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A late finish to the round but nothing stops the Weekend Wrap!
Post your liked, learnt, hated below… along with any other gripes or musings you had from round 8.
Crows v Port, Thursday night: Remember when there used to be about a dozen Roman numerals in the Showdown title to let us know which one they were up to? They do things differently in South Australia don’t they... like playing an injured captain and just hoping everything will turn out fine. What on earth were Port thinking there? Maybe they’ll have better luck when Showdown XXYWGHIIIIII rolls around.
Blues v Pies, Friday night: Here’s an idea - let’s not bother with the first 95% of Carlton-Collingwood games anymore. It’s needlessly expended energy. Let’s just make the scores level with a couple of minutes to play. The dying moments seem to decide most games between these two anyway.
Swans v Giants, Saturday arvo: First on the ladder, hefty percentage, healthy list, another contender left in our wake… is it too soon to start talking dynasties?? I don’t think so!
Saints v North, Saturday twilight: Not much to say about this game, so let’s just take a moment to toast Darcy Wilson. The kid is a jet.
Demons v Cats, Saturday night: Melbourne are winning plenty of games this year, so I’m sure they won’t care whether they’re playing pretty or not. Hint: they’re not. They’re really, really not.
Eagles v Bombers, Saturday night: Hang on, wasn’t this the side that was going to be copping frequent 100 point losses?? Impossible not to be impressed with the fight the Eagles are showing, especially after Elliot Yeo went down during this game. Meanwhile can I just alert everyone to the fact that the Bombers have crept up to 5th on the ladder? Wowee.
Tigers v Dockers, Sunday arvo: Can’t really blame the Tigers VFL side for getting blown away in the last couple of weeks. Still don’t really know where to place the Dockers though. Next week might tell us a bit.
Dogs v Hawks, Sunday twilight: Look, full credit to the young Hawks, their pressure and run were really good all day. But go back and read the Weekend Wrap from the last two weeks and you’ll see exactly what I think of the up-and-down basket case that is the Western Bulldogs. Reliably unreliable. Impossible to predict. They’ve killed tipping comps everywhere… now have they just killed their coach?
Lions v Suns, Sunday night: I’m told there’s a public holiday in Queensland tomorrow, and clearly the Suns decided to start theirs early. Couldn’t get near Brisbane in the first couple of quarters, even with a bunch of players going down on the Lions bench.
Post your liked, learnt, hated below… along with any other gripes or musings you had from round 8.
Crows v Port, Thursday night: Remember when there used to be about a dozen Roman numerals in the Showdown title to let us know which one they were up to? They do things differently in South Australia don’t they... like playing an injured captain and just hoping everything will turn out fine. What on earth were Port thinking there? Maybe they’ll have better luck when Showdown XXYWGHIIIIII rolls around.
Blues v Pies, Friday night: Here’s an idea - let’s not bother with the first 95% of Carlton-Collingwood games anymore. It’s needlessly expended energy. Let’s just make the scores level with a couple of minutes to play. The dying moments seem to decide most games between these two anyway.
Swans v Giants, Saturday arvo: First on the ladder, hefty percentage, healthy list, another contender left in our wake… is it too soon to start talking dynasties?? I don’t think so!
Saints v North, Saturday twilight: Not much to say about this game, so let’s just take a moment to toast Darcy Wilson. The kid is a jet.
Demons v Cats, Saturday night: Melbourne are winning plenty of games this year, so I’m sure they won’t care whether they’re playing pretty or not. Hint: they’re not. They’re really, really not.
Eagles v Bombers, Saturday night: Hang on, wasn’t this the side that was going to be copping frequent 100 point losses?? Impossible not to be impressed with the fight the Eagles are showing, especially after Elliot Yeo went down during this game. Meanwhile can I just alert everyone to the fact that the Bombers have crept up to 5th on the ladder? Wowee.
Tigers v Dockers, Sunday arvo: Can’t really blame the Tigers VFL side for getting blown away in the last couple of weeks. Still don’t really know where to place the Dockers though. Next week might tell us a bit.
Dogs v Hawks, Sunday twilight: Look, full credit to the young Hawks, their pressure and run were really good all day. But go back and read the Weekend Wrap from the last two weeks and you’ll see exactly what I think of the up-and-down basket case that is the Western Bulldogs. Reliably unreliable. Impossible to predict. They’ve killed tipping comps everywhere… now have they just killed their coach?
Lions v Suns, Sunday night: I’m told there’s a public holiday in Queensland tomorrow, and clearly the Suns decided to start theirs early. Couldn’t get near Brisbane in the first couple of quarters, even with a bunch of players going down on the Lions bench.
