Oppo Camp Non-Eagles Discussion 2025 Part 2

[Seadog]

Cousins runs away from Carr, not for the first time.
RIP legend.

 

[KBLT]

Seems like theres a good chance one or both of the Opening Round matches in Queensland will have to be rescheduled because of a cyclone.

Again.

Hopefully this is the last year of this stupid thing.

 

[Sammy J]

So the new AFL Commission chair, Craig Drummond, is a former checks notes Geelong president.

Well, colour me shocked.

 

[bzparkes]

Seems like theres a good chance one or both of the Opening Round matches in Queensland will have to be rescheduled because of a cyclone.

Again.

Hopefully this is the last year of this stupid thing.

Nowhere near us. It's like 1k north of Brisbane.

 

[kane249]

Nowhere near us. It's like 1k north of Brisbane.

1km isn't that far...

 

[Goroyals22]

Seems like theres a good chance one or both of the Opening Round matches in Queensland will have to be rescheduled because of a cyclone.

Again.

Hopefully this is the last year of this stupid thing.

Nah most of the rain will be Sunday so will be ok this year

 

[Jeremy McLovin]

Seems like theres a good chance one or both of the Opening Round matches in Queensland will have to be rescheduled because of a cyclone.

Again.

Hopefully this is the last year of this stupid thing.

And they haven't even made sure that the teams in the Queensland matches have their byes aligned, so if they're called off it will be worse than last year. Bravo afl.

 

[squashface]

Chesser named for Carlton tomorrow. Very curious to see how he goes.

 

[Boohemian]

 

[bzparkes]

1km isn't that far...

-_-


1k kilometres...

 

[Cuzz09]

 

[Mr Q]

Seems like theres a good chance one or both of the Opening Round matches in Queensland will have to be rescheduled because of a cyclone.

Again.

Hopefully this is the last year of this stupid thing.

Highly unlikely. Current projections suggest more likely to be near Mt Isa than SEQ at the weekend.

While "Opening Round" is stupid, the chance of a cyclone happening are probably the least of the reasons to abolish it (the main reasons being the utter stupidity of a round before round 1)

I'd also note that Perth has been subject to potential cyclones before - 1st April 1989 Cyclone Ned finally right on the coast, and of course there was the infamous Cyclone Alby - which was 4th April 1978. Either of those repeating (and both happened more recently than Brisbane suffering a cyclone before last year) would result in normal R2/3/4 matches having to be rescheduled. Using the reasoning that cyclones could affect Brisbane in early rounds to not play games there would also apply to Perth.

There were also cyclones in Perth in what would now be the footy season in 1960 and 1975. In fact, you could say Perth is long overdue for one not having had one for nearly 37 years. And climate predictions say that any we experience would likely be stronger than those in the past - more like Cyclone Seroja a few years back that devastated Kalbarri and Northampton.

 

[ioppolo]

Holy fuxk the season actually starts tomorrow. Is this the earliest start ever? There's still three rounds of Shield Cricket left and the One Day final to go ffs.

 

[groga]

Man Newcombe gets away with a lot of things. Pins an arm and slams Richard’s into the ground, if that was Harley he’d be suspended.

 

[Goroyals22]

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Highly unlikely. Current projections suggest more likely to be near Mt Isa than SEQ at the weekend.

While "Opening Round" is stupid, the chance of a cyclone happening are probably the least of the reasons to abolish it (the main reasons being the utter stupidity of a round before round 1)

I'd also note that Perth has been subject to potential cyclones before - 1st April 1989 Cyclone Ned finally right on the coast, and of course there was the infamous Cyclone Alby - which was 4th April 1978. Either of those repeating (and both happened more recently than Brisbane suffering a cyclone before last year) would result in normal R2/3/4 matches having to be rescheduled. Using the reasoning that cyclones could affect Brisbane in early rounds to not play games there would also apply to Perth.

There were also cyclones in Perth in what would now be the footy season in 1960 and 1975. In fact, you could say Perth is long overdue for one not having had one for nearly 37 years. And climate predictions say that any we experience would likely be stronger than those in the past - more like Cyclone Seroja a few years back that devastated Kalbarri and Northampton.

and early forecast s for rain next Sunday between 5-10 mils

 

[Barrybran]

Chesser named for Carlton tomorrow. Very curious to see how he goes.

I hope he goes well. Just not against us.

 

[Boohemian]

Magpies condemn 'completely false' McRae speculation

Collingwood CEO Craig Kelly has slammed 'reckless' rumours circulating about coach Craig McRae's private life

www.afl.com.au

Bit of a Streisand effect, huh? Never would have heard about it if it wasn't plastered on the AFL website.

 

[The Dodger]

Man Newcombe gets away with a lot of things. Pins an arm and slams Richard’s into the ground, if that was Harley he’d be suspended.

Yeah there was a couple of tackles last year one a bit of a spearing motion IIRC and he apparently never has the potential to injure anyone.