

Cane saw red walking down the street?

Cane got whipped?
Cane wasn't Abel?
Cane wasn't sweet on Barnes?
Oh Cane, you've done it again?

but it is not easy! look at the Nuggets. They have the best player in the world, high quality guys around him, and yes they got a ring, but they are 4th in their conference at the moment, and not exactly flying. League parity is at an all-time high, so there are zero guarantees. (see also the Bucks and Giannis).

any day coming out breakeven is a win!

@sparky said in Substitution Bench - Thoughts:

@chimoaus Jonah the Great played 8 for NZ schoolboys in a Test curtain-raiser. He scored a hat-trick at 6 for NZ barbarians in a farewell game for John Kirwan.

Still my greatest lol moment in rugby that, he took the ball off the back of the scrum in his own 22 and ended up scoring under the posts.

Ran over the number 7, ran over the number 8, swatted off the halfback, out paced the first 5 and winger coming across in cover, last line of D was the fullback who set himself in a death or glory tackle.

Heard this enormous "crack" as the tackle was made an immediately thought in my head what a good tackle!

TV then shows fullback lying prone on the field while Johan trots off to score under the posts.

Poor fullback had to be stretchered off the field.

And thus Jonah's love affair with English fullbacks begun.

@Catogrande He wouldn't have been my first guess. According to google trends, he's bigger than Tyson Fury!

Interesting article thanks. I find it amazing that 15 years ago they were basically just training as had been done for a century, with no data or innovation. I can easily see the increase if that is the case, but then you have the drop off in testing over CV years & no testing innovation! 🤷

The problem with free agency is the overrating of draft picks.

Collingwood, reigning premiers, have just picked up a best 22 player from Freo, who kinda suck. And all it cost them was pick 34 and a future 2nd rounder. Astoundingly Freo supporters are happy. The draft is a fucking lottery, building through the draft is incredibly hard to do. So the teams at the top stay there by getting players from shit teams.
Yes, eventually you have to pay the piper. But only if you keep club favourites past the point you should.

Aus win by 21 runs to take the series.

5 of the Indian top 6 scored at least 30 runs each. Quite a strange card.

@SBW1 said in All Blacks 10 after BB & RM finish?:

@kiwi_expat Even though he has had his moments at fullback, I have often thought he got ragdolled there and may have been questionable under the highball. Jordan or Beaudy at fullback offers a more secure option and Jordan in particular has pace to burn from the back. Also wonder if Havili could be another 10 option, as he has played there for the Crusaders.

There's no way havili is even remotely good enough to be a staring 10 for the abs

That situation with the guy from Marokopa could have some similarities to this.

they also hugely improved their side by having sack the desperately average Tim Paine