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I know. My lack of smileys may have fooled you into thinking I'm not taking the piss.
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Chapman on now.
Please dont let this turn into an argument now about Selwood ffs..
Please dont let this turn into an argument now about Selwood ffs..
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I'm just ****ing amazed we are the focus and they're not talking about Essendon, for what oh the first time in 2341219 days.
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It's not on in Perth for another hour.
I bet all you Geelong pricks are going to watch it all and not leave any bandwidth for the rest of us to watch it.
Typical anti-Western Australian behaviour.
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They talk about it first up.
I think it's the guy who appears on the footy show??? I missed some of it- absolutely bizzare story.
Also most of them on the panel bag the decision to play at KP except good ol Hutchy. He was very positive about the final being there.
And Chappy is also on. Good guy that Chappy. Enjoy.
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Also just a note Talkin Footy a couple mins away from starting on 7. Pretty hectic with these two one after the other one different networks with crappy talent shows pushing them back as well as Q n A at the same time.
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Mark Robinson on the issue of using Simonds, well said by him
ONE small issue is the lack of transparency and respect from the AFL, but they have got the major issue right.
Geelong should host a home final because they deserve it.
Talk of Geelong having an unfair advantage is ridiculous. It's from people wanting to have a fight for the sake of it.
You can speculate about deals done with Etihad - they have been promised two extra games next year, it is said - about looking after Collingwood, about Fremantle fans already booking tickets, about only having a 35,000 capacity at the Cattery, yet it all pales to the rather significant fact that Geelong finished second on the ladder.
It's pure rubbish that if the game was played at Etihad it would attract up to 20,000 more fans to the game.
The AFL aren't dingbats - well, not all the time - and they have accurately predicted between 30,000 and 35,000 fans would turn up to the Docklands if the game was played there.
Seriously, at roughly $85 a ticket, why would the AFL give up close to an estimated $1.5 million in gate revenue and also piss off Fremantle and their fans?
They know they won't get a big crowd in town, so why not allocate the Cats the same home-ground advantage enjoyed by non-Victorian teams when they play finals at home.
It's rather curious listening to the commentary about Dockers fans missing out.
Last year at the MCG, where the Dockers rolled the Cats, it's understood 1000 Freo members turned up.
So, where suddenly are these extra 10,000 or so Freo fans - and I'm being generous - supposedly going to turn up from should the match be at Etihad? It doesn't add up.
As for AFL, no doubt they could've handled this better.
Fremantle chairman Steve Harris told SEN Radio on Saturday he found out about a possible final at Geelong via a radio report last Thursday.
On that day, the idea was floated. On Friday, AFL chief executive Andrew Demetriou voiced his considerable voice on the subject, and on Saturday night it was official.
Would've thought the Dockers deserved to be told by the AFL.
It appears as if it's a ruling on the run, but the AFL would argue differently. They'd say it was always an option. It's just that they didn't communicate it til now.
Remember, anywhere and any time is the Dockers' mantra. So Simonds Stadium shouldn't be a mental hurdle.
ONE small issue is the lack of transparency and respect from the AFL, but they have got the major issue right.
Geelong should host a home final because they deserve it.
Talk of Geelong having an unfair advantage is ridiculous. It's from people wanting to have a fight for the sake of it.
You can speculate about deals done with Etihad - they have been promised two extra games next year, it is said - about looking after Collingwood, about Fremantle fans already booking tickets, about only having a 35,000 capacity at the Cattery, yet it all pales to the rather significant fact that Geelong finished second on the ladder.
It's pure rubbish that if the game was played at Etihad it would attract up to 20,000 more fans to the game.
The AFL aren't dingbats - well, not all the time - and they have accurately predicted between 30,000 and 35,000 fans would turn up to the Docklands if the game was played there.
Seriously, at roughly $85 a ticket, why would the AFL give up close to an estimated $1.5 million in gate revenue and also piss off Fremantle and their fans?
They know they won't get a big crowd in town, so why not allocate the Cats the same home-ground advantage enjoyed by non-Victorian teams when they play finals at home.
It's rather curious listening to the commentary about Dockers fans missing out.
Last year at the MCG, where the Dockers rolled the Cats, it's understood 1000 Freo members turned up.
So, where suddenly are these extra 10,000 or so Freo fans - and I'm being generous - supposedly going to turn up from should the match be at Etihad? It doesn't add up.
As for AFL, no doubt they could've handled this better.
Fremantle chairman Steve Harris told SEN Radio on Saturday he found out about a possible final at Geelong via a radio report last Thursday.
On that day, the idea was floated. On Friday, AFL chief executive Andrew Demetriou voiced his considerable voice on the subject, and on Saturday night it was official.
Would've thought the Dockers deserved to be told by the AFL.
It appears as if it's a ruling on the run, but the AFL would argue differently. They'd say it was always an option. It's just that they didn't communicate it til now.
Remember, anywhere and any time is the Dockers' mantra. So Simonds Stadium shouldn't be a mental hurdle.
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There's an old journo's ploy to beat up some media sales for two lesser populated clubs (and to sell papers when essendone is done) and if able to engender some victimisation into the lesser of the lesser and their knob coach, all the better. Publicly stating that you'll burn tickets is good, but not as good as burning a flag and how this deranged egotist can think one singed ticket in 30,000 odd could matter to us, go figure.
So far the most outraged re our home final have been K.Bartlett, M.Sheehan, Dermie-titis, Caro then a host of others.
Bitching and carping, with no feel at all for the "deserving aspect" spoken about by Demetriou, or the lift given to a Community that has suffered. Worse, SEN accusing Cook of knowing about it for some time, pure and simple slander.
I remember when Hawthorn and Brisbane were having their golden premiership multiples. Come grand final time, everyone without an interest barracked for their opposition (unless C"wood) simply using the "not again" mentality.
I swear that is what is happening here. Geelong hate.
So get used to it if we go further, there is only one thing to do.
Proudly go harder, barrack harder, defend harder and laugh them off harder.
GO you catters.
So far the most outraged re our home final have been K.Bartlett, M.Sheehan, Dermie-titis, Caro then a host of others.
Bitching and carping, with no feel at all for the "deserving aspect" spoken about by Demetriou, or the lift given to a Community that has suffered. Worse, SEN accusing Cook of knowing about it for some time, pure and simple slander.
I remember when Hawthorn and Brisbane were having their golden premiership multiples. Come grand final time, everyone without an interest barracked for their opposition (unless C"wood) simply using the "not again" mentality.
I swear that is what is happening here. Geelong hate.
So get used to it if we go further, there is only one thing to do.
Proudly go harder, barrack harder, defend harder and laugh them off harder.
GO you catters.
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