Discussion 2019 General AFL Discussion

[gringo2011]

If I rewatch the game today I reckon I would find a dozen calls/non calls more contentious than the Stephenson HTB non decision

None that had bigger consequences though, I think they let it play and then unfortunately freaked out then called the next one, still think it's human error.

 

[austinnn]

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Injury-cursed midfielder Lin Jong was present at the club on Thursday following time in hospital with appendicitis, an issue that was somewhat unique according to Beveridge.

"It's interesting (with) 'Jongy.' His symptoms with the appendix are a bit different because of the makeup of him internally, he's a little bit different to all of us," he said.

https://www.afl.com.au/news/2019-04-26/weve-become-a-bit-of-a-nanny-state-bevo-on-boos
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What the hell IS Lin Jong? Cyborg? Hermaphrodite? Alien? Enquiring minds want to know!

 

[Diehard Saint]

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Injury-cursed midfielder Lin Jong was present at the club on Thursday following time in hospital with appendicitis, an issue that was somewhat unique according to Beveridge.

"It's interesting (with) 'Jongy.' His symptoms with the appendix are a bit different because of the makeup of him internally, he's a little bit different to all of us," he said.

https://www.afl.com.au/news/2019-04-26/weve-become-a-bit-of-a-nanny-state-bevo-on-boos
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What the hell IS Lin Jong? Cyborg? Hermaphrodite? Alien? Enquiring minds want to know!

What on earth is he talking about?

 

[Tommy Wigs]

What on earth is he talking about?

Pahahaha.

Pinging?

 

[StCicatriz]

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Injury-cursed midfielder Lin Jong was present at the club on Thursday following time in hospital with appendicitis, an issue that was somewhat unique according to Beveridge.

"It's interesting (with) 'Jongy.' His symptoms with the appendix are a bit different because of the makeup of him internally, he's a little bit different to all of us," he said.

https://www.afl.com.au/news/2019-04-26/weve-become-a-bit-of-a-nanny-state-bevo-on-boos
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What the hell IS Lin Jong? Cyborg? Hermaphrodite? Alien? Enquiring minds want to know!

What in the....

 

[bergholt]

What on earth is he talking about?

Maybe this?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Situs_inversus

Backwards organs. It was in an episode of House I think, someone had pain but on the wrong side for appendicitis, but then it turned out to be appendicitis.

 

[Sir Skid]

Wowee. Port v North. Zzzzzzzz.........

Does anyone actually care about this match?
Feels like the extra day off from footy we've missed out on this week.

 

[StCicatriz]

Wowee. Port v North. Zzzzzzzz.........

Does anyone actually care about this match?
Feels like the extra day off from footy we've missed out on this week.

**** is that who we've got tonight. Fmd. Was actually half interested in footy.

 

[bergholt]

Wowee. Port v North. Zzzzzzzz.........

Does anyone actually care about this match?
Feels like the extra day off from footy we've missed out on this week.

I wonder if more people care about Port vs North or Saints vs Crows?

 

[austinnn]

I'm interested to see Port and just how good they really are, but we won't find out when they take on what I consider to be the shit of the competition.

North Melbourne. There are few teams I hate more. But I don't hate North with a passion, I just despise their shitness.

The suburb of North Melbourne, at least in my day, was shit. Just an empty industrial wasteland and nothing happening there at all.
The colours couldn't be blander, that budget bright blue and white colour scheme that screams discount shopping, vertical stripes, a ****ing kangaroo for gods sake. North Melbourne. The club are even trying to drop the name and just have them known as the Kangaroos. The lack of imagination is palpable. They might as well have called themselves the Australian Dogs or the Enter Location Somethings and used grey and white as the default colours.

Their Golden Era Dynasty was a meagre two flags, not even consecutive. They had the champion of the league and he was possibly the least unremarkable thing about the club, and even he was an abusive disloyal sorry excuse for a human. The coach of that period was a miserable dour old prune with an 80s haircut.

Since then their level in the league has ranged from "surprisingly OK" to "irredeemably shit" and their natural habitat is just under the top 8. Predictably, just when we thought they were going to continue being shit, going into 2018, they scrubbed up and got themselves up enough to sideswipe us and derail us for the season, before predictably returning to their natural course of shittiness for this season.

Think of their stars: Ben Brown, an inflated gronk that kids would naturally run away from, not idolise. Ziebell, Cunningham, all the rest; I can't even remember the names of the campaigners they are that irrelevant. Their big trades were from the second most unfashionable club after them, Port. Polec and Shittard, one a star of the comp in the same way that Alan Arkin is a Hollywood star. Who's Alan Arkin? Exactly. LDU and Jy Simpkin will no doubt end up being extremely bland and/or average.

There is nothing about them that excites. Nothing that is even bad enough to be interesting, they are just nothing; the default setting on your phone, the chicken salad on your menu, the Ford Fiesta in your showroom, the City of Adelaide on your Map of Australia, they are a muted blue and grey office with 80s school furniture. They should have been boxed up and sent to the Gold Coast at the dawn of the expansion era, but they wouldn't have suited the sunshine and happiness. They are Anti-Toursim. They are an industrial park, not a theme park. They are an irrelevance, no matter if they are performing strongly or heading for a spoon; they are not even a Black Hole, that's too exciting and exotic, they are a grey hallway, an Inertia Zone.

Get Stuffed North Melbourne Kangaroos.

 

[Sir Skid]

I wonder if more people care about Port vs North or Saints vs Crows?

Saints v Crows surely.

North look like being in big trouble

 

[Diehard Saint]

Saints v Crows surely.

North look like being in big trouble

Let’s put it this way...don’t think they’re Kelly’s destination club these days.

 

[Sir Skid]

Let’s put it this way...don’t think they’re Kelly’s destination club these days.

Considering the 3 B graders they got in this year its all turned to poo for them.

 

[Joffaboy]

Out of all the teams struggling, is there one anyone thinks can do a Sydney from a few years back when they were 0-6 but made finals?

I can't see it personally

 

[Sir Skid]

Out of all the teams struggling, is there one anyone thinks can do a Sydney from a few years back when they were 0-6 but made finals?

I can't see it personally

Nope. Cos everyone has won at least 1 game already.

Seriously though,.......... thinks....................nup.

 

[Joffaboy]

Nope. Cos everyone has won at least 1 game already.

Seriously though,.......... thinks....................nup.

I was thinking Melbourne have the names but they seem shot and so easy to get on the outside

 

[gringo2011]

Considering the 3 B graders they got in this year its all turned to poo for them.

Higgins out too, should be interesting to watch Rozee, Dursma, Butters and Drew beat up North on their own.

 

[SaintersUnite]

That goal by Ryder, dayum.

That’ll be Marshall soon enough.


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[StFly]

Higgins out too, should be interesting to watch Rozee, Dursma, Butters and Drew beat up North on their own.

Well at least north have runs on the board.

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But seriously, maybe he used their whiteboard as toilet paper, given their usual use of said board.

 

[austinnn]

Some good goals in this game I have to say. I can't wait until we play Port, hope that we rise to the occasion in China, has the potential to be a very exciting match.

 

[DT_35]

Can someone explain to me how Pittard continues to get a game? The bloke is an absolute turnover merchant

 

[SaintersUnite]

Some good goals in this game I have to say. I can't wait until we play Port, hope that we rise to the occasion in China, has the potential to be a very exciting match.

Port are a very exciting team when they’re on, and Rozee looks like an absolute star already. They lack consistency, that’s their problem and has been for years.


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[BrutThough]

Port are a very exciting team when they’re on, and Rozee looks like an absolute star already. They lack consistency, that’s their problem and has been for years.


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They have a lot of first/second year players who are having a really big impact. Makes them great to watch.

It will be interesting to see how they do in the second half of the year when the young guys tend to tire out.

 

[austinnn]

Yep. Big fan of Powell Pepper, Wines and Robbie Gray have been stars for ages, Paddy Ryder is a great senior presence, Boak and Ebert are deeply unfashionable local dudes that are dependable, Rozee and Duursma look like being stars, there's so much to like in their team and I kind of admire them because they are not glamourous but they are mostly good; dunno why they can't reach a consistently dominant level: maybe their homeground advantage is a weakness in some ways because it softens them up when it's taken away, like a lot of the interstate teams. Great colours too!

 

[gringo2011]

Thomas will be a gun