Oppo Camp Non-Eagles Discussion 2025

[Lunchtime]

The loser of tonight’s game will host Freo/Suns in a home semi-final then play Collingwood at the MCG

I’d back either of Brisbane or Geelong to tip the pies over

We can only hope mate. No way the Pies team is that good apart from being a good team?

Ive said it all year - good team....yes....but super good...surely not.

 

[Bender_]

If Crom can't get it done after finishing the season on top of the ladder, playing against dad's army on their home deck in front of all their fans...

There's zero chance they do anything remotely interesting in September, let alone on the MCG. Hope it was worth it Rankine

This reads like a Sliding Doors column.

 

[RookiePick]

Adelaide Crows waking up this morning:



It's actually hard to overstate how poor that performance was last night. The decision making under pressure was Eagles tier and my word...the passengers they were carrying. Oh my!

The plus side is that Collingwood hardly put them to the sword until very late. I think they will struggle to score against other finalists - relying on a lot of scoring from the mid-field which can be unsustainable. I can still hope they get rolled in the prelim or go the classic Collywobble on the biggest day (NB: Reserving the right to barrack 1000% for Collingwood if Hawthorn gets through)

 

[ziad]

I sincerely hope you’re wrong, Go GWS!

I share your hope.

 

[Cuzz09]

I think there just are any great teams so any half decent team on the day can win.

 

[Dark Sharks]

This reads like a Sliding Doors column.

Please ridicule me accordingly

 

[Astro7]

I have this bad feeling Collingwood have a strong chance to win the Premiership now. Big seat whenever a team wins a qualifying final - straight through to a Preliminary Final. All on the back of them limping into the Finals series. Their form was horrible.

Maybe Adelaide aren't as good? Maybe Collingwood have the weaker side of the draw? Adelaide did finish 15th last year?

Have to hope some team can beat Collongwood during this finals series. I have always said they are a good team but no better than that. But yet here they are and into a Preliminary Final.

Maybe the depth in opposition collectively isnt strong either? Just an even bunch?

A lot of finals experience in the Pies mix, but doesn't guarantee a win.

 

[lmach]

Please ridicule me accordingly

IF Dark Sharks keeps posting like a Sliding Doors column

THEN we must start calling Dark Sharks Damian Barrett

 

[ZergMinion]

IF Dark Sharks keeps posting like a Sliding Doors column

THEN we must start calling Dark Sharks Damian Barrett

Damo Sharks?

 

[Shuestar13]

The Crows lost because their midfield besides Dawson, and sometimes flashes by Soligo, is ordinary.

They get away with it because they can get enough midfield time from Rankine and Rachelle who can provide that spark/flair, that the others lack. With both of them missing it was shown up badly with Dawson getting sat on heavily.

They’re missing an extra quality mid, like Hawthorn are. Will be pushing hard for NWM in two years and throwing the cap in the ring for any others in the meantime.

Have a couple of potential stars in Curtin and Draper to develop.

In a good spot overall. 8 years is a long time out of finals… this experience will be invaluable for them.

 

[Tugga27]

Adam Simpson: Where the two AFL elimination finals will be won and lost​

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[Dark Sharks]

In a world of pointless AFL opinions I choose to ignore, Simpsons is definitely at the top of that list.

 

[Mr Q]

Fagan , Chris Scott ,Mitchell, Longmuir, Nicks they have all added fix’s to their teams it’s a AFL club thing to build the list ..

Ross Lyon has never built a list, he's just refined one that he's been given. He inherited a strong SK team off Grant Thomas, then a strong Freo team off Mark Harvey, who'd done all the hard work only to have Lyon swan in.

Lyon is perhaps the coach you want if you need that last little push, but if your team isn't already a large bit of the way there, Ross is not your man.

Reckon this is why they're going big on getting experienced players in - they reckon this is the only way forward for them. But if it doesn't work ... they're down the shitter fast.

 

[darksquare]

IF Dark Sharks keeps posting like a Sliding Doors column

THEN we must start calling Dark Sharks Damian Barrett

Any chance we can get Barrett to delete his account?

 

[RookiePick]

Ross Lyon has never built a list, he's just refined one that he's been given. He inherited a strong SK team off Grant Thomas, then a strong Freo team off Mark Harvey, who'd done all the hard work only to have Lyon swan in.

Lyon is perhaps the coach you want if you need that last little push, but if your team isn't already a large bit of the way there, Ross is not your man.

Reckon this is why they're going big on getting experienced players in - they reckon this is the only way forward for them. But if it doesn't work ... they're down the shitter fast.

I never understood why Harvey got knifed for Lyon. He had put together a really solid list and just had bad luck with injury in 2011 after making finals in 2010.

Freo fans are adamant Harvey was useless but I can't help thinking that whole scenario explains why their club has never achieved anything.

They eat their own. Always have and always will.

Bon apetit:

 

[Dazzler9]

I never understood why Harvey got knifed for Lyon. He had put together a really solid list and just had bad luck with injury in 2011 after making finals in 2010.

Freo fans are adamant Harvey was useless but I can't help thinking that whole scenario explains why their club has never achieved anything.

They eat their own. Always have and always will.

Bon apetit:

Their administration was laughably incompetent from the get go. So many examples to pick from. Remember the Fabian Francis debacle?

But I think the ruthless sacking of Harvey and recruiting of Lyon was something they actually got right.

 

[kane249]

Tredrea loses again and gets laughed out of court pretty much

https://archive.md/U0N3p

In its judgment, the court said many of Tredrea’s arguments were “confusing and pseudo-legalistic” and his purported IOU “a waste of time” that is “strongly to be discouraged”.

His court documents, it said, contained “various elaborate but legally meaningless expressions” and “obvious and unnecessary” statements including “I am not dead”.

It said those papers “often” used “double and triple negatives to introduce what are really wrong legal arguments”.

 

[WCErevival]

Reminded me of this from the Simpsons.

"This is the stupidest thing I’ve ever read. You keep using words like “pasghetti” and “momatoes.” You make numerous threatening references to the UN. And at the end you repeat the words “Screw Flanders” over and over again."

 

[ioppolo]

I can see Dockers V Pies in the Prelim

If Brisbane lose tonight I don't see Freo beating then at the GABBA

 

[amazingjoshy]

Adam Simpson: Where the two AFL elimination finals will be won and lost​

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Calling the Hawks a "young group" is very on brand for Simmo

 

[RookiePick]

Their administration was laughably incompetent from the get go. So many examples to pick from. Remember the Fabian Francis debacle?

But I think the ruthless sacking of Harvey and recruiting of Lyon was something they actually got right.

Eh there's nothing to say Harvey couldn't have got them to a serious finals contention with another couple of years into his players. Be that a GF or Prelim tier. What it quite clearly demonstrated was that if you come to Freo and do the hard yards, the club will drop you like a hot rock if they think they can snag someone "better".

Ross did get them there, fair play, but their list was cooked by the end of 2015, and I think it's safe to say has never really contended since.

Dare I say it...a sliding doors moment.

 

[Boohemian]

I never understood why Harvey got knifed for Lyon. He had put together a really solid list and just had bad luck with injury in 2011 after making finals in 2010.

Freo fans are adamant Harvey was useless but I can't help thinking that whole scenario explains why their club has never achieved anything.

They eat their own. Always have and always will.

Bon apetit:

Didn't Pavlich say in his memoir that Harvey was a *******, and once Lyon was onboard he felt that it was the first time that he had a real coach at AFL level?

 

[Dark Sharks]

In a world of pointless AFL opinions I choose to ignore, Pavlich's is definitely at the top of that list.

 

[Bender_]

Remember when Harvey accused Woosha of having a spy that stole the Dockers gameplan and that's why they lost the derby?

Fantastic stuff.

 

[EagleMutt]

Bryce cotton now has Australian citizenship as soon as he leaves the wcats