Seems brutal but possible if we lose to Essendon. Brisbane and Suns have some winnable games, Crows should get another win also. Even if we beat them 12th seems likely.
14th would be staggering given how well we've played, but maybe opens the possibility of Luke Mc as a second rounder? That...
Thought they were great today, lots of slight head highs where the player with the ball contributed and they let it flow.
Made for a good game to watch apart from the last 10minutes - which was all our own doing.
Well we were in it right up to the last quarter. These guys play finals type one on one pressure footy, fierce around the packs with big bodies.
As touched on in another thread, huge unit ruckman (US even) maybe the way to go in future. Finals footy is contested / stoppage footy, the advantage...
Played like we want a WA trip. All it needed was a bit of a margin for a home final to reward supporters. Oh well some other year.... if we dish anything like that up next week.
So the question is why - why do we all give such power to a few faceless, unaccountable people? And why dont we care? I provide some vids below, the shortest is a cartoon giving a quick run down, the second much longer (but very good), goes over the history of money supply, its power, mans...
I thought id start this thread up again for debate and present some of the info ive researched of late. Im sure many people have better knowledge on some of the subjects i'll present, some may have been discussed before, but im interested to read an learn from people opinions while i continue my...
We almost showed how its done
We shouldnt have been that close, but considering the ground we gave up at nearly every stoppage it was a damn brave effort. We can point fingers all over the place, fact is we were absolutely slaughtered at the stoppages.
Its a huge worry we can be dominated...
Our team for these ODIs is out of whack imo. 2 new pills and we have Warner and Wade opening? Warner ok, but expect him to get out early a fair bit as he doesnt move his feet, he's our Sehwag. That means its too risky to have Wade opening with him, its just stupid.
Yet again early wickets...
Watched all the finals over the weekend and i have to say Carlton really impressed me, their run was outstanding i thought. But watching them got me thinking, so many of their players look roughly the same shape. Yes obviously built in the chest like most AFL players, but so many look very very...
Well deserved on making the finals. Very disappointing for us, but lots of positives for you guys playing an aggressive brand running us off our feet. Continue that form and a few sides will be very wary. Once you broke us open in the middle we just couldnt stem the flow a problem we've had...
This guy talks out of 2 sidea of his face, its amazing and the muppets just soak it up.
http://www.sen.com.au/audioplayer/Audio/Andrew-Demetriou-part-one/2835
Main points i took from it
So playing on Friday nights wouldnt help our brand at all, we wouldnt get more sponsorship dollars...
"He is a far better player now at Hawthorn than he was at kanga's"
Is he really? I mean cmon Dennis most of the media doesnt realize Jack Ziebell plays footy yet, its not un common for North players to slip under the radar.
Its interesting most hawk supporters believe Hale is in the same...
They have to go. We started the game well, but missed shots, skill errors and simply bad decision making blew the scoreboard out until we just stopped.
Yes everyone was bad, but do we get rid of everyone or the momentum killers? From this day forward we should not recruit anyone without high...
Win a spoon and take the cream of a draft? Then deliver a flag!
Thought id post this since some of the recent debate in threads around here. Of course im not expecting everyone to agree with the table and in good ol big footy fashion expect a fair amount of flames. Im simply offering another...
Since so many posters are only concerned about how much money the AFL can get i thought id air some ideas for feedback.
Ok this might be a little radical, but think about it, it not only makes sence, it will make mega bucks. Yay money, cha -ching cha - ching :heart:
So we want to expand the...
Hauritz to Morgan in the 23rd over i think it was. Morgan sweeps, the ball just passes Haddin to much Oohing and Ahhing, but no appeal.
We my little trigger finger which is usually trustworthy was up testing the breeze in the lounge room, but no interest from anyone, not even the commentators...
With 5 of the best pace bowlers used, its a real concern Australian cricket atm and test cricket. I say test cricket as the balance between bat and ball is so vital, who gets to cash in on the days 2 and 3 flat decks are heavily in the box seat. Then watch teams struggle to score on wickets...
Id be very surprised if this Ballarat deal hasn't been discussed for some time, and i question recent events, particularly the AFLs push for us in Tassie. Call me cynical, but the AFL knew of the Ballarat thing before giving us a nudge into Tassie. Have us in Tassie and lock Hawthorn or some...
Im sure we're all expecting another 5,000 members in the next few years as performances improve off the back of our young exiting team. But now with with the Ballarat move:
+ 5000 extra Melbourne based members
+ 5000 Ballarat based members
An extra 15,000 members in a few short years? I...
I admit, i crapped myself when he went off and immediately thought how do we cover him. Only one answer and that was to drop Petrie back, but that changes the dynamics of the back half as we lose run. Even if we throw Drew down back, we then lack height up forward.
So what is our back up...
Seems with the limited number of North listed players allowed to play firsts, it might force some tough decisions? This season we had S.Clayton and Robbins who surely were'nt ever going to play big roles for North this season, but what they do (now) is force our younger guys into a lesser...
Not only did we get a pants pulled down and spanked, they have beaten us twice this season. They were with out the player that we offered our first 2 picks for, yet still get a priority pick.
But we are rebuilding with youngsters so I guess losses like these are expected. If we hadve played...
Even though we were thumped in our game of the year, we have many positives. Firstly let me say ive been one of those annoying ‘bring on the youth people’ Ive been very pleased how we’v played the second half of the session with more asked of our 3Ds and others. There has been a shift and...
Patience required to defend the cause
Kevin Sheedy
18 July 2004
SEVERAL weeks ago we copped a verbal hiding at Essendon because we dared to play young defender Aaron Henneman on Kangaroo full-forward Sav Rocca.
The first thing we had to consider was that Dustin Fletcher had done poorly...
2 of the bottom teams fighting it out see whos the lesser of the AFL’s bitches was uninspiring.
Actually mud wrestling bitches might have had my attention. No offence to supporters of these teams, but come on, we the public deserve better than bottom of the table clashes.