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So f****** angry.

Triple M comment re the Crows fans booing the umpires: was done "at the right time unlike Port fans last week". Um - didn't you say on radio during the week that we were booing Walker, not the Umpires?

You absolute flogs. Lame, ignorant, imbeciles. :thumbsdown::mad:
Looks like normal programming has resumed. I hope the powers that be at PAFC realise that the AFC, their ambassadors and its supporters will never stop trying to denigrate Port at every opportunity.
 

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Hey ... this is our chairman's second team you know ... you can't address them as filth!
Kochie did what he had to do, kissed their arse for a week. Port have the all time AO record that will never be beaten and we lost the four points.

Things that are good when you have a team playing like shit. Better crowds than the crows!

We seem to be morphing into them a bit.
 

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Kochie did what he had to do, kissed their arse for a week. Port have the all time AO record that will never be beaten and we lost the four points.

Things that are good when you have a team playing like shit. Better crowds than the crows!

We seem to be morphing into them a bit.
Heaven forbid we ever go slumming to that level.
 

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So, the Crows have played the Gold Coast twice already and we haven't played them once. We've played Sydney twice, the Crows haven't played them once.

Based on our form this year, I am not suggesting that we would win twice against the Gold Coast however, how can that be fixture equality?

How can the AFL as a professional sporting code be respected when teams are gifted soft draws?
 
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So, the Crows have played the Gold Coast twice already and we haven't played them once. We've played Sydney twice, the Crows haven't played them once.

Based on our form this year, I am not suggesting that we would win twice against the Gold Coast however, how can that be fixture equality?

How can the AFL as a professional sporting code be respected when teams are gifted soft draws?
You mean the FIXture?
 

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So, the Crows have played the Gold Coast twice already and we haven't played them once. We've played Sydney twice, the Crows haven't played them once.

Based on our form this year, I am not suggesting that we would win twice against the Gold Coast however, how can that be fixture equality?

How can the AFL as a professional sporting code be respected when teams are gifted soft draws?
Freo and Richmond played 6 weeks ago

Horrid fixture
 
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A guy rang in to 5AA this morning and made an interesting point regarding the draw. If they persist with this top 6, middle 6, bottom 6 fixture then those teams that have consistently been down the bottom will always play the weaker teams in less favourable time slots. Hard to attract major corporate backing if your constantly playing Sunday afternoons at Etihad with 25,000 people.
 

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A guy rang in to 5AA this morning and made an interesting point regarding the draw. If they persist with this top 6, middle 6, bottom 6 fixture then those teams that have consistently been down the bottom will always play the weaker teams in less favourable time slots. Hard to attract major corporate backing if your constantly playing Sunday afternoons at Etihad with 25,000 people.
That really is an interesting point. It sometimes pays to play the bigger/stronger teams.
 

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So, the Crows have played the Gold Coast twice already and we haven't played them once. We've played Sydney twice, the Crows haven't played them once.

Based on our form this year, I am not suggesting that we would win twice against the Gold Coast however, how can that be fixture equality?

How can the AFL as a professional sporting code be respected when teams are gifted soft draws?
At least the Crows finally play Sydney in Sydney next week.
 

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Lol. Decapitate someone after they take a mark...50 metres, squirt water bottle at someones chest who is niggling you while you are taking a drink... 50 metres. If anyone was watching this game that had never seen it before they would wonder exactly what the fck was going on.
 

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after our draw in 2015, imagine if we finished 5th and for example, the crows finished 4th with their draw.

we miss out on a double chance but are obviously the better side.

I struggle to see how that is a fair and equitable outcome.
 

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I am in agreement with higher placed teams having tougher draws but lower placed teams having easier draws is going to lead to priority pick-type tanking. A team will not even need to look like they are tanking(as Collingwood did when they got their priority pick) to get multiple games against lowly ranked teams. Hopefully the AFL are looking at what has happened and instead of the 6.6.6 system will use an 8.10 or 9.9 system. Any team will take one down year for a flag shot the next year. The problem with the current system is that the finals could include 4 or even 5 teams that get thrashed in the finals.
 
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