2010 Highlights????

[alex_is_on_fire]

so basically what your saying is your pathetic troll hasn't worked

Again.

How many pathetic trolls is that.

 

[alex_is_on_fire]

As for my highlights....


The parade of champions at the end of round 22 vs St Kilda, saying that, major props must go to St Kilda for walking across the ground and making a guard of honor for the retiring champions.

The medics at AAMI Stadium who acted so swiftly and saved Dr Geoff Allen who had a heart attack before the round 16 clash. Well done, shows that Adelaide isn't a backwards hick state at all. Much to the chagrin of a few.

Taylor Walker, Patrick Dangerfield, Rory Sloane, Phil Davis, Ricky Henderson, David Mackay, Broady Martin all showing they will be either very good football players or able to contribute to a victory as early as next year and in one way or the other allowing us supporters to have a bit of confidence in moving forward.

 

[PrideOf]

As for my highlights....


The parade of champions at the end of round 22 vs St Kilda, saying that, major props must go to St Kilda for walking across the ground and making a guard of honor for the retiring champions.

If you look closely, you can see that St Kilda chick in the St Kilda race with a camera in one hand and Sam Gilbert's rabbit in the other.

Riewoldt saw that and bolted for the eastern wing.

But props all the same.

 

[taylor_walker_13]

Do they? I suppose you expect the Aussies to win the cricket when it's in Australia. And the Poms to win when it's in England. Do Collingwood win all their home matches? This year they lost 2 and drew 2 at the G. Last year they lost 7. A home ground does not a guaranteed win make.

Doesnt guarantee it I agree but if you are celebrating home wins as a highlight then there were so god damn awful lowlights.

Keep embracing medioctry one day you will all see and come crawling back that I was right

AGAIN

 

[Glenno23]

So saying that, is it ok to lose all our way games as the principals should be reverse?

Post hoc ergo propter hoc is Latin for; since that event followed this one, that event must have been caused by this one. Having home ground advantage doesn't work like that. Home teams don't automatically win and are not guaranteed a victory. It's false logic mate.

TW_13, care to make a comment regarding this?

You obviously believe that this must be the case.

ALL home teams must win. its expected

Guess what? Sport is full of surprises, and upsets happen. Sometimes even a really bad team can be beaten regularly at home, because they aren't that good. Sometimes a team that isn't that great can beat a really good team. Thats what makes sport special. Its unpredictable.

If every team won every home game, everyone would have the same amount of wins each year. BORING

If you don't think that win V Geelong was special, then i feel really bad for you and how negative you must be.....

 

[NSWCROW]

Be in about 25 minutes from now.

 

[Allefgib]

for sto...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWWg4Jtg-EI

 

[alex_is_on_fire]

for sto...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWWg4Jtg-EI

What......lost what i was thinking about.

 

[cmndstab]

I don't think tw13 is saying that it's a given that teams will win at home, just that it's not something special to be celebrated when they do.

But I think that is wrong as well. If you come up against a good side, the home ground advantage is there, but it's not nearly a decisive enough factor to put the game beyond doubt. A good win at home is still a good win. Wins such as the Freo win a few years back where we were up by 40 points in the last quarter at home and scraped over the line by 4 points seem less like something to celebrate about.

The way I look at it - if I come away from a win at AAMI thinking we still would have won at a neutral venue, then it's a win worth celebrating. It's all well and good to say that "wins should be the expectation and losses should be decried", but if you have high expectations then maintaining should be worth celebrating.

 

[alex_is_on_fire]

I don't think tw13 is saying that it's a given that teams will win at home, just that it's not something special to be celebrated when they do.

Well when you use words like ‘expect’ and a few different examples of who he expects to win , it kind of does.

 

[cmndstab]

Well when you use words like ‘expect’ and a few different examples of who he expects to win , it kind of does.

I'm trying to read between the lines

 

[alex_is_on_fire]

I'm trying to read between the lines

No, you're a moderator, therefore you're being diplomatic.

 

[cmndstab]

No, you're a moderator, therefore you're being diplomatic.

Nah, that's just me naturally If I modpost I generally make it pretty obvious.

 

[taylor_walker_13]

I don't think tw13 is saying that it's a given that teams will win at home, just that it's not something special to be celebrated when they do.

But I think that is wrong as well. If you come up against a good side, the home ground advantage is there, but it's not nearly a decisive enough factor to put the game beyond doubt. A good win at home is still a good win. Wins such as the Freo win a few years back where we were up by 40 points in the last quarter at home and scraped over the line by 4 points seem less like something to celebrate about.

The way I look at it - if I come away from a win at AAMI thinking we still would have won at a neutral venue, then it's a win worth celebrating. It's all well and good to say that "wins should be the expectation and losses should be decried", but if you have high expectations then maintaining should be worth celebrating.

They are exactly that good wins, dont take it out of context and make them highlights because if a good win at home is what you are relying on for highlights then its been pretty dour.


Now try again Im waiting for all these dazzling highlights from 2010 that AFC want their supporters to celebrate on Facebook

Or is someone going to actually have to balls to come out and admit the club is kidding itself again???

 

[FR0GGY]

Correct me if I'm wrong but wouldn't a 1pt win at home be a highlight if it was the only game we won during the year? And hence the Geelong game was deffinately a highlight.

 

[Swifty18]

Well, I'll always remember the Geelong win; definitely a highlight for me from a season otherwise full of lowlights. You can choose to just consider that a "good win", while others can consider it one of the best games they've ever attended. No point saying 'IT'S NOT A HIGHLIGHT' because it's just an opinion

 

[BACCS]

They are exactly that good wins, dont take it out of context and make them highlights because if a good win at home is what you are relying on for highlights then its been pretty dour.


Now try again Im waiting for all these dazzling highlights from 2010 that AFC want their supporters to celebrate on Facebook

Or is someone going to actually have to balls to come out and admit the club is kidding itself again???

Posters have mentioned them, you are just so pidgeon holed in your negative world to notice. Seriously, I really wish you went and supported a club like Carlton or Richmond, you'd fit right in.

 

[cmndstab]

They are exactly that good wins, dont take it out of context and make them highlights because if a good win at home is what you are relying on for highlights then its been pretty dour.


Now try again Im waiting for all these dazzling highlights from 2010 that AFC want their supporters to celebrate on Facebook

Or is someone going to actually have to balls to come out and admit the club is kidding itself again???

A highlight doesn't stop being a highlight simply because it's been surrounded by lowlights. We all agree they were few and far between in 2010, but the fact that they are outnumbered by the lowlights doesn't stop them from existing.

If we were in a sporting competition where everyone was starting from an equal base every year, you'd be well within your rights to expect top performances all the time, but we're not. We're in a comp that is designed to be cyclical. We're not always going to be the top side, we're not always going to be impregnable at home. Sometimes we're going to have a lean year.

 

[taylor_walker_13]

A highlight doesn't stop being a highlight simply because it's been surrounded by lowlights. We all agree they were few and far between in 2010, but the fact that they are outnumbered by the lowlights doesn't stop them from existing.

If we were in a sporting competition where everyone was starting from an equal base every year, you'd be well within your rights to expect top performances all the time, but we're not. We're in a comp that is designed to be cyclical. We're not always going to be the top side, we're not always going to be impregnable at home. Sometimes we're going to have a lean year.

I agree all clubs at all levels go through lean years, but how many clubs go through lean years at their own doing???

 

[KUNG FU]

I agree all clubs at all levels go through lean years, but how many clubs go through lean years at their own doing???

Are you suggesting that most teams that have lean years aren't responsible for those performances or haven't made the errors that led to poor performance? I'm pretty sure anyone with a rudimentary knowledge of AFL could fill a book with the errors Richmond, Essendon and Fremantle have made in the last 10 years.

We are really uncovering some interesting philosophical quandaries from you in this thread.

 

[cmndstab]

I agree all clubs at all levels go through lean years, but how many clubs go through lean years at their own doing???

Um.

Entirely of their own doing? None of them. Including us.

Primarily? All of them.

 

[AFC979810]

Doesnt guarantee it I agree but if you are celebrating home wins as a highlight then there were so god damn awful lowlights.

Keep embracing medioctry one day you will all see and come crawling back that I was right

AGAIN

Obviously you weren't at the game. Beating the reigning premiers at home on a Friday night to keep our slim finals alive was spectacular...

The crowd was one of the loudest I have heard at AAMI and some of the goals were pretty damn special...

I guess if we ever win a home Preliminary final it won't be a 'highlight' because its a home game and we should win...

 

[taylor_walker_13]

Obviously you weren't at the game. Beating the reigning premiers at home on a Friday night to keep our slim finals alive was spectacular...

The crowd was one of the loudest I have heard at AAMI and some of the goals were pretty damn special...

I guess if we ever win a home Preliminary final it won't be a 'highlight' because its a home game and we should win...

No I wasnt at the game.

Mate with the 'boys club' running the AFC we wont get anywhere near anything remotely exciting.

 

[AFC979810]

No I wasnt at the game.

Mate with the 'boys club' running the AFC we wont get anywhere near anything remotely exciting.

Would be very interested to see who you propose we replace the 'boys club' with....

Its easy to criticize, but another thing entirely to show a credible solution to a perceived problem.

 

[Shenders]

No I wasnt at the game.

Mate with the 'boys club' running the AFC we wont get anywhere near anything remotely exciting.

If you didn't think the Cats game was exciting something is wrong. Amazing game one of the best I can remember in recent history.

I don't know how having the AFC run by the 'boys club' has any effect on how exciting the games are?