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gay picnic defence posted:It's Adelaide, of course they're miserable. Aside from the footy what else do the poor fuckers have to do? Go to church? Spoken like someone who has never tried our cheese
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NTRabbit posted:Spoken like someone who has never tried our cheese I've tried SA cheese. Shaw & Smith used to do (and I assume still do) a wine tasting where they give you a bunch of wines and a cheese to go with each. That was like 10 years ago now (gently caress me sideways time flies) and I assume more of those places have opened up doing boutique foodie stuff since then.
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gay picnic defence posted:It's Adelaide, of course they're miserable. Aside from the footy what else do the poor fuckers have to do? Go to church? At the moment, go outside.
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Adelaide is a really lovely place to live and I am forever befuddled by the "Adelaide is awful" jokes. Like, I would never joke that Melbourne is a poo poo place to live. It's not, it's great. So is Adelaide. They're very comparable. Same opportunities, same climate, same culture, same footy obsession. Melbourne is just a bigger Adelaide. If I was going to live anywhere other than Adelaide, it would be Melbourne because every time I visit it feels immediately familiar in ways that other Australian cities simply don't. thepokey posted:I find it funny that a lot of Adelaide fans are this much doom and gloom. Not to say they aren’t deplorable right now - of course they are. But this so far is really Adelaides first *really* bad year. They’ve never really truly bottomed out before. Plenty of other clubs have been through long lovely slogs at the bottom for various reasons. I’m sure Adelaide will sort their poo poo out whether it’s in a year or two or three and bounce back. I agree that this is the first time we've been this bad, ever. The problem is that we've been on this path for what feels like two decades now. We just keep going through a cycle of looking alright but not quite good enough, then declining. Each time, instead of actually addressing the underlying issues, we paper over the cracks, trade in some bargain basement mature age talent, maybe replace a coach, but keep everything else in place, particularly our administrative structure. We constantly offer coaching or administrative jobs to our ex-players that no other club wants, we overpay our long-term players that no other club wants, and struggle to actually attract or retain any genuine talent, even when they're from SA to start with. And inevitably we repeat the cycle, each time sinking a bit further and a bit further. It always seemed as if we would eventually land at rock bottom, and now here we are, and we have made no steps whatsoever to begin turning things around. It would be one thing if we'd spent the last few years getting our club in shape and were now primed to start climbing back up the ladder, but that's not the case. We look light years away from even just scraping ourselves up off the bottom of the ladder, let alone competing for a flag. Back when Kurt Tippett left the club and we had our two years of draft sanctions, there was a saying among Crows fans that we now had a "war chest". All that money, and no highly rated draft picks... surely we'd be able to go and target some quality players, just like our quality players were always targeted. But it never actually happened. Either we got turned down, or we spread that cash among our remaining players to keep them there, but every year we'd lose a player reportedly earning 500k plus, and yet we'd never bring anyone in on anything close to that cash. What are we doing with all the money we were paying Tippett, and Dangerfield, and the rest? The one time we actually offered a player big money, Eddie Betts, it became probably our best trade since we landed Andrew McLeod. But outside of Bryce Gibbs (lol) it never happened again. Meanwhile, we somehow keep losing our quality youth because we won't meet their contract demands. It's been a very frustrating, slow decline over years and this is the end result. And even when we've had rare windows of opportunities to win flags (05, 06, 12, 17) we haven't got it done. I'm just glad I've got two young kids and an increasingly busy work life to distract me from footy at the moment. A decade ago I would be devastated to see how poorly my team was playing. At the moment, I'm just hoping this finally jolts the club into making real, genuine, wholesale changes. Get rid of the administrators that have presided over this decline for years and years and put some new people in there. cmndstab fucked around with this message at 08:33 on Jul 21, 2020 |
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Chairchucker posted:At the moment, go outside. 
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gay picnic defence posted:It's Adelaide, of course they're miserable. Aside from the footy what else do the poor fuckers have to do? Go to church? I think Adelaide people are befuddled by why we are upset that everything is closed in Melbourne, that's just everyday life is in Adelaide. I can understand Adelaide fans being unhappy at the moment, but talking of "may as well close the club down" and such is a bit dramatic. Essendon went through the supplement saga and haven't won a final since Federation. Carlton and Melbourne both had deplorable runs at the bottom. Port was the absolute laughing stock for years etc. Adelaide were in a GF 3 years ago. I know its all been downhill since but, y'know, it's your turn now. thepokey fucked around with this message at 09:41 on Jul 21, 2020 |
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20 days of footy coming up: https://www.afl.com.au/news/468187/footy-every-day-dogs-tigers-clash-kicks-off-fixture-frenzy some of the scheduling is pretty awful, for example: Thursday July 30 Carlton vs Hawthorn (Perth Stadium), 3:40pm (5:40pm est) Melbourne vs Port Adelaide (Gabba), 8:10pm (est) Why not make Friday nights the doubleheader?
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Melbourne has been completely hosed over in this fixture. We have a game in all four weeks, and each game requires travelling to a different state. Essendon, the only other team playing four games, doesn't leave Queensland. Pretty much every other team sets up in a hub, or has a bye week before they travel. I get that it can't be easy to do a fixture with current circumstances but loving hell. Fingers crossed the Tassie government doesn't approve it so we can stay in Queensland for that game.
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cmndstab posted:Get rid of the administrators that have presided over this decline for years and years and put some new people in there. It took a drug scandal to get rid of most of the worst of Essendon's administration, you gotta do better than an abusive camp if you want wholesale change.
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thepokey posted:I can understand Adelaide fans being unhappy at the moment, but talking of "may as well close the club down" and such is a bit dramatic. Essendon went through the supplement saga and haven't won a final since Federation. See, this is the problem. You guys went through the supplement saga, and then cleaned out the club afterwards. Do you know who the Crows chairman was when the Tippett saga happened? Rob Chapman. And who was the chairman when the camp debacle happened? Rob Chapman. And who is still the chairman? Rob Chapman. He's announced he's finally stepping aside after 2020, but not because of anything that's gone wrong. He's just finally had enough fun. How can you oversee that many utter failures and still keep your job? He's far from the only one. It took years and years for us to finally get rid of Stephen Trigg, and there are even rumours now (unsubstantiated at this stage) that we asked him to come back. Essentially our entire upper admin structure has been there for years, and every time we lurch into another disaster these same people who oversaw the last dozen disasters "fix" the problem by doing the minimal possible change which never involves any of them. And even with Rob Chapman stepping aside, I have no faith that they'll appoint someone good to the role. They will most likely have a "nationwide search for the most qualified person" that results in just promoting from within, like they always do. This is the club that has had such utter morons (and, inevitably, former Crows players) as Nigel Smart and Brett Burton holding top positions after promoting them from roles they've previously failed in. Obviously I don't want the club to shut down. What I want is actual change, from the top. Not just a replaced coach, or a couple of scapegoats like last time, and even those changes were resisted until they were absolutely unavoidable. If it takes going through a period of utter dreck to finally force our hand on that, so be it. cmndstab fucked around with this message at 03:08 on Jul 22, 2020 |
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Suns absolutely robbed by the umpires. How the gently caress was that not a downfield free on their last kick forward?
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Umpires favoured the dogs you say?
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Jul 23, 2020 12:59
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Forum Joe posted:Suns got gifted enough decisions during the game. Umpiring was an absolute trash fire in both directions but from what I saw the dogs got the better of it overall, hosed if I know what incorrect disposal or holding the ball even are anymore. Multiple cases of polar opposite decisions from one play to the next.
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Windmill Hut posted:Melbourne has been completely hosed over in this fixture. We have a game in all four weeks, and each game requires travelling to a different state. 
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Solemn Sloth posted:Multiple cases of polar opposite decisions from one play to the next. This annoyed me more last week than how badly Essendon was playing. Dogs player got tackled from behind, free kick for in the back. Merrett gets driven into the ground, free kick holding the ball. It made it hard to watch the Collingwood game as a neutral observer too.
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I dislike Toby Greene immensely. Both as a person and a footballer. I wish nothing but misery and degradation upon him.
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On the flip side, he sunk Richmond tonight so, y'know even the bad ones are capable of some good acts
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What the gently caress umpires? Prior opportunity is still a loving thing. You cant just ping the last player to pick it up before being immediately tackled.
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The umpire that gave that free to Papley needs to be suspended. This bullshit needs to stop. We get it you’re pissy about clarko telling you how bad you are at your job but guess what YOURE loving TERRIBLE AT IT
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im all for the umps punishing the hawks opened pandoras box clarco
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realbez posted:The umpire that gave that free to Papley needs to be suspended. Yeah, that was ridiculous. What a loving game changer.
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Clarkson is a salty bitch https://twitter.com/7AFL/status/1286958585482641408/ Although good of him to take the heat off the players for the rest of the week.
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Carn Saints
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drunkill posted:Clarkson is a salty bitch https://afltables.com/afl/stats/players/T/Tom_Papley.html lol, he averages 1 free against and 1 free for a game
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the Power faithful sound extra feral tonight. Saints are keeping it close, it's exciting but also really nerve-wracking.
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Port are like the SA Essendon. Heroes against brainless opponents but fold against anyone who is up for it
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The Membrey goal should have been a free against him for kicking in danger
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First time in 120 years a team has won kicking just one behind.
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That Membray goal owned, haters vacate. Testekill posted:First time in 120 years a team has won kicking just one behind. And St. Kilda being the ones to accomplish that is beyond astonishing considering the last few years!
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Solemn Sloth posted:The Membrey goal should have been a free against him for kicking in danger His foot was well infront of the defender, stop trying to suck the fun out of everything.
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The best bit about the Membrey goal is you can hear a Port supporter screaming at the ump at the top of his lungs "you are breaking this game!"
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Nutsngum posted:His foot was well infront of the defender, stop trying to suck the fun out of everything. Enjoy the win dickhead, you still can’t go up in a contest with your foot.
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Solemn Sloth posted:Enjoy the win dickhead, you still can’t go up in a contest with your foot.
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Toby Greene says hi.
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17.3.2(i) Kicks or attempts to kick the football in a manner likely to cause injury If you don’t think attempting some dumb bicycle kick while your opponent is contesting the ball right there, while spectacular to look at, meets that definition you’re a dumbass. What could go wrong with encouraging players to kick the ball mid-air out of a contest *Jeff White sets off another metal detector in the background*
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