Thought we could change it up a bit here.
AA selections and the cachet attached to them seem to have really taken off this century.
Let's acknowledge something here for a start, nobody mentioned on this thread is likely to have played a really poor season.
The Rules:
I think the team needs...
He is 20yo in his 3rd season. Right now he is the 3rd highest rated general forward in the AFL in 2025. But it is tight between the top 3(Curtis and surprisingly, but impressively, Ben Long the other 2.)
Commentators falling over themselves to praise P Dangerfield this season. Dangerfield is...
29 pathetic waste disposals for 26 clangers and a measly 3 score involvements today. 🤣
Nobody destroys Sherrins like this clown. Not even the flog on the Aami ad who wipes out half his property with a shockingly acted shank.
No idea how that happens to make an anagram exactly the same as last year's Coaches MVP, just one of life's weird coincidences I guess.
Thought it was time we had a thread about this simmering little talking point, as much to protect the reputations of the innocent as anything.
We can track...
Right now, Jacob Bauer is the 22nd eldest player on Richmond's list of 43 players. This makes his age our median list age.
Just get your head around this little comparison.
As at 23 Nov 2024 median list ages:
Richmond - Jacob Bauer 22 years, 5 months
Collingwood - Patrick Lipinski 26...
Half time in the Pies v Demons Daicos benefit match.
Melbourne whole team 2 free kicks, 0 x 50m penalties.
Nick D 2 free kicks, 1 x 50m penalty.
When you add free kicks and 50 penalties together Daicos has 50% more than the whole opposition team in a half of footy.
Has this ever happened...
The all being equal bit might be the issue, never seems to be the case for us in recent years.
1. Coaching stability. Along with Suns, the only 2 teams to enter 2024 with new coaches in place. Will be Yze's 2nd year and Newman, Ziebell also. It is tough to quantify and calculate this effect...
"Clarke's picks compared to the rest of the competition amounted to all other clubs being given an extra pick 15 at every second draft compared to what Clarke had to work with." See below.
Thought I might start a separate thread for those interested in discussing this, as it has come up in...
Milestone game 1: 17th v 14th 300 game milestone for a guy who the main board has led me to believe only had a few good seasons. Also was led to believe he plays for a club with the biggest bandwagon supporters. Playing against a club who are medium sized at best. Freeze the balls off a...
2023 Toyota AFL Season
Rd 8 Richmond won the free kick count 17-16 v West Coast Eagles.
Rd 9 Richmond won the free kick count 21-14 v Geelong Cats.
Rd 10 Richmond won the free kick count 10-9 v Essendon Bombers.
Ok 2 of the free kick count wins were by 1 free kick but there needs to be a high...
It has been brought to my attention that at the 2:18 mark of this video below, in the 1974 Grand Final Paul Feltham and Arnold Briedis tried to start a blue with Bryan Wood. Laughable campaigners. Bones McGhie was an interested onlooker.
Then Keithy Greig runs in, how scary. :tearsofjoy:
Tigers...
Just wanted to raise a symbolic toast to the AA selectors.
would like you all to charge your middle fingers...
I have just realised this august body known as the AA selection panel has pulled off the impossible.
Allow me to explain something I have only just realised. I must have almost...
First, in 2004, he was just a young man from the country, Mini Countryman.....
Then, he moved to the city to play football. Mini player....
Then this type of player became redundant, so the next part of this story saw him join the development department at a talented team in 2014...
Moppey will be fuming at this. He said he wanted Cripps, he outright demanded Van Rooyen. Not only did he not get Cripps or Van Rooyen, we can now establish Richmond will likely not take any further interstate players with go home factor attached with first round National Draft selections...
Just looking over some facts and figures on afltables.com. The Cats over the last two seasons have been fielding the oldest teams in the history of the competition, going back 126 years.
In the 1962 and 1963 seasons, only 4 players above the age of 30 played at any stage in the whole...
Melksham and May zero AFL punishment for upsetting each other and having a public brawl.
Bolton lost 20 large for protecting his mate and pregnant girlfriend from violent harassment.
Violence is never the answer if you play for one club and are protecting people from attack. But it is the...
Venue: WCG - Wurundjeri Camping Ground - AKA Swinburne Centre Oval ii
Time: This Saturday night, be there! Play commences at 7.30pm. Unsure when the magnificent pre-game ceremony starts but presume if you arrive and are seated by 7pm you would see it in full.
Edit with thanks to AstuteTiger...
Magnificently disciplined dual performance on the weekend to only give away 22 free kicks in two whole games of football. Given the AFL average is around 22 per game, and Hawthorn were running above that average before their most recent match, the club must have put in an absolutely power of...
A relatively minor but nevertheless disturbing trend seems to be developing regarding the way Marlion Pickett is being officiated by umpires, but moreso by the MRO.
Marlion Pickett is an indigenous man, and as we know has spent time at Her Majesty’s pleasure, for breaking the law when he was a...
Nice accolades for the girls.
Mon Conti skipper of the 22 u22 team.
And Conti Brennan and Miller in the 40 strong AA squad. Terrific recognition for Miller in particular, who I think we all enjoyed watching this season. 😁
It is time to give this guy his own thread and a bit of recognition. 😁
Just listened to his post match presser after the North game. I am a big fan of this bloke. He obviously isn’t going to dump on individuals publicly, but each week he identifies very clearly the issues the team needs to...
*Please note I have edited this post after finding to my horror some of the figures I originally presented were incorrect. The original figures and accompanying commentary are struck through and corrections inserted.
I posted this in the Salt Mine thread as some comments from opposition...
I will openly state my agenda here.
At least three of Stephen Hocking’s responsibilities in his role as General Manager Football Operations are clearly conflicted by his history and links with the Geelong Football Club.
The first, and most important in my opinion, is his role in directly...
History
Time & Date: Approximately 3.50pm, Sunday July 7, 2020.
Location: Latitude -27.486002, Longtitude 153.038832
The area generally known as Vulture Street, Brisbane. Specifically, The Wooloongabba Cricket Ground, Wooloongabba, Brisbane, Qld, Australia.
The Build up: Tigers had scored...