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A run down of North in the new Herald Sun Footy 17 magazine: Robbo says we will win 8 or 9 games and finish 17th? He also says Ahern can add some outside class this season, twice, so not a typo. Kingy says he will be suprised if we win 7 games and tips us to finish 16th? No one sees us making the 8 or doing anything of significance. Also Kingy's player relative ratings get a workout. Farcical analysis. Anyways, just saved you all $5 (I just read my old man's so I didn't part with any coin either).
My thoughts precisely. I have no issue with low predictions, but get the facts straight. The "player relative ratings" are nonsense. Either some arbitrary figure plucked out of Kingy's arse or some overly complex formula that has no basis on actually playing football. That they allowed Robbo's analysis of Ahern to go to print shows how lazy both Robbo and the Hun are. Kingy reckons Freo, Carlton and us are all "likely" to finish below the Lions and then he puts them second last. Robbo reckons we'll be "perhaps" bottom 5 and then has us entrench in the bottom 5 at 17th...with 8 or 9 wins! The worst part is that the magazine is too glossy to be used as toilets paper.
 

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Kingy and Robbo together......


You know those nights where you started drinking with your mates in the early afternoon, at about 8pm drop a line to a connection to get something to straighten you up and keep you going, then find yourself leaving Yah Yahs at 3am looking for one more drink and perhaps a kebab before falling alseep in the front yard and being woken up by the dog/kids nuzzling/poking you in the face?

I can guarantee you that far more sense and original thought was produced by you and your mates at your messiest point during the night than anything these two ******* bufoons can come up with at their most lucid.
 

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A run down of North in the new Herald Sun Footy 17 magazine: Robbo says we will win 8 or 9 games and finish 17th? He also says Ahern can add some outside class this season, twice, so not a typo. Kingy says he will be suprised if we win 7 games and tips us to finish 16th? No one sees us making the 8 or doing anything of significance. Also Kingy's player relative ratings get a workout. Farcical analysis. Anyways, just saved you all $5 (I just read my old man's so I didn't part with any coin either).
#journalisticstandards
 

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We'll have a reasonable year...and finish second last. Expectations ARE low!
Finishing last is a disaster year (or is it ok in Robbo's books?) and finishing 2nd last is a reasonable year with 8 or 9 wins.

I'll not have what he is smokin' thanks.

*chuckle*
 

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We'll have a reasonable year...and finish second last. Expectations ARE low!
Agreed. The low expectations, while frustrating in some ways, are a blessing in disguise. We'll 'pleasantly surprise' neutral onlookers by exceeding them, and, on the other hand, won't be mocked for disappointing others if we finish as low as they expect (and cop some high picks). Personally I am expecting around 9 wins and about 12th.
 

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Did either of the two look up who left and who stayed at NMFC in 2017? What's the point of having four good ball users, when most of which were either too slow, injured or made little impact in contests? But sure, lets focus on how the final nail in the coffin was to losing quality veterans who all probably played a handful of games at the same time.
 

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happy to have a full dissection of last yr
we really didn't lose by much to the dogs swans and hawks
it was the weak loss to Port that completely freaked me out

I think we will still be better than tiggers and sts, blues bris GC pies no good freo gone *unlikely


port and D's want our spot
with an easier draw, if we can minimise the wallopings so % doesn't collapse
If we can toughen up and play like previous North teams we will still be in it
 

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A run down of North in the new Herald Sun Footy 17 magazine: Robbo says we will win 8 or 9 games and finish 17th? He also says Ahern can add some outside class this season, twice, so not a typo. Kingy says he will be suprised if we win 7 games and tips us to finish 16th? No one sees us making the 8 or doing anything of significance. Also Kingy's player relative ratings get a workout. Farcical analysis. Anyways, just saved you all $5 (I just read my old man's so I didn't part with any coin either).

Lol.
 

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Can anyone with that mag list what teams they have finishing what? Just for curiosity I'd love to see who Kingy and Robbo have above us (ok well thats nearly everybody but as to where they have certain teams). If you could do so kindly it would be appreciative.
 

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LOL. It is still beyond me that an incoherent ******* like Robbo is a "journalist" to begin with. As for Kingy gee he talks some absolute shit. There are some deadset dildoes that have somehow landed jobs in the Footy Media. It is staggering. We make more sense when discussing all things football on this forum. :stern look
 

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A run down of North in the new Herald Sun Footy 17 magazine: Robbo says we will win 8 or 9 games and finish 17th? He also says Ahern can add some outside class this season, twice, so not a typo. Kingy says he will be suprised if we win 7 games and tips us to finish 16th? No one sees us making the 8 or doing anything of significance. Also Kingy's player relative ratings get a workout. Farcical analysis. Anyways, just saved you all $5 (I just read my old man's so I didn't part with any coin either).
King. I thought he would have us 19th.

Nekminit we come 5th and he will be there lubbbing everyone after the siren.

Makes me sick.
 

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LOL. It is still beyond me that an incoherent ******* like Robbo is a "journalist" to begin with. As for Kingy gee he talks some absolute shit. There are some deadset dildoes that have somehow landed jobs in the Footy Media. It is staggering. We make more sense when discussing all things football on this forum. :stern look
This.

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