SA Footy

if you havent already make sure you watch tonights 360, incredible insight from McCrae

He's the total opposite to bucks.
Trusts the coaching staff to teach the game plan and trusts the players to execute.

Armchair expert wrote:What a terrible advantage call

Was saying all day that Brisbane's job to win would be made extremelly difficult by the Marfia.

Until all Victorian clubs do the same as interstate clubs, travel half the season on a plane, the comp is a joke.

Armchair expert wrote:What a terrible advantage call

Until then I barely noticed the umpires. But what a crucial time (and place) to make a bad decision - possibly impacting the result.

Dutchy wrote:if you havent already make sure you watch tonights 360, incredible insight from McCrae

Makes it hard to hate them but I'm up for the fight.

Here endeth the medal debate :

Clubs get the cup to represent the whole of club effort
Players get the medal to represent those who won it

Spargo wrote:

Armchair expert wrote:What a terrible advantage call

Until then I barely noticed the umpires. But what a crucial time (and place) to make a bad decision - possibly impacting the result.

First bounce of the day had to be thrown up, this is the thing, it's the pig headed attitude of the AFL that pisses me off, change all the controllables.

Premiership medals should go to the 23 that played on the day.
There's always a hard luck story or two, but that's footy.
It's cruel for blokes like Adams, even Bob Murphy but I don't agree with the whole squad getting them.

tigerpie wrote:Premiership medals should go to the 23 that played on the day.
There's always a hard luck story or two, but that's footy.
It's cruel for blokes like Adams, even Bob Murphy but I don't agree with the whole squad getting them.

Assistant coaches will be putting their hands up shortly for medals too!

Booney wrote:

Dutchy wrote:if you havent already make sure you watch tonights 360, incredible insight from McCrae

Makes it hard to hate them but I'm up for the fight.

Still a skinny Glenelg half forward in my eyes

Dutchy wrote:

Booney wrote:

Dutchy wrote:if you havent already make sure you watch tonights 360, incredible insight from McCrae

Makes it hard to hate them but I'm up for the fight.

Still a skinny Glenelg half forward in my eyes

That helps. Thank you.

Dutchy wrote:

Booney wrote:

Dutchy wrote:if you havent already make sure you watch tonights 360, incredible insight from McCrae

Makes it hard to hate them but I'm up for the fight.

Still a skinny Glenelg half forward in my eyes

That bomb he it in time on the last qtr at footy park in Rd 2 1994 from the S-W to beat Norwood (does that make it easier to love him @Booney) sticks in my mind to this day

tigerpie wrote:Premiership medals should go to the 23 that played on the day.
There's always a hard luck story or two, but that's footy.
It's cruel for blokes like Adams, even Bob Murphy but I don't agree with the whole squad getting them.

Having McStay out might have actually helped Collingwood because they may have looked for him more brining Andrews into the game.

And just because someone has contributed throughout the year doesn't mean they will on the big day - plenty of examples of big players going missing or getting the yips in GF's. Whose to say Noble wouldn't have coughed up one or two across half back, leading to Brisbane goals.

All hypotheticals, but is why it should only be the players who get it done on the day.

amber_fluid wrote:

tigerpie wrote:Premiership medals should go to the 23 that played on the day.
There's always a hard luck story or two, but that's footy.
It's cruel for blokes like Adams, even Bob Murphy but I don't agree with the whole squad getting them.

Assistant coaches will be putting their hands up shortly for medals too!

At least they play their role on GF day and not injured
The amount of work they do is normally only recognized within the club
I am surprised in these days of everyone wins a prize that we havent gone down the NBA path where the receptionist and everyone involved in the club gets a championship ring

beef wrote:

amber_fluid wrote:

tigerpie wrote:Premiership medals should go to the 23 that played on the day.
There's always a hard luck story or two, but that's footy.
It's cruel for blokes like Adams, even Bob Murphy but I don't agree with the whole squad getting them.

Assistant coaches will be putting their hands up shortly for medals too!

At least they play their role on GF day and not injured
The amount of work they do is normally only recognized within the club
I am surprised in these days of everyone wins a prize that we havent gone down the NBA path where the receptionist and everyone involved in the club gets a championship ring

I think the owners of the NBA franchises do those, only the players get official NBA ones. ( Could be wrong ).

In America even the receptionists get Superbowl rings.
Most clubs look after staff here in a different way, last year for example Geelong gave all their staff replica mini premiership cups.

The endless debate with no right or wrong.

I've been on so many different ends of this. I won an amateur A Grade Soccer Cup Medal as an unused substitute and also won a cup medal as a playing sub. Soccer culture is anyone who played in any cup round games wins a medal but definitely felt weird as an unused substitute in a final to collect a medal still in my warmup gear.

I was once dropped for a union A Grade grand final which we won after playing every game in the season, the club 'bought' me a medal and whilst i felt i deserved one and played a role in winning the premiership it didn't feel right, i took the medal but would have preferred the club didnt do it for me at presentation night. The next year i won a medal in my own right as a player and clearly that sits massively above the non-playing medal which im a tad embarrassed about.

I won a b grade aussies rules medal this year as coach and whilst i absolute love it i felt bad 3 blokes had played the majority of the season and missed out. I couldn't do a Bob Murphy moment for just one of them. The club bought them a medal as well and all 3 (young guys 16-19) accepted the medal but clearly doesn't mean as much to them.

Whilst 99.9% of us would all agree that squads win premierships it would never ever feel the same getting one as a squad member who didn't play so really no need to give them the genuine premiership medal. Nothing against them getting something else though via the club just like giving the assistants, receptionists etc something.

MW wrote:Crowd 100,023

Close.
There were 100,024 in attendance.

Trader wrote:

MW wrote:Crowd 100,023

Close.
There were 100,024 in attendance.

There were more than that at the end
They opened the gates at the start of the last quarter.
The aisles were full around us

According to BT it was a thousand and twenty four.
Idiot didn't even correct himself!!!