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The way I'm viewing this season is that if we beat Carlton that is akin to us making the finals and if we beat Hawthorn we are the honorary premiers 
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I'd also be pretty happy with beating Richmond in an ultimate Richmonding when they're up by 50 points at 3/4 time and losing means them getting 9th. This year is basically a magical fictional year where I can sort of just make up my own plot to what's going on.
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I want to be confident that the Saints wont lose to either the Dons or Carlton this year but I just can't do it. It should be a relatively easy 4 wins but I just feel like it's just setting myself up for disappointment.
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Feb 23, 2016 11:14
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Hopefully this year we're just THAT side that fucks with other teams at the worst possible times and catches people napping to ruins finals chances etc. Sort of the AFL equivalent to the kid who got into the Daytona Racing game at TimeZone and drove the course in reverse purely to have head on collisions with the race leaders to ruin their game.
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Feb 23, 2016 11:42
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thepokey posted:Hopefully this year we're just THAT side that fucks with other teams at the worst possible times and catches people napping to ruins finals chances etc. Sort of the AFL equivalent to the kid who got into the Daytona Racing game at TimeZone and drove the course in reverse purely to have head on collisions with the race leaders to ruin their game. Being that guy to geelong and Collingwood last year was kinda grand
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thepokey posted:Hopefully this year we're just THAT side that fucks with other teams at the worst possible times and catches people napping to ruins finals chances etc. Sort of the AFL equivalent to the kid who got into the Daytona Racing game at TimeZone and drove the course in reverse purely to have head on collisions with the race leaders to ruin their game. Essendon is the kid who pulls the powercord as youre about to achieve victory and then tries to pretend it wasnt him.
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Feb 23, 2016 13:57
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Essendon did that without even playing us, when they rolled over and stopped playing in the last round to give St Kilda a million point win and just enough percentage boost to jump us to 4th in 2008
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Nutsngum posted:Essendon is the kid who pulls the powercord as youre about to achieve victory and then tries to pretend it wasnt him. Only if that kid was explicitly told not to pull the power cord after the last time he pulled it
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Feb 23, 2016 14:28
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Luke Hodge is over by the Mortal Kombat machine, hogging it and pulling fatalities on 8 year olds using up all their pocket money just to play a fun game.
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Saints and Bulldogs are going at the claw grabber machine, jostling for front position. Collingwood always shows up with an entire roll of those tickets. No one knows how. Geelong doesnt have electricity and its too far to come. The top 10 scoreboard on every machine has a big RIC at 9th place. Melbourne already owns all the games on his NEO GEO he got for being really good at his skiing lessons. Carlton has just sunk 50 bucks on Time Crisis 2 but just cant seem to get pass the second stage drat it. North doesnt "believe in gaming"
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Nutsngum posted:Saints and Bulldogs are going at the claw grabber machine, jostling for front position.  Gold Coast are all huddled around the House of the Dead game cheering on their one good player Eagles are experts at Duck Hunt
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Feb 23, 2016 16:59
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thepokey posted:
We have more than one good player. What's that? Jaeger bought property in Melbourne? Well....poo poo.
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Probably should have changed that to something like the TMNT arcade game where they're flying but as soon as GAJ's Leonardo gets killed the other players die immediately after.
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thepokey posted:Probably should have changed that to something like the TMNT arcade game where they're flying but as soon as GAJ's Leonardo gets killed the other players die immediately after. Is that the same game as the one where you fall down a man hole and it says "DUHHHH WHO TURNED OUT THE LIGHTS?"
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Top Scores: ROSSDBOSS LYONHRT ILUVZAK 
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Contract talks are off until next year - but Jesse Hogan's manager says he's still loyal. Suicide watch begins now.
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TG-Chrono posted:Contract talks are off until next year - but Jesse Hogan's manager says he's still loyal. RIP half the thread
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Quick better look for every other player in the league with only two years left on their contract and write stories about it too
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Solemn Sloth posted:Quick better look for every other player in the league with only two years left on their contract and write stories about it too  You're right, but the language is too easy to come across as PLEASEDONTLEAVEUS 
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Richmond struggling to explain how Vickery came off against Freo with concussion symptoms. Fair warning: the footage is bizarre and a bit disturbing.
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TG-Chrono posted:
What do you honestly expect them to say? Saying nothing will get beaten up by the media massively. Having a sook about it is likely to make him pissed off with us. I still believe Hogans decision will be by and large based on whether he believes he will see success at Melbourne or not. If we get ten wins and don't lose by a hundred points he might sign at the end of this year. If not, he will probably be fielding offers throughout next year and we would need to pull off something serious to keep him. His manager would also be an idiot and bordering on professional negligence to allow the most talked about young player (in terms of contract status) to sign a contract now rather than waiting to see the new bargaining agreement at the end of the year.
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Shmoses posted:Richmond struggling to explain how Vickery came off against Freo with concussion symptoms. Fair warning: the footage is bizarre and a bit disturbing. That is really loving concerning
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Shmoses posted:Richmond struggling to explain how Vickery came off against Freo with concussion symptoms. Fair warning: the footage is bizarre and a bit disturbing. well his opponent was noted Good Bloke alex silvagni
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Shmoses posted:Richmond struggling to explain how Vickery came off against Freo with concussion symptoms. Fair warning: the footage is bizarre and a bit disturbing. Probably got a brain tumor or something
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Shmoses posted:Richmond struggling to explain how Vickery came off against Freo with concussion symptoms. Fair warning: the footage is bizarre and a bit disturbing. I don't think that he has had a history of head injuries, only thing that I can think of it that he has a problem with his brain itself.
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Shmoses posted:Richmond struggling to explain how Vickery came off against Freo with concussion symptoms. Fair warning: the footage is bizarre and a bit disturbing. That is really not cool, I hope they really check him properly before letting him back into full contact training.
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snaeksikn posted:well his opponent was noted Good Bloke alex silvagni Apparently Richmond went back through the game and couldn't figure out what caused it
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Shmoses posted:Richmond struggling to explain how Vickery came off against Freo with concussion symptoms. Fair warning: the footage is bizarre and a bit disturbing. Just got distracted by the king of seagulls .
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snaeksikn posted:well his opponent was noted Good Bloke alex silvagni He's not smart enough to hide an incident from cameras, but you can understand why the Tigs asked Freo if something had happened they missed.
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Shmoses posted:Richmond struggling to explain how Vickery came off against Freo with concussion symptoms. Fair warning: the footage is bizarre and a bit disturbing. Luke Hodge has got some explaining to do I reckon
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That's just bizarre. Tell Barry Hall that's what a real brainfade looks like.
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That looks awfully like a stroke. Aneurysm or embolism I reckon, hope they catch it before it does real damage
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ZombieJesus posted:That looks awfully like a stroke. Aneurysm or embolism I reckon, hope they catch it before it does real damage That's what I'm terrified of, it reminds me of how Koschitze collapsed during an interview following his concussion.
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You wonder at what point will mandatory helmets be discussed or even debated, not to say it will ever happen, but as the game grows, players are stronger and faster and perhaps more likely to injure one another. We still don't fully understand the true nature of concussions and they consequences of them, as each person may be different.
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I might be totally wrong, but I always thought helmets were better at preventing broken bones than they were at stopping concussions.
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I'd be pretty happy if we at least got to a stage where I didn't feel like commentators would call a player a poof for choosing to wear a helmet
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Testekill posted:That's what I'm terrified of, it reminds me of how Koschitze collapsed during an interview following his concussion. What was worse was the collapse happened like two months after it, well after symptoms should have disappeared. Kosi was just never the same player after that. Christo3 posted:You wonder at what point will mandatory helmets be discussed or even debated, not to say it will ever happen, but as the game grows, players are stronger and faster and perhaps more likely to injure one another. We still don't fully understand the true nature of concussions and they consequences of them, as each person may be different. Problem is that quite a few studies have shown that helmets have almost no benefits to preventing concussion, whilst also breeding a "culture" of putting your head in more dangerous positions. Kind of why the NFL has far bigger concussion issues then footy ever has.
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Periphery posted:I might be totally wrong, but I always thought helmets were better at preventing broken bones than they were at stopping concussions. This is true. Concussions are injuries suffered by the brain rather than the skull, so you're effectively talking about the brain getting bounced off the inside of the skull. The amount of padding you would need to remove acceleration enough to fully eliminate it would be ridiculous. That being said, every bit helps, unless you start getting into the territory of players behaving more risking because they have a helmet than they otherwise would(this is a serious issue in NFL especially)
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