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Re: AFL 2025

Postby dedja » Tue Jul 29, 2025 11:10 am

Armchair expert wrote:Michael Christian doing his job well I see...


Makes it so much worse … run by an ex-player with some ex-players on the tribunal.

Moose … WTF?
Dunno, I’m just an idiot.

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Re: AFL 2025

Postby Jimmy_041 » Tue Jul 29, 2025 11:23 am

dedja wrote:
Armchair expert wrote:Michael Christian doing his job well I see...


Makes it so much worse … run by an ex-player with some ex-players on the tribunal.

Moose … WTF?


Not just an ex-player.............
A Collingwood premiership player!
I met him at the last Carbine Club lunch
He's a really nice guy - got all his teeth as well
Had a long talk with him about footy and his horse breeding
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Re: AFL 2025

Postby am Bays » Tue Jul 29, 2025 11:51 am

Jimmy_041 wrote:
Not just an ex-player.............
A Collingwood premiership player!
I met him at the last Carbine Club lunch
He's a really nice guy - got all his teeth as well
Had a long talk with him about footy and his horse breeding


Obviously, you had an impact that must have been lingering when he didnt quite see the Darcy Moore transgression last week in the same was as 99.9% of the AFL community did...
Let that be a lesson to you Port, no one beats the Bays five times in a row in a GF and gets away with it!!!
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Re: AFL 2025

Postby Lightning McQueen » Tue Jul 29, 2025 11:53 am

Jimmy_041 wrote:
dedja wrote:
Armchair expert wrote:Michael Christian doing his job well I see...


Makes it so much worse … run by an ex-player with some ex-players on the tribunal.

Moose … WTF?


Not just an ex-player.............
A Collingwood premiership player!
I met him at the last Carbine Club lunch
He's a really nice guy - got all his teeth as well
Had a long talk with him about footy and his horse breeding

Sick man!
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Re: AFL 2025

Postby am Bays » Tue Jul 29, 2025 12:03 pm

Lightning McQueen wrote:
Jimmy_041 wrote:
dedja wrote:
Armchair expert wrote:Michael Christian doing his job well I see...


Makes it so much worse … run by an ex-player with some ex-players on the tribunal.

Moose … WTF?


Not just an ex-player.............
A Collingwood premiership player!
I met him at the last Carbine Club lunch
He's a really nice guy - got all his teeth as well
Had a long talk with him about footy and his horse breeding

Sick man!


Who would of thought what John Longmire does on his "work bench" would be of such interest?
Let that be a lesson to you Port, no one beats the Bays five times in a row in a GF and gets away with it!!!
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Re: AFL 2025

Postby Dutchy » Tue Jul 29, 2025 12:26 pm

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He strikes me as a guy who has had everything his own way his whole life


Yep this is quite common, imagine the wind that has been blown up his arse since he was in u8's and all that wind has come true, he has had very little adversity in his footy (and probably outside) life. Pretty much everything has gone his way and the way people around him thought it would.

While it would be a great position to be in, maturity and learnings from set backs etc isn't something he has had to face along his journey.

JHF is similar
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Re: AFL 2025

Postby Jimmy_041 » Tue Jul 29, 2025 12:40 pm

am Bays wrote:
Jimmy_041 wrote:
Not just an ex-player.............
A Collingwood premiership player!
I met him at the last Carbine Club lunch
He's a really nice guy - got all his teeth as well
Had a long talk with him about footy and his horse breeding


Obviously, you had an impact that must have been lingering when he didnt quite see the Darcy Moore transgression last week in the same was as 99.9% of the AFL community did...


Obviously - he saw it the same way I did 8)

S. May - not so much
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Re: AFL 2025

Postby Booney » Tue Jul 29, 2025 2:59 pm

When asked about the floating fixture

"Maybe this year's just a bit of an outlier in terms of the teams that were selected earlier on, some big Victorian teams who were in pretty solid form at the time the floating fixture was put in, that hasn't come to fruition," Dillon said.

On May 15, 2025 the AFL announced rounds 16-23, that was the day round 10 of the season started.

We know he's talking about Essendon and Carlton.

Collingwood were 7-2, Richmond aren't in the conversation at the moment.

Essendon were 5-4. Their wins were over Port, Melbourne, West Coast, North and Sydney. None of which were in the 8.

Carlton were 4-5 with wins over West Coast, North, St Kilda and Geelong*.

Of the 18 combined games they had 1 win over a top 8 side. Pretty solid? Bullshit.
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Re: AFL 2025

Postby wenchbarwer » Tue Jul 29, 2025 3:09 pm

Dillbags is a lawyer, he's never going to admit he's wrong.
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Re: AFL 2025

Postby Booney » Tue Jul 29, 2025 3:20 pm

If you want to go quickly, go alone.

If you want to go far, go together.
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Re: AFL 2025

Postby Booney » Tue Jul 29, 2025 3:27 pm

Dutchy wrote:
The Bedge wrote:
He strikes me as a guy who has had everything his own way his whole life


Yep this is quite common, imagine the wind that has been blown up his arse since he was in u8's and all that wind has come true, he has had very little adversity in his footy (and probably outside) life. Pretty much everything has gone his way and the way people around him thought it would.

While it would be a great position to be in, maturity and learnings from set backs etc isn't something he has had to face along his journey.

JHF is similar


JHF no adversity? Spent a year at North Melbourne you know.
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Re: AFL 2025

Postby Armchair expert » Tue Jul 29, 2025 3:30 pm

Booney wrote:Pick your AA side

https://tradablebits.com/tb_app/528987


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Re: AFL 2025

Postby beef » Tue Jul 29, 2025 3:53 pm

The selectors will certainly agree with a bench mainly full of midfielders and wings that dont play wing. Just need more mids on HFF and half back
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Re: AFL 2025

Postby Brodlach » Tue Jul 29, 2025 3:56 pm

As much as I like him Rankine doesn’t deserve a spot
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Re: AFL 2025

Postby Mr Beefy » Tue Jul 29, 2025 3:59 pm

Booney wrote:Pick your AA side

https://tradablebits.com/tb_app/528987

That was way too hard
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Re: AFL 2025

Postby Lightning McQueen » Tue Jul 29, 2025 4:03 pm

I gave it 3 minutes, could do with some fine tuning.
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Re: AFL 2025

Postby Booney » Tue Jul 29, 2025 4:09 pm

Brodlach wrote:As much as I like him Rankine doesn’t deserve a spot


Elliott, Curtis, Higgins, West. All ahead of him I think.
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Re: AFL 2025

Postby Lightning McQueen » Tue Jul 29, 2025 4:37 pm

Booney wrote:
Brodlach wrote:As much as I like him Rankine doesn’t deserve a spot


Elliott, Curtis, Higgins, West. All ahead of him I think.


If the spot is to just hang around the F50 and score goals then Elliott is the man, I think Izak has the other 3 covered in all aspects, I'd still take him for his overall contribution around the ground this year.
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Re: AFL 2025

Postby Brodlach » Tue Jul 29, 2025 4:41 pm

Lightning McQueen wrote:
Booney wrote:
Brodlach wrote:As much as I like him Rankine doesn’t deserve a spot


Elliott, Curtis, Higgins, West. All ahead of him I think.


If the spot is to just hang around the F50 and score goals then Elliott is the man, I think Izak has the other 3 covered in all aspects, I'd still take him for his overall contribution around the ground this year.

Rankine has been very good in patches but not as consistent as last year
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Re: AFL 2025

Postby wenchbarwer » Tue Jul 29, 2025 4:54 pm

Booney wrote:
Brodlach wrote:As much as I like him Rankine doesn’t deserve a spot


Elliott, Curtis, Higgins, West. All ahead of him I think.


I'd have Rankine, Keays, Pickett and Melksham in front of West. Don't rate his selfishness.
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