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[tim cotrill]

Talia never gets pinged!

it's because he's "one of the best defenders in the game" umps think he's doing everything right.

 

[ozaddy]

90% of left footers at AFL level would meet your criteria.

It just looks terrible when players do the inside out kick, when they should have skills on the other side.

 

[Moses01]

Cant understand why they're booing Vince

 

[philreich]

By the way, where are all the customers today? I believe only 43k turned up.
#wheresallourcustomers

You know how it works. Only 43k turn up to a Crows game, it's because of the weather. Only 43k turn up to a Port game, their fans are bandwagoners who only show up when the team is winning.......

 

[ozph1870]

We tend to be yellers and abusers rather than booers. Yes we boo, but not at a drop of a hate like crowies.

we do it all.....

 

[tribey]

 

[Seanybruz]

Cant understand why they're booing Vince

Yeah it's strange, would've thought they'd love their old mate Bernie after he did a 'Rodan' by kicking it the wrong way which ended up in a goal.

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

10 minutes ago I saw this story about Friday Night Football in today's 'Tsier by Rucci pages 94 and 95. The graphic to the story isnt on line so here is a cut and paste via www.pressdisplay.com.au

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Page 95
FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS
ALWAYS SHINING WITH A VICTORIAN GLOW
Friday Night Football - the AFL’s premier timeslot with national television coverage - has a strong Victorian agenda. Since 2001, only once has the home-and-away season had a Friday night match without a Victorian-based team.

page 94 story

The Prime Time Crime of Friday Night Football

IF truth is the first casualty of war, how does the AFL’s platform of equality hold up against the chase for television ratings and sponsorship dollars?

Friday Night Football is the AFL premier timeslot in the fixture. It delivers national free-to-air television coverage with maximum exposure, a dream offering any AFL club can make to its major sponsors. To play on this big stage, the AFL executive demands a club deliver both on and off the field, with a competitive team and appeal to fill the terraces, bars and lounge rooms across the nation. Since 2001, seven of the 14 AFL premierships have been won by non-Victorian clubs. It is a 50-50 split along the expansion clubs and the traditional VFL clubs.
.........

AFL chief executive Gillon McLachlan says the FNF rundown for this season was driven by “quirks in the draw” rather than any bias towards the Victorian-based clubs. The push to deliver national, free-to-air telecasts from the Oval with major Saturday night games — such as the Port Adelaide-Sydney game last Saturday — has taken precedence over FNF from Adelaide.

“It is the way the fixture played out — this year,” McLachlan said. “But we are keen — and the broadcasters are keen — on Friday Night Football from Adelaide Oval.” There is a quote to pin on the fridge — and recall the promise in late October when the AFL delivers its fixture for Season 2016.

The Prime Time Crime of Friday Night Football

 

[FishingRick04]

I call bullshit. The quirk of the draw is we mandatory give them to Vic clubs

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

I call bullshit. The quirk of the draw is we mandatory give them to Vic clubs

Of course its bullshit, but Gill has got the food prices down






















In Melbourne

 

[FishingRick04]

Yeah but rather than spinning such lies that only some poor bugger that has suffered a brain injury would believe just tell the truth.

Tell the truth and it will set you free

 

[I Dont Care]

I agree, but that would take a leap of faith from Melbourne based Ch 7 TV executives. The little bit I've had to do with TV professionals, I doubt it.

TV executives and bean-counters have more of a habit of telling us what we should be watching rather than asking

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

Yeah but rather than spinning such lies that only some poor bugger that has suffered a brain injury would believe just tell the truth.

Tell the truth and it will set you free

I think this has potential in my, talk is essentially cheap on a cost effective basis - thread.

 

[FishingRick04]

Lol yes it is. It makes it easy for the weak Vic clubs to get sponsors but it also makes them lazy as they don't need to fight hard

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

It just looks terrible when players do the inside out kick, when they should have skills on the other side.

I dont know, Motlop should have used his left rather than his right here. But Puopolo not having a left foot cost the Hawks a spot in the 2011 GF, just gotta find the footage.

 

[tribey]

Only in Australia could a feat of such outlandish difficulty and skill be outvoted by something my nan could do.

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

Only in Australia could a feat of such outlandish difficulty and skill be outvoted by something my nan could do.

I was waiting for someone to bring that up.

 

[Wind Power]

Adelaide football club complain to afl umpires about treatment of Dangerfield.

Dangerfield responds by throwing his head back at every contest.

#dangerplaysforfrees

 

[ozph1870]

luke parker....what was that.

think it may have been touched though, looked like the ball dipped a bit once it passed the hand

 

[Valentino]

Adelaide football club complain to afl umpires about treatment of Dangerfield.

Dangerfield responds by throwing his head back at every contest.

#dangerplaysforfrees

Just heard Peter Welsh's press conference and he denies they complained which is in contradiction to Noble on the radio the other night.
#dangerplaysforfrees

 

[LFC2010]

hahaha, Walsh what a flog!

 

[tribey]

Adelaide football club complain to afl umpires about treatment of Dangerfield.

Dangerfield responds by throwing his head back at every contest.

#dangerplaysforfrees

I wish we'd do the same.

Boak, Gray and Schulz constantly get treated like they're first gamers fresh off the slowboat from the Emerald Isle, "you're only new to the game Travisb O'ak, it wasn't a free".

Give them the same protection Pavlich, Pendlebury, Selwood and Roughead get and we'd have joint Brownlow Medallists and a centurion on our hands.

 

[tribey]

By the by:

Selwood 475 FF/210 FA = +265
Pendlebury 261 FF/109 FA = +152
Dangerfield 187 FF/124 FA = +63
Boak 167 FF/150 FA = +17

Stats correct to the end of Round 2.

 

[finbarr]

Those Selwood stats...

 

[tribey]

Those Selwood stats...

Both started in the same year, both frontline see-ball/get-ball contested ballwinners.

Boak has the officiating numbers of a run-of-the-mill plodder, Selwood has the sort of protective numbers you'd expect of a Michael Jordan.