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snaeksikn posted:there was always the one good kick in the team who would always end up at full back just cos he could hit targets from kickouts regardless of how good a defender he actually was. This was me. I was a slow runner, easily outbodied in any contest and couldn't win my own ball. But if I had a set kick I could hit a leading target on the chest. The u/18 team I played for didn't win a single game in the 2 years I played for them and we lost to the better teams by 150-200 points every time, so I got to take a lot of kick ins. It sounds miserable but it was actually a ton of fun just playing footy with my mates, getting flogged every week and under no pressure to be any good. Stopped playing after junior footy because gently caress being a complete sack of poo poo player in the seniors.
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St Kilda launched their Anzac day guernsey: As a commemorative/one-off guernsey I think it's pretty nice
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Feb 13, 2014 09:39
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davmo1 posted:Any predictions on final score? About 11,000 to lol. Lions are not even a reserves team tonight.
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the only time i ever turned in a good game during junior footy was when i was 14 and playing against the club which was mostly made up of the kids i was going to high school with and i somehow got put onto back flank then managed to kick the ball backwards in the first quarter. i was so pissed off at myself i hit every clearance as hard as i could for the rest of the game and got BOG that game. the next match i got named back pocket. junior footy, everyone
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Stumbletron posted:St Kilda launched their Anzac day guernsey: are they going to do a haka before the match?
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snaeksikn posted:are they going to do a haka before the match? God I hope so, even for the Saints that would be a special kind of trainwreck
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snaeksikn posted:the only time i ever turned in a good game during junior footy was when i was 14 and playing against the club which was mostly made up of the kids i was going to high school with and i somehow got put onto back flank then managed to kick the ball backwards in the first quarter. i was so pissed off at myself i hit every clearance as hard as i could for the rest of the game and got BOG that game. the next match i got named back pocket. I won best player for my U12s side which came with a prestigious $20 maccas voucher. I was the inside mid who couldn't run for poo poo but dove on everything.
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TG-Chrono posted:I won best player for my U12s side which came with a prestigious $20 maccas voucher. I was the inside mid who couldn't run for poo poo but dove on everything. i only ever got a mars bar :\ also when i was playing 9's the other year we had a kid who was like 13 playing for us who completely tore it up as an inside mid. it was hilarious given that there was myself and maybe 2 or 3 other players who could reliably take marks/hit targets in the entire other team, but we had this kid who was maybe 5'5 and 40kg who would just dominate nearly every clearance. pretty much every other player in the side had clearly never played junior footy nevermind any junior sport at all. ive always been jealous of people who are good in close, ive always been useless at it. which probably explains why i was always shithouse at basketball. im okay-ish as a forward on the lead or defending as im relatively quick as a guy whos 6'2 and close to 100kg but yeah the midfield has always been beyond me.
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My memory of junior footy was winning 5 flags in 6 years between under 14's and under 18's and hence not learning the value of a premiership. Played one year of senior footy, the highlight of which was tagging Brent Grgic for 5 minutes, during which time he did not register a possession.
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Have Brisbane got a bunch of injuries or did they choose to blood a bunch of new players by getting them absolutely loving massacred?
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Feb 13, 2014 10:58
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First 'big boy mcevoy' for the year dropped.
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Gough Suppressant posted:Have Brisbane got a bunch of injuries or did they choose to blood a bunch of new players by getting them absolutely loving massacred? Yeah only like 2 regulars I think... Still
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AFL lists only Brown, Gardiner and Paine. Scored 0.2 across the 2nd and 3rd quarters...
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Barry Hall the boundary rider getting very close to punching out some guys in the front row who keep annoying him!
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Shmoses posted:Man what is AFL 9's? 9 a side touch footy on a reduced size field where if you drop a mark the opposition gets a free kick.
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Gough Suppressant posted:9 a side touch footy on a reduced size field where if you drop a mark the opposition gets a free kick.
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Shmoses posted:Man what is AFL 9's? afl played with 9 players each side(3 in def, mid, and fwd) over a 100m pitch. everyone needs to start in their zone but can go wherever after ballup, only fwds can kick goals and then only within fwd zone, touch rules (you get 2 secs with no prior), automatic turnovers on every pass by foot or hand. other than that its basically footy.
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snaeksikn posted:afl played with 9 players each side(3 in def, mid, and fwd) over a 100m pitch. everyone needs to start in their zone but can go wherever after ballup, only fwds can kick goals and then only within fwd zone, touch rules (you get 2 secs with no prior), automatic turnovers on every pass by foot or hand. other than that its basically footy. From watching some of the games at half time at the footy, it also looks like you can't kick over a zone? Like someone in the back zone can't just bomb it all the way over the mid zone into the forward, someone has to take possession in the middle before moving it forward? So what if you don't have a team, and it's just you and you'd like to go along and be part of a team? I could only find info on joining as a group, I think.
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thepokey posted:From watching some of the games at half time at the footy, it also looks like you can't kick over a zone? Like someone in the back zone can't just bomb it all the way over the mid zone into the forward, someone has to take possession in the middle before moving it forward? yeah no big 50m bombs, cant kick it from backline to foward zone. the game rewards short bullet passes. the main thing thats different is playing in defence, in that if a hit up pass to a fwd thats going to miss and youre defending you are better off letting it pass through your hands than trying to go the grab cos you get the free kick anyway. the only loose grabs are in centre clearances. there should be coordinators listed for each area, email them and ask about teams looking for extra players. i think a season is about 900 bucks for 10 games or so, so you can generally play casually for ~10 bucks each game depending on the team and how many games you play. its a good game and i highly recommend it to anyone who likes kicking the footy around but isnt so keen on running 20 laps every training session only to get shirtfronted 10 minutes in by some fat bogan in c-grade in their first grade.
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hahahaha I love this. So accurate. I played mixed afl 9s, so you couldn't intercept girls going for a mark etc. We happened to play against a team of really good footballers and their girlfriends, we lost like 160-9 (girls get 9 points for a goal) but it was enjoyable I guess!
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Cloud the Cat posted:hahahaha I love this. So accurate. This reverse sexism is out of control :redditsay:
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Yay, AFL 9s chat! I played mixed 9s out of Moorabbin Oval last year. There wasn't enough numbers this year so the merged it with the Fawkner Park/South Yarra mixed comp. I couldn't handle the extra commute but my mates still played. Defending in that game loving sucks. I reckon it would be a much better game with a couple of minor rule tweaks (being able to spoil as the main one) but it's still enjoyable. It really does suck if you have an awful player on your team though. We have a 5 foot tall fat chick that can hardly run that just stands in the forward line that you need to be "insert silky skills player name here" to have any chance of getting it to her. The game really rewards creating overlap. If you can get two fit runners side by side they can just run down the field handballing to each other constantly creating 2-1 situations the whole way until a defender is forced to leave their man to help which allows them to kick over the top to someone wide open. It really sucks when you are on the receiving end of that. If you excel at circle work in normal footy training, this is the game for you.
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Stumbletron posted:St Kilda launched their Anzac day guernsey: I'm not even a supporter and i'd buy that
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xcore posted:circle work Put a trigger warning in next time
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The Job Creators posted:My memory of junior footy was winning 5 flags in 6 years between under 14's and under 18's and hence not learning the value of a premiership. I went from playing in a team with a bunch of really bad players with like, three good players.. where we would carry the team- to playing state rep football with the East Coast Eagles in Sydney. Was pretty great. Went from consistant losses to premierships everywhere!
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xcore posted:Yay, AFL 9s chat! Spoiling would seem to get rid of the low contact appeal though, since you'd doubtless have some dickheads come charging in at a five foot tall woman.
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Gough Suppressant posted:Spoiling would seem to get rid of the low contact appeal though, since you'd doubtless have some dickheads come charging in at a five foot tall woman. This is probably true, but if it's clear you can't make body contact it would make the game better. You can't really legislate against stupidity though, those same dickheads are probably charging into girls with the current rules. When i say spoil, I also mean things cutting off or intercepting a pass/handball. If you don't take it clean, it's a turnover. Its so frustrating. Considering it's basically a netball/AFL hybrid I think a loosening of the non-contact aspect won't scare people off. As it stands, mixed netball is a ton rougher. If the same level of contact were allowed, I still thing AFL 9's would be friendlier because by nature it's a lot less confined and the opportunity for niggle/shoving is greatly reduced. The Job Creators posted:Put a trigger warning in next time I don't get it..
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Circle work is the worst training drill in the world and brings up traumatic memories
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It brings up traumatic memories too but mainly of people in utes doing doughnuts.
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So what do you reckon the scoreline tonight will be? Melbourne is running a team of kids like Brisbane. 100 point thrashing again?
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