AFL 2024

[Booney]

GCS have now completed the set of finishing a round in every ladder position from 1st to 18th
Leaves CARL, PORT & RICH as the only teams left still to complete the set in the 18 team era.

[shoe boy]

The bounce is getting worse and the umps not re bouncing some very poor decisions

I believe the bounce must go.

[amber_fluid]

The bounce is getting worse and the umps not re bouncing some very poor decisions

I believe the bounce must go.

Bounce it to start the game(just to keep some tradition) then throw the rest up.

[Vamos]

Just F it off, adds no value, tradition has already been lost with all the rule changes.

[Armchair expert]

Ball should be launched like a missile silo

[Wedgie]

South Australian football champion Sonny Morey has been named the AFL's 2024 Sir Doug Nicholls Round honouree.

The Central District legend will be recognised at this year's AFL Dreamtime clash between Richmond and Essendon on the 25th of May at the MCG.

Morey was born at Yambah Station near Alice Springs and faced plenty of hardship growing up as a member of the Stolen Generations.

He is a revered figure of South Australian football after playing 213 SANFL games for the Bulldogs between 1964 and 1977 and becoming the first player at the club to reach the 200-game milestone.

The Arrernte man represented South Australia on four occasions and also produced tremendous football up in the country.

He man won the Norm Russell Medal as Central's best-and-fairest player in 1970 and was runner-up in the 1972 Magarey Medal.

After retiring from the SANFL, he joined Barossa and Light Football League club Eudunda as captain-coach and led the club to its first premiership in 18 years.

Morey would later play for the Salisbury Football Club in what was then known as the Northern Metropolitan Football League.

He said being the first player to reach 200 games at Central District was an "absolute honour".

"It's a lot different today – you can get 200 games up really quickly," Morey said.

"Not playing in finals, and if you're injured you might play ten out of the 18 games.

"To do it, I was pleased but somebody had to set a benchmark for the footy club."

Last year, he was inducted into the South Australian Football Hall of Fame as part of the 2023 inductees during the Magarey Medal awards night in Adelaide.

The AFL will celebrate and recognise those moments forged by First Nations people throughout Sir Doug Nicholls Round, which will be held over two weeks across Round 10 and 11.

[Lightning McQueen]

I was lucky enough to be great friends with one of his daughters as a teenager and spent a fair bit of time at his house, he was such a good role model for all the kids in the northern area.

The respect the man has earnt and deserves is enormous, it’s very fitting!

[Wedgie]

2 metre Peter got 4 games.

[Lightning McQueen]

2 metre Peter got 4 games.

Unfortunately it’s about right, IMO he went to the contest thinking he could mark it and then last split second he braced himself realising he wasn’t going to get there. There was no malice but that’s what the game has become……and understandably why.

Even as a Port supporter and an SPP admirer, I thought he had less intent to collide with a bump as SPP, it’s the outcome of collisions that the AFL don’t want to see and Cunningham was clearly in a bad way.

[mighty_tiger_79]

That's simply ridiculous ruling.

More physicality in corn hole

[Brodlach]

I’m not sure what else he could do? Is he expected to pull out of the contest at the last moment?

Eyes were on the ball the whole time. Cunningham contributed just as much as him IMO

[Spargo]

I’m not sure what else he could do? Is he expected to pull out of the contest at the last moment?

Eyes were on the ball the whole time. Cunningham contributed just as much as him IMO

His eyes were not on the ball the whole time. Don’t take your eyes off the ball, don’t turn to brace, go for the mark the whole time. Get to the contest first. No attempt to mark or spoil.
I’m staggered people don’t get this.

[Brodlach]

I thought he was attempt to mark, his chest marking looks really awkward normally.

If he didn’t brace at the last moment he might be out for weeks with broken ribs

[Armchair expert]

I’m not sure what else he could do? Is he expected to pull out of the contest at the last moment?

Eyes were on the ball the whole time. Cunningham contributed just as much as him IMO

His eyes were not on the ball the whole time. Don’t take your eyes off the ball, don’t turn to brace, go for the mark the whole time. Get to the contest first. No attempt to mark or spoil.
I’m staggered people don’t get this.

I said it on the night Wright should have pulled out of the contest #dutyofcare

[Brodlach]

Can’t pull out of a contest like that.

I guess we all see it differently

[Armchair expert]

Can’t pull out of a contest like that.

I guess we all see it differently

That is what the afl want him to do

[Wedgie]

In fairness it's pretty hard to pull out once you have momentum.

[dedja]

In fairness it's pretty hard to pull out once you have momentum.

That’s what I usually say to the missus.

[Spargo]

In fairness it's pretty hard to pull out once you have momentum.

You can still attempt to mark/spoil - he didn’t.

[Wedgie]

In fairness it's pretty hard to pull out once you have momentum.

You can still attempt to mark/spoil - he didn’t.

Might mark/spoil the sheets. No need for that.