Mega Thread Port Forum General AFL Thread Part 29

[Janey]

The best thing would be if I'm right and we still win

 

[Wargreymon90]

Max didn't look thrilled, whatever it was.

Maybe he said All you had to do was kick it near Frampton.

Think we have enough evidence to conclude that May is 1/10 human.

This time he wasn’t on the piss though.

 

[JimmyBC]

Nah if May gave him a serve good on him.

 

[GoPorts]

Melbourne can blame kozzie for that stupid 50m penalty

 

[JHF1870]

14 intercepts for Howe

 

[Greasyrhys]

No surprise, the pies are the masters of close games, it’s their viagra. Will be the norm for the next decade, or as long as mcrae is there.

 

[JimmyBC]

No surprise, the pies are the masters of close games, it’s their viagra. Will be the norm for the next decade, or as long as mcrae is there.

Helps when you train it.

 

[Interstater]

The rebuild you have while the old coach is still there.

 

[Doctor Feel]

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HES A FOITER

 

[Interstater]

HES A FOITER

Looks at the media

I dare you to use this one this week.

 

[Enviable Tradition]

My money's on the huge let-down.

Us winning?

 

[PeacefulWarrior]

Howe good is he

Mint?

 

[PeacefulWarrior]

May is a weird unit.
Great player but everything says “massive flog”

 

[snozulu]

Completely agreed. Peaked years ago
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[snozulu]

 

[Grave Danger]

Does anyone actually enjoy watching the Big Freeze slide? I mean I get that it's for a good cause and everything but the costumes and the whole carry on about it just seems so overdone to me. Pretty sure someone has already done the Joker before Peter Daicos today, so it's already gotten to the point where they are re-hashing things. How do they decide which 'celebrities' go down? A lot of them seem to be top athletes that probably have had ice baths regularly for years. I guess I'm a jaded piece of shit but the whole thing just makes me cringe a little bit.

But if it's raising money still then play on, I would just like to see some little tweaks to the concept. Make it a comp to see who can stay in there the longest or something. Make it interesting

Needed someone to stick a condom on their head and go down like Peter Dutton, for a bit of relevance.

 

[JHF1870]

Mint?

Can't be argued. Legitimate mint

 

[Willsy10]

I thought the bigger issue is how Gawn reacted rather than what May did. Gawn even snubbed a handshake from the other teammate who was simply trying to console him. Seemed pretty petulant. May didn’t seem to approach him aggressively either.

 

[JHF1870]

I thought the bigger issue is how Gawn reacted rather than what May did. Gawn even snubbed a handshake from the other teammate who was simply trying to console him. Seemed pretty petulant. May didn’t seem to approach him aggressively either.

It's a battle. I've been in loads of situations like that. Take a step back and reassess later. It's a nothing issue

 

[OneGreatClub]

Free kick count? Have I got a story to tell you.

 

[Nelso]

So the news out of Melbourne is that Cerra has delayed concussion symptoms.

Looking forward to the hefty fine that Carlton is going to receive and it should be more than what Port got for the Allir and Jones incident.

 

[bomberclifford]

'delayed' lol

Seeing him on the ground looking around like Bruce Willis after being time ported to the trenches in 12 Monkeys should have been enough.

 

[Andre]

The St Kilda one was a Bradbury too, by sheer definition of it being St Kilda.

Nicky Winmar losing his dad grand final eve was also some kind of awful that only helped the crows.

For a supporter base that likes to whinge they are hard done by, they've had more than their fair share of luck over the years. Outside their 2 GF's, they've had the knack most years of getting sides when they have key players out. They've generally been one of the clubs least effected by injuries most years as well, though admittedly some of that is good fitness staff, but not all. Add in they'd only run behind West Coast and Geelong at home, for crowd affirming umpiring and they should be thanking the 'footy gods' before every game, for their ongoing blessings.

 

[Duck Farmer]

For a supporter base that likes to whinge they are hard done by, they've had more than their fair share of luck over the years. Outside their 2 GF's, they've had the knack most years of getting sides when they have key players out. They've generally been one of the clubs least effected by injuries most years as well, though admittedly some of that is good fitness staff, but not all. Add in they'd only run behind West Coast and Geelong at home, for crowd affirming umpiring and they should be thanking the 'footy gods' before every game, for their ongoing blessings.

They still think the AFL "owes them one" in perpetuity for the Ben Keays point (I was going to say behind but that would've been ambiguous).

Their sense of entitlement goes to 11.

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

Haven't read any Martin Flanaghan for a few years but I enjoyed his take on the AFL forcing Tassie government to provide a stadium - US sports style.

I love Tassie footy and we need a team. But the AFL’s stadium ultimatum takes a special kind of arrogance​

The question is not whether the introduction of a Tasmanian team to the AFL could have been handled better, but whether it could possibly have been handled worse.

The two people I feel sorry for right now are Brendon Gale, the CEO of the newly formed Tasmania Football Club, and Grant O’Brien, its chairman. Both emerged from the Penguin Football Club, a great little Tasmanian footy club that battled the odds and won occasional premierships because it was a formidably tight unit. I believe Brendon and Grant love Tassie footy, as do I.

The paradox at the heart of Australian football is that it’s a great game by world standards played by a tiny percentage of the world’s population. It’s also a 19th-century game. The art of keeping it alive in the 21st century is a measure of its leaders. Right now, in Tasmania, the organisation demonstrating this art with zest and conviction is the NBL 2023-24 premiers, the JackJumpers. Head coach Scott Roth crisscrosses the state meeting locals and talking about his game. People are impressed. I hear his stories being retold.

You could write a footy TV drama, a black comedy, and title it The Stadium. It would tell the story of a proud little footy state that battles away for well over a century – and, for a period in the 1960s, produces the best and most exciting talent in the country – and then finally gets its chance to play in the big time BUT … a condition is attached. A condition never attached before. The Stadium.

Tassie will build, and basically pay for, a new stadium. Along with nearly all the AFL’s brainstorms, the idea comes from America. It’s a way of divorcing investors from the social costs of sport.
The Stadium was also awarded – again, no one seems to know exactly how – the Macquarie Point site.
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