Game Day Around The Grounds - Finals Week 2 - 1st & 2nd Semis 2021

[thylacine60]

Just encouraging the crowd to get their covid vaccination.

if it's fair dinkum it's all of ridiculous, inappropriate, brilliant and straight out nuts..........

 

[RedFury]

He says the celebration is ice in the veins

Walter White likes this.

 

[Benaly28]

Can someone send him a tweet and tell to GFH,I can’t stand the guy.The guy plays a good final and suddenly he’s as good as an all Australian and possible best and fairest.


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[Blue Doormat]

Walter White likes this.

Not that ice

 

[Burgers45]

Geez, Smith with his run & carry played a great last 1/4, almost bog for me & I wish we had him in our side. But I prefer & I'm happy with Sam, and don't regret us recruiting him before Smith.

 

[Elmer_Hauser]

Luke Beveridge is the type of cultural changing bloke I want coaching us. If we miss out on Clarko, I would love a Bevo prototype type of untried but dynamic coaching prodigy.

 

[thylacine60]

one thing you can't accuse vanilla of is figjam flavouring.............

 

[Burgers45]

So the holding the ball non decision in the centre square basically decided the game. How anti climactic.

The last centre square soft free kick to the Bullies in a tight final for interference was disappointing umpiring. Was the difference imo.

 

[passmark]

I don’t ever want to hear Cripps is better than Bont again.

it’s not a contest.

 

[thylacine60]

The last centre square free kick to the Bullies for interference was pathetic umpiring. Was the difference imo.

what about the one in the first quarter?

 

[thylacine60]

I don’t ever want to hear Cripps is better than Bont again.

it’s not a contest.

when was that last said? back when preston oval had grass? no-one mentioning his missed goals of course........

 

[Benaly28]

I don’t ever want to hear Cripps is better than Bont again.

it’s not a contest.

A few years ago it was neck and neck now it’s no contest.


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[Blues_1864]

What an amazing game. I wanted the Dogs to win, but was never confident. What's that for Brisbane now, three consecutive top-four finishes, and one finals win out of six? Ouch. And it's always tough watching those matches, because they're a reminder that we're a million miles away from that level.

I think it's fair to rank Bailey Smith

3

Bailey Smith

Age

25

Ht

185cm

Wt

86kg

Pos.

M/F

Career

Season

Last 5

D

18.3

5star

K

8.5

3star

HB

9.8

5star

M

2.3

2star

T

3.8

5star

CL

2.7

4star

D

19.8

5star

K

9.6

4star

HB

10.2

5star

M

1.8

2star

T

3.2

4star

CL

3.2

4star

D

14.8

4star

K

7.6

3star

HB

7.2

5star

M

2.0

3star

T

3.4

5star

CL

1.6

4star

alongside Sam Walsh

18

Sam Walsh

Age

25

Ht

184cm

Wt

84kg

Pos.

Mid

Career

Season

Last 5

D

25.1

5star

K

13.5

5star

HB

11.6

5star

M

5.1

5star

T

3.2

5star

CL

3.4

5star

No current season stats available

D

26.2

5star

K

15.4

5star

HB

10.8

5star

M

6.0

5star

T

3.2

5star

CL

4.8

5star

. Yes, he's had more quality around him, but he has also proved himself on the big stage. Maybe he would have struggled if we'd picked him... but maybe he'd be the very, very good player he is now.

Finals footy is so finely balanced, sometimes it just seems like a game of rotten chance. Two weeks in a row Brisbane lose a key forward to friendly fire before half-time - what are the chances? And then Jarrod Berry

7

Jarrod Berry

Age

28

Ht

193cm

Wt

89kg

Pos.

Mid

Career

Season

Last 5

D

17.4

4star

K

8.5

3star

HB

8.9

5star

M

3.9

4star

T

4.2

5star

CL

2.7

4star

D

17.0

4star

K

9.4

4star

HB

7.6

4star

M

3.6

4star

T

5.1

5star

CL

2.9

4star

D

10.6

3star

K

4.4

2star

HB

6.2

4star

M

1.8

2star

T

2.8

5star

CL

0.8

3star

to concussion at half-time. A man down on the bench for the entire second half... and they still broke even on the scoreboard. Huge, unbelievable effort... and no reward.

Mind you, it is a huge tick for the maturity of the game, and the imperatives correctly placed on the wellbeing of the players, irrespective of the status of the match. It doesn't seem like that long ago, that people were decrying a newly-introduced blood rule... now, we are having blokes like Jarrod Berry

7

Jarrod Berry

Age

28

Ht

193cm

Wt

89kg

Pos.

Mid

Career

Season

Last 5

D

17.4

4star

K

8.5

3star

HB

8.9

5star

M

3.9

4star

T

4.2

5star

CL

2.7

4star

D

17.0

4star

K

9.4

4star

HB

7.6

4star

M

3.6

4star

T

5.1

5star

CL

2.9

4star

D

10.6

3star

K

4.4

2star

HB

6.2

4star

M

1.8

2star

T

2.8

5star

CL

0.8

3star

ruled out of matches on concussion tests, even when that medical decision is likely to be a season-ender for his team. It is a great thing.

 

[thylacine60]

people simply have to read the lions review thread for some of the vilest hate toward the umpire and footscray you'd never want to experience - actually worse than I've read here after a loss..........extraordinary.........

 

[manang magoos]

Really hope we get a melb v bulldogs GF

I can see being Cats and Power though

 

[carlton_99]

isn't there an umpire thread where tragic little people can go to bleat? the game was extraordinary and carried about the same number of umpiring influences as any other game.........

No one is arguing about how great the game was. One of the best for the year but umpires made some crucial errors in that last quarter. Not saying it went one way but in a final those decisions just mean a little more. But again agree it was a fantastic game

 

[ESKIE]

I was at the 2009 elimination final at the Gabba us v lions goddam awful supporters

 

[manang magoos]

Geez, Smith with his run & carry played a great last 1/4, almost bog for me & I wish we had him in our side. But I prefer & I'm happy with Sam, and don't regret us recruiting him before Smith.

And Walshy doesn’t come across as a flog

 

[thylacine60]

the unflogiest player I can think of our vanilla.........

 

[AceAndy]

I was at the 2009 elimination final at the Gabba us v lions goddam awful supporters

Is that the game we were 5 or 6 goals up early in the last and they ran over the top of us ?

 

[thylacine60]

off the fitzroy board, these people may well have children:

"Toby has been vindicated. He should’ve put Stevic in hospital".

 

[Elmer_Hauser]

Gold Jerry lol

 

[Pixelshooter]

Luke Darcy makes the broadcast almost unlistenable.

 

[Elmer_Hauser]

off the fitzroy board, these people may well have children:

"Toby has been vindicated. He should’ve put Stevic in hospital".

They are pretty bitter

Stupid ******* rat-faced bogan scum. Your club should have died in 1989.

 

[ESKIE]

Luke Darcy makes the broadcast almost unlistenable.

He is shocking