Opinion 2018 Non-Crows Discussion Thread

[Godallblighty]

Ablett and duckwood .. Its up to danger to carry the midfield. I don't think anyone is surprised ..

Media narrative for the last few months has been that this injury-prone player at the end of his career was going to supercharge Geelong's midfield. If they really believed that they ought to be surprised. I've thought all along he'll be lucky to play ten games.

 

[Godallblighty]

Or running whilst occasionally jumping over things?

Yeah, arbitrary restrictions that introduce technical difficulties have no place in sport. Imagine a ball game where you weren't allowed to touch it with your hands, or one where you were allowed to use your hands but could only punch it with a closed fist? These kind of things just make a mockery of the physical contest.

 

[NikkiNoo]

I don’t need understand walking as an event. It’s like who can whisper the loudest.

The non-freestyle swimming events are similarly odd. It would be like having a 100m race for “normal” running and then 100m events for who can run backwards he fastest, who can hop the fastest and who can cartwheel the fastest.

Or playing with a weird shaped ball where you have to attempt to bounce it on the ground every couple of metres or else give it back to your opponent. Or you have to only kick it or do this weird hold flat in one hand and punch it with the other hand. All sport is weir and as lovers of aussie rules footy, we should sit down and shut up about how other sports don't make sense.

 

[relapse]

Media narrative for the last few months has been that this injury-prone player at the end of his career was going to supercharge Geelong's midfield. If they really believed that they ought to be surprised. I've thought all along he'll be lucky to play ten games.

Yeah I agree, he hasn't even come close to playing a full year in the last five years.

They should really be just playing him primarily out of a pocket and trying to nurse him through the season, the moment that I saw Geelong trying to play him in the middle I had a feeling that he wasn't going to last very long.

Given that he's about to turn 34, if it is a bad hamstring tear it could easily turn into 8 or 9 weeks stint on the sidelines.

I think all those years of Geelong trading away draft picks is starting to come back to bite them because now that they've been hit with injuries they literally have no depth to bring in.

 

[GreyCrow]

Yeah I agree, he hasn't even come close to playing a full year in the last five years.

They should really be just playing him primarily out of a pocket and trying to nurse him through the season, the moment that I saw Geelong trying to play him in the middle I had a feeling that he wasn't going to last very long.

Given that he's about to turn 34, if it is a bad hamstring tear it could easily turn into 8 or 9 weeks stint on the sidelines.

I think all those years of Geelong trading away draft picks is starting to come back to bite them because now that they've been hit with injuries they literally have no depth to bring in.

Dean Gore is floating around.

 

[WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot]

Or playing with a weird shaped ball where you have to attempt to bounce it on the ground every couple of metres or else give it back to your opponent. Or you have to only kick it or do this weird hold flat in one hand and punch it with the other hand. All sport is weir and as lovers of aussie rules footy, we should sit down and shut up about how other sports don't make sense.

Yeah, but there are a lot of differences between ball sports, even ones which involve kicking a ball and trying to get it between 2 posts (say, soccer and Aussie rules) or get a person on your team to hold or place the ball down in a particular area (say, rugby league, rugby union or American football).

With walking and running the aim is exactly the same. You're trying to get from point A to point B in the shortest time possible. The only differences with the 2 sports is that walking requires competitors to keep 1 foot on the ground at all times and it's a heck of a lot slower than running.

 

[WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot]

Dean Gore is floating around.

Dean Gore recently tore his ACL in the VFL.

 

[FR0GGY]

No they weren't

Port were pulling 13k-14k in those days, don't let their revisionist history crap fool you.

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Wow those numbers are bad

 

[Johnny Rutten]

 

[Miss Vanessa]

At the same time, 19K on a Saturday night is woeful.

Port's last home game in 2012 (their worst year crowds wise) against the Lions drew 13953. I'm guessing there wouldn't have been more than several hundred Lions fans there. As opposed to Saturday night, where there was a pretty strong Crows contingent. Take that away and the Saints crowd is much less impressive than Port at their worst... and going to Footy Park sucked way more than heading to Etihad. Plus, the Saints were playing one of the premier teams in the comp in round 3...

The Saints fans should be absolutely pilloried for their non-attendance, much like Port fans were back in 2012. They won't be of course, but they should.

 

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Wow those numbers are bad

Yeah embarrassing numbers, that's why I laugh when Port supporters hypocritically point the finger at everyone else while blatantly ignoring/covering up their own poor history.

The signs are there for another drop off for Port. There has been gradual drop every year, but once they fall away in the next couple of years those numbers will start dropping at a far quicker rate and will fall to under 30k on a regular basis.

 

[WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot]

Yeah embarrassing numbers, that's why I laugh when Port supporters hypocritically point the finger at everyone else while blatantly ignoring/covering up their own poor history.

The signs are there for another drop off for Port. There has been gradual drop every year, but once they fall away in the next couple of years those numbers will start dropping at a far quicker rate and will fall to under 30k on a regular basis.

Their current numbers are also being supported by Port giving tickets away via numerous different ways. I'd love to know how many of their attendees are from free tickets.

 

[Bearded Clam]

Who gets this weeks rising star nomination?... anyone got someone in mind?...

 

[AFC3000]

Port's numbers are fine, for Port Adelaide, we know that. But they are bigger than that now (in their own minds), they overtook us for real AFL audited members in 2014, they are apparently the Manchester United of the AFL or whatever Kochie declared them as.

Anyway, they can't have a go at our free members, telling us they have more true members, unless they admit that most of those members are 3 game members anyway. We'll have more members at every one of our games, our strategy is better, AFL numbers are irrelevant.

I remember them telling us we are too South Australian, they are a national/internatial team with all of their new national sponsors like Renault and Four N Twenty etc., more supporters, bigger crowds. They couldn't wait to gloat once they managed to scrape together an argument for them being bigger than we are, but then as soon as the wheels fall off the bandwagon, all of a sudden it's 'we're just a suburban club, we are doing great'... compared to the handful of teams that probably shouldn't even be in a national competition anyway.

 

[hey shorty]

Their current numbers are also being supported by Port giving tickets away via numerous different ways. I'd love to know how many of their attendees are from free tickets.

Still think St Kildas crowd was worse considering there were a few thousand of our fans there.

 

[Rotayjay]

I remember them telling us we are too South Australian, they are a national/international team with all of their new national sponsors like Renault and Four N Twenty etc.

Renault for 5 years
vs
Toyota for 27 years

 

[AFC3000]

Yeah embarrassing numbers, that's why I laugh when Port supporters hypocritically point the finger at everyone else while blatantly ignoring/covering up their own poor history.

The signs are there for another drop off for Port. There has been gradual drop every year, but once they fall away in the next couple of years those numbers will start dropping at a far quicker rate and will fall to under 30k on a regular basis.

They are very lucky they look to be playing OK football at this point, this is surely supposed to be the "to make money" part of their you have to spend money to make money plan (like when they were spending hundreds of thousands of dollars more than us on marketing when we moved to AO and they were getting a lot of positive coverage).

I've got no doubt they'd be averaging crowds in the mid to high 20,000s if their supporters thought they had no hope going into the game and finals were gone.

 

[Geoffa32]

Still think St Kildas crowd was worse considering there were a few thousand of our fans there.

St Kilda are a basket case.

Port are the king of the minnows. Huff and puff about being a big boy club but in reality not quite there.



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[Cleric]

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Those picks aint gonna get us Rankine, Rozee or even Hartley at this point....

 

[Johnny Rutten]

Who gets this weeks rising star nomination?... anyone got someone in mind?...

Jake Waterman played really well. 20 possies, 9 marks. Looks a player.

 

[skam85]

deaneus where we at with the Ollie countdown?

 

[Deaneus!]

deaneus where we at with the Ollie countdown?

Why, we're at day 205

Funnily enough, this is the Peugeot 205

a small 4-cylinder car that had bugger-all power

We're now at day 205 - why hasn't Ollie signed?

Is he quitting the club like Renault did?

 

[fabs33]

Why, we're at day 205

Funnily enough, this is the Peugeot 205

a small 4-cylinder car that had bugger-all power

We're now at day 205 - why hasn't Ollie signed?

Is he quitting the club like Peugeot did?

Did you mean Renault? Or is Port's sponsorship situation that dire that they're losing sponsors before they've even signed?

 

[GreyCrow]

Those picks aint gonna get us Rankine, Rozee or even Hartley at this point....

St Kilda at 4 though

 

[Deaneus!]

Did you mean Renault? Or is Port's sponsorship situation that dire that they're losing sponsors before they've even signed?

Renault, Peugeot, it's all French to me