Oppo Camp Non Eagles AFL discussion thread (Cont. in Part II)

[ziad]

I feel bad for the Saints. Was hoping they could muster up a good fight tonight and they looked fairly lively early, but it's looking ominous now.
Having purple on your jumper is just not conducive to success.

How do you spell insipid

 

[ioppolo]

About a year ago, St Kilda led Richmond 92-10 at half time

 

[amazingjoshy]

**** zones, just stop putting Carlton and St Kilda on prime time every ******* week.

the cynic in me suggests this is more than a coincidence...a lot of people only watch the Friday night game. Quite easy to convince everyone rule changes are necessary...

 

[Dylan82]

The umpiring has been far worse in other matches compared to this one.

Commentary is unbearable (but that's pretty much a given in any game nowadays anyway).

My biggest issue however is with another absolutely horrible display of defending in what is meant to be the top level of the game.

I can't recall St Kilda sticking a single tackle that entire half and almost every single goal for the Tigers was due to a Saints player lagging off his marker.

15th on the ladder and going backwards - can't see how Richardson keeps his job next season after this.

 

[Boohemian]

AFL: "We're worried about the state of the game. Modern tactics result in an unattractive brand of footy and television ratings are suffering accordingly.

Also the AFL: "We're going to gift Friday night games to Carlton, St Kilda and the Dogs."

 

[Dylan82]

AFL: "We're worried about the state of the game. Modern tactics result in an unattractive brand of footy and television ratings are suffering accordingly.

Also the AFL: "We're going to gift Friday night games to Carlton, St Kilda and the Dogs."

It's an election year in Victoria - that these matches are in prime time is not a coincidence.

 

[Luuuc]

Jack Steven looks like he’s going to absolutely blow out once he gives the game away. Could be Darren Jarman/Derek Kickett type proportions after a few years

At least he'll go out with a Derek Kickett-quality goal to his name

 

[Truckosaurus]

Anyone fancy starting a GoFund me page to raise money for St Kilda so they can afford to sack Richardson with a year on his contract? It's a good cause.

 

[HoneyBadger35]

Straight from his manager - Mitch McGovern was happy to come back to WA to play for Freo last year, but refused to do so while Ross Lyon was coach [emoji23]

 

[Boohemian]

Straight from his manager - Mitch McGovern was happy to come back to WA to play for Freo last year, but refused to do so while Ross Lyon was coach [emoji23]

Links?

 

[Boohemian]

Saints only chance might be Noise of Affirmation !!

The only noise the saints are hearing is the brown note.

 

[Matele]

What was that stat Bruce just spat out about the tigers?

 

[HoneyBadger35]

Links?

Chatting with a family member. Manager is Andrew McDougall of all people.

 

[HoneyBadger35]

Shoutout to Channel 7 for making the absolute midfield domination all about Alex Rance [emoji122][emoji122][emoji122]

 

[Coasters7]

Being a Saints fan would be such a tease. Their best is not actually that bad, they just turn up for a half of footy at the most every week..

 

[Ochre]

Bet the over at 170.5

Final total 168

Two misses in the last 30s

****

 

[Boohemian]

It's an election year in Victoria - that these matches are in prime time is not a coincidence.

All the important issues. Health, education, and maintaining a lopsided national football competition with ten Victorian sides.

 

[Matele]

All the important issues. Health, education, and maintaining a lopsided national football competition with ten Victorian sides.

Roll on NRL expansion

 

[Max zero]

All the important issues. Health, education, and maintaining a lopsided national football competition with ten Victorian sides.

I know you are being sarcastic but you only have to look the shonky MCG deal to see how intertwined AFL and the Victorian government are. Why would the Victorian government throw in hundreds of millions of $$$ in bribes to make the deal go through?

Opiate of the masses indeed.

 

[Bender_]

Only watch Eagles games and a quarter or 2 of Freo games these days. Almost had my fill of VFL these days.

 

[Godfather32]

Only watch Eagles games and a quarter or 2 of Freo games these days. Almost had my fill of VFL these days.

Not sure how you could stop yourself watching tonight's barn burner

 

[Rowan18]

Sick of the fapping that occurs whenever these dipshits get on the field. Theyve lost every interstate game and yet every commentator fawns over them whenever they have the chance...

Meh, hopefully they drink the bathwater and end up completely shocked when the Eagles smash them at the G on GF day. On exposed form Eagles are clearly the form team of the comp. Consistently win at home as well as away, have survived several injury crises affecting midfield and then forwards. Heaven help the Tiges if one of Rance, Martin, Cotching or Reiwoldt go down for finals. Guys like costanga and short will be revealed to be the B/C role players that they are.

 

[Rowan18]

**** zones, just stop putting Carlton and St Kilda on prime time every ******* week.

This is exactly what infuriates me about the "state of the game" BS. In 2016 and 2017 they were celebrating how even the comp was. This year they suddenly hate everything because the ratings slid as they f****d up the fixtures.

Gil came out today and said rule changes are happening next year whether you like it or not and they won't bother trialling them first. The ridiculous thing is that if they just made sure that Friday night games featured mostly the top 8 teams from last year, then the ratings would be fine, as they would mostly be good contests between good teams. Eagles finished 6th last year (after finals) and have 1 fri night game for the season. Why the hell are Carlton, St Kilda and bulldogs even on one Friday fixture, yet alone several each?

The sad (or hillarious) thing is, the rule changes will drastically alter the game and will probably turn a lot of people off football. I can see a massive about-face and apology happening mid season when the fans abandon the game. Hopefully it results in Gil resigning and a clean out of the AFL exec.

 

[Ishmael_]

Straight from his manager - Mitch McGovern was happy to come back to WA to play for Freo last year, but refused to do so while Ross Lyon was coach [emoji23]

Makes sense, the McGovern Clan aren't the most conditioned lot. Ross Lyon would have a field day on those budding breasts.

 

[squashface]

Strange that we’ve not had a Friday night game two weeks in a row