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  1. Mr Ripper

    Wildcard weekend - yes or no

    ffs adding teams 9 and 10 on the ladder just makes it a final ten. If you want "wildcard" finals (big IF), reward the two highest scorers outside the top eight or something like that.
  2. Mr Ripper

    Best low scoring games youve seen

    Not the best, but my favourite. First one I thought of.
  3. Mr Ripper

    Lachie Neale has had enough

    Threads like this make it very easy to spot campaigners.
  4. Mr Ripper

    Roast We've got the season wrong and it needs to change now

    The horsie set would go off their collectives if the footy season was extended well into October.
  5. Mr Ripper

    The Modern Era of Football

    That was Jeff Bruce. Micky Nettlefold in the 1983 Qualifying Final is probably the most infamous and controversial DOOB. Sliding doors moment for the FFC.
  6. Mr Ripper

    The Modern Era of Football

    1997. No Fitzroy, Port in. Probably the first season where more modern-looking stoppage-based footy took over from the free-flowing game that had been prevalent for a couple of decades.
  7. Mr Ripper

    Best individual finals performance in AFL/VFL history

    Best: Gary Ablett Sr 1989 Prelim 2nd: Gary Ablett Sr 1989 Grand Final 3rd: Gary Ablett Sr 1989 First Semi
  8. Mr Ripper

    AFL Reserves

    Bastardizing and compromising wonderful, traditional leagues with AFL club reserves isn’t the worst thing the AFL has done, but it’s up there.
  9. Mr Ripper

    KISS to play at the Grand Final

    Never been a fan of Kiss, but enjoying the meltdowns of ageist millennials and music snobs they're triggering.
  10. Mr Ripper

    Roast St Kilda robbed of home final

    Banks and banks and banks of empty seats at finals matches are a shocking look for the league.
  11. Mr Ripper

    AFL State of Origin - time to bring it back?

    Or Maurice Rioli for WA.
  12. Mr Ripper

    Harmes - historical footage

    It’s the ABC’s coverage and FoxFooty has been using it for years. See 3:30 into this 2013 episode of ‘Open Mike’.
  13. Mr Ripper

    your favourite years or era of footy

    This correlates with my preferred eras. Fell in love with the game in the mid to late 70s: the high-flyers; the heroes and villains; players going head to head in their respective positions; the helter-skelter play; torpies. Absolute travesty so little video footage from this period has...
  14. Mr Ripper

    Analysis How different would today's AFL landscape be if the 1989 merger between Fitzroy and Footscray went ahead, and would that club have been succesful ?

    I thought at the time, and probably still do now, that if it wasn't such a one-sided deal Fitzroy's way, they might have gotten away with it.
  15. Mr Ripper

    Analysis Who is the AFL GOAT - AFL Era?

    Carey's only been off telly for a few months and everyone's forgotten him.
  16. Mr Ripper

    Opinion Has the MCG become a homogeneous ground ?

    The MCG was already a cold concrete colosseum before redevelopment, but nevertheless is still brilliant. The SCG is an ugly, overrated sh'ole. Adelaide Oval got it right.
  17. Mr Ripper

    The rankings (from best to worst) of the 126 VFL-AFL premiership teams

    Essendon '85 were a better side than 2000.
  18. Mr Ripper

    Forever haunted... Costly missed shots for goal in finals.

    Gerard Healy, straight out of the centre at the start of the last quarter of the 1986 First Semi. Kept the door ajar for the mighty Roys to sneak through.
  19. Mr Ripper

    Analysis What is it with Eddie and plans?

    So, Ed's just rehashing Carlton's 1992 plan to play all their away games in Sydney when it looked like the Swans were going to go under. What a visionary.
  20. Mr Ripper

    Toast 2022 Australian Football Hall Of Fame

    That will come as a shock to Mark Mickan. Roger was still at Essendon for the Bears’ first year.
  21. Mr Ripper

    Toast 2022 Australian Football Hall Of Fame

    Cable had left North for good (as a player) by 1979 when Cornes and Ebert were there. You're conflating rounds 7, 8 and 10 of 1979 wrt Cornes' last VFL game.
  22. Mr Ripper

    Unpopular AFL Opinions

    If Tom played in the 70s he would've have given away 10 free kicks a week for pushing and never progressed past bush league.
  23. Mr Ripper

    News Holding the Ball rule change for 2022 Announced

    Last year's law (for comparison's sake): 2015: 2008: 2002: A subtle rule "change" indeed.
  24. Mr Ripper

    Alex Jesaulenko diagnosed with Parkinson’s Disease

    Two thirds of the story is a rehash of Kate's spat with Kano wtaf. Sad for Jezza; an icon.
  25. Mr Ripper

    Opinion Leigh Matthews and that season he didn't win the Brownlow . . .

    Yeah, the 'fairest' component in fairest and best came into play a little more back in the day. Prolly fell by the wayside when match by match voting went public in 1984. Dipper winning one was confirmation.
  26. Mr Ripper

    Forgotten (less memorable) Grand Finals: The 1994 Grand Final. What are your memories?

    The Seekers
  27. Mr Ripper

    Sides that constantly throw the ball

    Historical aside: handball law clarification from the 1978 edition of Bernie Hogan’s “Follow the Game”.
  28. Mr Ripper

    We need to change the way we calculate percentage.

    lol
  29. Mr Ripper

    Have there been any players who haven't shined until they got to their third club?

    Brian Wilson springs to mind.
  30. Mr Ripper

    Opinion Long Sleeves - What's The Deal?

    Lensen

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