Opinion Posts That Don't Deserve a Thread (Random Opinion or Questions)

[The King!]

For the greatest indigenous footballer

In fairness it'd be hard to match Buddy up with anyone in that realm besides maybe Goodes and Polly Farmer.

Top of my head

goodes
franklin
farmer * didnt see going on reputation/reading
mcleod
s burgoyne
matera

 

[RobbieK]

Top of my head

goodes
franklin
farmer * didnt see going on reputation/reading
mcleod
s burgoyne
matera

They aren't just asking about Buddy and Betts. They have set up a whole bracket which includes them and all they players you listed, plus a few more honourable mentions (Wanganeen, Long, Rioli, Winmar...). Eddie and Buddy is just the first match up as they whittle the list down to one player. You can see the whole thing here:

Vote for the Deadliest: Lance Franklin v Eddie Betts

Two of the game's great entertainers face off in the search for the Greatest Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander player

www.afl.com.au

 

[The King!]

They aren't just asking about Buddy and Betts. They have set up a whole bracket which includes them and all they players you listed, plus a few more honourable mentions (Wanganeen, Long, Rioli, Winmar...). Eddie and Buddy is just the first match up as they whittle the list down to one player. You can see the whole thing here:

Vote for the Deadliest: Lance Franklin v Eddie Betts

Two of the game's great entertainers face off in the search for the Greatest Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander player

www.afl.com.au

well thats very different then, just a bracket

cheers

 

[caesar88]

Top of my head

goodes
franklin
farmer * didnt see going on reputation/reading
mcleod
s burgoyne
matera

Yeah seems there would be a clear top three. Buddy & Goodes are miles ahead as the two best I've seen in my lifetime, not sure how anyone could see it differently as well, and Farmer's reputation is miles ahead of his peers from that era.

Matera & McLeod would round out my top five, though I've just consulted with my granddad and he said Maurice Rioli was an unbelievable player, saw him play all the time in the flesh both for Richmond and South Fremantle.

 

[ScottBo]

As someone who is finally clicking over 250 posts I'm in awe of the numbers some of you have chalked up. How do you have time for life rituals, like lining up for toilet paper? I'm exhausted, are you machines? If I was a little more computer-savvy I'd mock up one of those are you a robot things and ask you to blank out the photos with traffic lights.

 

[Millky95]

 

[The King!]

 

[Kennedy Parker]

The pain of losing a prelim in 13 was nothing compared to losing 14 and 16.

If we make it to a GF I want to win it. Rather not make it than lose it

I hear this said a lot but always with the benefit of hindsight after knowing the GF is lost.
Nobody ever says during prelim final week, 'hope we lose so we cant lose the GF' even if the other team in the grand final is a juggernaut and the chances of winning are only like 10%

 

[Millky95]

I hear this said a lot but always with the benefit of hindsight after knowing the GF is lost.
Nobody ever says during prelim final week, 'hope we lose so we cant lose the GF' even if the other team in the grand final is a juggernaut and the chances of winning are only like 10%

I literally said something similar to that to my brother in law when we went to see the 16 prelim. I went to him "I'd much rather lose today than lose next week". Obviously I want to win both. But I'd be a lot less upset about losing the prelim than I about the GF from that year

 

[Kennedy Parker]

I literally said something similar to that to my brother in law when we went to see the 16 prelim. I went to him "I'd much rather lose today than lose next week". Obviously I want to win both. But I'd be a lot less upset about losing the prelim than I about the GF from that year

I think with that logic you could probably extrapolate that to earlier finals though, like I'd rather lose a SF than PF, rather lose a EF than SF, rather not make finals than lose a EF.

But i reckon its just logically preferable to go as far as possible in finals even if you don't end up winning since there's enough inductive evidence to suggest that experience in that context matters among other things. For example, Clarkson changed buddy's after 2012 because the flaws of being too buddy centric were shown to him in that grand final and it can help that team win future premierships.

 

[Jewelsbon]

I think with that logic you could probably extrapolate that to earlier finals though, like I'd rather lose a SF than PF, rather lose a EF than SF, rather not make finals than lose a EF.

But i reckon its just logically preferable to go as far as possible in finals even if you don't end up winning since there's enough inductive evidence to suggest that experience in that context matters among other things. For example, Clarkson changed buddy's after 2012 because the flaws of being too buddy centric were shown to him in that grand final and it can help that team win future premierships.

Don't think GWS fans would agree with you at this moment in time.

 

[Kennedy Parker]

Don't think GWS fans would agree with you at this moment in time.

Doesn't really matter what fans think. Geelong fans wouldn't agree with that after 2008, Hawkes fans wouldnt agree with it after 2012, West Coast fans wouldn't agree with it in 2015.

 

[scaryness]

I imagine Collingwood fans would have preferred to lose in the GF than to lose to a team in the PF that didn't even put up a fight against Richmond

 

[Jewelsbon]

Doesn't really matter what fans think. Geelong fans wouldn't agree with that after 2008, Hawkes fans wouldnt agree with it after 2012, West Coast fans wouldn't agree with it in 2015.

Sorry my comment was meant to be tongue in cheek, didn't think to add an emoji.

 

[kelpie_X]

What about this one?

Confess lads, how many of you have one?
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Noooo, but I wish I did!
That would become my beer drinking shirt for sure!

 

[The King!]

 

[swansfan51]

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Utterly disgraceful that Tippett is ahead of Pyke, so angry I didn't look at the rest of the side

 

[The King!]

Utterly disgraceful that Tippett is ahead of Pyke, so angry I didn't look at the rest of the side

I’d put pyke in the ruck or at least mumford

ditch Lloyd

 

[scaryness]

Tippett at his best was better than Pyke at his best don't ban me

 

[scaryness]

I’d put pyke in the ruck or at least mumford

ditch Lloyd

Yeah Pyke or Mattner replace Lloyd imo

 

[The King!]

Tippett at his best was better than Pyke at his best don't @ me

I agree but id start him fwd

 

[Punts]

Lloyd in front of Marty no thanks

 

[BloodySwan]

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McGlynn should be in that team.

 

[Ticky009]

Yeah Pyke or Mattner replace Lloyd imo

Mattner hands down from me. Still remember that followup & tackle in the GF.

 

[swansfan51]

Tippett at his best was better than Pyke at his best don't ban me

I would if I could

There's no way Goodes should be full forward, put Tippett there and ditch one of the smalls