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Re: 2018 AFL Season

Postby Corona Man » Wed Jan 17, 2018 12:52 pm

Booney wrote:So 13th v 15th "with finals on the line" would be interesting?

Please, you've got to be ******* with us, right?

Yeah like the Stars vs Sixers last night - :Hangman:
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Re: 2018 AFL Season

Postby bennymacca » Wed Jan 17, 2018 12:54 pm

Booney wrote:So 13th v 15th "with finals on the line" would be interesting?

Please, you've got to be ******* with us, right?


Would be for port fans [emoji6]
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Re: 2018 AFL Season

Postby Booney » Wed Jan 17, 2018 1:00 pm

bennymacca wrote:
Booney wrote:So 13th v 15th "with finals on the line" would be interesting?

Please, you've got to be ******* with us, right?


Would be for port fans [emoji6]


Yeah, I see how that's relevant. :shock:
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Re: 2018 AFL Season

Postby bennymacca » Wed Jan 17, 2018 1:12 pm

Come on booney it’s not that hard

At present 13th vs 15th in round 19 is a completely nothing game.

If, in my structure, there was div 2 finals for 10-13th then that same game would have more meaning in the context of that finals series.

The overall level of interest in that finals series is another argument
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Re: 2018 AFL Season

Postby amber_fluid » Wed Jan 17, 2018 1:30 pm

I know a Div 2 premiership is the closest thing Carlton will ever get close too in the next 5 years but I’d still never go or support it.

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Re: 2018 AFL Season

Postby MW » Wed Jan 17, 2018 1:35 pm

there will never be two divisions
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Re: 2018 AFL Season

Postby Booney » Wed Jan 17, 2018 1:35 pm

bennymacca wrote:Come on booney it’s not that hard

At present 13th vs 15th in round 19 is a completely nothing game.

If, in my structure, there was div 2 finals for 10-13th then that same game would have more meaning in the context of that finals series.

The overall level of interest in that finals series is another argument


No argument from me, there'd be **** all.
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Re: 2018 AFL Season

Postby Booney » Wed Jan 17, 2018 1:36 pm

amber_fluid wrote:I know a Div 2 premiership is the closest thing Carlton will ever get close too in the next 5 years but I’d still never go or support it.

Can only be one winner lads!!


We know that, you're a #closetportfan so why would you?
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Re: 2018 AFL Season

Postby amber_fluid » Wed Jan 17, 2018 1:41 pm

Booney wrote:
amber_fluid wrote:I know a Div 2 premiership is the closest thing Carlton will ever get close too in the next 5 years but I’d still never go or support it.

Can only be one winner lads!!


We know that, you're a #closetportfan so why would you?


If by Port you mean the original and real Port Magpies than yes I certainly support them(when they existed).

If you mean the hybrid Power team than NO certainly not!

And bring on the new season as I can’t wait to sling sh*t on Watts if he gets a game ;)
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Re: 2018 AFL Season

Postby saintal » Wed Jan 17, 2018 2:00 pm

Imagine the buzz of a Div 2 flag.

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Re: 2018 AFL Season

Postby Corona Man » Wed Jan 17, 2018 2:21 pm

saintal wrote:Imagine the buzz of a Div 2 flag.

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Re: 2018 AFL Season

Postby Booney » Wed Jan 17, 2018 3:59 pm

PORT ADELAIDE great Kane Cornes believes AFL players now have too much time off and player power has gone too far.

In the wake of Melbourne players scrapping a proposed pre-season training camp, Cornes questioned the Demons squad’s mentality as they look to make finals for the first time in 11 years.

Melbourne ruckman Max Gawn revealed on SEN the Demons’ leadership group had player welfare concerns after Christian Salem and Dom Tyson were injured in a similar camp last year.

Cornes said he understood Gawn’s reasoning but with the amount of holidays AFL players received, to knock a training camp on the head could prove a “defining moment”.

“The spotlight will be on them pretty heavily and if things don’t go well, in the media, we are going to refer back to his defining moment in the pre-season,” he told SEN.

“These players now ... are getting far too much time off.

“Coaches at the level are really frustrated by how little access they have to their players.

“Just to explain further, they get 8-10 weeks off depending on how long they’ve been in the system for, they get a further 2-3 weeks off at Christmas, there’s three mandatory four-day breaks throughout the season, they have a dedicated day off and afternoon off during the week.

“You add it up and its 14-15 weeks off and I know fans get frustrated by missing easy shots and skill level errors.

“You look at the Australian Open tennis on right now, do you reckon Rafael Nadal is not hitting a tennis ball for 14 weeks of the year. It’s crazy.”

Cornes said player power had now gone too far after the AFL Players’ Association got involved in the Demons’ camp decision.

After Melbourne’s heart-breaking finals failure in 2017, the Power premiership midfielder thought the playing group would be doing everything in its power to make 2018 count.

“Then you get players refusing to go on a camp, I think it’s a stretch. Soft is not the right word because AFL players are not soft but player power has gone too far,” he said.

“I just reckon the Melbourne players have erred on this occasion.

“One of Max’s reasons was player injury, can you imagine Simon Goodwin sitting around with his assistant coaches and high performance staff and thinking we’re going to take these players on a camp to get them hurt, it just wouldn’t happen.

“Some of their players are as tough as any ... (but) mentally, perhaps they’re just not willing to go that extra 1 or 2 per cent that they’re going to need to, to play finals this year.
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Re: 2018 AFL Season

Postby bennymacca » Wed Jan 17, 2018 4:03 pm

He makes a decent point
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Re: 2018 AFL Season

Postby amber_fluid » Wed Jan 17, 2018 4:32 pm

bennymacca wrote:He makes a decent point


He had to eventually given all the bullshit he speaks.
The blokes a deadset moron.
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Re: 2018 AFL Season

Postby Spargo » Wed Jan 17, 2018 4:32 pm

amber_fluid wrote:
bennymacca wrote:He makes a decent point


He had to eventually given all the bullshit he speaks.
The blokes a deadset moron.

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Re: 2018 AFL Season

Postby amber_fluid » Wed Jan 17, 2018 4:40 pm

Spargo wrote:
amber_fluid wrote:
bennymacca wrote:He makes a decent point


He had to eventually given all the bullshit he speaks.
The blokes a deadset moron.

:lol:


Is it just me or is Kane reaching Kyrgios, Tomic and dare I say it, ‘Mundine’ territory?
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Re: 2018 AFL Season

Postby MW » Thu Jan 18, 2018 7:48 am

Kane saying what we've all been saying for weeks re. Melbourne players pulling out of the camp. Catch up Cornes.
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Re: 2018 AFL Season

Postby Brodlach » Fri Jan 19, 2018 8:15 pm

Big blow to GWS with Zac Williams rupturing an Achilles and may be out for the season
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Re: 2018 AFL Season

Postby Dutchy » Sun Jan 21, 2018 11:24 pm

87 Bears Reunion...gold!

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Re: 2018 AFL Season

Postby am Bays » Mon Jan 22, 2018 6:10 am

Capper didn't go to the Bears until 88
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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