No Oppo Supporters 2025 AFL General Discussion

[Callipygian]

Good Insta post by Heens with a picture of CC, Tom Mac and Adams after a swim calling them the Geelong Falcons boys

For a second I was thinking "huh, Caiden Cleary?!"

 

[bedford]

For a second I was thinking "huh, Caiden Cleary?!"

How good Nool loved your humour

 

[Mister B]

Got a gather round ticket but could not see any way to access the multi match pass. Anyone know how?

 

[sahi11]

Got a gather round ticket but could not see any way to access the multi match pass. Anyone know how?

You can only do it tomorrow morning, today it is available to those with priority allocation for Adelaide Oval games. WE have a windows from 10:30 tomorrow, assuming there would be any left

 

[Dangas]

Poor design to reference the "link" to only AO games and not the other games played elsewhere. How many people do you think are just sitting in the wrong cue?

I navigated manually to the game, no cue at all.

 

[robbieando]

Got my ticket, pretty easy process

 

[bedford]

Got my ticket, pretty easy process

But not everyone is as clever as you with these things , did you get accommodation ?

 

[The Blue Max]

Poor design to reference the "link" to only AO games and not the other games played elsewhere. How many people do you think are just sitting in the wrong cue?

I navigated manually to the game, no cue at all.

All because they're too cheap to invest in a decent server capacity.

Been a standing clown act for years.

 

[bedford]

Great read today about Gold Coasts head of recruiting how he had a program that worked on their academy picks and not just on the night , but had a way for anything that happened and on the night it they got it right
Im sure someone can get it up

 

[Callipygian]

Arrest made after alleged threats to Crows footballer

SA Police have arrested a 31-year-old man after he allegedly sent five threatening messages on social media to a Crows player, who the ABC understands is Izak Rankine.

www.abc.net.au

I think the Crows player is likely to be Izak Rankine

23

Izak Rankine

Age

26

Ht

179cm

Wt

82kg

Pos.

M/F

Career

Season

Last 5

D

13.0

3star

K

9.0

3star

HB

4.0

3star

M

2.7

3star

T

2.7

4star

CL

1.7

4star

D

13.0

3star

K

9.0

4star

HB

4.0

3star

M

2.7

3star

T

2.7

4star

CL

1.7

4star

D

13.0

4star

K

9.0

4star

HB

4.0

3star

M

2.7

3star

T

2.7

5star

CL

1.7

4star

(as opposed to Sholl, Peatling, Jones or Fogarty the other 25 yos). Sad that players are having to deal with this crap. Must be stressful as well as deleterious to one's mental health.

 

[bedford]

Arrest made after alleged threats to Crows footballer

SA Police have arrested a 31-year-old man after he allegedly sent five threatening messages on social media to a Crows player, who the ABC understands is Izak Rankine.

www.abc.net.au

I think the Crows player is likely to be Izak Rankine (as opposed to Sholl, Peatling, Jones or Fogarty the other 25 yos). Sad that players are having to deal with this crap. Must be stressful as well as deleterious to one's mental health.

It is Rankine

 

[Big Blood]

For a second I was thinking "huh, Caiden Cleary?!"

My first thought too. Forgot all about whatsisname

 

[Jewelsbon]

Arrest made after alleged threats to Crows footballer

SA Police have arrested a 31-year-old man after he allegedly sent five threatening messages on social media to a Crows player, who the ABC understands is Izak Rankine.

www.abc.net.au

I think the Crows player is likely to be Izak Rankine (as opposed to Sholl, Peatling, Jones or Fogarty the other 25 yos). Sad that players are having to deal with this crap. Must be stressful as well as deleterious to one's mental health.

What a horrible world we live in.
Personally I'm not a fan of social media, but I do realise that it can be used to do some wonderful things, but the power and voice it has given to so many arseholes blows my mind.

 

[The Blue Max]

I have found Facebook to be an amazing research tool into my hobby and website. (60s US Stock drag racing) - I can count some pretty famous racers as friends thx to SM.

But FB is old school and barring one fake account created by someone in the hobby - the downsides have just been jealous old timers who were ‘gonna write a book’ and the usual idiots who re-enforce the Dunning-Kruger theory.

I can see how Tik Tok & X could be much more easily abused - and speaking personally- b4 the WWW kids didn’t have the mechanisms to socialise with adults outside of sport and BBQs…..and I want it to stay that way.

 

[Callipygian]

It must be a bit of a concern for the Western Bulldogs that they have lost not one but two #1 draft picks for nothing to rivals in the same year. First Jamarra Ugle Hagan was traded for pick 74 to the Suns who are looking like contenders for the flag next year at this early stage. I'm not sure whether pick 74 became pick 60, the last pick of the draft that was used to draft father-son Will Darcy but, even if it did, that job could equally have been done by a 7th round pick. And second, the Dogs have now allowed Kristie-Lee Weston-Turner to walk to the draft for nothing at all where she will be picked up by another club, most likely the reigning premiers.

Is this a failure of the recruiters and list managers to select these players in the first place, or a failure of the club more generally to not keep them happy and well-behaved? Either way it's clearly a failure of some sort on the part of the Bulldogs. All is not well Dogmark.

 

[dosser]

It must be a bit of a concern for the Western Bulldogs that they have lost not one but two #1 draft picks for nothing to rivals in the same year. First Jamarra Ugle Hagan was traded for pick 74 to the Suns who are looking like contenders for the flag next year at this early stage. I'm not sure whether pick 74 became pick 60, the last pick of the draft that was used to draft father-son Will Darcy but, even if it did, that job could equally have been done by a 7th round pick. And second, the Dogs have now allowed Kristie-Lee Weston-Turner to walk to the draft for nothing at all where she will be picked up by another club, most likely the reigning premiers.

Is this a failure of the recruiters and list managers to select these players in the first place, or a failure of the club more generally to not keep them happy and well-behaved? Either way it's clearly a failure of some sort on the part of the Bulldogs. All is not well Dogmark.

There are many, many players who are happy to keep playing there, so it's not a mass exodus. One player was obviously targeted by a premiership club while the other had significant personal issues.
Hubble, hubble, toil and trouble...

 

[Dubai Quacker]

It must be a bit of a concern for the Western Bulldogs that they have lost not one but two #1 draft picks for nothing to rivals in the same year. First Jamarra Ugle Hagan was traded for pick 74 to the Suns who are looking like contenders for the flag next year at this early stage. I'm not sure whether pick 74 became pick 60, the last pick of the draft that was used to draft father-son Will Darcy but, even if it did, that job could equally have been done by a 7th round pick. And second, the Dogs have now allowed Kristie-Lee Weston-Turner to walk to the draft for nothing at all where she will be picked up by another club, most likely the reigning premiers.

Is this a failure of the recruiters and list managers to select these players in the first place, or a failure of the club more generally to not keep them happy and well-behaved? Either way it's clearly a failure of some sort on the part of the Bulldogs. All is not well Dogmark.

Tom Boyd was their last no.1 pick before JUH.

I don’t follow the AFLW, so thought he was the second player you’d referred to.

Their record on no.1 picks is a bit of an anomaly - but I wouldn’t say the Bravedogs’ overall draft or retention record is poor.

 

[rustycrate]

It must be a bit of a concern for the Western Bulldogs that they have lost not one but two #1 draft picks for nothing to rivals in the same year. First Jamarra Ugle Hagan was traded for pick 74 to the Suns who are looking like contenders for the flag next year at this early stage. I'm not sure whether pick 74 became pick 60, the last pick of the draft that was used to draft father-son Will Darcy but, even if it did, that job could equally have been done by a 7th round pick. And second, the Dogs have now allowed Kristie-Lee Weston-Turner to walk to the draft for nothing at all where she will be picked up by another club, most likely the reigning premiers.

Is this a failure of the recruiters and list managers to select these players in the first place, or a failure of the club more generally to not keep them happy and well-behaved? Either way it's clearly a failure of some sort on the part of the Bulldogs. All is not well Dogmark.

I am walking on egg shells but
Jamarra is Aboriginal. We had a similar player drafted who was violent with his girlfriend. He was Aboriginal.
I have worked with Aboriginal people in prisons for a decade and a half.
They have told me things that make me believe in systemic problems ln Aboriginal society especially in urban places. They have enlightened me as to values that they hold dearly.

I am glad we traded in Rosas. I want Aboriginal players in the team.

Aboriginals were persecuted by whites ever since they landeed in Australia. I don't think they have ever recovered. The effects are still seen today. Their kids are not growing up in stable families. I am saying this in a general sense. Not everyone is the same.

There is still a long way to go to repair what was done historically. It may take another hundred years. Jamarra is the tip of the iceberg. There is so much more going on underneath.

I think there is a larger risk picking Aboriginal players from the draft.

 

[Mister B]

It must be a bit of a concern for the Western Bulldogs that they have lost not one but two #1 draft picks for nothing to rivals in the same year. First Jamarra Ugle Hagan was traded for pick 74 to the Suns who are looking like contenders for the flag next year at this early stage. I'm not sure whether pick 74 became pick 60, the last pick of the draft that was used to draft father-son Will Darcy but, even if it did, that job could equally have been done by a 7th round pick. And second, the Dogs have now allowed Kristie-Lee Weston-Turner to walk to the draft for nothing at all where she will be picked up by another club, most likely the reigning premiers.

Is this a failure of the recruiters and list managers to select these players in the first place, or a failure of the club more generally to not keep them happy and well-behaved? Either way it's clearly a failure of some sort on the part of the Bulldogs. All is not well Dogmark.

If she gets to North at pick 37 odd, there needs to be something done in regards to draft tampering. It will make an absolute farce of the whole system.

 

[zyzzbruh]

I am walking on egg shells but
Jamarra is Aboriginal. We had a similar player drafted who was violent with his girlfriend. He was Aboriginal.
I have worked with Aboriginal people in prisons for a decade and a half.
They have told me things that make me believe in systemic problems ln Aboriginal society especially in urban places. They have enlightened me as to values that they hold dearly.

I am glad we traded in Rosas. I want Aboriginal players in the team.

Aboriginals were persecuted by whites ever since they landeed in Australia. I don't think they have ever recovered. The effects are still seen today. Their kids are not growing up in stable families. I am saying this in a general sense. Not everyone is the same.

There is still a long way to go to repair what was done historically. It may take another hundred years. Jamarra is the tip of the iceberg. There is so much more going on underneath.

I think there is a larger risk picking Aboriginal players from the draft.

Yeah the ignorance is crazy when it comes to the general consensus of the indigenous being addicts who can't assimilate to the Aussie way or be functional members of society - or just being surprised that some of them can't handle a professional lifestyle. It's pretty obvious why they come from broken homes and why it's so hard to break free from it. Hence my stance on Taylor at the time (as bad as his indiscretion was) should've been worked on. To expect them to behave like a white aussie plucked from a private school straight off the bat is bonkers.

 

[joeykanga]

If she gets to North at pick 37 odd, there needs to be something done in regards to draft tampering. It will make an absolute farce of the whole system.

She has indicated that she didnt want to go interstate and theres free beers for the Hawthorn coach in a gentlemans agreement. Its clear draft tampering and makes it worse when its the 2 time premiers shes going to. But nothing will get done.

 

[TheGoatBaron]

What’s going on here I wonder?

 

[liz]

Tom Boyd was their last no.1 pick before

Boyd was a no 1 pick by the Giants, not Dogs.

 

[bedford]

W ?

 

[bedford]

A Collingwood staffer has been sacked inappropriate drunken behaviour on a camp in Alice Springs