Mega Thread Port Forum General AFL Thread Part 22

[Portmagpies36]

To be fair a lot of nursing homes in SA although not in COVID lockdown are limiting their residents from attending large gatherings.

Don't think their allowed to take their blankets with them either.

Geeze this Freo Lions game is high standard. We are so far behind these two.

On and off the ground.

 

[Jojay]

Wow. Break out game for Michael Frederick.

 

[JimmyBC]

Wow. Break out game for Michael Frederick.

He's been playing well all year.

 

[Portmagpies36]

Freo outstanding last 2 weeks and no Fyfe no Walters.

 

[Powerade 08]

Freo built that midfield pretty quick, you'd take all of them over the Brownlow medallist.

 

[Portmagpies36]

Wow. Break out game for Michael Frederick.

He's been brilliant for a month.

 

[PatientMental]

Freo built that midfield pretty quick, you'd take all of them over the Brownlow medallist.

Good news for them

They get to add theirs back in.

 

[JimmyBC]

Yea we picked the wrong Freddy

 

[PatientMental]

Yea we picked the wrong Freddy

We have far bigger issues than picking the wrong brother.

 

[Powerade 08]

Good news for them

They get to add theirs back in.

He can't hit a target, him out is why they are winning games rn.

 

[edgie]

Jon Ralph with this

"Collingwood Melbourne looking like a genuine heavy weight contest"

Ah yes, 1st vs 8th.

Muhammad Ali when he fought that no name that ended up inspiring Stallone to write Rocky?

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[edgie]

Ginnivan has already copped more shit and attention from other teams that Weightman has yet.

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[68vette]

Muhammad Ali when he fought that no name that ended up inspiring Stallone to write Rocky?

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Chuck Wepner. I listened to a podcast about him just the other day. Cocaine is a hell of a drug.

 

[robbo1981]

Still don't know why we didn't but Fredrick on the cat b list with his bro was basically a free hit.

 

[FishingRick04]

Still don't know why we didn't but Fredrick on the cat b list with his bro was basically a free hit.

You’re assuming we’d have developed him and played him correctly

 

[PatientMental]

You’re assuming we’d have developed him and played him correctly

We would play him one out in the square.

In defence.

 

[1954]

Conditions at Woodville Oval are the worst i have seen since the 1960s when we played on mud heaps like Norwood, Unley and the Bay. Umpires did well I thought. Not over technical like their AFL counterparts. I reckon Fos would have been in his element.

I remember a game in the late 60's at the Bay oval between the Maggies and Glenelg when Ron Elleway and Fred Phillis were both on their hands and knees in the northern goal square with the ball literally floating alongside them.
There was an iconic pic of the incident printed in the Sunday mail and also the Monday Advertiser, and from memory it also made it into a hard cover footy book of the era.
Most of the oval on that particular day was covered by a sheet of water, and where there wasn't water it was mud.

 

[Dentshop]

Freo built that midfield pretty quick, you'd take all of them over the Brownlow medallist.

Well Nat Fyfe is a freak of nature. He plays in any team at any time.

 

[StuMan]

 

[raptalia]

I remember a game in the late 60's at the Bay oval between the Maggies and Glenelg when Ron Elleway and Fred Phillis were both on their hands and knees in the northern goal square with the ball literally floating alongside them.
There was an iconic pic of the incident printed in the Sunday mail and also the Monday Advertiser, and from memory it also made it into a hard cover footy book of the era.
Most of the oval on that particular day was covered by a sheet of water, and where there wasn't water it was mud.

Yeah, that takes me back.

At one stage they actually resorted to covering the mud patches at the Bay with sawdust. Norwood and Unley were just as bad and Norwood was not helped by having baseball played there during the week. The situation at Woodville yesterday was not helped by the cricket pitch area which was a sea of mud. Obviously the drop in pitch technology they use on AFL venues does not extend to the suburban grounds.

After the SANFL game was finished I switched onto the Freo v Brisbane game and it was like watching two games played decades apart.

 

[Holden Hillbilly]

 

[Us against the rest]

 

[Del165198]

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Suns doing well with the #DIV/0!

 

[Grave Danger]

Yeah, that takes me back.

At one stage they actually resorted to covering the mud patches at the Bay with sawdust. Norwood and Unley were just as bad and Norwood was not helped by having baseball played there during the week. The situation at Woodville yesterday was not helped by the cricket pitch area which was a sea of mud. Obviously the drop in pitch technology they use on AFL venues does not extend to the suburban grounds.

After the SANFL game was finished I switched onto the Freo v Brisbane game and it was like watching two games played decades apart.

In Woomera we were lucky enough to play cricket on turf pitches, but on what was an otherwise sandy soiled oval that didn't get muddy in the wet, the cricket pitch area was another story - it was made from some black clay-like stuff dredged up from a river bed along the Murray supposedly, and although it made excellent cricket pitches, it turned into a quagmire on wet days in the footy season. What was worse though was when it had dried out after it had been churned up by footy boots, it was like the coarsest grade of sandpaper - they should've got the heavy roller on it those times, but they never did.

 

[philreich]

Looking forward to the blockbuster between West Coast and the bye - it could honestly go either way........