Roast IF it isn't biased or ncompetent..... THEN it must be inciteful media coverage part II

[CoastersFlag No.5]

Best we could hope for, getting an extended break before finals.

Now to cobble something in the meantime from the players that are available to ensure finals qualification.

Yeah it would be quite a win to get over the Saints with what we have left.

 

[DanWCE]

Where's the Wednesday finals chat coming from? I thought they started 1st October?

 

[Grahame]

Can't believe we are actually still talking about this.

Move on.

We have a game in two days.

Yep now happy to let it go. Just wanted the error as widely known as possible to hopefully ensure it doesn't bite someone else on the a**e esp in the final minutes of a Vic v WCE GF.

End of rant.

 

[Bleedblueandgold]

Where's the Wednesday finals chat coming from? I thought they started 1st October?

Wednesday night lights: Finals set for historic mid-week start

The AFL is set to begin the 2020 Toyota AFL Finals Series on a Wednesday night for the first time

www.afl.com.au

Wednesday September 30.

 

[Ochre]

If we're holding a final at Optus, there's 0% chance it's not on the Friday or Saturday, I'd bet my account on it.

 

[ziad]

If we're holding a final at Optus, there's 0% chance it's not on the Friday or Saturday, I'd bet my account on it.

I suggest also 0% chance it is at Optus thanks to quarantine

 

[Miguel Sanchez]

Didn’t Gil say we could host week 1 but not the later rounds?

 

[MIKE85]

Yeah week one will be at home, cause we’ve got the week off before hand, and it’s need said we’ll come home and go straight into quarantine. It’s the later weeks that’s the issue. Even then, seems like a 7 day break isn’t out of the question?? Especially when there’ll be stuff all other games on.

 

[ziad]

Didn’t Gil say we could host week 1 but not the later rounds?

no, but it is getting more repetative that the goal review.
Teams should not and will not quarentine for one game.

 

[Rowan18]

no, but it is getting more repetative that the goal review.
Teams should not and will not quarentine for one game.

The article on AFL site says we will be able to host a home final in wk1.

 

[Miguel Sanchez]

no, but it is getting more repetative that the goal review.
Teams should not and will not quarentine for one game.

The article on AFL site says we will be able to host a home final in wk1.

My mistake, Gil only said it was a possibility, as does that afl.com.au article. Not confirmed yet even if we finish fifth or sixth (which is looking pretty likely now)

 

[DanWCE]

Wednesday night lights: Finals set for historic mid-week start

The AFL is set to begin the 2020 Toyota AFL Finals Series on a Wednesday night for the first time

www.afl.com.au

Wednesday September 30.

Cheers. What a joke that is. No reason at all for it, except the TV ratings mentioned in the article.

 

[Miguel Sanchez]

Cheers. What a joke that is. No reason at all for it, except the TV ratings mentioned in the article.

Flexibility in the following weeks’ fixtures is the other reason.

 

[Coasters7]

100% this.

We get a 7-day break into the Kangaroos game (note they are off a 5-day break), and at least a 13-day break into round 1 of finals.

Great for Yeo (assuming he plays Kangaroos game), Shuey should be cherry ripe, and depending on how bad Redden's injury is there may be a chance there. Also gives baby Cripps a window of opportunity to arrive.

Win our 2 games, and cheer for geelong (yuk, but has to be done) and we are almost certain to be 4th playing PA @ AO (barring any other surprise results). We have to take care of our business though.

I reckon we’ll be lucky to win one of our remaining 2 given we’ll be trotting out the WAFL mids. We’re honestly going to need our backs to mark absolutely everything and our forwards to miss nothing. NN2Kelly is all we have. Other than that we might as well throw Brander and Ah Chee in there to just try and muscle it forward and hope the forwards can do the rest.

 

[DirtySandman]

Jon Ralph, just called our game V north, a dead rubber.

i mean, if Vic is the entire world, and nothing else exists, I guess he is right.

 

[Eaglemaniac]

I reckon we’ll be lucky to win one of our remaining 2 given we’ll be trotting out the WAFL mids. We’re honestly going to need our backs to mark absolutely everything and our forwards to miss nothing. NN2Kelly is all we have. Other than that we might as well throw Brander and Ah Chee in there to just try and muscle it forward and hope the forwards can do the rest.

I’d have thrown Ah Chee in the middle already if it was my choice. He’s a big body that we need in there, and we’ve seen him bustle the ball out of stoppages already this year a few times when it’s been near our forward line. I’d get him in there and give him a solid run at it before finals start. Tell him his contract depends on it being successful.

 

[DanWCE]

Flexibility in the following weeks’ fixtures is the other reason.

Yeah I'm not buying that part. Are you?

 

[Tugga27]

Jon Ralph, just called our game V north, a dead rubber.

i mean, if Vic is the entire world, and nothing else exists, I guess he is right.

I think rightly or wrongly, most expect us to beat Norf.

 

[Cuzz09]

I think rightly or wrongly, most expect us to beat Norf.

Most expected us to beat Haw last year.

Not as much riding on it this year though

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[Jiggyman]

Most expected us to beat Haw last year.

Not as much riding on it this year though

North's midfield is capable, but with nothing on the line you'd hope they wouldn't throw everything at us.

IIRC Hawks were still a chance to take a finals spot, but the Dogs smashed Adelaide shortly after our game.

 

[Scotland]

It was a shame we made the 2018 gf because we were no chance of winning it according to some. Didn’t age well.

Especially against Collingwood. We hadn't beaten them for... days. And hadn't beaten them in Melbourne for... weeks.

 

[Wild Kelly]

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Doesn’t look any more blurry to me. You’re seeing what you want to see.

It would be interesting to see what the decision would be had the ball crossed lower with, say, 20% of the ball below the padding and the rest above.....

 

[The wily weagle]

Just for the record this is what the vision showed. Looks to me like it's pretty obvious not all the ball has passed the back of the padding which is visible at the bottom.

(Someone with more tech expertise might be able to get a better pic.)

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What pisses me off doubly about this image, if that if Nic Nat had actually played, he would have been there on the goal line and would have inevitably knocked it through for a point, definitively.

 

[nameless]

From AFL Article:
" Jamaine Jones, Harry Edwards, Nic Reid, Xavier O'Neill and Bailey Williams have all made their West Coast debuts in 2020, with Brayshaw to add to that list as the Eagles prepare to be without their entire 2018 premiership midfield on Thursday night. "

Pretty sure they're missing a player...

Decimated Eagles make five forced changes, but no excuses

West Coast will hope a patchwork midfield can capitalise on Nic Naitanui's return for Thursday's crucial clash with St Kilda

www.afl.com.au

 

[Chris_6678]

From AFL Article:
" Jamaine Jones, Harry Edwards, Nic Reid, Xavier O'Neill and Bailey Williams have all made their West Coast debuts in 2020, with Brayshaw to add to that list as the Eagles prepare to be without their entire 2018 premiership midfield on Thursday night. "

Pretty sure they're missing a player...

Decimated Eagles make five forced changes, but no excuses

West Coast will hope a patchwork midfield can capitalise on Nic Naitanui's return for Thursday's crucial clash with St Kilda

www.afl.com.au

Jim Jelly?