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  1. GUMBLETRON

    U18 Champs 2021 Championships & Trials Replays
    Threadmarks: Championships

    Replays: AFL Academy vs Geelong VFL State Games State Trial Games 2020 Underagers Footage Trials & Young Guns Threads: 2021 Vic U19 Trial Matches – June 27 (Stream on the Herald Sun Website) SA U19's Yellow v Blue Internal Trial (7PM Friday 16th July) 2021 U19 Challenge - Vic Metro v Vic...
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    Resource 2020 Draft Footage

    With apologies to eDPS, I figured it might be handy in this strange year to collate what little footage is available of the 2020 prospects. Draft Prospects: AFL Draft Hub: https://www.afl.com.au/draft SANFL Draft Hub: https://sanfl.com.au/league/draft-hub/ 2020 Games: SA Futures & U18...
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    Free Agency Jack Newnes [Signs with Carlton as DFA]

    https://www.afl.com.au/news/2019-10-17/blues-ponder-free-agency-swoop-for-saints-wingman I'm puzzled. Given Newnes was offered a new contract by St Kilda and has not been delisted, how does he now qualify as a DFA? If those are the rules then any RFA could simply decline their club's offer...
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    Vale zipper12

    Hi Tigers. I come with sad news. One of your own, zipper12 (Scott to his mother) passed away last night after a long and brutal fight with leukaemia, a good half a lifetime too soon. Scott wasn't a prolific poster but he certainly enjoyed the community here on Bigfooty (or "footy dot com" as...
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    Neil Craig admits the obvious: Carlton are tanking

    Interesting comments from Carlton's outgoing Director of Coaching Neil Craig this morning: http://www.carltonfc.com.au/news/2017-08-15/craig-bullish-on-blues So Carlton have decided against trying to avoid the wooden spoon. We have a word for that. Not particularly far from the admission that...
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    How much should footballers be paid?

    In light of current developments (eg. TV-driven expansion, the cap getting a major bump, million-dollar salaries being thrown around and reliance on the gambling industry) and some broader discussion around the traps, I think it's worth revisiting this perennial question. How much should...
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    Article Ron Barassi's having a garage sale

    https://leonardjoel.com.au/2016/03/30/the-ron-barassi-collection/ https://auctions.leonardjoel.com.au/custom_asp/searchresults.asp?st=D&pg=1&ps=60&sale_no=LJ8137+ A huge pile of memorabilia on offer, including some very interesting pieces.
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    Query Why do AFL Premiers win flags?

    It makes sense in the WAFL and SANFL where the cups are perpetual and hence only held for a year (though my googling suggest there's also a different-design WAFL cup, perhaps issued for keeps each season?). As best I can tell though, the VFL/AFL cup has always been made anew and handed out...
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    Discussion The flick-pass and throw-pass

    From Wikipedia: As I understand it, the flick pass was pioneered in the VFA, with Footscray employing it to good effect in the controversial 1924 charity match against Essendon: Does anyone know of footage of either exists? I found film of the aforementioned 1961 Grand Final, but it's low...
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    General Bombers Talk Retro Guernseys

    Noticed these on the website today: A few options, short-sleeve acrylic, long-sleeve acrylic and short-sleeve woolen. Anyone own one and care to comment on the fit or quality?
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    Second year blues - but why?

    We've all seen it. A new player has a promising first year but struggles to back it up, before kicking on in their third year. We saw it with two entire teams as Gold Coast and then GWS followed the same pattern, appearing to go backwards in their second year before surprising quite a few in...
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    Priority Picks, Revisited

    So, priority picks. They've been phased out over the past few years. The old rule was any team with five or fewer wins snagged an extra pick ahead of the first round. From 2006, that was revised to four wins and being a pick between the first and second rounds, with two consecutive years of...
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    Competitions Essendon Board Draft Game - Draft Thread

    This is the thread for draft picks only. Please keep all discussion in the discussion thread. Draft Rules: The draft will run in a snake format, which will be familiar to fantasy sports players. Essentially, every second round runs in reverse order, to neutralise the benefit of having a...
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    Competitions Essendon Board Draft Game - Signup/Discussion Thread

    The game is afoot. Discussion here, drafting in this thread As some of you will have noticed, over the past few years we've run a list management game through the summer to soak up the off-season. With the dust of the trade and draft period settling, I'm starting it up again. Last year eth-dog...
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    Feedback Sport888 are breaking odds.bigfooty.com

    Hola. A new bookie popped up on the Odds site today, and either something's gone wrong or they're gaming it. The odds aren't even close to real, and the site doesn't even allow Australian punters. Example...
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    Competitions 2013 Essendon Board SuperCoach Leagues

    Gentlemen (and Ladies, if applicable), Please sign up here for this year's Essendon board SuperCoach leagues. The top division will compete in the BigFooty club championships. Alongside the glory of beating up on peasants, there are prizes of BigFooty memberships and little winners icons for...
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    Equalisation measures and team rivalries

    Just a thought that popped up over morning tea in the office today. Have the draft and the salary cap, and the subsequent cyclical nature of team performances, undermined the development of new, persistent rivalries between teams? Ignoring the two-team-state derbies which are straightforward...
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    Training times

    Hey guys. I have a mate over your way for a conference, and it turns out he's staying close to Freo Oval, but doesn't have any internets, so has asked me to scope out training times so he can wander over and have a look. The site says no open training this week, is that the end of it?
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    2010 - Teams & Discussion Threads

    2010 Toyota AFL Premiership Season ROUND ONE All times local Thursday March 25 Richmond v Carlton at the MCG, 7.10pm Friday March 26 Geelong Cats v Essendon at the MCG, 7.40pm Saturday March 27 Melbourne v Hawthorn at the MCG, 2.10pm Sydney Swans v St Kilda at ANZ Stadium, 7.10pm...
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    What is a pick upgrade worth?

    A full round (eg. early third to early second) or a half-round (eg. late second to early second), what sort of pick (or equivalent player) would a club be expected to part with?
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    Why 4 points for a win?

    Why is the ladder determined by scores of 4 and 2 rather than 2 or 1? This has always seemed a little odd to me. Is it a historical relic of something previously being worth just 1 point, or is it just an unexplainable quirk of the system?
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    SuperCoach Mobile

    http://scmobile.heraldsun.com.au This has been a long time coming. Looks pretty good, though maybe a bit graphic-heavy and quarter-by-quarter updates would be neat. I'm actually surprised someone like FanFooty didn't get on it long ago, there's no reason that site especially with it's...

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