2021 Non-Crows AFL Discussion Part 1: we can have lots of fun!

[baldandbroke]

Why are the AFL trying to sell this medical sub as somehow being about player welfare? About taking concussion "very seriously"?

It has zero to do with that. Zilch.

How does it do anything for the guy on the stretcher?

It is about reducing the influence of an injury on the result.

Should be ... As soon as you are subbed out you cannot play in any league for 12 days. End of story. No need for doctors ok, black and white.

 

[hey shorty]

Why are the AFL trying to sell this medical sub as somehow being about player welfare? About taking concussion "very seriously"?

It has zero to do with that. Zilch.

How does it do anything for the guy on the stretcher?

It is about reducing the influence of an injury on the result.

As soon as you are subbed out... You cannot play in any league for 12 days. End of story. No need for doctors ok, black and white.

If it was about concussion it would be a "concussion only" sub.

 

[BRL121]

Sure, but last night isn't proof that they're still sh*t. Finals bound teams will be stitched up worse than that by the Tigers.

Indeed. In fact, I suspect that they would have won were it not necessary to play the last seven minutes of every quarter: they really got stitched up there. They're probably not fit enough. It was Richmond's relentless pressure that got them.

 

[baldandbroke]

If it was about concussion it would be a "concussion only" sub.

It was a concussion sub initially, they got spooked and tried to fill some of the gaping holes on the fly ... As they seem to do quite often.

 

[FR0GGY]

English pushing Grundy around like a child

 

[footy4ever]

Ok, I’m betting on dogs for the GF. Another year of Dogs getting a ride from the umps. Not so much the frees they’re getting. Getting away with murder, Hawthorn and Richmondesque.

 

[Kane McGoodwin]

Port probably having 3 debutants this week. Bergman, Mead and Jones.

Really?

Jones is currently playing for the magpies & i doubt Mead will debut.

Bergman is a certainty though.

 

[hey shorty]

Really?

Jones is currently playing for the magpies & i doubt Mead will debut.

Bergman is a certainty though.

I think Mead is playing too.

 

[mistylake]

Every. Single. *******. Year.

I think Rain Man does the AFL fixture.

Possibly Coopers

 

[CrowsB4hoes]

Grundy is terrible

 

[BACCS]

Richmond and Carlton have been praised by Hocking for how they activated their 23rd man in Thursday night's season-opener at the MCG.

Oscar McDonald became the league's first medical substitute, when he came into the game at half-time for Blues teammate Jack Silvagni, who is expected to miss an extended period due to a shoulder dislocation.

But Tigers defender Nick Vlastuin (knee) remains a chance to play in round-two after being subbed off for Jack Ross late in the third quarter.

When introducing the substitute, the AFL said it was for injuries that looked set to sideline a player for 12 days - though for any injury bar concussion, there is no mandated break.

"I've only got complimentary remarks about how both the clubs used it," Hocking told SEN.

"We have got trust in our doctors and we have got the right processes in place to address whatever might come out of the medical sub."

Hocking admitted the idea for the rule came about after a meeting with the league's coaches last week and was fast-tracked into action.

What a surprise....the AFL could not organize the proverbial in a Brothel, bunch of useless campaigners

Well if this is the case, then might as well bring back Talia next week and if he gets any knee soreness, sub him out at half time for say McAsey or Kelly. Doesn’t seem like they care whether they will actually miss 12 days.

 

[footy4ever]

Grundy is terrible

Yep. Played his contract negotiations beautifully.

 

[FR0GGY]

Grundy is terrible

Would hurt if he was on a big contract though..

 

[mistylake]

yeah well, some of us remember the fare we had growing up. I am not stepping in to bat for the modern day micro brewery as I don't drink IPA or Lager unless there literally is nothing else to drink. This is the sort of garbage they were trying to market 'back in the day'

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My recent trip down to SA where I spent a week on the Murray. Had us venturing up and back from the Woolshed brewery. Had a few sessions there on these bad boys. Way to easy to get these down. Good thing we wereon the river in tinnies with no “Law” around. 8.1%

 

[footy4ever]

Bailey Smith

3

Bailey Smith

Age

25

Ht

185cm

Wt

86kg

Pos.

M/F

Career

Season

Last 5

D

18.3

5star

K

8.5

3star

HB

9.8

5star

M

2.3

2star

T

3.8

5star

CL

2.7

4star

D

19.8

5star

K

9.6

4star

HB

10.2

5star

M

1.8

2star

T

3.2

4star

CL

3.2

4star

D

14.8

4star

K

7.6

3star

HB

7.2

5star

M

2.0

3star

T

3.4

5star

CL

1.6

4star

looks like he belongs to a shit heavy metal band.

 

[jackster83]

McNeil looks like a young Tyson Edwards

Tyson Edwards

Age

49

Ht

178cm

Wt

81kg

Pos.

Mid

Career

Season

Last 5

D

19.0

5star

K

11.7

4star

HB

7.3

5star

M

4.5

4star

T

2.6

4star

CL

2.1

4star

No current season stats available

D

13.6

4star

K

8.0

3star

HB

5.6

4star

M

2.4

3star

T

0.6

3star

.

 

[MRB37]

Grundy is terrible

If Grundy has shown one thing it's that you can wear him down with two good ruckman working him over. Try and go 1-1 he can dominate, but you can double team him and slow him down.

Also don't think he gets across the field as well as he used to. Reminds me of a Running Back who has had 2-3 years of a massive workload and then just hits a wall from all the hits they've taken.

 

[GROTTO]

Grundy is terrible

I would stil be happy to be him. $7m contract. Wow.

 

[hey shorty]

Collingwood look fairly incapable of kicking a big score.

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

How is this still close? Dogs have looked far better

 

[MRB37]

Umpire telling a player to watch him rather than his man. Rubbish.

 

[mistylake]

**** the man on the mark rule is stupid.

 

[MRB37]

How is this still close? Dogs have looked far better

Dogs remind me of the Power sometimes. Not much method to them moving the ball inside their 50, just hope the guys like Naughton and Bruce can take a mark like they do with Dixon and Marshall.

 

[jackster83]

If Grundy has shown one thing it's that you can wear him down with two good ruckman working him over. Try and go 1-1 he can dominate, but you can double team him and slow him down.

Also don't think he gets across the field as well as he used to. Reminds me of a Running Back who has had 2-3 years of a massive workload and then just hits a wall from all the hits they've taken.

That's what happens when you refuse to manage a player, and continue to play him through injuries. The Don Pyke method.

 

[MRB37]

Media hype at play calling De Goey a superstar.