AFL 2017 - Year of the Dog (elephant! elephant!)

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Solemn Sloth: Jul 11, 2015; Baby you can shout at me,
But you can't need my eyes.

I'm a bit nervous that I'm going to be stuck following two bad teams tbh

# ¿ Feb 4, 2017 09:17

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# ¿ May 12, 2024 11:37

Solemn Sloth: Jul 11, 2015; Baby you can shout at me,
But you can't need my eyes.

I like when commentators talk about footy

# ¿ Feb 4, 2017 10:26

Solemn Sloth: Jul 11, 2015; Baby you can shout at me,
But you can't need my eyes.

I pity anyone who has to play footy in February heat on grounds closer to concrete than turf in give

# ¿ Feb 4, 2017 10:47

Solemn Sloth: Jul 11, 2015; Baby you can shout at me,
But you can't need my eyes.

I fuckin love daisy Pearce but that chemist warehouse ad is up there with the jack watts energy watch ad or whatever it was for cringe factor

# ¿ Feb 4, 2017 10:59

Solemn Sloth: Jul 11, 2015; Baby you can shout at me,
But you can't need my eyes.

The wind at casey fields living up to its reputation. There's a reason only two or three away teams kicked more than like 40 points last VFL season.

# ¿ Feb 5, 2017 07:22

Solemn Sloth: Jul 11, 2015; Baby you can shout at me,
But you can't need my eyes.

Also I'm still a bit miffed that Brisbane poached both our key forwards as their marquee players

# ¿ Feb 5, 2017 07:23

Solemn Sloth: Jul 11, 2015; Baby you can shout at me,
But you can't need my eyes.

Can't help but feel that 50 metre penalties should be reduced for the women's game given 80% of the kicks are going 30 or less

# ¿ Feb 5, 2017 07:32

Solemn Sloth: Jul 11, 2015; Baby you can shout at me,
But you can't need my eyes.

CARN THE DEES

# ¿ Feb 5, 2017 07:40

Solemn Sloth: Jul 11, 2015; Baby you can shout at me,
But you can't need my eyes.

drunkill posted:

Game paused due to lightning.

They are on half time break now, will come out to play the last 3 minutes of Q2, then swap ends and start Q3.

Thanks, was confusing. Another "benefit" of playing with in the middle of a paddock

# ¿ Feb 5, 2017 08:14

Solemn Sloth: Jul 11, 2015; Baby you can shout at me,
But you can't need my eyes.

Brisbane with the lead and the wind in wet weather. Not particularly hopeful.

# ¿ Feb 5, 2017 08:23

Solemn Sloth: Jul 11, 2015; Baby you can shout at me,
But you can't need my eyes.

Solemn Sloth posted:

I'm a bit nervous that I'm going to be stuck following two bad teams tbh

I'm no longer nervous

:negative:

# ¿ Feb 5, 2017 08:39

Solemn Sloth: Jul 11, 2015; Baby you can shout at me,
But you can't need my eyes.

Even Pearce has been poo poo today, tackled a lot but gave away frees, turned it over and got caught with the ball.

And to top it all off I'm in loving Cranbourne

# ¿ Feb 5, 2017 08:44

Solemn Sloth: Jul 11, 2015; Baby you can shout at me,
But you can't need my eyes.

snaeksikn posted:

One thing about the lower scoring and fewer teams is that percentage is going to play a much larger part in proceedings than in the men's

Also the fact that there's no finals series just a grand final for the top 2

# ¿ Feb 6, 2017 00:00

Solemn Sloth: Jul 11, 2015; Baby you can shout at me,
But you can't need my eyes.

I tipped wrong because I thought the good teams were bad and the bad teams were good

# ¿ Feb 6, 2017 01:09

Solemn Sloth: Jul 11, 2015; Baby you can shout at me,
But you can't need my eyes.

boy undead posted:

Also gently caress golden goal rules. It's worse in gridiron because it comes down to a coin flip to see who receives first, but the lack of right to reply is absurd.

If the receiver scores on the first drive there's a right of reply isn't there?

# ¿ Feb 6, 2017 04:42

Solemn Sloth: Jul 11, 2015; Baby you can shout at me,
But you can't need my eyes.

boy undead posted:

Apparently not. Pats won the toss, received, went down field for a touchdown and that was that.

What the gently caress I would have bet money on that not being the case. That is dumb as gently caress.

E: oh, actually I think it's that you can't win from a field goal off the first drive. Still dumb as gently caress,

# ¿ Feb 6, 2017 05:21

Solemn Sloth: Jul 11, 2015; Baby you can shout at me,
But you can't need my eyes.

Total time the ball was in play for the Super Bowl was 16 minutes and 4 seconds. I know that's normal for gridiron, but it doesn't make it any less stupid given how long it takes to play a match.

# ¿ Feb 7, 2017 08:19

Solemn Sloth: Jul 11, 2015; Baby you can shout at me,
But you can't need my eyes.

Income protection was one of the things they were able to convince the AFL to give

# ¿ Feb 9, 2017 06:44

Solemn Sloth: Jul 11, 2015; Baby you can shout at me,
But you can't need my eyes.

Yeah I really don't see the need for it tbh. Viney was obviously going to be the next captain, why not have him as vice captain for a while because Jones has really grown into the role

# ¿ Feb 10, 2017 04:21

Solemn Sloth: Jul 11, 2015; Baby you can shout at me,
But you can't need my eyes.

Penny has been an amazing person her whole life, she started prep having to carry a machine around with her because she was still recovering from
keyhole heart surgery.

# ¿ Feb 10, 2017 09:37

Solemn Sloth: Jul 11, 2015; Baby you can shout at me,
But you can't need my eyes.

those two goals in the last 40 seconds of the second quarter were neato, especially given how hard to come by goals have been so far in the season

# ¿ Feb 10, 2017 22:55

Solemn Sloth: Jul 11, 2015; Baby you can shout at me,
But you can't need my eyes.

You get to nominate which state you're being drafted in which for four of the teams means you get to nominate a team, but Victorian players get no say.

ANTI-VICTORIAN BIAS :qq:

# ¿ Feb 11, 2017 08:18

Solemn Sloth: Jul 11, 2015; Baby you can shout at me,
But you can't need my eyes.

gently caress my life

# ¿ Feb 11, 2017 10:36

Solemn Sloth: Jul 11, 2015; Baby you can shout at me,
But you can't need my eyes.

You'd think maybe in a comp where scores are under 50 points a game you'd learn pretty loving quick to not give away stupid frees and 50s for shots on goal but apparently not Jesus loving Christ

# ¿ Feb 11, 2017 10:38

Solemn Sloth: Jul 11, 2015; Baby you can shout at me,
But you can't need my eyes.

I actually am beginning to wish we didn't have a team so I could watch and enjoy women's footy without our shitness sapping my enthusiasm for the men's season

# ¿ Feb 11, 2017 10:43

Solemn Sloth: Jul 11, 2015; Baby you can shout at me,
But you can't need my eyes.

# ¿ Feb 11, 2017 10:57

Solemn Sloth: Jul 11, 2015; Baby you can shout at me,
But you can't need my eyes.

That defending...

# ¿ Feb 11, 2017 11:11

Solemn Sloth: Jul 11, 2015; Baby you can shout at me,
But you can't need my eyes.

Elise o'dea :allears:

# ¿ Feb 11, 2017 11:25

Solemn Sloth: Jul 11, 2015; Baby you can shout at me,
But you can't need my eyes.

More of that second half please

It's good to know that beating collingwood in the women's feels just as good as beating them in the men's.

# ¿ Feb 11, 2017 11:31

Solemn Sloth: Jul 11, 2015; Baby you can shout at me,
But you can't need my eyes.

Here's the one for the actual end of round 2

# ¿ Feb 12, 2017 12:53

Solemn Sloth: Jul 11, 2015; Baby you can shout at me,
But you can't need my eyes.

I think you mean Trayta Harris

# ¿ Feb 12, 2017 14:06

Solemn Sloth: Jul 11, 2015; Baby you can shout at me,
But you can't need my eyes.

New rule may be in place for round 1.

Just the kind of headline you want to see from a billion dollar league one month and change before the start of the season.

The rule in question is replacing the rushed behind penalty of a free kick on the goal line with a ball up 14 metres out(a marker will be painted). This will be trialled in the first two rounds of practice games, before inexplicably returning to a free kick for the final ones.

Speaking of distances, players have GPS technology which is metre accurate. Why the gently caress do umpires not have a button on the side of their whistle which communicates with their GPS tracker, which then beeps when the umpire has moved 50 metres?

# ¿ Feb 14, 2017 21:34

Solemn Sloth: Jul 11, 2015; Baby you can shout at me,
But you can't need my eyes.

But why should they have to devote any brain space to measuring distance when they're already carrying technology that can do it for them with accuracy?

# ¿ Feb 15, 2017 00:47

Solemn Sloth: Jul 11, 2015; Baby you can shout at me,
But you can't need my eyes.

There was a second goodbloke on the northern mound

# ¿ Feb 15, 2017 22:28

Solemn Sloth: Jul 11, 2015; Baby you can shout at me,
But you can't need my eyes.

The new WatchAFL site is really swish. And the ability to watch the foxfooty channel when a games not on :getin:

# ¿ Feb 16, 2017 09:25

Solemn Sloth: Jul 11, 2015; Baby you can shout at me,
But you can't need my eyes.

realbez posted:

Am I the only one watching this?

I'm kind of half watching it on the other screen, doesn't compare to the womens league for intensity

# ¿ Feb 16, 2017 10:31

Solemn Sloth: Jul 11, 2015; Baby you can shout at me,
But you can't need my eyes.

try just jumping at the ball and you might actually mark it instead of trying to blind turn in the air you nong

# ¿ Feb 16, 2017 10:35

Solemn Sloth: Jul 11, 2015; Baby you can shout at me,
But you can't need my eyes.

TG-Chrono posted:

http://www.theage.com.au/afl/afl-news/the-age-journalist-emma-quayle-breaks-afl-barrier-in-recruiting-for-gws-giants-20170216-guew5w.html

Emma Quayle joining the giants as a recruiter. Amazing stuff.

smart, not many people know draftees as well as her

# ¿ Feb 16, 2017 10:36

Solemn Sloth: Jul 11, 2015; Baby you can shout at me,
But you can't need my eyes.

WatchAFL worked fine for me last night, probably five instances of pausing due to buffer the whole match, and my internet usually can't get through a round of titanfall without making GBS threads itself entirely.

Hopefully I continue to be one of the lucky ones I guess

# ¿ Feb 16, 2017 20:05

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# ¿ May 12, 2024 11:37

Solemn Sloth: Jul 11, 2015; Baby you can shout at me,
But you can't need my eyes.

The afl live app doesn't even full screen streams on a tablet :psyduck:

# ¿ Feb 17, 2017 04:13

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