The Association Football AFL Thread 3.0

[UnitedWarrior93]

How an AFL full forward can’t kick drop punts when going for goal, I’ll never understand.

 

[TheGreatBarryB]

How an AFL full forward can’t kick drop punts when going for goal, I’ll never understand.

That around the corner attempt from 50 was ridiculous

 

[TubbsFarquhar]

There's one thing Kornes is vindicated on. Rozee is streets ahead of Walsh.

 

[SM]

There's one thing Kornes is vindicated on. Rozee is streets ahead of Walsh.

He's actually been more right than wrong lately. Was pretty down on the Tigers coming into the season when most thought they were a flag chance, and has been critical of the Eagles conditioning for years prompting them to come out and be pretty strong against him in the media. I think he puts a lot out there to get a reaction but don't think he's far wrong too often these days.

 

[Magma]

another game of afl footy which is just another state league game on fast forward. skill level just terrible

 

[RPCB]

How an AFL full forward can’t kick drop punts when going for goal, I’ll never understand.

The worst one was Charlie Curnow kicking around the corner from 20 metres out in Round 23, the kick was marked on the goal line (20 metres out, just to make that clear) and we go on to lose by a point and miss finals by a bees dick of a percentage. That was fun.

 

[chef]

another game of afl footy which is just another state league game on fast forward. skill level just terrible

Yep and we're diluting the quality more by adding more teams.

 

[RPCB]

Yep and we're diluting the quality more by adding more teams.

Either don’t add more teams or nominate a club to get rid of. I nominate Carlton.

 

[SM]

Yep and we're diluting the quality more by adding more teams.

Don't buy into that at all. Lengthy injury lists and poor coaching contribute to it far more than the number of teams.

 

[TheGreatBarryB]

There’s been s**t games forever. No different to other years

 

[SM]

If anything a team like Hawthorn is showing exactly that, with good coaching and structure even a weak team in the league can be competitive. GWS too.

 

[RPCB]

Don't buy into that at all. Lengthy injury lists and poor coaching contribute to it far more than the number of teams.

I read a great post on the Blues board that basically said that we are getting killed by teams playing a modern game plan and we are stuck playing an old brand of football. Went onto to use Butters and Rozee as an example of the perfect modern day players.

A team is only as good as the coaching. If a team is poorly coached, the team won’t stand a chance against teams with good modern coaching.

 

[Magma]

there's nothing exciting about carlton. they dont even take the game on and make mistakes. melbourne just waited for the skill mistake. to not at least back it up with pressure and chasing is criminal these days.

plus how come curnow and mckay are exempt from playing in the ruck? would've had curnow ruck for 10-15 minutes yesterday just to get him in the game

 

[RPCB]

there's nothing exciting about carlton. they dont even take the game on and make mistakes. melbourne just waited for the skill mistake. to not at least back it up with pressure and chasing is criminal these days.

plus how come curnow and mckay are exempt from playing in the ruck? would've had curnow ruck for 10-15 minutes yesterday just to get him in the game

Because Voss prefers the undersized JSOS, who isn’t particularly good at anything. But hey, he did try Young in the forward line to spice things up a bit.

 

[Bojan KantKick]

He's actually been more right than wrong lately. Was pretty down on the Tigers coming into the season when most thought they were a flag chance, and has been critical of the Eagles conditioning for years prompting them to come out and be pretty strong against him in the media. I think he puts a lot out there to get a reaction but don't think he's far wrong too often these days.

He praised Will Phillips last week. Just assumed he was ill or the apocalypse was round the corner.

 

[SM]

What was I saying about Mitchel and competitiveness..

 

[Art Vandelay_]

Genuinely satisfying seeing Hawthorn be this s**t.
Suffer in ya jocks.

 

[SM]

Could Port put the foot down and go for the record score? They aren't far off the pace..

These days teams don't seem to ever go for it, but percentage could matter this year.

 

[gaskin]

Port should just spend the 2nd half trying to get Finlayson to 10 goals.

 

[SM]

This game got interesting, might have to flick it on.

 

[Art Vandelay_]

And at Fullback… Sam Zorro

 

[Sub_Zero]

Shannon Hurn

25

Shannon Hurn

Age

36

Ht

187cm

Wt

95kg

Pos.

Def

Career

Season

Last 5

D

20.9

5star

K

15.7

5star

HB

5.2

4star

M

7.0

5star

T

1.6

4star

MG

389.5

5star

D

16.1

4star

K

12.1

5star

HB

4.0

3star

M

5.3

5star

T

1.0

2star

MG

271.6

4star

D

19.0

5star

K

11.6

4star

HB

7.4

5star

M

6.8

5star

T

1.6

4star

legit looks 50 years old lol

 

[Kram]

Gotta admire Hawkins just keeps going and going.

 

[TubbsFarquhar]

Shannon Hurn legit looks 50 years old lol

He looked 50 when he was about 20.

 

[Kram]

Shannon Hurn legit looks 50 years old lol

The most amazing thing is he looked exactly the same as when he was 21 though.