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Collingwood retuned to Tennant Creek in Warumungu country recently as the Pies continued their clinics and community work in the Northern Territory region of…
As a Collingwood supporter I'd like to see Port wearing their traditional prison bar footy jumper. Not just for heritage round but for every…
But Col we really should remove those darn point posts through, “like every other football code. It works just fine everywhere else”. And most other footy codes have the offside rule so we better race out and bring that one in.
But I reckon we should never change the oval shaped ball though…..but maybe we just pump it up a bit more until it’s almost round then we wouldn’t get all those terrible unpredictable icky bounces.
Six Points: Meet your new flag favourites, the finals sleeping Giants, and why Sheezel still shouldn't win Rising Star
And remove the behind posts and put up a nice big net between the goals. It’s called evolution apparently???
Six Points: Meet your new flag favourites, the finals sleeping Giants, and why Sheezel still shouldn't win Rising Star
Funny that!
Six Points: Meet your new flag favourites, the finals sleeping Giants, and why Sheezel still shouldn't win Rising Star
I like the 9 games at the one time. It’s just not that complicated. The only negative is sponsors, tv ratings etc which probably would be substantial.
It could create a sense of connection and synergy between all the games and all the states, and would be a pretty exciting 3 or 4 hours, and a great way to culminate the end of the home and away fixture.
Also it evens up the finals as well. Pies for example have an extra 2 day break over the Dees for this finals series.
The whole tanking stuff has been just another media beat up from the beginning….targeted Hawks first, then Eagles and then moved on to the Roos. Teams have learnt from the Carlton and Melbourne errors and no one wants to risk developing a culture of proactive failure and then living with the repercussions for years to follow.
Six Points: Meet your new flag favourites, the finals sleeping Giants, and why Sheezel still shouldn't win Rising Star
Disagree re the umpiring Tim. Its not the best solution but something has to be done. Crows were denied a finals birth through obvious and unnecessary human error (as well as the Crows inability to win tight games). It’s not like it’s a one off, and a similar debacle could happen in the finals. Adelaide and the footy public (and the coffers) were also potentially denied a Crows v Port semi final.
The umpiring in general needs a lot of resources invested into so the umps have more support, can be consistent and also so they actually know the rules, ie boundary lines not existing for Jeremy Cameron.
Consistency for example would be not having knee jerk excessive reactions to the alleged “dissent” bs at the start of the year and then suddenly changing it. It cost Giants a win over Carlton early in the year and potentially denied them a home final.
Six Points: Meet your new flag favourites, the finals sleeping Giants, and why Sheezel still shouldn't win Rising Star
Apart from the Crows being totally dudded it feels like the right teams finished in the finals.
I think Pies can go all the way and thankful our old assistant coach picked his reserves team to play our boys back into some form in the first quarter on Friday night.
If I were objective at all I’d be saying Dees and Lions look the most dangerous at the right time of year, and both with the double chance and home finals. But Pies will knock em both over then beat Port in a classic in the granny.
Grundy actually had a very solid game against the Pies in the KB round and the Dees won that match through their big men dominance/influence. Pies need to back in their pressure and run through the middle game so may go in with only one ruckmen. I think it’ll be to the Pies advantage if Grundy is not picked.
Six Points: Meet your new flag favourites, the finals sleeping Giants, and why Sheezel still shouldn't win Rising Star
Nice summary of Ginnivan Tim and what he can bring to the Pies. A nothing game tonight but good to have a win.
Yes it’s looking like Moore in for Frampton.
I wonder if Cox will take on the no 1 rucking role. Cameron is carrying an injury and it might be him who makes way for Murphy. Risky having one ruckmen for the Pies but think they need to back in their pressure and running game.
Good effort from Macrae and great to have him as a back up but he’ll make way for McCreery.
Hoskin Elliott and Markov create a lot of run for the Pies.
Collingwood also had DeGoey and Sidebottom out against Dees last time, Dees had no Clarry.
Footy Fix: Jack Ginnivan just sealed a finals spot - and he might be the Pies' September secret weapon
He’d be a handy pick up Peter by the sounds of it but haven’t seen a lot of him. Who would he squeeze out? Jack G’s already had a tough time getting a gig this year. I hear other clubs are after Henry too. Better keep in Yattz’s good books.
AFL News: Daicos delivers good news for Pies, tribunal hands down McCartin verdict, Keays fiasco deepens, Simpson gone?
Oh the smarmy hyp.ocrisy!! Talks of truth yet needs to fabricate a story to justify your own shallow bs.
You can do and be much better than that Yattz.
AFL News: Daicos delivers good news for Pies, tribunal hands down McCartin verdict, Keays fiasco deepens, Simpson gone?
No but it should fear constant bs.
Crows robbery the latest in a long list of failures by Gill's arrogant AFL
Is that about the same time you were saying the Cats were coming?
Win, lose or draw Yattz, the most important thing for the Pies is that a man of your standing in the AFL doesn’t steer all the top draft picks away from Collingwood through your vast network of contacts.
AFL News: Daicos delivers good news for Pies, tribunal hands down McCartin verdict, Keays fiasco deepens, Simpson gone?
Golly gee whiz, do you? Didn’t realise everything is great.
AFL News: Daicos delivers good news for Pies, tribunal hands down McCartin verdict, Keays fiasco deepens, Simpson gone?
Nice article underpants.
So many excellent points and yes the AFL website truly is chit and gets worse every year.
The sooner we have 10 non Vic clubs to match the 10 Vic clubs the better. Every teams plays 19 games a year and every team travels interstate every second week.
Bring on Tassie and either NT or Northern Australia (Nth Qld, all of NT and Northern W.A).
I’m a diehard purist at heart and like the GF at the G but I think covid showed it can work at “the Gabba, the Wacca, the MCG, it doesn’t matter….. ” But maybe every second year at the G and rotate it around in alternate years.
I also feel more receptive to a twilight granny.
The Crows were duped by human error, not by technology as many are “crowing” about. I feel for the goal ump having to live with that very poor call. In conjunction with the poor boundary umpiring at the Collingwood Geelong game it shows the umpires are just not receiving the high level training and support they should be receiving, whilst so much time, money and energy is pssed into cheap gimmicky promotional cra.p.
The soft option cries for changing the scoring rules to sacrifice yet more of the original fabric of Aussie Rules to mimic other ball codes are unnecessary. Well trained umpires and intelligent authoritative use of technology can mean the desperate scramble to defy gravity to touch the ball, and also not rewarding the ineptitude of someone hitting the post or not clearing “fingernails” from kicking dead in front, can continue.
Crows robbery the latest in a long list of failures by Gill's arrogant AFL
Pies have been in no man’s land for a while with virtually a guaranteed top 2 spot. Winning form is usually good form going into finals but in the Pies case I think it may suit having a lull before the storm of the finals with their particular intense style of footy. Particularly if they have Moore and Daicos coming back in the first and second week of finals. If Daicos does come back he will give a huge lift.
AFL News: Daicos delivers good news for Pies, tribunal hands down McCartin verdict, Keays fiasco deepens, Simpson gone?
Quirkys good thanks!
Six Points: The coach killer to end all coach killers, and why score review system will always be imperfect
Feels a similar vision and energy to Matthews coming up to coach Bne Lions but there’s no guarantees in footy. Dimma will probably need a good crew around him like he had in his best days at Richmond. Suns have been building and were close to the mark this year. Touk Miller’s injury was extremely untimely for him, the club and Dew.
Dimma the Sun: Gold Coast unveil triple-premiership Tiger as new coach
NRL who can’t spell, usually skip most of your posts but you’re probably onto something there.
Six Points: The coach killer to end all coach killers, and why score review system will always be imperfect
Sorry for the psstake Joel and Don but that was too irresistible.
Six Points: The coach killer to end all coach killers, and why score review system will always be imperfect
Does ya?
Six Points: The coach killer to end all coach killers, and why score review system will always be imperfect
Line ball at best but I can accept that. The second one was an obvious howler
Six Points: The coach killer to end all coach killers, and why score review system will always be imperfect
Makes it interesting! As crucial as quality draft picks are, building/creating culture trumps everything.
Six Points: The coach killer to end all coach killers, and why score review system will always be imperfect
Didn’t/haven’t read the the Freo Port blog but it must have been interesting with the mutual inverse support between Joel and Don.
Joel……my team Port will finish in the top 4, possibly top 2, won about a dozen games in a row, defied all early season predictions and are now heading into the finals with some form and a double chance. We should sack the coach immediately and burn effigies of him at the town square tomorrow morning. We don’t deserve to win this game.
Don……my team Freo will miss the finals yet again this year. But we’ll definitely win the next 10 premierships unless we’re crucified by imaginary umpires again. We should have won today’s game by 10 goals.
Six Points: The coach killer to end all coach killers, and why score review system will always be imperfect
Excellent write up Tim except you’re letting the AFL off the hook way too easily. They’re already pretty good at dolling out Orwellian double speak excuse making drib.ble, and allowing themselves to not be held accountable.
The failure of the umpiring and review systems….. goal umpiring Crows Swans, potentially Melbourne Carlton last week AND the boundary umpiring last week twice with free goals to Jeremy Cameron (all in season/finals shaping games) is something you’d expect from an amateur or a country footy league, and even then still be disappointed. With all the wealth, power and technology at the AFL’s disposal it’s mind boggling and a sh@me job at their level of incom.petence. Spend so much money time and energy on cheap gimmicky shallow promotion of the game yet roll over when it comes to key basic integral components of it.
They need to make sure the finals and grand final don’t suffer accordingly, but they don’t need to do their usual over reactive knee je.rk response to make it work.
Six Points: The coach killer to end all coach killers, and why score review system will always be imperfect
Pies have mostly played to the adage a champion team will beat a team of champions, over past 18 months. Not quite a champion team yet but will give it a good crack in September.
Footy Fix: How the Lions dismantled sluggish Pies... and proved this is the best chance they'll ever get for a flag
Bigger brains and smaller hearts. Modern medicine to cure the ills that modern medicine brings. Organised sports (yes we all love it) but we’re mostly couch potatos techno zombies vicariously living through the efforts of others whilst we are now removed from the thrill of the wild and of the hunt. Good food…..there has never been so much chit food and obesity and isolation and depression and chemical induced escapism on the planet. Dominant species……to the point where we’re now continually chitting in our own ponds and dominating our food chain into oblivion.
There’s plenty to love in life and to be grateful for but it’s a double sided coin and pollyanna visions of evolution are pretty short sighted.
Six Points: Meet your new flag favourites, the finals sleeping Giants, and why Sheezel still shouldn't win Rising Star