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    Your coach is a class act

    Forgot to post this on Sunday, but I was at the game and sitting in the aisle the away coach walks thru getting out onto the ground. After the final siren, Adam Simpson took the time out of his way getting onto the ground to shake a young WCE fan’s hand and pat him on the head even though he was...
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    Does the AFL administration do more to hinder the game than grow it

    Selling top level Australian Rules football to Australians (especially in Melbourne, Perth and Adelaide) is a relatively simple job. However it seems that the current AFL administration appear to care only about enriching themselves, at the expense of all other considerations. This has meant...
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    A free kick simply for standing in the wrong place

    I know there are countless other threads about the proposed rule changes, but I wanted to discuss the particular fact that these appear to be the only rules which penalise someone simply for standing in the wrong place, with no actual competitive and or safety reason or purpose behind it. Even...
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    The unintended consequences of the new third man up rule

    In the first half of the Adelaide/Geelong game today, a boundary umpire threw the ball in short and it hit a rover with his back to the ball at the feet of the ruckman. The player was then penalised and free kick given because he was not one of the nominated ruckman, even though he made no...
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    Melbourne in the clear from AFL on governance issues

    http://m.heraldsun.com.au/sport/afl/melbourne-demons-escape-afl-sanction-over-stephen-danks-role-at-club/story-fni5f91a-1226872780382
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    ASADA completes probe, now preparing briefs

    http://m.theage.com.au/sport/asada-has-completed-its-probe-into-the-afl-and-nrl-says-chief-executive-20140226-33idd.html http://m.theage.com.au/sport/asada-has-completed-its-probe-into-the-afl-and-nrl-says-chief-executive-20140226-33idd.html
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    Greg Denham on SEN: Hird organized Evans meeting on AOD

    On Hungry for Sport just now. According to GD it was Hird who set up the meeting on AOD. The gist seemed to be that it was set up so they could get the financing for the final stage of testing for TGA approval , which when completed would remove it from s0. Also backed up Caroline's story...
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    Our forward structure

    For most of the year we have had a different forward line compared tom 08-09. Hall has replaced Welsh, Grant has replaced Hill and Murph and Hanh have, at least in the second part of the year, spent the majority of their time down back with Harbrow and a rotating cast of others spending more...
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    Mid-Season review

    With it already half way through the season, I reckon it is time to take stock and have a look at how we have gone unit by unit, with an eye towards the finals. Backs: All things considered, our backline has been pretty good, considering only 3 of our back 6 have played every game this year...
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    2008 in review

    Best Player: Adam Cooney Most improved: Josh Hill/Dylan Addison Most disappointing: Andrejs Everitt Most overrated: Robert Murphy Most underrated: Gia/Shaggy Player to watch for in 09: Shaun Higgins Player on the decline in 09: Huddo Best game: St. Kilda win (1st) Worst game: Carlton loss Best...
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    Rocket's Bag of Tricks for finals

    Does anybody think Eade is playing funny buggers with injury going into the game against the Hawks. With the latest news about Tommy, could there be a chance he is playing some cloak and dagger types games trying to get the Hawks to plan for a team that has Wight/Tiller/Everitt, then bringing...
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    It doesn't matter when you win 'em in May or August

    .. you still get four points.Yes we have lost 3 out of the past 4 games, but the fact is we will still play finals (ALL in Melbourne) and get a double chance. After playing the 15 other teams in the comp, only THREE have managed to beat us. Yet with some of the carrying on that has been...
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    Time to bannish old Bullgods- Faz

    http://www.westernbulldogs.com.au/tabid/4112/Default.aspx?newsid=63726 Interesting thoughts from Farren.
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    Robbo on SEN- Dogs should get Cousins

    Just on SEN, Mark Robinson suggested that we should go after Ben Cousins. Good idea or terrible idea?
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    Crowd this week

    What do you guys think will be the crowd this Saturday against the Lions? Anything less than 40k would be a massive disappointment, due to our form and being the only game in Victoria, and I am sure that 40k+ would be more than budgeted for by the club at the start of the year. If we can push...
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    Strength of Schedule

    Looking at the SoS for all teams shows some interesting things. After Round 8 Melbourne has faced the hardest teams with their combined opponents having won 31 games. Geelong have so far faced the weakest with their opponents having won only 17 1/2 games. From hardest to weakest Melbourne 31...
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    Breakout Players

    Who are going to be our players this season that stamp their name on our side and the competition by playing good, consistent football.. We seem to have a bunch of good players who play very well in some games and then play poor in others (Gia, Ray, to an extent Cooney, Higgins e.t.c). Which...
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    Expansion Benefits of an 18 team comp

    If the AFL go ahead and launch a 17th team, followed by an 18th team the TV rights will explode, probably over $1 Billion. Firstly there will be an extra game per round. That game could possibly be on monday nights. In a time where it looks like Soccer could start to get in a position to...
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    Running Goals- The key to the remainder of our Season?

    If (BIG IF) we are to make the finals this year, I think the one thing we have to get back to doing is kicking goals on the run. During the latter part of 05 and most of 06 it seemed like we seemed to be kicking a fair percentage of our goals on the run. This year it seems like the players have...
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    Has the Cousins saga vindicated the rationale behind the AFL Drug Policy?

    The AFL has pretty much said that their main aim with the illicit drug policy is to privately focus on the education/rehabilitation side of things, before taking public punitive measures against the players. In a roundabout way, has the media given the AFL the perfect reason to keep the names of...
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    Well looks like Taker/'Tista 3 might not happen

    Credit: PWInsider Edit Awwwwwwwwww s**t.
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    Harris on SEN now

    Interview on the Good Oil with Daniel Harford Edit- Caught half of it, here are some of what I heard About yesterday's game- He said it was a high possession game and he got a few cheap kicks He also said that we didn't play good footy for the whole game, and that rocket wasn't happy with the...
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    Clement out for tonight

    Just on MMM, they announced Clement is out for tonight.
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    WSX Cancelled

    http://www.pwinsider.com/ViewArticle.asp?id=23163&p=1 Well it was fun while it lasted.
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    Comments which don't warrant a thread thread

    Since there are a lot of small topics that might waste space on the board and only generate a few views or replys I thought we could try something like this. Basically anything that doesn't deserve its own topic or fits into an exisiting topic could go in here i.e:"Player X has been kicking...
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    The OAO Multimedia thread

    Let's try and keep all the media (either downloadable or youtube, google video e.t.c) in here I will update this list as I upload more. Note- I have not capped any of these but I have uploaded them all Ted DiBiase segment with little kid bouncing a basketball...
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    Debunking the Collingwood FTA myth

    People here on BF seem to think that the AFL & Collingwood are in some sort of collusion to get them on FTA or that Eddie has orchastrated the draw to have them on FTA as much as possible.. However when you look at the facts you see that is just not true. Friday Night Games= 5 Sunday Games= 2...
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    Worst predictions

    I posted this at another message board in March 2004. What have been some of your worst predicitions when it comes to footy.
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