Vintage Bay Mofra's Bottom 50 of 2017 - the "finals were better last year" Edition

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Mofra, a suggestion? Include plenty of Richmond players. The melts from Tuggers flogs suddenly convinced their team is full of stars will be glorious. ;)



Imagine the reaction if Daniel Rioli makes the bottom 50.

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Oh be nice you.


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Bruce from the Saints. Struts around all man bunny, looking like Tarzan, playing like Jane.


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Player 44 - Mark Blicavs


Pictured: Blicavs and some hairy guy always drop out early in the Cats' team bonding game "Simon Says"

Mark Blicavs is a tall guy who runs a lot which makes a welcome change to Geelong's recent recruiting efforts of recruiting medium guys who run away a lot from a contest.
He once tried to qualify for the 2012 Summer Olympics as both a distance runner and a steeple chaser which is a very Geelong thing to compete in, especially with a DVD player under one arm and a bunch of low front yard fences.
When he failed at that he decided to join a team where failure post-2011 will allow him to feel comfortable and fit right in.

He really hit a niche in his first few years of AFL football thanks to something called "third man up". I'd advise anyone who wishes to research this a little more to search on Google and not RedTube where the difference in search results is both stark and horrifying.

So the AFL at the end of 2016 decided the umpires had done a really good job and things were too easy for them so they banned the third man up rule to set them a challenge. Blicavs tweeted that he was retiring, which many assumed was a joke and not a prescient suggestion. As it turns out, if you take a one-trick pony and remove that trick, you're just left with a useless horse. Like taking away a clown's costume, a driver's car, or a Selwood's ability to duck.

Blicavs was the a mule with a spinning wheel in 2017; regardless of what this sentence says Simpsons fans are certainly reading this in Lyle Langley's voice right now. As the' monorail during an eclipse of the AFL world', let's look at Blicav's actual season.

Blicavs (who according to an extensive 3 minute Google search has no nickname) managed a reduction in pretty much every statistical category from 2016 to 2017, except clangers (known as the 'Dangerfield' effect). The transition from 'hybrid hard running mid with third man up capability' to 'kind-of tagger who doesn't hurt teams offensively' went about as smoothly as... hmmm no, no recent politically incorrect simile about transitions and role-play to be had, nope.

Anyway he had one good game in the middle of the year during that one month that Sloane was taggable. Apart from that he largely looked lost and out of place on the football field which is not what you want from... wait, seriously? He won the Geelong B&F in 2015? Did they do away with the vote system that year and just raffle the bloody thing? Even if they did I can only assume Blicavs bought all the freaking tickets. After all, AFL teams don't rig raffles...



Fun Fact: Both of Mark Blicav's parents were born overseas and both represented Australia in politics basketball. His dad, Barnaby Joyce, loves watching Mark play.

Well done Mark on your Carji Greeves medal, don't fret as the rules committee change a bunch of stuff every year so you'll probably find something to do on field next year. Welcome to the 2017 Bottom 50.
Here here.

Blicavs is a shittruck
 

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Yeah we definitely need a lot of manbuns in the list.

Correct. Not a man bun in sight. Lift Mofra lift.


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Do the Tigs even have manbuns? Could that be why they did so well?

Dan Butler was looking like a w***er, got told to get a haircut (true story) and Jake Batchelor went the look and has never been seen again........


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Player 44 - Mark Blicavs


Pictured: Blicavs and some hairy guy always drop out early in the Cats' team bonding game "Simon Says"

Mark Blicavs is a tall guy who runs a lot which makes a welcome change to Geelong's recent recruiting efforts of recruiting medium guys who run away a lot from a contest.
He once tried to qualify for the 2012 Summer Olympics as both a distance runner and a steeple chaser which is a very Geelong thing to compete in, especially with a DVD player under one arm and a bunch of low front yard fences.
When he failed at that he decided to join a team where failure post-2011 will allow him to feel comfortable and fit right in.

He really hit a niche in his first few years of AFL football thanks to something called "third man up". I'd advise anyone who wishes to research this a little more to search on Google and not RedTube where the difference in search results is both stark and horrifying.

So the AFL at the end of 2016 decided the umpires had done a really good job and things were too easy for them so they banned the third man up rule to set them a challenge. Blicavs tweeted that he was retiring, which many assumed was a joke and not a prescient suggestion. As it turns out, if you take a one-trick pony and remove that trick, you're just left with a useless horse. Like taking away a clown's costume, a driver's car, or a Selwood's ability to duck.

Blicavs was the a mule with a spinning wheel in 2017; regardless of what this sentence says Simpsons fans are certainly reading this in Lyle Langley's voice right now. As the' monorail during an eclipse of the AFL world', let's look at Blicav's actual season.

Blicavs (who according to an extensive 3 minute Google search has no nickname) managed a reduction in pretty much every statistical category from 2016 to 2017, except clangers (known as the 'Dangerfield' effect). The transition from 'hybrid hard running mid with third man up capability' to 'kind-of tagger who doesn't hurt teams offensively' went about as smoothly as... hmmm no, no recent politically incorrect simile about transitions and role-play to be had, nope.

Anyway he had one good game in the middle of the year during that one month that Sloane was taggable. Apart from that he largely looked lost and out of place on the football field which is not what you want from... wait, seriously? He won the Geelong B&F in 2015? Did they do away with the vote system that year and just raffle the bloody thing? Even if they did I can only assume Blicavs bought all the freaking tickets. After all, AFL teams don't rig raffles...



Fun Fact: Both of Mark Blicav's parents were born overseas and both represented Australia in politics basketball. His dad, Barnaby Joyce, loves watching Mark play.

Well done Mark on your Carji Greeves medal, don't fret as the rules committee change a bunch of stuff every year so you'll probably find something to do on field next year. Welcome to the 2017 Bottom 50.

best one so far, some very good lines.
 
Player 43 - Shane Kersten


Pictured: Shane Kersten getting into the spirit of round 16 "Buddhist Round" which is the 14th most popular themed round on the AFL calendar

Shane Kersten is a Fremantle forward. I could probably stop this entry here and the Bay would nod sagely, but for shits and giggles let us continue.

On the face of it he had a decent year. Crossing from Geelong to WA, Shane stepped back in time to become part of the new Fremantle. Obviously attracted by Ross Lyon's penchant for attacking gameplay Shane faced his former side first up where he performed about as well as a Ross Lyon forward does without the extreme umpire protection that Nick Riewoldt gets.

As the season wore on, Kersten was up and down more than Jake Stringer after a year 12 formal. Despite a few quiet games early he managed to kick the winning goal in round 5 against North Melbourne, which is a lot like high-fiving yourself for breaking into an unlocked Escort. I cannot confirm or deny that I only used that car as an example because Kersten's first car and his first girlfriend were both old escorts, right down to the leather interior. Nor will I assert that his dad paid for both of them.

He did kick 2.3 against Essendon and kicked a couple against eventual premiers Richmond, who still haven't beaten the Bulldogs for a number of years. He had a few shockers too - when Kersten goes missing, he really goes missing. Perhaps accepting Malaysian Airlines as a player sponsor wasn't a great idea.

After back to back 4 disposal games (against Queensland powerhouse the Lions and his former club Geelong) Kersten was sent back to the WAFL, where he was recalled after a massive 6 possession game. Great discipline Ross.
Finishing the year against the Swans where his game was described as Deserves a Logie for his performance as the invisible man. 1 he then had one final game against Essendon where, in desperation, Ross threw Kersten back to form part of the standard Ross Lyon 16 man defense. If he can't kick goals at least he found a place where he could cause them (3 of his 8 touches were clangers).

As Forest Gump might have said of Kersten this year, his games were like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get (Gump was too stupid to look at the box where it tells you exactly what you're gonna get). I guess melting under pressure is part of the deal too.

Fun fact: Kersten was named after a 1953 movie starring Alan Ladd which became the benchmark for all Westerns to follow.


Shane, congratulations of getting to Fremantle to play with your best mate, Joel Hamling. Welcome to the Bottom 50 for 2017.
 
LoL Shane! Nice one Mofra, surprised you remembered him though. My mate does the IT for Freo and he had no idea Shane was even on the list, doesnt know what he did with his GPS tracker!
 

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Ouch.... Stringer schoolgirl references, Malaysian airlines references, potting Nick 'Louganis' Reiwoldt, pointing out that Richmond are still our bitches - for a post about Kersten no one was spared....
 
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"Why are you getting so upset? Shouldn't you be over the moon considering your team just won a flag?? I would be!"




.....yeah don't mind me mate, just wanna see if you Tiger fans enjoy dodging that ol' chestnut as much as we did in our flag years. :smirk:
How funny is it, that desperate flogs think anything is going to ruin your good mood for the next six months?

Yeah the corgi has to lift

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Surely a monty for the top 5.
 
How funny is it, that desperate flogs think anything is going to ruin your good mood for the next six months?

Wait til "Insert Team Name Here" beats you next year in a home and away game and they start gloating.

Cats fans have been doing it to us for years. It's hilarious. :D
 
Dan Butler was looking like a ******, got told to get a haircut (true story) and Jake Batchelor went the look and has never been seen again........


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Were you a fan of Richo's ponytail that he used to rock back in the 90s?

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