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spamman posted:I still have no idea what Carlton are trying to achieve with their list. id really like to see the power make the finals again, their end to 2012 was epic. i think the dees desperately need a good run with injury, if they get that then there might be some light i think the eagles also suffered from gaff and shuey coming under closer scrutiny than they were used to (plus schuey's injuries), they should be better for it this year round
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also the OP was pretty light on with the dees recent history. i would have made more mention of how badly the club screwed itself over by spending 3 years rebuilding their list then hiring some turkey who throws it all out the window on arrival and actively trades for other clubs dead wood so they can be dead wood in the dees colours instead. most supporters should have been wearing black to games instead of red and blue at mid-point during 2012. if they actually went to games n such.
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is it just me or do the eagles have way too many talls in their side at the moment?
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pity neeld wasnt still in charge of the dees, we could have given up a first round pick to bring him over
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TG-Chrono posted:I totally remember looking this ripped as an 18 year old. must be all them legally sanctioned injections the afl spent all last year desperately avoiding a conversation on
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lol i evened googled joe daniher to confirm it was him and was confident it was despite the height difference with hurley... well played essendon in drafting two horse toothed players in such short succession of each other..
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cmndstab posted:And, oh boy, you think Bigfooty went nuts over Goodes' recent award...... how many times has the term 'uppity' been used?
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cmndstab posted:It was something along the line of taking his stepfather's name when he was a kid because it was easier at school. Then when he grew up, he chose to keep it out of respect for his stepfather. Once his stepfather passed away, he looked to reclaim some of his heritage and chose to use his birth name again. from memory wasnt brian lake's namechange from a nearly exact situation?
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for real tho i like having H in the league, i think he generally has some real poignant things to say about race relations in australia in being a dude who is australian in that altho he was born abroad he was raised here since he was 3. his comments about walking down the street and having people yell out racial epithets at him from cars is a thing i know a few of my mates have experienced despite being australian regardless of their skin colour, and its good to open a public conversation on these things - ie dont do that, stop being a racist shithead etc.
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i got real big opinions re: players wearing boots that dont match the colours of their jumpers and i will take anyone on to the death about it
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gay picnic defence posted:Fluro green boots go nicely with the bile Melbourne serve up on the field though jesus christ youre a oval office you know nothing about football augh these people in this thread i cant stand it!!
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although black boots tend to annoy me despite being a neutral colour, they always make the players look like they have tiny little feet
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The Deadly Hume posted:My main concern is that they use a font that doesn't suck. If it's Impact or Machine I won't be too happy. comic sans would be p awesome
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port adelaide would just get their players to tag their jumpers with a spray can
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we also got rid of the little collar from last year (which i actually liked)
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pfft theyve got nothing on the mascots the herald sun was using last year, ie fremantle's living anchor
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Volkerball posted:He did the Saints but not the Dees. nobody does the dees like the way they do themselves
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lmao the blues mascot is literally a gimp. its like the richard pratt days all over again
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im just glad the dees mascot isnt wearing a barrel
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also disappointed the gold coast one isnt just a giant emblazoned crotch shot of some budgy smugglers
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i think he's at the age where the blues will only need him as a finals specialist for the next couple of years
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The Deadly Hume posted:What's the reason Mitch Clark needs his own name written on his back? thats what happens after spending too much time in queensland
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while footy shorts are really comfy to bum around in and run in i wish the ones they sold in stores came with key pockets on the inside. screw authenticity i want practicality
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didnt someone in this or the cricket thread find some gadget that put in an adjustable delay to radio so you can solve this very problem?
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does anyone in this thread play footy? i played my first match of afl 9s last night and im still ambivalent about whether to go into club footy this year or not as ill be doing a fair bit of travelling this year, but previously playing 9's (and soccer) has usually kept giving me groin problems and wondering if any of you dudes have found the same and tips to avoid it?
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Cloud the Cat posted:I play Footy and I actually played a game of mixed Afl 9's last week too, it was...interesting? Can't really comment on groin problems but last season I found my kicking leg hamstring was sore basically all season even with extensive stretching and rubs, which is annoying. i have been wanting to play club footy for loving ages but kept letting circumstances get in the way (working as a contractor in a physical job, then most recently working away), and now im in a position to be able to play it just fine except im gonna be in the US for 6 weeks mid-year with probably another holiday or so in there too so dont really wanna spend however many hundred signing up to a club i'll only play half the season for (if im lucky). that said i still really wanna play club footy. we'll see how 9's goes for the next 9 weeks or so. i actually really like 9's. its pretty counter-intuitive to normal footy (especially when playing in defence) but i like to think of it as a high intensity skills training session rather than a footy game. our first game turned out alright though, we were beaten easily in the first half but held the other team scoreless in the second to win by 11 The Job Creators posted:Go see a physio. I had awful calf problems when I was playing footy, which the physio identified as being due to having collapsed arches. Some massage and a pair of orthotics improved it heaps. yeah i used to get shin splints really bad until i talked to a few runners and they told me about stretching out your calves before and after every run, never had them since in 5+ years snaeksikn fucked around with this message at 02:38 on Feb 13, 2014 |
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TG-Chrono posted:Varcoe played in the centre and had most clearances. varcoe is a good player but isnt a natural forward and never has been. it would be good for the cats to give him some proper time in another position this year
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i got some fond memories of junior footy though. there was always that fat kid who used to scream abuse at the umpire all game despite being really shithouse himself. there was always the kid who hit puberty early and was a foot taller and 10kg heavier than everyone else on the field and would play in ruck then just come coasting through clearances to kick 50m goals at ball ups with 4 kids hanging off him. 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. there was always the spuds who were stuck in back pocket or forward pocket because the coaches didnt really give a poo poo.
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also the afl 9's team last night had a dude who was legit in his 50's and not even 60kg turn up to play so: suck it up, get into it, no worse than going to kings cross/northbridge every week as far as risk goes
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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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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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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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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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Gough Suppressant posted:I think it entirely depends on what Melbourne turns up tonight. If Melbourne are ready to put in a four quarter effort then I don't think Richmond has the abilty to blow them away without riewoldt or maric. If it's the melbourne that turned up in rounds one and two last year then yeah, the auckland under 12 girls netball team could flog them. previous Paul roos teams haven't ever done well during preseason games so there's also that
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id really like to see howe get a 50 goal season in at some point
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Gough Suppressant posted:Doubt it will happen with him being the tertiary target in a healthy forward line. His kicking has gotten a lot better in the last two years though. im listening to the radio and it sounds like theyre attacking the corridor a lot more, its almost like theyre going back to the bailey plan in a way
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